That Is Our God

Ok so this feels  a little weird.  I am typically  not the type of person that preaches.  In fact, I am usually a man of few words.  (I am not sure how I got roped into this blogging thing).  Plus most of these words and thoughts are not my own, but here we go anyway.

In Revelation 8:6 there are seven Angels with seven trumpets, each trumpet blast means bad things happen.  Death and destruction are everywhere and then in verse 13, after the fourth trumpet, we take a brief pause.  Seemingly out of nowhere, we find an eagle flying calling out “Woe! Woe! Woe to the inhabitants of the earth, because of the trumpet blasts about to be sounded by the other three angels!”  In a moment of honesty our pastor admitted he had no idea what to do with this verse.  Death and destruction everywhere and then a bird telling us it is only going to get worse. Awesome.

So we took a little journey over to Matthew 20 and the parable of the Workers in the Vineyard.  A landowner goes out early in the morning to hire men to work his field.  He then goes out in the third, sixth, ninth, and eleventh hour to hire more workers.  (There were twelve hours in a work day)  We focused on the landowner because he does something a little odd.  Typically in that day landowners would go out in the morning hire people and that was it.  But this landowner is always going to out to find more workers.

Then we took a look at all of the prophets sent to Israel.  They came with the message of “Woe to you!”  Now this wasn’t a message of lookout destruction is coming and there is nothing that you can do about it.  These were messages of look out destruction will come if you do not change your ways.  Repents and return to the Lord.

So we added all these thing up and go back to Revelation and with all of this in mind, the eagle reads a little different.  Woe to you, destruction is coming, but it doesn’t have to be for you.  Repent and come to the Lord.  He is here even in this eleventh hour searching for more people who want and need his salvation.  Even in the midst of God’s righteous anger and judgement of the earth, he is still searching for people who want his love.

That is our God.