11:15
The seventh trumpet is sounded, and this is greeted with a loud noise from heaven. Then there is the great declaration “The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord, and of His Messiah, and He will reign forever and ever”. To John and the church of the time it may have looked as if all was lost, it would certainly be easy to succumb to such feelings. But that is not true, it is the Lord who reigns, and He will do so forever and ever. The Lord’s plan will overturn the kingdom of this world, and the Lord will reign. All of us need to remember that.
11:16,17
The twenty four elders, who we met some time ago, fall down on their face and worship God. One of the things that Revelation does is focus our minds on what is happening in heaven, we then get a totally different perspective on things than if we have a purely earthbound view. They praise God because He has used His great power and has begun to reign. There are two key lessons to take from this. The first is that God uses His great power. We might look at the world today and despair, but we only do that if we forget that God will use His great power. The second is that He has begun to reign on the earth. At the cross everything changed. We are in the victory phase now. A parallel with the D-Day landings has often been drawn, and this is useful. After D-Day victory was certain, but there were many battles and difficulties to be encountered before the war ended. So it is with the cross. We have much to endure and much to do, but the outcome is certain.
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