Revelation 9 DEVO: 5th & 6th Trumpets

Chapter 9:
How far will God go to get our attention? As far as punishing His own Son for our sin in order to show how much He cares as well as hates sin. Today we continue with the trumpet judgments. With the final three trumpets come three “woes.”
5th Trumpet – First Woe: In the first 12 verses God unleashes a horde of supernatural demonic creatures (never seen locusts like this!) who spread as much misery as possible. Somehow they inflict pain on all “who did not have the seal of God on their foreheads……..…for five months.” How bad will this be? “During those days people will seek death but will not find it; they will long to die, but death will elude them.” This will be a painful time for unbelievers and the description of these war-like creatures is difficult to imagine!
6th Trumpet – Second Woe: “Release the four angels……….and the four angels……..were released to kill a third of mankind. The number of the mounted troops was twice ten thousand times ten thousand. I heard their number.” This death toll from this army of 200,000 will be significantly larger than any ever before. And want to talk freakish – they’ll do it with “fire, smoke & sulfur” out of their mouths & in their tails – which were like snakes with heads!~ Wow – fire breathing horses with heads like lions and tails like snakes!
What is both shocking, as well as sad, is that even in spite of all this, people still did not turn to God: They “did not repent of the work of their hands; they did not stop worshiping demons, and idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone and wood—idols that cannot see or hear or walk. Nor did they repent of their murders, their magic arts, their sexual immorality or their thefts.”
SO WHAT?!
*Lets take some time today to thank God for revealing Himself to us and that byHis grace through faith we can be saved!
*What idols do you & I have? Ok, maybe not statues, but how about money? Academics? iPods? Clothes? Trucks? Pleasure? Stuff? Etc….. Anything that we give more attention to more than God. Lord, help me to make you #!1 in my life each day!