Thursday, May 15, 2025

Thursday Devotional – Jesus is Worthy to Unleash the 6th Trumpet Judgment (5/15/25)

Our daughter, Sarah, lives and breathes horses and gets to ride horses 1-2 times per week. She is a petite girl and knows they are quite big and powerful. She has a healthy fear of them and knows to be careful moving around them. She is willing, though, to ride some of the horses that others are scared to try to ride. In fact, she was bucked off a less tame horse twice last week and yet got up and got back on!

As “wild” as Sarah’s ride was last week, it was nothing compared to the 2 million horses and their destruction after the sound of the 6th trumpet!

Revelation 9:13-21 13 The sixth angel sounded his trumpet, and I heard a voice coming from the four horns of the golden altar that is before God. 14 It said to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, “Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates.” 15 And the four angels who had been kept ready for this very hour and day and month and year were released to kill a third of mankind. 16 The number of the mounted troops was twice ten thousand times ten thousand. I heard their number.

17 The horses and riders I saw in my vision looked like this: Their breastplates were fiery red, dark blue, and yellow as sulfur. The heads of the horses resembled the heads of lions, and out of their mouths came fire, smoke and sulfur. 18 A third of mankind was killed by the three plagues of fire, smoke and sulfur that came out of their mouths. 19 The power of the horses was in their mouths and in their tails; for their tails were like snakes, having heads with which they inflict injury.

20 The rest of mankind who were not killed by these plagues still did not repent of the work of their hands; they did not stop worshiping demons, and idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone and wood—idols that cannot see or hear or walk. 21 Nor did they repent of their murders, their magic arts, their sexual immorality or their thefts.

Jesus’s Sovereign patience is astounding! He could wipe everything out at once and be done with the wickedness in the world, but He graciously gives additional time. The 2/3 not killed had another opportunity to repent and turn to their Creator.

We may not be like these people who continue to refuse to repent. We may not intentionally worship idols or participate in sexual immorality, but are there things in our lives that take priority over God and His purposes for us? What areas of our lives are not totally surrendered to Jesus?

Like Sarah and horses, we are to have a healthy fear of God. He has the most powerful army of millions! He will win in the end! I want to be working for Him and not against Him. It ends terribly for those working against Him. Jesus is worthy of worship for all His power.