Session 129: Revelation 9:13-11:18

9:20-21 Despite the continued judgments of God, the people refuse to repent! ( What sin in your life are you refusing to repent from?)

10:9 The scroll is the word of God.  It is sweet because it promises eternal life to those who will walk with God, but it can make you sick when you realize that you must change, and that others will be lost who refuse to walk with God.

11:1-2 references Daniel 9:27. (“Daniel” is another example of Apocalyptic Literature, like Revelation. Apocalyptic Literature basically says, “Bad stuff’s going to happen, as it has in the past, but persevere because God will save his people in the end.”  Daniel, in earlier chapters of that book, reminds his readers that the Israelites have survived everybody from the Babylonians to the Seleucids.  Here, in Revelation 11:2-3, the writer piggybacks on this theme with the “42 months”, (the length of time  of the Seleucid King Antiochus’ reign of terror before he was overthrown by the Jews, to show that the People of God, who were undergoing Roman persecution at the time of its writing, will similarly triumph with eternal life.

11:7 You may have to be a martyr for your faith!