7:3 - I love passages about God's patience. He is giving us time...holding back judgement so that we can get our houses in order and expand His kingdom. In Mark Moore's devotional on Revelation, he opted to look at the markings on the believers as God's fingerprints on His peoples' lives. When you are a follower of God, it should be evident by looking at your life. His fingerprints should be all over your actions and words and thoughts. I lean towards that explanation for the marking on the servants of God.
7:14 - These are the people who have been through the tribulations...they have maintained their faith in the midst of the craziness of life and remained servants of God. They didn't allow the horrors of this world rip them away from the love of God. They are washed clean. I want to be in this number.
7:17 - How great is the picture this verse paints. This is where our Lord Jesus Christ is leading us: into peace...into rest...into life, and away from being totally owned by sin and crushed by pain.
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