Revelation 10-11

Pastor Marshall Ochs | September 25, 2022

In this message, Pastor Marshall teaches from Revelation 10-11. These chapters cover the moment John eats the little scroll and finds it sweet in his mouth, but bitter in his stomach. This scene leads into a vision of God’s people during the final days of tribulation, just before the Lord returns at the final trumpet sound. The imagery reveals God’s persevering people through difficult seasons of suffering, and God’s faithfulness in tribulation.

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1. Read Revelation 10:1-11 and Ezekiel 3:1-3. John is told to consume the scroll and preach it. What are you eating daily? Is it the Word of God, social media, news, or television? Ask the Holy Spirit to reveal what you are consuming.

2. Read Revelation 11:1-14. According to verse 3, what is the mission of the two witnesses? Spend time reflecting on your assignment.

3. Read Revelation 11:15-19. What is the response of the twenty-four elders (verses 16-17)?

4. Spend time in prayer asking the Holy Spirit to reveal if you are wrapped up in things that do not matter. What will your response be to His revelation?

5. Do you believe the lies of the deceiver? Maybe your eyes are on the wrong things, consuming things of this world instead of God’s Word, perhaps living in fear. Will you surrender everything to Him and walk in obedience? How is God speaking to you? What bold prayers will you pray?

Revelation 8-9

Pastor Marshall Ochs | September 18, 2022

In this message, Pastor Marshall teaches from Revelation 8-9. These chapters cover the first six trumpet declarations over mankind. The nations have rebelled against the lamb’s authority and the consequences impact all creation.

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1. Humanity has formed its own gods that they give their affection, time, and trust. God will cut the legs out of under the things man has put their trust in. What have you put your trust in that is not God?

2. God is giving the nations a wake-up call; stop trusting in things other than Me. But the nations refuse to repent. What means do you think God is using today to call people to repentance?

3. Are there any idols you have worshipped for so long that you have become like those idols?

4. What might God be utilizing in your life to call you to repent of a particular sin? Ask the Holy Spirit to search your heart and reveal sin in your life. Then, may our only response to His revelation be to fall on our faces, repent and ask Jesus to cleanse us from our unrighteousness.

5. There is never a better time to share the gospel with those around us than now. Will you ask the Holy Spirit to give you His boldness to share the hope you have in Jesus Christ?

Revelation 7-8

Pastor Marshall Ochs | September 11, 2022

In this message, Pastor Marshall teaches from Revelation 7-8. These chapters cover the sealing of the 144,000 and the breaking of the seventh seal. These chapters remind us that God marks His people for possession and protection, fulfills His promises to a thousand generations, and answers prayer in powerful ways. These realities are true for God’s people in the last days and they are true for God’s people today.

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1. Spend time in prayer, asking the Holy Spirit to open your eyes and heart to what He has to teach you this week. May this always be where we start. Read Revelation 7:1-3, Isaiah 11:12, Ezekiel 7:2, Jeremiah 49:36, and Daniel 8:8. What do these passages reveal about God's power and mercy?

2. Read Ezekiel 9; what does this passage show about God as a just God and His great love for His people who mourn over sin? So may the prayer of His people be, open our eyes to the wonder of God's Word and change us through an extraordinary sight of His glory.

3. Read Revelation 7:4-12, picture in your mind all the angels standing around the throne and the elders and the four living creatures (verses 10,12); read the words aloud and join in the songs of the multitude and the angels. How does this impact you? Will you meditate on this sight and allow this meditation to replace whatever is weighing you down this week? Allow this scripture to keep your heart and mind fixed on Jesus and not things of this world.

4. Read Revelation 7:13-17, will you be standing before the throne in a white robe cleansed by the blood of the Lamb? Meditate on the promises of God in verses 15-17. He will shelter us with His presence, we will never hunger or thirst again, He will lead us to springs of living water, and every tear will be wiped away.

5. Read Revelation 8:1-5; what does this vision say to you as you think about your prayers? Will you let this impact how you pray?

Revelation 6

Pastor Marshall Ochs | September 4, 2022

In this message, Pastor Marshall teaches from Revelation 6. This chapter covers the first six seals of the lamb’s scroll. As the lamb breaks each seal, He exercises His authority over the earth. The earth rejects His authority and the result is trials and tribulations. The trials take the form of antichrists, war, famine, death, and martyrs. The vision of these broken seals are meant to grip His people with a sense of urgency and a desire to stay faithful to the lamb.

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1. Read Revelation 6:9-11, the martyrs are eager for God to bring justice to the earth, but God tells them to wait. Ask the Holy Spirit to strengthen your faith in His perfect timing. God’s timing is perfect, and no suffering for Jesus is wasted.

2. Reflect on these verses. The truth is judgment is coming, and we are living in the last days; are you living with this as a reality? Does this grip your heart, mind, and soul to live in complete obedience to Jesus?

3. Read Revelation 6:12-17 and Matthew 24:29-31; why do you suppose God gave us this specific Scripture? Are you living through the lens that the trumpet call is coming? Are there any ways you would live differently if you truly viewed now as the last days? Spend time in prayer asking the Holy Spirit to speak to you through His Word.

4. Prayerfully read Acts 2:17, 1Peter 1:20, Hebrews 1:1-2, 1 John 2:18. It is the last days, and God declared that He would pour out His Spirit. Will you ask Him to pour out His Spirit on Red Hills Church, for His sons and daughters to prophesy, young men to see visions, and old men to dream? Will you pray for us to see the fiery eyes of Jesus, to live through the power of the Holy Spirit, and to walk in complete obedience?

Revelation 4-5

Pastor Marshall Ochs | August 28, 2022

In this message, Pastor Marshall teaches from Revelation 4-5. These chapters cover a throne room scene where John beholds the worship of heaven and the worthy lamb. Representatives of all creation and all God’s people join in worship and bow down to the lamb who was slain. This scene is a blueprint for worship and the model for what all the earth will look like at the second coming of Jesus.

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1. Are you willing to take Jesus’s invitation, and ask Him to show you the heavenly perspective of what is happening in your life and in the world around you?

2. The 24 elders on the 24 thrones represent all God’s people for all time. No one is stressed or worrying, but rather calm, seated and having total confidence in God. Pray and ask the Lord to reveal areas of your life in which you have allowed worry or stress to supersede your complete confidence in Him.

3. Those seated on their thrones rise up and cast down their crowns as an act of worship and surrender. What do you need to rise up from or cast down in order to worship the One True God?

4. In Revelation 5, the lamb is a representation of Jesus. He humbled Himself to the point of death on a cross and set the example for His people to follow. Are you willing to humble yourself, be submitted to God’s authority and do what He asks of you?

5. Ask the Lord to give you the desire to be deeper in His word, spend time in prayer and seek to have His heavenly perspective. We must not make this world and it’s comforts our focus, but rather live with eternity in mind.

Revelation 3

Pastor Marshall Ochs | August 21, 2022

In this message, Pastor Marshall teaches from Revelation 3. This chapter includes the final three letters from Jesus to His church. Out of seven churches, only two are faithfully enduring in obedience to God’s Word. They are suffering persecution while the remaining five struggle with false teachers or drifting toward irrelevance. Jesus calls all His churches to turn from their sin and back to Him, but many are overwhelmed with success or false doctrine and ultimately refuse His knocking at their door.

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1. Read Revelation chapter 3 and ask the Holy Spirit to reveal what He wants to speak to you today. The beauty of God’s Word and the Holy Spirit who lives inside us is that we can read Scripture daily, and it becomes new each time. Not because we are reading something different, but because the Spirit who lives inside us reveals what we need when we need it.

2. Jesus’ assertion to the church of Sardis was they had a reputation of being alive, but He declared they were dead. Are there any ways you outwardly appear alive, but inwardly you are asleep?

3. Jesus’ message to the Church of Sardis was to remember what you received and heard. Keep it, and repent. What is Christ speaking to you today? Where is He calling you to repent?

4. Jesus promises those who conquer will be clothed in white garments, and He will never blot their names out of the book of life. We are not called to prevail in our strength. Spend time in prayer asking God to empower you to walk in obedience, awake to what He is doing, and in complete surrender to His plan.

5. Read Isaiah 22:15-25 and ask the Holy Spirit to open your eyes and heart to understand His Old Testament words in a new way; not a different way, but an exciting understanding of seeing Jesus from the very first word of Scripture, throughout the middle and to the very end.

6. Jesus’ assertion to the church of Laodicea was they were neither hot nor cold; they were lukewarm. Their identity was not from Jesus but their city. Where is your identity found? Are you trying to buy “healing” from the world or Jesus?

Revelation 2

Pastor Marshall Ochs | August 14, 2022

In this message, Pastor Marshall teaches from Revelation 2. This chapter includes four of the seven letters to the churches. Jesus commends the churches for staying faithful, walking in love, and enduring in persecution. However, some of the churches have given in to cultural pressure to compromise. Other churches have forsaken their first love. Jesus calls the churches to repent of their sin and overcome darkness.

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1. The Lord knows and sees our hearts as we live out our daily lives. Pray and ask Him to reveal in you any area of your life that is not lining up with His word. Are your priorities in order?

2. Do you remember when you first met Jesus? Since that time, have you abandoned your first love?

3. Our obedience is out of our love for Him. We don’t get to choose what we obey or not obey. Selective obedience causes us to look like the world instead of Christ. Pray and ask the Lord to reveal areas in your life where you have compromised your faith and witness by trying to be friends with this world.

4. Scripture teaches us that we will have tribulations and be tested in this life. Are you willing to live out your faith no matter the cost? Are you willing to be faithful to Christ, even unto death?

5. The church in Pergamum allowed false teachers to deceive them. Have you allowed the teachings of this world to lull you into idolatry? In what ways are you trying to “hold hands” with Jesus and the world?

6. The church in Thyatira was seduced into sexual immorality. Ask the Lord to reveal any areas where you have been seduced by the world to compromise and no longer see sexual sin as sin?

Revelation 1

Pastor Marshall Ochs | August 7, 2022

In this message, Pastor Marshall teaches from Revelation 1. In the late first century, the Apostle John was exiled to Patmos. Rome was persecuting Christians and the church was experiencing massive tribulation. An angel visited John and gave him a revelation of Jesus Christ, and instructed John to share the revelation with the church. Chapter one covers a robust theology of God from the Old Testament and a picture of Jesus as divine warrior. This image of Jesus is meant to comfort and convict the church. We serve a victorious God who instructs us to fear not.

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1. In your quiet time this week, will you sit quietly in God's presence, letting the imagery of Jesus, as described by John in Revelation, fill your mind? Ask the Holy Spirit to open your heart, eyes, and mind to Jesus. Not the Jesus the world describes, but Jesus Christ, the firstborn of the dead, the ruler of kings on earth, with hair like white wool, eyes like a flame of fire, feet like burnished bronze.

2. Will you surrender the thrones you have created and allow Jesus Christ to live and rule in your heart and life? Will you spend time asking the Holy Spirit to reveal what those "thrones" are that need to be torn down?

3. Revelation 1:3 says, "Blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written..." Are you reading the Word of God and keeping what is written?

4. If Jesus returned today, would He find you awake or asleep? Awake to His work, His Kingdom, or asleep, hiding in fear, looking for the comforts of life?

5. We conclude this week's devotion where we started, will you stare into the fiery eyes of Jesus and be undone? Meditate fully on the authority of Jesus and let that rule your mind.