November 25

Revelation 6:10,17
 
They cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost Thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?... For the great day of His wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand? — Revelation 6:10, 1710And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth? (Revelation 6:10)
17For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand? (Revelation 6:17).
WE do not, ordinarily, couple the thought of wrath with a lamb. We might rather have expected to read of the wrath of the Lion. But, as we have seen, these are but two different characters in which our Lord is presented. The Lion of the tribe of Judah who shall destroy His enemies and reign victoriously at last is the Lamb of God who died to take away the sin of the world. He now sits upon a throne of grace, and offers pardon and salvation to all who come to God in His name. But if His grace is despised, judgment must have its way and in due time the wrath of the Lamb must take its course.
What a prayer-meeting these verses depict! But in that day of divine indignation it will be too late to pray and too late to find a hiding-place. God is now showing mercy to every repentant soul. In the day of His wrath His judgment will fall on those who spurned His grace, for, it is written: “The ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous” (Psa. 1:55Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous. (Psalm 1:5)).
“On Christ, Almighty vengeance fell
Which would have sunk a world to hell;
He bore it for a chosen race
And thus became our hiding-place.”