Daily Devotional

It’s not a very pretty picture. Every time an angel blows a trumpet, some terrible cataclysm is unleashed upon the earth. Such is the picture we see in the Book of Revelation. But, a final seventh trumpet will sound and what it unleashes will be worth it all:

 

“but in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he is about to sound, then the mystery of God is finished, as He preached to His servants the prophets.” (Revelation 10:7)

There is an exciting picture for us to see when we piece this verse together with several others. For example,

“Then the seventh angel sounded; and there were loud voices in heaven, saying, “The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ; and He will reign forever and ever.” And the twenty-four elders, who sit on their thrones before God, fell on their faces and worshiped God, saying, “We give You thanks, O Lord God, the Almighty, who are and who were, because You have taken Your great power and have begun to reign ”And the nations were enraged, and Your wrath came, and the time came for the dead to be judged, and the time to reward Your bond-servants the prophets and the saints and those who fear Your name, the small and the great, and to destroy those who destroy the earth.” (Revelation 11:15-18).

Also,

“Behold, I tell you a mystery; we will not all sleep, but we will all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet; for the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.” (1 Corinthians 15:51-52)

A day is coming when a final trumpet blast will sound, and all of God’s plan will be brought to completion. The completion of this plan, to be brought about through Jesus the Christ, was the message proclaimed by the 1st-century church: “whom heaven must receive until the period of restoration of all things about which God spoke by the mouth of His holy prophets from ancient time.” (Acts 3:21)

With abrupt suddenness a final trumpet will one day sound to bring to full completion God’s plan of the ages. Everything is prologue in preparation for that time and event.

 Are you living today with an awareness of the reality of the coming trumpet blast? Today is a day of preparation; a day to live according to spiritual priorities. The suddenness of the trumpet blast will afford no opportunity for the preparations that need to be made today.

May we each live life today as though this were the day of the blowing of the final trumpet.

Steve