Recently we have been working our way through the book of Revelation in Sunday morning service.  One morning in May, Pastor Steve Cassarino was preaching on Revelation 16:17-21. I found a couple of his comments struck me and I immediately thought –  VICTORY CALL!

On the cross Jesus said, “It is finished.” It marked a time of abundant grace and a time since with Jesus calling His chosen ones to repentance and Himself.

In generation after generation since the cross, many, many have bowed the heart and knee to the Lordship of Jesus Christ.
But it will not always be so.  Time will run out.  There will be a time when it will be too late to repent. 

Revelation 16:17-19 The seventh angel poured out his bowl into the air, and a loud voice came out of the temple, from the throne, saying, “It is done!”  And there were flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder, and a great earthquake such as there had never been since man was on the earth, so great was that earthquake.   The great city was split into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell, and God remembered Babylon the great, to make her drain the cup of the wine of the fury of his wrath.

A voice from the throne (likely Jesus) saying “It is done.” Great and terrible events mark the seventh bowl judgment. I’m taking them right from the text.

— Flashes of lightening
— Rumblings
— Peals of thunder
— A great earthquake, greater than any known to man to date
— Cities fall
— Islands – gone
— Mountains – gone
— Great hailstones

Yet, in spite of it all… people absolutely refuse to repent and curse God.

Time will run out. There will come a time when repentance is no longer possible because the grace of God will be removed and all that remains will be the hardened hearts of men – cursing the very One who created them giving them life and sustained their very existence.

Why are we so unwilling to stand erect as a notable barrier between family and friends and the fiery gates of hell?  Is it fear or unbelief that renders us motionless?

I hope your heart is challenged to boldness, and I hope mine is, too.

Blessings, Diane

Diane Hunt is part of the ministry team at America’s Keswick.  She is a regular writer for Victory Call and one of the authors of Crossing the Jordan Bible Study.  Diane has been married to her husband John over 27 years.  She has 2 adult children and 3 grandchildren and 3 adult step-children with 7 grandchildren making 10 in all.  She delights reading and teaching, but mostly laughing at the funny things her grandchildren say and do.