Where Do You Want To Live?

Revelation 9:13-21 (ESV)

Then the sixth angel blew his trumpet, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar before God, saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, “Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates.” So the four angels, who had been prepared for the hour, the day, the month, and the year, were released to kill a third of mankind. The number of mounted troops was twice ten thousand times ten thousand; I heard their number. And this is how I saw the horses in my vision and those who rode them: they wore breastplates the color of fire and of sapphire and of sulfur, and the heads of the horses were like lions' heads, and fire and smoke and sulfur came out of their mouths. By these three plagues a third of mankind was killed, by the fire and smoke and sulfur coming out of their mouths. For the power of the horses is in their mouths and in their tails, for their tails are like serpents with heads, and by means of them they wound.

The rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands nor give up worshiping demons and idols of gold and silver and bronze and stone and wood, which cannot see or hear or walk, nor did they repent of their murders or their sorceries or their sexual immorality or their thefts.

Devotional:

As I read through today’s scripture I couldn’t help but think of our society.  I think of Rome and the days before she fell.  I see the similarities in the two. Sex has become something casual.  It is something to do whenever and with whomever.  Murder is everywhere.  In the media you are hearing how someone went in and shot everyone they could.  They kill anywhere from just a few to dozens.

I think can’t anyone see the signs?  Don’t they realize where we are headed?  But just as it will be in Revelation people now will not see.  I wonder if it isn’t so much as seeing but not wanting to accept.  Because by accepting they acknowledge their wrong doing.  They also acknowledge that there really is a God and that they are not the supreme being in their lives.  OK, I admit it can be easier to stick my head in the sand and deny. 

But whom am I kidding?  Who am I fooling?  No matter what I believe in the end there are two places to go when we leave this life. Yes, I said this life because we do have life after death.  Do you wan to spend all eternity in heaven, or hell?  Do you want to live forever in a place of torment beyond your worse nightmares and fears?  I don’t know about you but I wan to live in a place that is perfect.  A place so beautiful it is beyond compare by anything we know.  What about you?

John 3:16, “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.”