It should come as no shock to us that Revelation links the Eternal Gospel with the Judgment of sinners. Strange as that may sound, it is what the Bible explicitly states. It’s only strange to our ears if the center of our glory is not God, but man. That is why the False Prophet appeals to man even in the guise of Christianity. But when the Lamb is all the Glory we cannot escape the necessary part of Judgment in the good news. What I hope the Spirit will show us all this day is that the glory of Christ is not just our GOAL but it is our GRACE for living!

John encourages the church with the details of heavenly worship on Mt. Zion with the Lamb that stands as a counterpoint to all the mischievous evil of the unholy Trinity – and answers to the cosmic conflict of the Seed of the Woman and the Seed of the Serpent. By doing so, the Holy Spirit indicates once again the potency of Worship in Spirit and in Truth to utterly undo our foe and the peculiar glory we reflect of Christ’s Redemption. John wants us to see that heavenly worship connects us to the conquering Christ as His conquering Army!

The second beast is the embodiment of all false prophets but even at full potential what we will see is that he falls short of divine perfection. At then end of the day the whole satanic Trinity is doing nothing more than appealing to MAN, the power and resource of man… but what we are to consider is … true wisdom searches for and is satisfied only with divine perfection!

guest Speaker Ozzie Ozgood lays out 3 comforting truths from Paul’s letter to the Corinthians.

With the parallels between Christ and this Beast we are supposed to be alerted to the need for real discernment – what is worse is that Satan is allowed in a limited but still potent way, not only to deceive but to war and to conquer! He is a counterfeit with a club! That means that we are going to need more than just discernment. In fact John tells us what we are going to need … he says at the end of v.10 that in Satan’s great counterfeit Beast there is a call for two things: endurance and Faith. we need endurance and faith this side of the resurrection to fight the good fight! and the passage I believe, will teach us that the Truth of Christ is our greatest TONIC for Spiritual endurance!

What is so great about the 7th trumpet? = It ties together the reign of Jesus from his Resurrection to ours. Teaching us the glory and efficacy of Christ’s reign, subjecting all things to Himself … And showing that wherever the king is, his kingdom is too. And most of all showing us that we win in Christ, and we are winning!