12.15.2014 New Testament: Rev 6.12–17

To read the Bible in a year, read Revelation 6 on December 15, In the year of our Lord 2014

By Don Ruhl

When Jesus opened the sixth seal on the scroll that He had taken from the Father, magnificent things happened, as the great of the Earth fled, or attempted to flee, the presence of the Lamb of God,

I looked when He opened the sixth seal, and behold, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became like blood. And the stars of heaven fell to the earth, as a fig tree drops its late figs when it is shaken by a mighty wind. Then the sky receded as a scroll when it is rolled up, and every mountain and island was moved out of its place. And the kings of the earth, the great men, the rich men, the commanders, the mighty men, every slave and every free man, hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains, and said to the mountains and rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of Him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb! For the great day of His wrath has come, and who is able to stand?” (Revelation 6.12–17). 

Whether they were slaves or kings, if they did not belong to Jesus, terror filled their minds, and they sought to do anything they could to escape the Lamb of God.