Revelation 6:12 And I beheld
when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and
the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood;
13 And the stars of heaven fell unto the
earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a
mighty wind. 14 And the heaven departed
as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were
moved out of their places. 15 And the
kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief
captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid
themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains; 16 And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on
us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the
wrath of the Lamb: 17 For the great day
of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?
This seal opens with a great
earthquake and the sun turning black with the moon turning red. There is an
astronomic disturbance and a tremendous meteor shower, perhaps, although there
are possible spiritual meanings of this passage about the stars of heaven. This is a world-shaking event that takes place, an
earthquake that is devastating and things falling from space. It is so bad that
the great men and the lowly men of the earth hide in places that would not be
where you would go in a regular earthquake hoping to be hidden from Christ’s
wrath. Perhaps, in their unbelief they view this kind of death as an escape
from the physical destruction. They admit that no one can stand against Christ
in this absolute disaster. It is possible then to know that God is judging you
but to reject His authority over you.
Some commentators wrote that the stars of heaven signify spiritual beings
from what we call outer space but what God calls the firmament of the heaven coming to earth. Here are some interesting
verses;
Genesis 1:15 And let them be for
lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was
so.
Psalm 115:16 The heaven, even
the heavens, are the LORD’S: but the earth hath he given to the children of
men.
Ephesians 2:2 Wherein in time
past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince
of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of
disobedience:
Ephesians 6:12 For we wrestle
not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers,
against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness
in high places.
Notice the day of Christ’s wrath
is come. See Isaiah 2:19. This is the wrath that the church is not to suffer
under which may be why the church as named such does not appear in Revelation
after 4:1. Christ is said to have spared us from the wrath to come.
1Thessalonians 1:10 And to wait
for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which
delivered us from the wrath to come.
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