1. Revelation 6:17 (ESV)
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What accounts for people’s desperate panic?

Revelation 6:17 (ESV)

17 for the great day of their wrath has come, and who can stand?”

Everyone is aware what the great earthquake and the decreation of creation means. The terrible day when he who sits on the throne and the Lamb display their righteous wrath has come! This is Judgment Day. Everyone not washed in the blood of the Lamb once slain for sin is hopelessly doomed in the face of this judgment.

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