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In That Day
In That Day
He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord God will wipe away tears from off all faces.
The trumpets of God serve to bring the battle out into the open. The first four seals are seeds sown in John’s time; and coming to fruition throughout history, even until today. But in the trumpets, time is compressed to just the end…to our time. They begin the open-book-judgments. And their fruit is both sudden and cataclysmic.
In the flesh, we tend to miss the girth and violence of this immense conflict. And sadly…in the flesh…we completely miss the value of life. Not just its value to us and to God, but its magnificent value to the entire heavenly host.
Our far-reaching telescopes have revealed, that life is only here. Life…in an infinite universe…is as rare as hen’s teeth. Were you an angel…gazillions of light years away…what would you think are your chances of locating the earth, and life? Because all of the rest…in every direction…is outer darkness.
In such a context, the value of a single blade of grass…for even its short moment in the sun…cannot be measured. The tiniest living insect, holds astronomical value in the spiritual world. In this tiny galaxy…in this tiny solar system…on this tiny planet alone, is life.
My Lord tried to convey this infinite value of life, when he said:
For what is a man profited if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
Life is the only vehicle to God, and eternity.
Most battles of the warrior are for territory…land…dirt. The same stuff that Adam was made of. The stuff that trees and green grass need to live. And a battle as prolonged as humanity…with as epic a finale as Revelation…could only be fought for a prize as priceless as human souls.
At this writing; 107 of those human souls, enter death’s doorway every minute. These are the realities of this epic hour. As we consider, then, the second trumpet; we would do well here to reconcile God’s discourses with heavenly bodies and creation. The places where he speaks of:
The host of the high ones
and again:
the terrible ones
Because when God speaks to trees and mountains and such in scripture; he is neither doddering, nor waxing poetic. He is speaking spiritual realities. He is illuminating that spiritual/natural tie which binds us. The trees and green grass needing the dust to live, is a very telling spiritual truth. And these are the spiritual realities now relevant, to this marvelous Revelation.
This natural/spiritual connection is actually a silent majority in scripture. All of the prophets speak of it. Animals, birds, mountains, valleys, roses, stars…in short, the entire creation around you, has its spiritual twin.
And somehow the voice of the trumpet, is able to bridge that mysterious gap that our vail conceals:
And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering cast over all people, and the vail that is spread over all nations.
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