“And they said to the mountains and to the rocks, ‘Fall on us and hide us from the face of the one seated on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb, because the great day of their wrath has come! And who is able to stand?’” (vv. 16-17)

Here’s something I’ve never noticed before:

On that great and terrible day—the Sixth Seal day, the day the earth is rent by its Creator, who will judge—people will pray.

They will see the sky changed and the stars fall and the mountains moved…and they will pray.

But here’s what I find fascinating: For those who have worshiped creation, rather than their Creator, they will pray to the earth. They will still hope for a salvation of sorts: “Let a mountain fall on us, for that would be better than judgment from the Lamb, whom we have rejected!” But, even at the end, their faith will be misplaced.

It turns out, everyone prays. Everyone is ultimately in need of mercy. Everyone cries out for deliverance.

By grace, your prayers are pointed rightly. Let us pray, then, that many will be called by that same grace—before the day comes when they ask a mountain for crueler mercies.

— Tyler