Thursday Devotional – Jesus is Worthy to Reveal Future Justice (1/29/26)

My kids know that if another kid hurts them or breaks something that belongs to them, there will be a consequence, and the other kid will need to make restitution. Most of us want to know the same will happen to our enemies. We want to know evil will be rightly judged.

Before Judah fell into Babylonian captivity, Jeremiah prophesied Babylon’s destruction. Here in Revelation, Jesus revealed to John, through an angel, that all evil nations will be completely destroyed.

Revelation 18:21-24  Then a mighty angel picked up a boulder the size of a large millstone and threw it into the sea, and said:

“With such violence
    the great city of Babylon will be thrown down,
    never to be found again.
²² The music of harpists and musicians, pipers and trumpeters,
    will never be heard in you again.
No worker of any trade
    will ever be found in you again.
The sound of a millstone
    will never be heard in you again.
²³ The light of a lamp
    will never shine in you again.
The voice of bridegroom and bride
    will never be heard in you again.
Your merchants were the world’s important people.
    By your magic spell all the nations were led astray.
²⁴ In her was found the blood of prophets and of God’s holy people,
    of all who have been slaughtered on the earth.”

The millstone reference is like the prophesy in Jeremiah 51:63-64:

⁶³ When you finish reading this scroll, tie a stone to it and throw it into the Euphrates. 

⁶⁴ Then say, ‘So will Babylon sink to rise no more because of the disaster I will bring on her. And her people will fall.’

This revelation of future justice and judgment was meant to be a great encouragement to the suffering believers of John’s day and for all of us today. Evil will not continue forever. Jesus wants us to be assured of that.

What encouragement does this bring to you today? How does it also challenge you and me to not be led astray by the temptations and lures of “Babylon” that have no eternal value?