May the mumbling commence!
Did you read yesterday’s mumbling
and are still not convinced that rightful worship is not a main theme in the
book of Revelation? Then read another
passage from Revelation chapter fourteen:
Then I saw
another angel flying in midair, and he had the eternal gospel to proclaim to
those who live on the earth – to every nation, tribe, language and people. He said in a loud voice, “Fear God and give
him the glory, because the hour of his judgment has come. Worship him who made the heavens, the earth,
the sea and the springs of water.”
A second angel
followed and said, “Fallen, Fallen is Babylon the Great, which made all the
nations drink the maddening wine of her adulteries.”
A third angel
followed them and said in a loud voice: “If anyone worships the beast and his
image and receives the mark on the forehead or on the hand, he, too, will drink
of the wine of God’s fury, which has been poured full strength into the cup of
his wrath. He will be tormented with
burning sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and of the Lamb. And the smoke of their torment rises forever
and ever. There is no rest day or night
for those who worship the beast and his image, or for anyone who receives the
mark of his name.” This calls for
patient endurance on the part of the saints who obey God’s commandments and
remain faithful to Jesus.
Then I heard a
voice from heaven say, “Write: blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from
now on.”
“Yes,” says the
Spirit, “they will rest from their labor, for their deeds will follow them.”
(Verses 6-13)
Who or what do you worship? Who do you love? Your attitudes and thoughts and words and
actions will bear out who you worship and love.
Worship of God takes only one correct form – that of humble
obedience. If we worship anyone or
anything else or if we try to worship our Lord Jesus in any other way, we have
stepped away from giving God the glory.
The choices to worship things other
than God are many and manifold. To take
the easier path is to worship something other than God. How can we think that worship is not an
essential theme to Revelation when we read these things? Rightful worship is key to actively receiving
the promises that God extends to all humanity – indeed to all creation.
Yes, we have a choice. Choose to worship God righteously or choose
to worship God in a way that is unacceptable in His sight or worship something
other than God – a lie, a deception. If
there is any “code” to crack in Revelation, rightful worship of the Lord Jesus
is it. We do NOT have a hidden timetable
or a calendar of events for some End Time in the future.
No, our call as saints of the Lord
is patient endurance that remains faithful to the call of Jesus even when the
call of Jesus makes zero sense to the human mind.
Enough mumbling for now…
Peace Out
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