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Judgment

10 studies

Revelation · Day 6

Eyes of Fire, Morning Star

Revelation 2:18-29

The Son of God, whose eyes search every heart, praises a church that is growing in love and service, warns it for tolerating a teacher who leads his people into idolatry, and promises the faithful remnant a share in his rule and himself, the morning star.

14 min read · Letters to the Churches
Revelation · Day 12

Four Horses on a Leash

Revelation 6:1-8

When the Lamb breaks the first four seals, riders of conquest, war, hunger, and death gallop out, yet each one moves only because power is given to him, so even the worst forces in history answer to the One who was slain and lives.

14 min read · The Seven Seals
Revelation · Day 13

A Cry Under the Altar

Revelation 6:9-17

The fifth seal shows martyrs asking God how long, the sixth shows the powerful hiding from the Lamb, and together they ask the question that chapter 7 will answer: who can stand when God finally judges?

13 min read · The Seven Seals
Revelation · Day 15

Silence, Incense, and Fire

Revelation 8:1-13

When the seventh seal opens, heaven goes quiet so that the prayers of God's people can be heard, and the fire that answers them lands on earth as seven trumpets begin to warn a world that has not yet turned back.

12 min read · The Seven Trumpets
Revelation · Day 19

The Kingdom Changes Hands

Revelation 11:15-19

When the seventh trumpet sounds, heaven does not describe a catastrophe but sings a coronation: the rule of the world passes openly to God and his Christ, the nations meet their judgment, the faithful receive their reward, and God's covenant faithfulness stands revealed.

13 min read · The Seven Trumpets
Revelation · Day 23

The Song Only the Redeemed Sing

Revelation 14:1-13

While the beasts demand worship from the shore, the Lamb stands on Mount Zion with a company who carry his name, and three angels announce the eternal Good News, the fall of Babylon, and a solemn warning, so that the saints can persevere and the dying in Christ can rest.

14 min read · The Cosmic Conflict
Revelation · Day 24

Grain Gathered, Grapes Trampled

Revelation 14:14-20

The Son of Man reaps a ripe earth and an angel treads the winepress of God's wrath, a sobering picture that shows evil being ended at its appointed hour, and that points us back to the One who first drank the cup of wrath for his people.

14 min read · The Cosmic Conflict
Revelation · Day 27

It Is Done

Revelation 16:12-21

As the kings of the earth are deceived into gathering for a final war, Jesus breaks in with a warning to stay awake, and the seventh bowl brings a voice from the throne declaring that God's judgment is complete.

12 min read · The Seven Bowls
Revelation · Day 29

Come Out of Her, My People

Revelation 18:1-24

Babylon the great falls in a single hour, mourned by those who profited from her and celebrated by heaven, and in the middle of the judgment God calls his own people out by name, so that they will not share her sins or her plagues.

14 min read · The Fall of Babylon
Revelation · Day 31

The Rider Called Faithful and True

Revelation 19:11-21

Heaven opens and Jesus comes out as the Word of God on a white horse, King of kings, who defeats the beast and the false prophet and every rebel army with nothing but the word of his mouth.

13 min read · The Final Victory