Rev. 8

Seals opening, trumpets sounding, plagues hurled upon the earth and mighty angels enacting God’s commands from His awesome throne in Heaven. It is a frightening vision for a simple Christian to grasp.

Yet, of all the things happening in this chapter, we find the single element of participation we can actively have in the apocalypse … our prayers.

God mixes our prayers with the incense coming from the angel’s golden censer. The angel then fills the censer with fire and hurls it to the earth to execute a judgement. We will have done our part. The rest is up to God and His will.

This tells me we need to value and activate our prayer to a new and higher level. As we do, we give God something to use in His great Kingdom … the one already here, and the events yet to come.

“And He (Jesus) spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint;” [Luke 18:1]