Amazing Facts
Daily Devotional
February 18th
Dark and Deadly Smoke.
The Air Quality Index (AQI) is designed to communicate the level of pollution in the air, utilizing a number range that helps the public be aware of potential health hazards. For instance, Good (0–50) is satisfactory air quality that poses no risk. Moderate (51–100) poses some risk for the elderly and those with asthma. The highest level, Hazardous (301+), poses serious risks to everyone. In 2020, smoke from wildfires broke AQI records throughout the Pacific Northwest, with many locations reaching a suffocating 500.
In today’s passage, the hazards of the fifth trumpet are caused by a much deadlier pollution, the destructive smoke of Satan’s deceptions. This smoke from the bottomless pit rises “like the smoke of a great furnace.” It’s the same language used when Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed and “the smoke of the land … went up like the smoke of a furnace” (Genesis 19:28).
The result of that smoke from the bottomless pit is no surprise. The works of Satan are meant to obscure the works of Jesus Christ. As the Bible explains, “This is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil” (John 3:19). God told the apostle Paul that his work would open people’s eyes and “turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God” (Acts 26:18).
It is Christ who is “the light of the world” (John 8:12) and “the Sun of Righteousness” (Malachi 4:2), and it is the Holy Spirit who is like breath (John 20:22) or the wind (3:8)—in other words, air. If both “the sun and the air were darkened” during the time of the fifth trumpet, it follows that what Satan loosed from the bottomless pit obscured the saving gospel of Christ (Romans 1:16) and the Holy Spirit’s pathway to truth (John 16:13).
O God, You are light and in You is no darkness. I choose this day to walk in the light and to receive the blood of Jesus that cleanses me from all sin.
For Further Study: Psalm 82:5; 2 Corinthians 4:4; 1 John 1:7
KEY BIBLE TEXTS
And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit. Revelation 9:2
Daily Devotional
February 18th
Dark and Deadly Smoke.
The Air Quality Index (AQI) is designed to communicate the level of pollution in the air, utilizing a number range that helps the public be aware of potential health hazards. For instance, Good (0–50) is satisfactory air quality that poses no risk. Moderate (51–100) poses some risk for the elderly and those with asthma. The highest level, Hazardous (301+), poses serious risks to everyone. In 2020, smoke from wildfires broke AQI records throughout the Pacific Northwest, with many locations reaching a suffocating 500.
In today’s passage, the hazards of the fifth trumpet are caused by a much deadlier pollution, the destructive smoke of Satan’s deceptions. This smoke from the bottomless pit rises “like the smoke of a great furnace.” It’s the same language used when Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed and “the smoke of the land … went up like the smoke of a furnace” (Genesis 19:28).
The result of that smoke from the bottomless pit is no surprise. The works of Satan are meant to obscure the works of Jesus Christ. As the Bible explains, “This is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil” (John 3:19). God told the apostle Paul that his work would open people’s eyes and “turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God” (Acts 26:18).
It is Christ who is “the light of the world” (John 8:12) and “the Sun of Righteousness” (Malachi 4:2), and it is the Holy Spirit who is like breath (John 20:22) or the wind (3:8)—in other words, air. If both “the sun and the air were darkened” during the time of the fifth trumpet, it follows that what Satan loosed from the bottomless pit obscured the saving gospel of Christ (Romans 1:16) and the Holy Spirit’s pathway to truth (John 16:13).
O God, You are light and in You is no darkness. I choose this day to walk in the light and to receive the blood of Jesus that cleanses me from all sin.
For Further Study: Psalm 82:5; 2 Corinthians 4:4; 1 John 1:7
KEY BIBLE TEXTS
And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit. Revelation 9:2
Amazing Facts
Daily Devotional
February 18th
Dark and Deadly Smoke.
The Air Quality Index (AQI) is designed to communicate the level of pollution in the air, utilizing a number range that helps the public be aware of potential health hazards. For instance, Good (0–50) is satisfactory air quality that poses no risk. Moderate (51–100) poses some risk for the elderly and those with asthma. The highest level, Hazardous (301+), poses serious risks to everyone. In 2020, smoke from wildfires broke AQI records throughout the Pacific Northwest, with many locations reaching a suffocating 500.
In today’s passage, the hazards of the fifth trumpet are caused by a much deadlier pollution, the destructive smoke of Satan’s deceptions. This smoke from the bottomless pit rises “like the smoke of a great furnace.” It’s the same language used when Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed and “the smoke of the land … went up like the smoke of a furnace” (Genesis 19:28).
The result of that smoke from the bottomless pit is no surprise. The works of Satan are meant to obscure the works of Jesus Christ. As the Bible explains, “This is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil” (John 3:19). God told the apostle Paul that his work would open people’s eyes and “turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God” (Acts 26:18).
It is Christ who is “the light of the world” (John 8:12) and “the Sun of Righteousness” (Malachi 4:2), and it is the Holy Spirit who is like breath (John 20:22) or the wind (3:8)—in other words, air. If both “the sun and the air were darkened” during the time of the fifth trumpet, it follows that what Satan loosed from the bottomless pit obscured the saving gospel of Christ (Romans 1:16) and the Holy Spirit’s pathway to truth (John 16:13).
O God, You are light and in You is no darkness. I choose this day to walk in the light and to receive the blood of Jesus that cleanses me from all sin.
For Further Study: Psalm 82:5; 2 Corinthians 4:4; 1 John 1:7
KEY BIBLE TEXTS
And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit. Revelation 9:2
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