Get Real November 23 Devotional
November 23, 2024
REVELATION 7:9 | 9 After this I looked, and there was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, robed in white, with palm branches in their hands.
Take a look back at the first vision John has in Chapter 7:1-4 and compare it to the second introduced in Verse 9. In the first, there is a crowd of 144,000, in the second an innumerable multitude. The 144,000 are drawn from the 12 tribes, the countless crowd from all the peoples and nations. The first vision readies the church for trial, the second reassures them of their eventual victory. These contrasts connect with the two locations. The first vision is of a war-torn, battle scared, earthly landscape. The second of our eventual location in the throne room of the heavenly temple.
Have you ever been reassured by a vision of heaven where your life is restored and enjoyed in God’s presence?
