Read: Habakkuk 1:1-3:19; Revelation 9:1-21; Psalm 137:1-9; Proverbs 30:10
It is amazing how the Old and New Testaments dove-tail in our One Day Bible. Habakkuk gives us a detailed description of the end of days. God promises to bring a sudden end to the earth. His righteous remnant will plunder God’s enemies and the survivors of God’s nation will inherit their land. This is what will happen to those who proudly mock and insult the Lord Almighty and his people. God will destroy all the gods of the land. This should make us sing with joy!
In Revelation, the fifth angel came with the first woe. The fifth angel was probably Wycliff. A star fell from heaven and was given the key of the bottomless pit. He opened it and great smoke came from it. From this smoke came locusts with the power of scorpions. During this time Muslims took Christian territory and the Roman Catholic Church - the apostate church, was becoming more and more barbaric and pagan. Mary became the center of worship instead of Jesus. The “locusts” were the false teachings of the “church”. They couldn’t touch God’s anointed but only those who didn’t have the seal of the Holy Spirit to lead them into truth. This spiritual torment went on for five months which spiritually speaking is 150 years. Men would seek to be saved but not be able to. This was true during the Reformation - it would take days to get saved and some labored in vain.
The sixth angel was probably Martin Luther. Many Reformers like Luther, Knox, Jonathan Edwards and John Calvin rose up and began great movements of God. This became known as the Great Awakening which brought many to the faith in Jesus and made the devil very mad. Satan countered this Great Awakening, with the Scientific Revolution which taught that knowledge and reason were supreme. The Reformers were all martyred for their faith but opened up great truths in God’s Word to the people.
Lord, may your church become stronger and stronger in the days ahead.
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