There are many visions described in detail by John in the book of Revelation. Some are beautiful, filled with worship, glorifying to God almighty. Others are honestly curious, mysterious... even frightening. Which may be why so many avoid the topics within this book. I mean, who wants to commit to a commentary when the warning at the end says... If anyone adds to these things, God will add to him the plagues that are written in this book; and if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part from the Book of Life, from the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book. Revelation 22:18-19 NKJV So I would not want to be one such person to add to, nor take away from these prophecies. But only to report on them... especially when I am accountable for what I know. And what if the world wrongly uses the names or references from the Bible, to represent them in theatre? What then? Is that part of my accountability? So today as was reading along, I came across the title of scorpian king. Shaking my head, I thought... wasn't there a movie about this? So I watched the trailer... and without much surprise, I found that Hollywood had used that name with absolutely no proper relation to what will happen according to prophecy in these end times. And maybe they made it up, without knowing there actually will be a scorpian king... who knows? But this is the name of a destroyer, Abaddon, king over fearful scorpions, who will torment those who do not have the seal of God on their foreheads in the last of days. WARNING: This is not an encouraging passage, but that does not dispute the holiness, nor truth of the inspired word of God. An angel used the key he was given... And he opened the bottomless pit, and smoke arose out of the pit like the smoke of a great furnace. So the sun and the air were darkened because of the smoke of the pit. Then out of the smoke locusts came upon the earth. And to them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power... The shape of the locusts was like horses prepared for battle. On their heads were crowns of something like gold, and their faces were like the faces of men. They had hair like women’s hair, and their teeth were like lions’ teeth. And they had breastplates like breastplates of iron, and the sound of their wings was like the sound of chariots with many horses running into battle. They had tails like scorpions, and there were stings in their tails. Their power was to hurt men five months. And they had as king over them the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon, but in Greek he has the name Apollyon. Revelation 9:2-3, 7-11 NKVJ These to be certain would swarm in fearful mass about men... worse than any horror movie ever seen; tormenting, so they would want to die. People reading such may mock and joke, but only because our sensitivity to such has been stripped away by vivid and violent scenes in movies. We even binge on Netflix series of zombies, using the excuse that we only watch because the storyline is so good. When in reality, it causes the importance and weight of spiritual things of God... things such as Bible prophecy to no longer have it's fearful effect. I wonder if this could be one of the schemes of the devil? For prophecy such as this should actually take our breath away... should cause us to cringe and wonder. I'm just glad that I'm on God's side. Mock, jeer, point fingers if you like. I won't criticize or sarcasticaly say, "I'll pray for you." Simply because the prophecy in this last book is something to read carefully and take seriously. And I, like all, will have to stand and be judged for all I've said... and all I've known, but not said. This is my accountablity. So as I finish reading through this year, I'll continue telling these truths grateful to be sealed by the Holy Spirit of God. Word of God train me today... To be honest about Your truths. To not shy away from any part of Your word.
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