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Body Building Daily Devotional- 50

by David Joynt on October 31, 2021

Body Building Daily Devotional- 50

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?

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About the Author
David Joynt

Dave Joynt began his service as a pastor at Valley Presbyterian Church in Paradise Valley, Arizona in September 2014. This meant a move away from the Northeast, where he has a long history, growing up in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and then serving congregations in Delaware and New Jersey for a total of 23 years.

Dave was nurtured in a great church in Bethlehem where his parents, Anne and Carey, served as elders. He graduated in classics from Lehigh University where his Father taught, and then from Oxford, where he met his wife Julia. Ordained in 1988, he completed a Ph.D. from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1993.

He and Julia have a son, Tristan, and a daughter, Madeleine.

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