- Then a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone and threw it into the sea, saying, “So will Babylon the great city be thrown down with violence, and will be found no more; and the sound of harpists and musicians, of flute players and trumpeters, will be heard in you no more, and a craftsman of any craft will be found in you no more, and the sound of the mill will be heard in you no more, and the light of a lamp will shine in you no more, and the voice of bridegroom and bride will be heard in you no more, for your merchants were the great ones of the earth, and all nations were deceived by your sorcery.” Revelation 18:21-23 – No more. The evil will be no more. The power of the enemy will be no more. The hold the enemy has on the world will be no more. God will step in and throw the evil, sin, and the bringer of all that down and they will be no more. I love how this passage landed on Good Friday, something I didn’t intentionally do when I planned this year’s reading plan. Today we remember the death of Jesus on the cross, crushing the hold of sin and death in our lives, offering us a way of salvation. Then today we see in Revelation how in the end God will put down satan for good and all his evil with him. No more will our enemy have his way. What a day to look forward to and what a day we have to celebrate today. On the cross Jesus showed He was far more powerful than our enemy. So when He says things like we read in our passage we can have confidence He can do all those things. If He conquered death he can conquer our enemy once and for all. What an awesome God we serve! ….Thank you Jesus for your sacrifice and making a way for us to be with the Father….I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac – Daily DEVO 1586
- Then I heard another voice from heaven saying, “Come out of her, my people, lest you take part in her sins, lest you share in her plagues; 5 for her sins are heaped high as heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.” Revelation 18:4-5 – As with chapter 17, we are getting a detailed look at the world during the Tribulation under the reign of the Antichrist. We saw in chapter 17 the one-world religion, the spiritual Babylon, being used to bring the Antichrist his power, but him destroying it halfway through the Tribulation for it was receiving the worship rather than himself. Now we see in chapter 18 the commercial Babylon, the world economy under the reign of the Antichrist. This will be a time where the enemy is having his way with the world, and all will be worshipping him. Yet we see in our passage, a voice from heaven calling out to the followers of God that have placed their faith in Jesus during the time of the Tribulation. This voice is telling them to abandon the system of the Antichrist, to run as far as they can from it, for her sins are many and God sees them. We see in this chapter the destruction of the Antichrist’s reign, system, and power, and God’s desire was His people to be wholly separate from such evil. Whether it’s during the time of the tribulation, during the times of the Old Testament, or in our time today, God’s heart is His people to abandon the ways of the enemy and run from sinfulness. How often though do we as believers still enjoy dipping our toes into the sinful things of this world? See from passages like this that such sinful things have no prosperous end and those who enjoy such things never find the fulfillment they are looking for. Only in Jesus can we find a beautiful ending and the fulfillment of all we could ever long for. See the vanity of the world and the value of our Savior. He is worth living for, enduring for, and dying for. I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac – Daily DEVO 2802
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