Week 6 - Cosmic Bloodbath

"The tribulations are happening because of the love of Christ, because he is present, causing his kingdom to invade us and our world." - 175.

Acts 2:14 -21 --¹⁴ Then Peter stood up with the Eleven, raised his voice and addressed the crowd: “Fellow Jews and all of you who live in Jerusalem, let me explain this to you; listen carefully to what I say. ¹⁵ These people are not drunk, as you suppose. It’s only nine in the morning! ¹⁶ No, this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel: ¹⁷ “‘In the last days, God says, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams.

¹⁸ Even on my servants, both men and women,
I will pour out my Spirit in those days,
and they will prophesy.
¹⁹ I will show wonders in the heavens above
and signs on the earth below,
blood and fire and billows of smoke.
²⁰ The sun will be turned to darkness
and the moon to blood
before the coming of the great and glorious day of the Lord.
²¹ And everyone who calls
on the name of the Lord will be saved.’

Revelation 6:12-16 ¹² I watched as he opened the sixth seal. There was a great earthquake. The sun turned black like sackcloth made of goat hair, the whole moon turned blood red, ¹³ and the stars in the sky fell to earth, as figs drop from a fig tree when shaken by a strong wind. ¹⁴ The heavens receded like a scroll being rolled up, and every mountain and island was removed from its place.

¹⁵ Then the kings of the earth, the princes, the generals, the rich, the mighty, and everyone else, both slave and free, hid in caves and among the rocks of the mountains.¹⁶ They called to the mountains and the rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb! ¹⁷ For the great day of their^{g]" style="font-size: 0.75em; line-height: 0.5em; ">[g]} wrath has come, and who can withstand it?”

Comment - Seal 5 - no judgement.

Seal 6 - Full tilt cosmic judgment.

Revelation 1:5 - Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness

Psalm 89:37 refers to the moon as the faithful witness in the sky.

Like Jesus the moon is the faithful witness in the sky that bears witness to the light. Joel, Acts, and the Revelation make clear that the moon (the faithful witness) came down, and turned blood red and transformed the cosmos.

When Jesus refers to His crucifixion where he draws/romances all humanity and "alpha and omgega's" the entire comsmos, he proclaims, "Now is the judgment of the world." What an incredible judgment. I think I need to go re-read Darrell Johnson's It is Finished.