GOD Morning! December 15 / Stubborn Harry

GOD Morning!

December 15 / Stubborn Harry

Revelation 6

6 Then I saw as the Lamb broke open one of the seven seals, and as if in a voice of thunder I heard one of the four living creatures call out, Come!

² And I looked, and saw there a white horse whose rider carried a bow. And a crown was given him, and he rode forth conquering and to conquer.

³ And when He broke the second seal, I heard the second living creature call out, Come!

⁴ And another horse came out, flaming red. And its rider was empowered to take the peace from the earth, so that men slaughtered one another; and he was given a huge sword.

⁵ When He broke open the third seal, I heard the third living creature call out, Come and look! And I saw, and behold, a black horse, and in his hand the rider had a pair of scales (a balance).

⁶ And I heard what seemed to be a voice from the midst of the four living creatures, saying, A quart of wheat for a denarius [a whole day’s wages], and three quarts of barley for a denarius; but do not harm the oil and the wine!

⁷ When the Lamb broke open the fourth seal, I heard the fourth living creature call out, Come!

⁸ So I looked, and behold, an ashy pale horse [black and blue as if made so by bruising], and its rider’s name was Death, and Hades (the realm of the dead) followed him closely. And they were given authority and power over a fourth part of the earth to kill with the sword and with famine and with plague (pestilence, disease) and with wild beasts of the earth.

⁹ When the Lamb broke open the fifth seal, I saw at the foot of the altar the souls of those whose lives had been sacrificed for [adhering to] the Word of God and for the testimony they had borne.

¹⁰ They cried in a loud voice, O [Sovereign] Lord, holy and true, how long now before You will sit in judgment and avenge our blood upon those who dwell on the earth?

¹¹ Then they were each given a long and flowing and festive white robe and told to rest and wait patiently a little while longer, until the number should be complete of their fellow servants and their brethren who were to be killed as they themselves had been.

¹² When He [the Lamb] broke open the sixth seal, I looked, and there was a great earthquake; and the sun grew black as sackcloth of hair, [the full disc of] the moon became like blood.

¹³ And the stars of the sky dropped to the earth like a fig tree shedding its unripe fruit out of season when shaken by a strong wind.

¹⁴ And the sky rolled up like a scroll and vanished, and every mountain and island was dislodged from its place.

¹⁵ Then the kings of the earth and their noblemen and their magnates and their military chiefs and the wealthy and the strong and [everyone, whether] slave or free hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains,

¹⁶ And they called to the mountains and the rocks, Fall on (before) us and hide us from the face of Him Who sits on the throne and from the deep-seated indignation and wrath of the Lamb.

¹⁷ For the great day of His wrath (vengeance, retribution, indignation) has come, and who is able to stand before it?

Below is an incomplete (can you believe it) list of types of fantasy literature.

Epic Fantasy, Coming-of-Age Fantasy, Heroic Fantasy, High Fantasy, Low Fantasy, Military Fantasy, Sword and Sorcery Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, Celtic Fantasy, Mythic Fantasy, Fables / Fairy Tales, Romantic Fantasy, Fantastic Romance, Urban Fantasy, Paranormal Fantasy, Literary Fantasy, New Weird / Slipstream, Magic Realism, Science Fantasy, Arthurian Fantasy, Alternate History, Historical Fantasy, Steampunk Fantasy, Superhero Fantasy, Sword and Planet Fantasy, Young Adult Fantasy (YA Fantasy), and Cross Over Fantasy.

I repeat. This is not a complete listing of fantasy literature. SMH!

Obviously, folks crave this stuff.

This type of writing is also found right in the Bible! One stop shopping! But there is one difference. Fantasy literature is fiction. The Bible, however, is all true. The events recorded in the Bible already have happened or are going to actually happen!

You can choose to believe the Word of God, or you can stubbornly choose the path of destruction like Harry Truman. He was a caretaker who lived five miles north of Mt. Saint Helen in Oregon.

He, along with everyone else, was warned countless times about the explosion that was soon to come.

He smiled into the TV cameras and said confidently, “Nobody knows more about this mountain than Harry, and it don’t dare blow up on him.”

How did that stubborn unbelief work out for him?

On May 18, 1980, at 8:31 a.m., the mountain erupted with a force 500 times greater than the nuclear bomb that had leveled Hiroshima, Japan in 1945.

On that morning, Stubborn Harry became nothing more than a statistic.

I wonder if there any Stubborn Harrys reading this today?

Maybe you are a Bible scholar of sorts. Maybe you think that you and Jesus have your own thing going as the old country song says.

Maybe you think you are exempt from the Bible prophesies.

Sorry to disappoint you, but that’s not how it works.

These crazy, fantasy sounding words and images are REAL. These things ARE going to happen!

NO ONE will be able to create a different doctrine for themselves and make it work. No one!

Jesus is the ONLY answer. Please, I’m begging you. Sudden destruction IS coming. Please don’t be a Stubborn Harry.

“Dear Jesus, I am begging You once again to keep reaching for that one who thinks their own little religion is working for them. It may be working now, but sudden destruction is coming. You will personally break the seals! The day of Your wrath IS coming! You have given us a glimpse of what WILL INDEED happen to those of us who create our own specialty religion. Those of us who think doing good, being kind, being polite, and thinking positive thoughts and visiting church / praying once in a while is the way to live our lives. Those who don’t believe Your word or think it’s only one of many ways to serve You. Please, I’m begging You. And thanks for hearing every prayer and every cry. And thanks for seeing every tear that falls. In Your precious name, the name of Jesus, I pray, AMEN.”