Devotions from Revelation

Passage Read: Revelation 1-2 Meditation Verse: 2:20 The church in Thyatira allowed a women to teach, a woman who claims to be a prophetess, and she teaches God's children to go astray, to commit fornication and to eat idol sacrifices. Why is it that the…

Passage Read: Revelation 3-4 Meditation Verses: 3:15-16 It is not good to be lukewarm in deeds toward God; it is no better than being cold. The only works God is pleased with are hot works, zealous works for the Lord. The advantage of cold is…

Passage Read: Revelation 5-6 Meditation Verses: 5:9-10 This song is apparently sung by the four living creatures and the elders, and they sing that the Lamb purchased "us" for God out of every tribe and made "us" kings and priests to God to reign over…

Passage Read: Revelation 7-8 Meditation Verse: 7:3 Before God can begin His wrath on mankind, He marks a portion of the Jews from each remaining tribe, to protect them, and He removes all those who have believed in Christ from the earth. All non-Christian Jews…

Passage Read: Revelation 9-10 Meditation Verses: 9:5-6 These locust have power to torment men for five months, and though the men seek death, they cannot find it. They will not be able to kill themselves! But then the angels and their armies will be released…

Passage Read: Revelation 11-12 Meditation Verse: 11:18 The Lord will reward all the prophets and saints and all those who feared Him, whether small or great. He will reward them when He finishes His judgment on those who destroy the earth. That in itself is…

Passage Read: Revelation 13-14 Meditation Verses: 13:4-7 There are so many important things here to describe the beast. He has a deadly wound that's healed, and all the nations marvel at him and follow him. Because of him, they worship the dragon who gave his…

Passage Read: Revelation 15-16 Meditation Verse: 16:21 At this point, all seems lost. These last plagues are horrible in nature, yet still no one repents. Instead, they blaspheme God. They have no doubt about who is in charge of these plagues, and they are gathering…

Passage Read: Revelation 17-18 Meditation Verses: 18:4-5 Whatever place Babylon here represents, the Lord urges His people to separate themselves from it, so they they do not share in her sins nor suffer her consequences. Like Lot dwelling in Sodom, he managed to keep himself…

Passage Read: Revelation 19-20 Meditation Verses: 20:7-9 It is amazing to me that after a thousand years of the reign of Christ, Satan would be able to deceive the nations and rally them again for war. Will they not have enjoyed and appreciated the rule…

Passage Read: Revelation 21-22 Meditation Verse: 22:9 We together with the angels are slaves of God. But no one wants to hear that today. We are offended by the notion that we would belong solely and completely to another, having no rights whatsoever, but be…

Passage Read: Revelation 1-2 Meditation Verse: 2:5 For all their purity of doctrine and alertness to false teachers, the Ephesian church was not perfect. They had lost their first love and the fervent deeds that came with it. Jesus didn't establish His church merely to…

Passage Read: Revelation 3-4 Meditation Verses: 4:8-11 In my flesh, I think, "How boring it would be to spend eternity repeating the same thing over and over again, and bowing down and getting up just to do it all over again in a few minutes."…

Passage Read: Revelation 5-6 Meditation Verse: 5:5 Jesus triumphed and so is worthy to open the scroll. How did He triumph? According to the songs that follow, He triumphed by giving His life to purchase men for God from every tribe and language and people…

Passage Read: Revelation 7-8 Meditation Verse: 7:14 These came through the great tribulation in faithfulness to Jesus. They survived, they washed their robes in the blood of the Lamb and made them white. They did not love their lives so much as to shrink from…

Passage Read: Revelation 9-10 Meditation Verse: 10:4 Not everything has been revealed, and I need to be OK with that. The Lord knows exactly what He's doing and plans to do, and I need to trust Him and obey what He has revealed. He is…

Passage Read: Revelation 11-12 Meditation Verse: 12:11 The only way to overcome the devil and his hatred of believers is by the blood of Christ, by our testimony and by not loving our life so much as to shrink from death for Christ's sake. The…

Passage Read: Revelation 13-14 Meditation Verse: 13:5 The Antichrist receives authority over all mankind only for forty-two months! During that time, he blasphemes God, he makes successful war on the saints, rules over all the nations, because all people who aren't recorded in the Book…

Passage Read: Revelation 15-16 Meditation Verses: 16:9-11 Three times in this chapter of the seven last plagues of God's wrath men curse God and refuse to repent. They refuse to admit they were wrong, even as God pours out His wrath on them, proving they…

Passage Read: Revelation 17-18 Meditation Verse: 18:20 A day is coming when the saints and apostles and prophets will rejoice over the destruction of those who hated them. All heaven will rejoice over the destruction of Babylon, and the saints, apostles and prophets will do…

Passage Read: Revelation 19-20 Meditation Verses: 20:1-3 Satan is so easily captured and bound: One angel and a chain. He could be removed so easily, if God desired. But he has a part to play, deceiving the nations. When he is imprisoned, he will not…

Passage Read: Revelation 21-22 Meditation Verses: 22:11-12 God lets everyone choose their path, but He decides the result. He is coming with His reward. For those who are vile, for those who do wrong, there will be suffering and torment for eternity. If that's the…

Passage Read: Revelation 1-2 Meditation Verses: 2:19-20 The church at Thyatira is growing in dedication, love and obedience, but they have among them a woman who considers herself a prophetess, who teaches immorality and eating food sacrificed to idols. Some in the church follow her,…

Passage Read: Revelation 3-4 Meditation Verses: 3:1-4 The church at Sardis appears to be alive, but Jesus says they are dead. They're not yet lost, because He calls them to wake up and strengthen the things that are about to die. There is still something…

Passage Read: Revelation 5-6 Meditation Verse: 6:2 I keep thinking this has to represent a person, but it's a spirit like the rest, perhaps an angel. He is a spirit of conquering and apparently incites rulers to go out and conquer. The next spirit has…

Passage Read: Revelation 7-8 Meditation Verse: 7:3 God is very gracious to His people. Those who have trusted in Christ will be taken out of the world before He pours out His wrath on unbelieving mankind. Since the nations will be punished, He brings out…

Passage Read: Revelation 9-10 Meditation Verses: 9:20-21 Mankind was tormented for five months, at which time they looked for death but could not find it. They wanted to die, but God withheld death from them. Then at the next trumpet, God sent an angelic army…

Passage Read: Revelation 11-12 Meditation Verses: 11:11-14 The second woe, the sixth trumpet, has to do with these two prophets who torment the earth by their warnings and call all to repentance. They are perhaps explaining everything that is happening as the work of God,…

Passage Read: Revelation 13-14 Meditation Verses: 13:7-10 The beast is given authority over all the nations, which means Christians will be safe no where. Every nation will be required to pledge allegiance to the beast, to take his mark to buy and sell. He will…

Passage Read: Revelation 15-16 Meditation Verses: 16:5-6 God repays all men according to their deeds. The righteous, those who believe in the Lord will be blessed by Him with a share in His kingdom. The wicked, all the men of this last generation, the men…

Passage Read: Revelation 17-18 Meditation Verses: 18:19-20 While the entire earth mourns the destruction of Babylon, there are two groups of people who rejoice: the Antichrist and his people, and the saints of God. In this one act, the devil and God are united; indeed,…

Passage Read: Revelation 19-20 Meditation Verse: 19:15 "He treads the winepress of the fierce wrath of God, the Almighty." Not just wrath but fierce wrath. We think God is so calm and merciful and gracious, but He's also filled with fierce wrath because men scorn…

Passage Read: Revelation 21-22 Meditation Verses: 22:11-12 There is no plea to repent. There are just these things reported. People are to be given access to this revelation, and decide for themselves where they want to be. Jesus is returning and will set up His…