Amazing Facts
Daily Devotional
February 21st
Wishing for Death.
Among those who converted to the Muslim faith was a group that came to be known as the Ottoman Turks. These Ottomans became the primary adversary of the Byzantine Empire.
The empire’s “torment” is said to last “five months,” a duration that scholars disagree on as to its exact application. Generally, using the year-day principle of interpreting time prophecies (Numbers 14:34; Ezekiel 4:6), taking a Bible month of 30 days and multiplying it by five, we come to 150 prophetic days—that’s 150 literal years.
According to one interpretation, the Ottomans’ first direct attack on the Byzantine Empire came on July 27, 1299, at the Battle of Bapheus. Over the many decades that followed, the Turks gained momentum in their ongoing attempt to conquer the Byzantines. Then, on July 27, 1449, exactly 150 years later, the sultan, ruler of the Turks, was invited to authorize the coronation of the Byzantine emperor, the last of the crumbling kingdom. It was a telling shift in dominance, the beginning of the end of the Byzantines. Less than five years later, the empire fell completely to the Ottoman Empire.
Notice that this enemy torments; it does not kill. The Arabs’ primary strategy was to convert unbelievers or make them pay tribute. The Arab expansion was like the excruciating sting of a scorpion—not fatal, but one that caused intense pain and suffering.
And what could be more crushing than to divest the Son of God of His saving grace? According to the Quran, the primary Islamic holy book, Jesus did not die for our sins and was not resurrected. In Islam, Jesus was a mere prophet, not the Son of God. This was the dark smoke that the Muslims spread throughout the East. When the hope of salvation is choked out by a counterfeit faith, death can seem to be a preferable alternative. But those who shut out God’s light in the end times will similarly wish for death (Revelation 6:16).
O Lord, because I can trust the fulfillment of past prophecies, I know that I can trust future predictions that promise Your protection over my life.
For Further Study: Job 3:20–22; Isaiah 2:19; Jeremiah 8:3
KEY BIBLE TEXTS
And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man. Revelation 9:5
Daily Devotional
February 21st
Wishing for Death.
Among those who converted to the Muslim faith was a group that came to be known as the Ottoman Turks. These Ottomans became the primary adversary of the Byzantine Empire.
The empire’s “torment” is said to last “five months,” a duration that scholars disagree on as to its exact application. Generally, using the year-day principle of interpreting time prophecies (Numbers 14:34; Ezekiel 4:6), taking a Bible month of 30 days and multiplying it by five, we come to 150 prophetic days—that’s 150 literal years.
According to one interpretation, the Ottomans’ first direct attack on the Byzantine Empire came on July 27, 1299, at the Battle of Bapheus. Over the many decades that followed, the Turks gained momentum in their ongoing attempt to conquer the Byzantines. Then, on July 27, 1449, exactly 150 years later, the sultan, ruler of the Turks, was invited to authorize the coronation of the Byzantine emperor, the last of the crumbling kingdom. It was a telling shift in dominance, the beginning of the end of the Byzantines. Less than five years later, the empire fell completely to the Ottoman Empire.
Notice that this enemy torments; it does not kill. The Arabs’ primary strategy was to convert unbelievers or make them pay tribute. The Arab expansion was like the excruciating sting of a scorpion—not fatal, but one that caused intense pain and suffering.
And what could be more crushing than to divest the Son of God of His saving grace? According to the Quran, the primary Islamic holy book, Jesus did not die for our sins and was not resurrected. In Islam, Jesus was a mere prophet, not the Son of God. This was the dark smoke that the Muslims spread throughout the East. When the hope of salvation is choked out by a counterfeit faith, death can seem to be a preferable alternative. But those who shut out God’s light in the end times will similarly wish for death (Revelation 6:16).
O Lord, because I can trust the fulfillment of past prophecies, I know that I can trust future predictions that promise Your protection over my life.
For Further Study: Job 3:20–22; Isaiah 2:19; Jeremiah 8:3
KEY BIBLE TEXTS
And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man. Revelation 9:5
Amazing Facts
Daily Devotional
February 21st
Wishing for Death.
Among those who converted to the Muslim faith was a group that came to be known as the Ottoman Turks. These Ottomans became the primary adversary of the Byzantine Empire.
The empire’s “torment” is said to last “five months,” a duration that scholars disagree on as to its exact application. Generally, using the year-day principle of interpreting time prophecies (Numbers 14:34; Ezekiel 4:6), taking a Bible month of 30 days and multiplying it by five, we come to 150 prophetic days—that’s 150 literal years.
According to one interpretation, the Ottomans’ first direct attack on the Byzantine Empire came on July 27, 1299, at the Battle of Bapheus. Over the many decades that followed, the Turks gained momentum in their ongoing attempt to conquer the Byzantines. Then, on July 27, 1449, exactly 150 years later, the sultan, ruler of the Turks, was invited to authorize the coronation of the Byzantine emperor, the last of the crumbling kingdom. It was a telling shift in dominance, the beginning of the end of the Byzantines. Less than five years later, the empire fell completely to the Ottoman Empire.
Notice that this enemy torments; it does not kill. The Arabs’ primary strategy was to convert unbelievers or make them pay tribute. The Arab expansion was like the excruciating sting of a scorpion—not fatal, but one that caused intense pain and suffering.
And what could be more crushing than to divest the Son of God of His saving grace? According to the Quran, the primary Islamic holy book, Jesus did not die for our sins and was not resurrected. In Islam, Jesus was a mere prophet, not the Son of God. This was the dark smoke that the Muslims spread throughout the East. When the hope of salvation is choked out by a counterfeit faith, death can seem to be a preferable alternative. But those who shut out God’s light in the end times will similarly wish for death (Revelation 6:16).
O Lord, because I can trust the fulfillment of past prophecies, I know that I can trust future predictions that promise Your protection over my life.
For Further Study: Job 3:20–22; Isaiah 2:19; Jeremiah 8:3
KEY BIBLE TEXTS
And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man. Revelation 9:5
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