Today, I am reading and commenting on Revelation 9-12.

The writer writes of a time when those who do not have the seal of God on their foreheads (this appears to be a reference to the 144,000 from the tribes of Israel mentioned in chapter 7) will be tortured for five months such that they wish to die, but will be unable to do so.  Then he references three plagues which will kill a third of mankind.  I was struck by the fact that even after these events, John tells us that the people who survived did not repent of their idolatry, their sexual immorality, their thefts, or their murders.  The writer does not say that they were guilty of one or more of thee.  He says that they were guilty of all of them…and that they refused to repent of them, even after experiencing the consequences of those sins.  Have we repented of our sins?  Will we repent of our sins, either before or after we see the consequences of those sins?  A little later the writer tells us that the devil is filled with fury because he knows the time is short.  Do we know that the time is short?  Do we exhibit as much urgency to bring people to the Lord as the devil has to lead them to their doom?

I use the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.