The Martyrs Blood Avenged

Ezekiel 15-16; Psalms 70; Revelations 6 

“I watched as the Lamb opened the first of the seven seals. Then I heard one of the four living creatures say in a voice like thunder, ‘Come!’ I looked and there before me was a site horse!...a fiery red one…a black horse!...a pale horse!…They were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill by sword, famine and plague and by the wild beasts of the earth…‘How long…until you judge the inhabitants of the earth and avenge our blood?’”

Revelation 6:1-5, 7, 8, 10

In our age of tolerance, individual rights, and freedoms, there is growing intolerance for the exclusive claims of Christ. The judgment of nations and peoples for their persecution and martyrdom of Christ’s followers is jarring. The blood of the martyrs is noticed and justice will be done by the Almighty. Our view of God as a benevolent grandfather doesn’t fit with heaven’s plan amidst the killing of many millions of people. God’s wrath against sin was focused on Jesus. At Christ’s second coming this will be consummated in a final judgment of all human kind. There has never been a better time to repent of our sin and find salvation and peace with God through Jesus.

“Lord Jesus, in your judgment, remember mercy.”