Held over from Thursday – Letters

Reading – Revelations 18

Highlight Verse:

“Rejoice over her fate, O heaven and people of God and apostles and prophets! For at last God has judged her for your sakes.”
‭‭Revelation‬ ‭18‬:‭20‬ ‭NLT‬‬

Confession time.

Every once in a while, I buy a lottery ticket.

You don’t have to say it, I know it’s foolishness.

I imagine all the good things I could do for people and the ministries I could support.

And then the longing for material things creeps in.

Scholars call the Babylon of Revelations 18 the commercial Babylon as opposed to the religious Babylon of chapter 17.

In other words, the Babylon of chapter 18 is the temptation to seek worldly wealth and pleasure.

That is why we should rejoice at its destruction.

In the end of time, those temptations will be gone, along with my temptation to buy lottery tickets, and the many other temptations the world has to offer.

That, my friends, is reason to celebrate!

In the meantime, we must keep up the struggle against such things and help each other seek after that which matters.

What is it that matters most to you?
What are ways that you’ve used to combat temptation?