Sat.’s Devo - Victory!

Read: Zechariah 9:1-17; Revelation 17:1-18; Psalm 145:1-21; Proverbs 30:32 God gives a message to all the nations who were enemies to him and Israel. He prophesied their fall. I see this as the leaders of the mountains of influence in America. God wanted them to know that He was watching closely to ensure that no more foreign oppressors overran his people’s land. He told Zion to rejoice because it was their victory time. He was destroying all the weapons of the enemy. He was going to free their prisoners from death. He was calling them back to a place of safety. God was coming with His weapons to bring salvation. This weapon was going to come lowly and riding on a donkey. God’s weapon was Jesus! We always look for a big physical cure but the battle has got to be won in the spirit first. In Revelation, one of the angels came to get John to come with him to see what was going to happen to the great prostitute. She was in the wilderness sitting on a scarlet beast that had seven heads and ten horns. Blasphemies against God were written all over the beast. The woman wore purple and scarlet clothing and had beautiful jewelry made of gold and precious gems and pearls. She held a cup full of obscenities and the impurities of her immorality. Her mysterious name was written on her forehead: Babylon the Great, Mother of All Prostitutes and Obscenities in the World. She was drunk on the blood of God’s holy people. John was amazed and the angel was perplexed that he was so shocked. He told John exactly who she was. The beast represented a kingdom that was once alive but wasn’t now. It will come up out of the bottomless pit and go to eternal destruction. The seven hills represented the seven nations in power, five of them had already fallen and the sixth was reigning at that time. The seventh kingdom was yet to come but his reign would be brief. The scarlet beast was the with king that would be destroyed like the seven before him. The ten horns were 10 kings yet to rise to power but they would only reign with the beast for a short time. They will align their armies with the last kingdom and together wage war against the Lamb and the Church. The kingdoms and all the people will rise up against the prostitute, Babylon and take her down. Lord, you know all things and everything has been orchestrated from the beginning of time. Thank you that you have put us on this earth for this time in history to carry on your work on the earth. May we carry our baton to the next generation in victory!