December 5, 2013 – Revelations 15 -16

This made me think about those that curse God for the bad things that happen to them.  There are those that wonder, and honestly contemplate, how God could exist when bad things happen in the world.  I think that is a valid question to ponder.  But that isn’t what is mentioned here.  During these plagues, the people curse God, blame God, go against God, because of the plagues.  The reaction is the opposite of the many times we have seen Israel turn back to God because they see that they did something wrong.  There is none of that here.  There is no claim to responsibility for the things that are happening, it is God’s fault alone.  I think there is a lot of that today.  When things happen, the first thing we do is see if we can blame someone else.  It is the ideology of “the dog ate my homework”.  But when we cannot come up with a scapegoat, we blame God.  God, instead of the God of love, forgiveness, and compassion, has become the scapegoat and the scapegoat’s scapegoat when it comes to that.  That is what we are seeing here from the world during the final days.  Disaster and plague are destroying the world and they look to blame God instead of turning to God and admitting any fault.  It is the surrender to arrogance instead of humility.  We see the first Fall start in this way and we watch the end bow to similar longings.