Tues.’s Devo - Hope and Restoration


Read: Micah 5:1-7:20; Rev. 7:1-17; Ps. 135:1-21; Pr. 30:5-6 
Micah prophesies that Messiah will come from Bethlehem. In the middle of his prophesy of judgment he gives us some key scriptures like Micah 6:8, “He has showed you, O man, what is good; and what the Lord requires of you, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God.” And living in the midst of idolatry and wickedness he says in 7:7, “Therefore I will look unto the Lord; I will wait for the GOd of my salvation; my God will hear me.” He ends his prophesy with hope and mercy. God will turn again and have compassion on them and cast their sins into the sea.
In Revelation John sees four angels which are in charge of keeping the earth. They stand at the north, south, east and west keeping back a destroying wind. They must wait till the servants of God are sealed in their foreheads. There are 144,000 to be sealed - all of them Jews. Once they are sealed there is a meeting in heaven of people in white robes before the throne. These people were the believers who came out of the great tribulation. Their suffering is over forever.
Lord, may we be sealed for Your kingdom.