Mon.’s Devo - The End of Time

Read: Zechariah 4:1-5:11; Revelation 14:1-20; Psalm 142:1-7; Proverbs 30:21-23
The angel awakened Zechariah from sleep and showed him a menorah with seven branches to the bowls of light. There were two olive trees on either side of it. He asked him if he knew what it meant then told him. These seven bowls stood for the seven spirits of God in Isaiah 11:6, we talked about yesterday. The spirit of the Lord is the center light. The other six are grouped together on the same branch. The spirit of wisdom and understanding make one branch on either side of the center; the spirit of counsel and might make another branch; and the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord make the last branch. These are the eyes that God looks through as he searches the hearts of men on the earth. The two trees stood for two anointed ones that stand by the Lord.
Then he saw a scroll that bore the curse for every thief and everyone who swears falsely by his name. It would remain in the house of these people until it destroyed it.
Next, he saw a measuring basket with a lead cover. It held the sin of the whole earth in it. When the cover was lifted, a woman was sitting who was wickedness personified. She was pushed back into the basket and the cover put back on. Two women with wings appeared to take the basket to the country of Babylonia and build a house for it.
In Revelation we read about the 144,000. The rapture has taken the church, but when we go, this great number of Jews will realize what had happened and become ardent believers in Jesus. The four sounds came from heaven. With the first sound, the 144,000 are raptured to sing the song of the redeemed. The second sound came from an angel declaring that judgment had come and called everyone left on earth to repent. A second angel appeared proclaiming that Babylon had fallen because of her sins. A third angel followed proclaiming eternal death and torment to those who bore the image of the beast and the mark on their forehead or hand. A voice came from heaven giving a blessing on those who had die in the Lord from that time on. The Lord appeared in the clouds crowned in gold with a sharp sickle in his hand. An angel came out of the temple crying out to the Lord to reap the earth, so the Lord did. He was joined with another angel which came out of the temple to help him reap the earth. Another angel came from the altar crying out for Jesus to gather the grapes from the earth. They were thrown into God’s great winepress of his wrath where they were trampled on and their blood was spilt on the earth.
Lord, may we walk in your spirit as a witness of your grace and mercy.