So Shall it Be!

DEVOTION

THE REVELATION

SO SHALL IT BE

Rev 1:7

7 Look, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, even those who pierced him; and all the peoples of the earth will mourn because of him.

So shall it be! Amen.

NIV

There is no question that Jesus is coming back for us, well at least for those of us who have accepted him as Lord and Savior. What we see here is that every eye will see him when he returns, even those people who have rejected him. So the saved and the unsaved will see Jesus in the clouds when he appears. Now all the peoples of earth will mourn because of him. It is a good thing we are not the people of the earth for we are the people of the kingdom of God and we will not mourn but rejoice because our Lord has come for us. We can be sure his return is not a local event in the Middle East. We can be sure his return is not just for America. Every eye, which indicates the entire world will be able to see his coming with the clouds. This is going to be an awesome event like nothing we have ever seen or experienced before. But we are going to have some signs that will precede his arrival. Not the few sort of signs some people think are the signs, but worldwide signs, earthquakes all over, the earth and the heavens will be shaken. A few what is called a blood moon will not be any sign, but when according to the prophet Joel who is also quoted by the writer of Acts, the moon will actually be turned into blood. This is a violent upheaval of the heavens, for the sun will also be turned into darkness. We cannot have an eclipse of the sun at the same time of a so called blood moon in the natural events of astrology. So before every eye will see him in the clouds there is going to be an enormous supernatural event both on earth and in the heavens. There is also going to be nation rise against nation. That is not just a few nations, but all the nations will be involved. This does not necessarily mean a world war of greater magnitude then the past so called world wars. But this could mean the ideology, the theology of every nation will oppose each other. There will be no peace, no sense of common humanity. This can also mean the nation of earth will rise up against the nation of God. The kingdom of earth against the kingdom of God. Famine all over is another sign and again this may not mean a physical famine although we can see many places today there are famines and there have been over the course of history. This famine could be of a spiritual nature. A famine of mankind who are without any acknowledgment of God. The point is the Jesus will come with the clouds and we are all going to see this happen. There is going to be something so entirely beyond anything we have ever seen before. The world will never be the same.  So shall it be! Amen.