Revelation 11.15-19 Series

Yet again we are brought to the brink of that Day. John never tells us ‘when’ this trumpet will sound but he does tell us that it is certain that one day it will sound. I have often told you that a good question to ask when you have read the Bible is ‘So what...now?

This in some aspects is quite a frightening passage. It is a picture of the full glory of God - which is terrifying to His enemies but an uplifting promise to the people of Christ.

It is a very sobering passage. It is a passage of judgment and punishment and yet also of redemption and reward. There is encouragement to know that one day every wrong will be righted and every injustice will be dealt with. It is sobering to think that one day every one will be called to account and every evil will be dealt with and put away for all eternity. Yet, many hear this passage and leave untouched, unchanged and unchallenged. Their ears do not hear the tune or the song being sung by the heavenly choir or the elders. This morning I pray that the Holy Spirit opens the ears of your mind and your soul that you would know and understand the eternal significance for you of these words. Beneath all the complications of your life and the terrifying events of this world one day a song will ring out over all this universe as that day dawns and the final curtain falls on human history. Tune your ears this morning to the Word of God. The superficial news of the media is temporal but this is the song of eternity. This is the eternal truth - One Day the seventh angel will sound His trumpet and the Lord Jesus Christ will come and the kingdom of this world will be the kingdom of the of our Lord and His Christ. When that day breaks He will come to judge the living and the dead. Those who are not His He will send to eternal damnation. They choose to live without Him in their lives, they choose to live in opposition to Him and so they will spend eternity without Him, lost in hell. Those, great and small, who by faith believed will enter into their heavenly reward to live with Him for all eternity in the Promised Land.

Time and eternity cohere in revelation - maybe nowhere more so than in these verses at the end of chapter 11. We stand, quite literally, on the brink of eternity - do you know your eternal destiny this morning? Do your ears hear the heavenly song of the redeemed? Do you want to hear it? Or, sadly, do you hear it and are ignoring it?