Dear Friends of “Dial Daily Bread,”
God wants every man "perfect in Christ Jesus" (Col. 1:28). Someone ridicules the idea. "Nobody can be perfect!" is the popular cry. "This is a chimera, this idea that God can ever have a bodyof people who are 'perfect in Christ Jesus.' Look at history: an unbroken record of sin and failure to be 'perfect.'"
Yes, that has been true all through the history of the first six angels blowing their trumpets (Revelation 8-10). But now we have come to "the days of the sounding of the seventh angel, when he is about to sound" (10:7). Under the seventh trumpet something happens that has never happened in all history: "the mystery of God [is to] be finished, as He declared to His servants the prophets."
Under "the sounding of the seventh angel," two phenomena develop side by side:
(1) "The nations [are] angry" (Greek, those who do not believe the gospel; nation-rage), and they become demon-possessed (Rev. 11:15, 18; 18:2). Evil runs its full course, and the wicked try to rid the earth of those who follow Christ (see 13:15). At the present time this appears impossible; but just consider what the unbelieving world will be like when God finally withdraws His Holy Spirit (see Revelation 16).
(2) At the same time this evil develops, the Holy Spirit will cleanse and purify a people who do believe the gospel, and they will gain "the victory over the beast, over his image and over his mark and over the number of his name, ... and they [will] sing the song of Moses ... and the song of the Lamb" (15:2, 3). They will be a corporate bodyof people who "follow the Lamb wherever He goes" (14:4, 5).
Listen! The seventh angel is sounding his trumpet! Listen to the Holy Spirit, and let Him have His way in your life. Stop resisting Him (Acts 7:51).
--Robert J. Wieland
From the "Dial Daily Bread" Archive: June 18, 2001.
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