JOY of Living

Revelation

The word used in the first Christian century for telling the truth about God in a given situation, “martus”, has come into our language as “martyr” the person who loses his life telling the truth. Just as the seventh unsealing was delayed until there was comprehensive assurance that the workaday Christian community up to its elbows in the evils of history, was itself ordered and secure, so the blowing of the seventh trumpet is delayed until the significance of ordinary Christian witness can be assured.

Reversed ThunderEugene Peterson

I, Daniel, watched as two others stood there, one on each side of the river. One said to the man clothed in linen who was above the waters of the river, “When will the end of these wondrous events occur?” Then I heard the man clothed in linen who was over the waters of the river as he raised both his right and left hands to the sky and made an oath by the one who lives forever: “It is for a time, times, and half a time. Then, when the power of the one who shatters the holy people has been exhausted, all these things will be finished.”

Daniel 12:7