Fri.’s Devo - The Last Kingdoms

Read: Zechariah 9:1-17; Revelation 17:1-18; Psalm 145:1-21; Proverbs 30:32 A message came to Zechariah about Damascus in the north, Tyre and Sidon in the west, the Philistines in the south. The surviving Philistine would come to worship the Lord as their God. No more foreign oppressors would overrun the Lord’s people in Jerusalem. *** Zechariah proclaimed the coming of Jesus. He saw him humble and riding on a donkey. He would bring peace to the nations and his kingdom would stretch across the whole world. God promised to pay his people back double for all they had gone through. The Lord of heaven’s army would fight for them and defeat their enemies. God’s people would sparkle like jewels in their own country. *** In Revelation, one of the angels who had poured out his bowl of judgment on the earth called John to him and showed him the judgement that was coming to the prostitute who ruled over many waters. She had influenced many nations with her spiritual powers. She was full of blasphemies obscenities and impurities. She ruled seven nations and the seven kings of those nations. Ten leaders were yet to come. She stood for Babylon, the Mother of All Prostitutes. She was drunk with the blood of God’s holy people. John looked at her in amazement. The angel explained that the beast would resurrect out of the bottomless pit and then go to eternal destruction. All the people whose names were not written in the book would worship him. *** Five of the kings had already reigned and the sixth was reigning at that time. The seventh would only reign for a short time. Then the ten nations that were the ten horns would reign for a short time with the beast. They will yield their power to the beast and go to war against the Lamb. The Lamb will win and his children will be victorious with him. The beast and his ten leaders will turn against the prostitute and carry out the Lord’s plan. *** Lord, when I read your Word and see your plan written out, what is there to fear? You use even your enemies to do your work. You promise your chosen protection and victory. Thank you for your promises.