February 26 - The Seventh Trumpet (pt. 1)

February 26 – The Seventh Trumpet (pt. 1)
Revelation 11:15

When the seventh seal was opened, there was pure silence. That is not what happens when the seventh trumpet is sounded. Loud voices – plural, not singular – said:

“The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ, and he will reign for ever and ever.”

Do you hear Handel’s “Hallelujah Chorus” as you read those first words? Can you imagine the joy in Handel’s heart as he read those words and heard the music in his mind that would be performed? It is said that his valet would find him weeping silently at his desk, overcome by the beauty and majesty of the music flowing from his pen.

We aren’t actually seeing the end of the world, we are seeing the celebration of what is to come.

Matthew 6:9-13 is the Lord’s Prayer. As we pray this, we find ourselves yearning for the coming of Christ’s kingdom. “Your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.”

We are about to see this prayer finally answered.

Daniel 2:44 predicts this reign. “…The God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed, nor will it be left to another people. It will crush all those kingdoms and bring them to an end, but it will itself endure forever.”

Zechariah 14:9 prophesies for us: “The Lord will be king over the whole earth. On that day there will be one Lord, and his name the only name.”

Satan offered Jesus a chance to have all the kingdoms of the world. In Matthew 4:8-9, Jesus told Satan that He refused to worship him and that you were to worship the “Lord your God and serve him only.”

I imagine that Jesus was laughing at the deceiver. He knew how it would all turn out. Why would he feel the need to rule over the kingdoms that Satan could show him from a high hill, when the day would come that He would rule over the entire universe?