Amazing Facts
Daily Devotional
February 20th
Do No Harm.
These are strange locusts! We learned yesterday that such creatures can wipe out entire regions of green vegetation—but not humans. During a plague of the desert locust, one of more than 50 species found in Bible lands, the bugs can cover 18 million square miles and can consume their own weight in one day.
Imagine how that translates to an attack on people.
Our verse today is best understood as symbolic, as the locusts are to harm specifically those people who do not have the seal of God. This quality takes us back to Revelation 7:3, where God’s people are, in direct contrast, sealed and �not harmed.
Interestingly, Abu Bakr, one of the Arab invaders of Europe, seemed to take his rulebook straight out of Revelation’s prophecy: History has preserved a written order in which the leader commanded his tribes not to destroy anything of the lands they conquered, neither crops nor cattle. He then distinguished two groups of people: those who served God and those who served Satan. The former was not to be harmed, while the latter was to be terrorized until they either converted to Islam or agreed to pay tribute.
The later chapters of Revelation will return to these two groups—those with the seal of God versus those without. And as we will see, similar to today’s verse, the group an individual belongs to determines the judgment that befalls him or her.
As previously noted, history records that the region Muslim forces ravaged was the seat of the Eastern Orthodox Church. Notice: The judgments of the trumpets continuously involve the professed Christian church—first in the Western Roman Empire and then in the Eastern part. Yet even during this time of apostasy, the righteous were protected.
Dear Jesus, may I be like a green tree, planted by waters of truth, bringing forth fruits of righteousness for Your glory!
For Further Study: 1 Chronicles 16:22; Psalm 1:1–3; Joel 1:4
KEY BIBLE TEXTS
And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads. Revelation 9:4
Daily Devotional
February 20th
Do No Harm.
These are strange locusts! We learned yesterday that such creatures can wipe out entire regions of green vegetation—but not humans. During a plague of the desert locust, one of more than 50 species found in Bible lands, the bugs can cover 18 million square miles and can consume their own weight in one day.
Imagine how that translates to an attack on people.
Our verse today is best understood as symbolic, as the locusts are to harm specifically those people who do not have the seal of God. This quality takes us back to Revelation 7:3, where God’s people are, in direct contrast, sealed and �not harmed.
Interestingly, Abu Bakr, one of the Arab invaders of Europe, seemed to take his rulebook straight out of Revelation’s prophecy: History has preserved a written order in which the leader commanded his tribes not to destroy anything of the lands they conquered, neither crops nor cattle. He then distinguished two groups of people: those who served God and those who served Satan. The former was not to be harmed, while the latter was to be terrorized until they either converted to Islam or agreed to pay tribute.
The later chapters of Revelation will return to these two groups—those with the seal of God versus those without. And as we will see, similar to today’s verse, the group an individual belongs to determines the judgment that befalls him or her.
As previously noted, history records that the region Muslim forces ravaged was the seat of the Eastern Orthodox Church. Notice: The judgments of the trumpets continuously involve the professed Christian church—first in the Western Roman Empire and then in the Eastern part. Yet even during this time of apostasy, the righteous were protected.
Dear Jesus, may I be like a green tree, planted by waters of truth, bringing forth fruits of righteousness for Your glory!
For Further Study: 1 Chronicles 16:22; Psalm 1:1–3; Joel 1:4
KEY BIBLE TEXTS
And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads. Revelation 9:4
Amazing Facts
Daily Devotional
February 20th
Do No Harm.
These are strange locusts! We learned yesterday that such creatures can wipe out entire regions of green vegetation—but not humans. During a plague of the desert locust, one of more than 50 species found in Bible lands, the bugs can cover 18 million square miles and can consume their own weight in one day.
Imagine how that translates to an attack on people.
Our verse today is best understood as symbolic, as the locusts are to harm specifically those people who do not have the seal of God. This quality takes us back to Revelation 7:3, where God’s people are, in direct contrast, sealed and �not harmed.
Interestingly, Abu Bakr, one of the Arab invaders of Europe, seemed to take his rulebook straight out of Revelation’s prophecy: History has preserved a written order in which the leader commanded his tribes not to destroy anything of the lands they conquered, neither crops nor cattle. He then distinguished two groups of people: those who served God and those who served Satan. The former was not to be harmed, while the latter was to be terrorized until they either converted to Islam or agreed to pay tribute.
The later chapters of Revelation will return to these two groups—those with the seal of God versus those without. And as we will see, similar to today’s verse, the group an individual belongs to determines the judgment that befalls him or her.
As previously noted, history records that the region Muslim forces ravaged was the seat of the Eastern Orthodox Church. Notice: The judgments of the trumpets continuously involve the professed Christian church—first in the Western Roman Empire and then in the Eastern part. Yet even during this time of apostasy, the righteous were protected.
Dear Jesus, may I be like a green tree, planted by waters of truth, bringing forth fruits of righteousness for Your glory!
For Further Study: 1 Chronicles 16:22; Psalm 1:1–3; Joel 1:4
KEY BIBLE TEXTS
And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads. Revelation 9:4
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