Revelation

Your Response

Your response

One’s response to the light in this life is crucial, because at the throne of judgement there will be no opportunity to embrace truth that was formerly spurned (Revelation 20:11-15).  Those who scorn the light of the gospel now will have all light removed from them in eternity.

Commentary from the MacArthur study Bible, notes for Luke 8:18.

I Hope to Meet You There

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Picture this:  A city shaped like a cube that covers the United States from the Atlantic coast to the middle of Kansas, and from Texas to the Canadian border-1,400 miles long, wide, and high.  It covers about two million square miles of land; but because it’s a cube with room for about 600 “floors”, all total it has 1.2 billion square miles of living space.  That’s the city the Bible calls the New Jerusalem (Revelation 21:2).

Sometimes people wonder whether there will be room in heaven for all the millions of believers destined to go there.  Based on the above dimensions, it would appear so!  The New Jerusalem is not heaven-it’s a city in heaven that will serve as the “capital” of heaven.  In it are the thrones of God and the Lamb, a river of the water of life, and the tree of life:  food, water, and Jesus Christ-everything needed to live forever.  The question is not whether there will be room in the New Jerusalem for everyone-there will be-but rather, will you be there?  Jesus has invited you to join Him there.

Commentary from the Pathways Devotional by David Jeremiah, May 11.

The city is laid out as a square;

its length is as great as its breadth.

And he measured the city with the reed:

twelve thousand furlongs.

Its length, breadth, and height are equal.

Revelation 21:16

Furious

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Then war broke out in heaven:

Michael and his angels fought against the dragon.

The dragon and his angels also fought,

but he could not prevail, and there was no place for

them in heaven any longer.

So the great dragon was thrown out-the ancient serpent,

who is called the Devil and Satan, the one who

deceives the whole world.

He was thrown to earth, and his angels with him.

Revelation 12:7-9

They’re here and they are real.  The war is real.

If the Bible is true, then this (in this post) is all true.  Not believing all or part doesn’t make it untrue, if it’s true.  If it’s true, then not believing only makes one deceived.

Ask God for understanding, He will respond.  For everyone who asks receives, and the one who searches finds, and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.  Luke 11:10