Amazing Facts
Daily Devotional
April 16th
The Final Events, Part 1
When do you thank someone? Well, most commonly when they do something for you.
Why are the 24 elders thanking God here? It is because God has done something—for the entire universe. Let’s zoom out our perspective for a moment and look at our little world from the point of view of all the unfallen beings in the universe. The Earth must appear to them as a dark blight upon God’s great Creation. They look on in horror at the depravity, the brutality, the consummate evil growing more and more each day.
These are the outpourings of sin. As Scripture tells us, it is the devil who has both galvanized and fostered this dominion: “He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has sinned from the beginning” (1 John 3:8). But Scripture also tells us that it is the devil’s usurped kingship that Christ will someday abolish at His second coming.
On that day, we will see our Savior coming in royal garments as a conquering King: “On His head were many crowns” (Revelation 19:12); “He Himself will rule them with a rod of iron; … and He has on His robe and on His thigh a name written: KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS” (vv. 15, 16). It is at this time that the devil will be defeated, imprisoned in the very place which he so ruthlessly ruled (20:1–3).
Then, a new reign, the reign of Christ, will begin. After He brings “an utter end” (Nahum 1:9) to the sin that has threatened the universe for thousands of years, Christ “delivers the kingdom to God the Father” (1 Corinthians 15:24). (See also vv. 25–28.) Thus, there will be full restoration of authority back to God’s kingdom of “righteousness and peace and joy” (Romans 14:17).
Notice also that God’s eternal nature is being singled out. God is self-existent. (See also Revelation 1:4, 8.) What assurance this brings to the universe: Sin will never reign again, but God always will.
God Almighty, I too thank You for giving each of us the power to overcome the attacks of the devil in our own lives, today and every day.
For Further Study: Psalm 98:1–3; Colossians 1:13; Revelation 4:8, 9
KEY BIBLE TEXTS
Saying, We give thee thanks, O LORD God Almighty, which art, and wast, and art to come; because thou hast taken to thee thy great power, and hast reigned. Revelation 11:17
Daily Devotional
April 16th
The Final Events, Part 1
When do you thank someone? Well, most commonly when they do something for you.
Why are the 24 elders thanking God here? It is because God has done something—for the entire universe. Let’s zoom out our perspective for a moment and look at our little world from the point of view of all the unfallen beings in the universe. The Earth must appear to them as a dark blight upon God’s great Creation. They look on in horror at the depravity, the brutality, the consummate evil growing more and more each day.
These are the outpourings of sin. As Scripture tells us, it is the devil who has both galvanized and fostered this dominion: “He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has sinned from the beginning” (1 John 3:8). But Scripture also tells us that it is the devil’s usurped kingship that Christ will someday abolish at His second coming.
On that day, we will see our Savior coming in royal garments as a conquering King: “On His head were many crowns” (Revelation 19:12); “He Himself will rule them with a rod of iron; … and He has on His robe and on His thigh a name written: KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS” (vv. 15, 16). It is at this time that the devil will be defeated, imprisoned in the very place which he so ruthlessly ruled (20:1–3).
Then, a new reign, the reign of Christ, will begin. After He brings “an utter end” (Nahum 1:9) to the sin that has threatened the universe for thousands of years, Christ “delivers the kingdom to God the Father” (1 Corinthians 15:24). (See also vv. 25–28.) Thus, there will be full restoration of authority back to God’s kingdom of “righteousness and peace and joy” (Romans 14:17).
Notice also that God’s eternal nature is being singled out. God is self-existent. (See also Revelation 1:4, 8.) What assurance this brings to the universe: Sin will never reign again, but God always will.
God Almighty, I too thank You for giving each of us the power to overcome the attacks of the devil in our own lives, today and every day.
For Further Study: Psalm 98:1–3; Colossians 1:13; Revelation 4:8, 9
KEY BIBLE TEXTS
Saying, We give thee thanks, O LORD God Almighty, which art, and wast, and art to come; because thou hast taken to thee thy great power, and hast reigned. Revelation 11:17
Amazing Facts
Daily Devotional
April 16th
The Final Events, Part 1
When do you thank someone? Well, most commonly when they do something for you.
Why are the 24 elders thanking God here? It is because God has done something—for the entire universe. Let’s zoom out our perspective for a moment and look at our little world from the point of view of all the unfallen beings in the universe. The Earth must appear to them as a dark blight upon God’s great Creation. They look on in horror at the depravity, the brutality, the consummate evil growing more and more each day.
These are the outpourings of sin. As Scripture tells us, it is the devil who has both galvanized and fostered this dominion: “He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has sinned from the beginning” (1 John 3:8). But Scripture also tells us that it is the devil’s usurped kingship that Christ will someday abolish at His second coming.
On that day, we will see our Savior coming in royal garments as a conquering King: “On His head were many crowns” (Revelation 19:12); “He Himself will rule them with a rod of iron; … and He has on His robe and on His thigh a name written: KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS” (vv. 15, 16). It is at this time that the devil will be defeated, imprisoned in the very place which he so ruthlessly ruled (20:1–3).
Then, a new reign, the reign of Christ, will begin. After He brings “an utter end” (Nahum 1:9) to the sin that has threatened the universe for thousands of years, Christ “delivers the kingdom to God the Father” (1 Corinthians 15:24). (See also vv. 25–28.) Thus, there will be full restoration of authority back to God’s kingdom of “righteousness and peace and joy” (Romans 14:17).
Notice also that God’s eternal nature is being singled out. God is self-existent. (See also Revelation 1:4, 8.) What assurance this brings to the universe: Sin will never reign again, but God always will.
God Almighty, I too thank You for giving each of us the power to overcome the attacks of the devil in our own lives, today and every day.
For Further Study: Psalm 98:1–3; Colossians 1:13; Revelation 4:8, 9
KEY BIBLE TEXTS
Saying, We give thee thanks, O LORD God Almighty, which art, and wast, and art to come; because thou hast taken to thee thy great power, and hast reigned. Revelation 11:17
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