Resisting Trump with Revelation (14)
the seven seals 3 (6:-8:1) What is going on in the world around us? It doesn’t look as though God is in control, that he has won the victory over evil and death in Jesus Christ. Conquerors bringing rapacious greed, violence, and unrest kill and terrorize the earth. Have those who dies for Jesus’ sake died in vain? Will anyone be held accountable for this mess? These are the questions that dog God’s people as they try to live faithfully in the world. We all wonder about these things at times. We agonize over them. Sometimes we doubt. But we are never free of their niggling at our minds and hearts. Jesus opens the first six seals in response to these questions. None of these things are taking place outside of God’s loving purpose for the world or the sovereignty of his slaughtered Lamb. The logic of suffering love will prevail. For those who have given their life for the Lamb and even those who have opposed his will, his way, his people. Justice and love will embr...