November 11, 2022

Passage Read: Revelation 19-20
Meditation Verses: 20:7-9

Thought

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 of Christ? What will there be to be embittered over? Will they not have prospered and enjoyed peace and safety and fellowship with their fellow man? Is the Law of Christ so terrible that mankind would want to rebel against Jesus after such a time of peace and prosperity? Is freedom to sin, to live their life by their own ideas of right and wrong, is that the highest value to man? They would choose that even if they were enslaved to the State and poor as dirt?

Application

If I am unwilling to submit myself to Christ and His Word now, I will be unhappy when He reigns a thousand years. When He reigns, He will enforce His Law quickly. All will learn of His requirements, whether they like them or not. If I do not already accept His requirements now when my ignorance grants me grace, I will not like them any more when I no longer have ignorance as an excuse and He enforces them strictly. I need to know and practice all He desires now, so that whatever I did not correctly understand, I already have the heart to humbly accept His commands when He can personally clear up my misunderstandings.