the Third Week after Easter
Daily Devotionals
Day by Day Devotional - Year 5 of 5
Revelation 20:7-15
A thousand years of blessing have not changed the heart of man. Satan is set free and succeeds in raising one final, gigantic revolt amongst the nations to which God replies with a brief but overwhelming judgment. Now the darkest hour of all sounds: Hebrews 9:27 has come to pass – but so too has John 5:24.
All the dead appear before the great Judge. There were many differences between them during their lives on earth. Some were great, honoured by their own kind (Luke 16:19); others were small or even outcasts of society (Luke 23:39). Here they are all together with no difference between them, "for all have sinned . . (Romans 3:23). To prove it, books are opened in which each one finds to his horror that all his deeds have been written down one by one (Psalms 28:4). Who can bear having even just one page of his deeds read out to him? The book of life is also open. However this is only to confirm that their names are not written in it. "Cast them into the outer darkness", is the sentence of the supreme Judge (Matthew 22:12-13). There they rejoin Satan, becoming his companions in misery for a torment which is without hope and without end . . .
Reader, will you be judged according to your works or according to the work of the Lord Jesus?
