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Today's Devotional - June 12
Safety in Christ
Because you have kept My command to persevere, I also will keep you from the hour of trial which shall come upon the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.
Revelation 3:10
Recommended Reading
1 Thessalonians 4:15-18
When young recruits go through military basic training, slogging through the rain and mud, they are reminded, "You can do anything for eight weeks!" The promise of an end to travails gives strength and hope to carry on.
Like a prophetic calendar, Daniel's vision of 70 weeks was like a chronology of hope (Daniel 9:24-27). Strangely, the last seven-year week held the promise not of consolation but of trouble and trial. A great abomination would occur in Jerusalem's temple (Daniel 9:27). It turns out, the seventieth week is the climax of the period known by Jeremiah as "the time of Jacob's trouble" (Jeremiah 30:7) -- a time of judgment and cleansing in Israel and the world. We know that period as the Great Tribulation. Fortunately, those in the body of Christ will not undergo that week of judgment. They will have been removed from earth by Christ at the Rapture. The full revelation of Scripture assures Christians that their destiny is not judgment but salvation and safety in Christ.
We may with the greatest assurance depend upon God for the safety of His church.
Matthew Henry
Read-thru-the-Bible
Psalms 38-42
