Sun.’s Devo - The Triumph of the Lamb

Read: Zechariah 9:1-17: Revelation 17:1-18; Psalm 145:1-21; Proverbs 30:32 God had a word against Hadrach which means “the privy chamber”…i.e. commode. That would pretty much sum up how God saw this land of people. The pride and wealth of Tyre and Sidon was about to be stripped away. The cities of Ashkelon, Gaza, and Ekron will see them fall and quake in fear. Their cities will be taken over by foreigners. The sacrifices of the Philistines will be stopped and a remnant of them will survive to turn to the Lord and become like a clan in Judah. God will protect his Temple from invading armies. God tells his people to rejoice because their king was coming. He will be lowly and riding on a donkey but he would remove the war from Israel. He will rule the earth. God’s people, who were in bondage to fear will be set free. They will be repaid two blessings for each one of their troubles. God and his angels will war in the heavenlies for his people on the earth. He will rescue them as their shepherd and they will live securely in the land of prosperity and blessings. In Revelation, one of the angels who poured out wrath on the earth came over to John and asked to take him to see the judgment planned for the prostitute. She stands for idolatry and false religion. He was shown her in all her evil glory. She was sitting on a beast that had seven heads and ten horns. John was told that the beast wasn’t alive now but would resurface from the bottomless pit and go to their eternal destruction. Those whose names were not written in the book of Life would be a mazed at the reappearance of this beast. The seven heads of the beast represent the seven hills where the woman rules. (There are seven mountains around Jerusalem.) They also represent the kings of these mountains. Five of them had already fallen and the sixth reigned then. The seventh was yet to come. His reign would be short. The eighth was the beast himself. The ten horns were ten kings who would reign with the beast. They will give him their power and join against the Lamb but the Lamb will defeat them, but before they are defeated, they will all turn on the great prostitute. She also represents the great city that rules over the kings of the world. Lord, we will tell our children of your mighty acts and meditate on your majestic, glorious splendor and your wonderful miracles.