Day 4 - Wednesday - Connect the Testaments; A One-Year Daily Devotional Read the Bible Plan - Logos
October 20: It Has Been Granted to You Ezekiel 39:25–40:49; Revelation 19:11–20:6 ; Job 38:25–33 “It has been granted to her that she be dressed in bright, clean fine linen” (Rev 19:8), announces a voice from heaven in John’s revelation. The voice describes the bride who waits in anticipation—representing the believers who wait in expectation of being reunited with Christ. The text contrasts the fine linen of the bride with the purple and scarlet cloth of the harlot, Babylon, who represents all that oppose God’s reign (Rev 18:16). The harlot receives criticism for her infidelity: “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great.… For all the nations have drunk from the wine of the passion of her sexual immorality, and the kings of the earth have committed sexual immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth have become rich from the power of her sensuality” (Rev 18:2–3). But the cry goes out in and among Babylon: “Come out from her, my people” (Rev 18:4). The bride, who is prepa...