Written by Lesallan Bostron
BIB3560 Revelation (ONLSP23)
Ohio Christian University
Pastor Alexander Soultz
May 5, 2023
Devotional Revelation 16:5-6 (ESV): Unrepentance in the World Today
There are many ways to see and interpret unrepentance in the world today. For this student, it has been through observation of those surrounding him and that which has been learned through other courses of study here at Ohio Christian University. What has been learned through study at the University is that Christianity is declining, and true believers are a dying and aging breed. It has been learned that more churches are closed today than are reopened yearly (statistically). Men and women have lost their faith and their fear of God. Men and women have lost the sanctity of marriage and the holy union between men and women. People have lost the fear of His final judgment. This period of time we all live may be considered the third millennium (the third period of 1000 years) since Jesus died and was resurrected to save us all. Satan in the third millennium is then let out to play (in this student’s opinion). In the first thousand years (the first millennium), the church and Christianity rose, Satan was conquered at the end of the first one thousand years (put away), and then we as people entered the golden age ( in the second millennium). The golden age is the age that is now in decline as true believers grow older in age and move on to their rightful place with and on the right hand of God. In the golden age, people went to church on Sundays and went to Grammies for supper later that evening. The age when grandmas took us, the children, to church on Sundays and during the week confirmation classes if you were and are a Protestant. It was the Protestant reformers that changed religion in the world today. It was a simple life, no cell phones, and it was the age that the internet was still being born. The age that the internet was conceived into the beast it has become today, depending on how it is used. Like Christianity, the internet can be used for evil or good. There is no place that people can go in the world today that we are not recorded or watched on video. This student sees unrepentance in the world today as those that do not see yesterday as a day gone by, those that do not or have not learned from past mistakes.
So, only Solomon (Koheleth) and John the Divine lived to be the older men—the ones who had everything, the women, wine, the song, the folly. These men both found that, in the end, it was the fear of God and the fear of a new day that mattered. John the Divine was persecuted and sent to the Island of Patmos to write the divinely inspired book of Revelation and sent to the Island for his love of God. When interpreted correctly, the book of Revelation shows God’s plan and design for the future of life. Will there be another that lives to write the sequel of the second coming? Yet a third book of the Christian Bible that is yet to be still written.
God’s judgment is Supreme and should never be questioned. God has a plan and a destiny that, in the end, only He will judge. For people, destiny is not a matter of chance but a matter of choice; it is a choice we humans make. According to Revelation 16:5-6 (ESV), God’s judgment is just, holy, and deserved. They are deserved by those that have shed the blood of saints and prophets.
Furthermore, what is described in the Bible is a process that involves His mercy and Justice. The things that reveal His perfection. God’s judgment should never be based on our human standards, but on God’s Holy Character. Judgment is related to His existence and His relationship with His creation. It is not until the end of the age and of time that God will judge every person for the purpose of eternal salvation. God will not hold people accountable for what they do not know, but He (GOD) will judge them according to the truth revealed. Those who know of God know of Jesus, and His teachings and ways will be saved; and may God have mercy on the souls of those who do not believe; the souls when the end of time and days come are to be left behind. What does God tell us ultimately that we, as believers, are the chosen. Blessings as we conquer the evilness in this world today.
Lesallan
