God is The God of second chances

We've been studying Revelation all year so far - 1 more full year to go. One of the things that's been hitting me is that throughout this book is that God keeps giving people chance after chance, to accept the reality that only through faith in Jesus Christ the Messiah, will you have eternal life with God in heaven.

Some people say and write that God is a God of wrath, violence and judgment.  But it's quite the opposite.  Throughout history, He shows his complete patience and love for us. 
"But God demonstrates his love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us." Romans 5:8. 

God is always wanting us to turn to Him - to love Him and accept His Son, Jesus Christ as our Savior.  My mentor Karen says that God is a gentleman - He never forces Himself on us.  We have our own freewill to make a choice for Him.  But with our own freewill, there are consequences for not following God's Laws and accepting His free gift of eternal life.

God could have just wiped us all out at any time  -  time's up!  But He didn't.  Even during the endtimes and during the time of Revelation, God keeps giving us humans, more chances to turn to Him.  In the context of Revelation, here's what I see:

1)  He first directs John to write what is in the book of Revelation.  So that we would know the things which John saw, the things which are and the things which will take place after these things. (Rev 1:19).   We have the complete counsel of God in His Word  and in the book of Revelation.  We know what will happen.  Time is short.  He's giving us more time and chances to repent and turn - even before the events of Revelation chapters 4 through 22 start.

2)  Then the judgments start - first the seals, then the trumpets, then the bowls.  The seals are bad, the trumpets are worse and then the bowls - which are the worst of all.   With every judgment, there is more time to turn to Him.  People will know it is the wrath of God, yet they still will not turn to Him:

 Rev 6:16: "and they said to the mountains and to the rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the presence of Him who sits on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb; ¹⁷ for the great day of their wrath has come, and who is able to stand?"

Rev 9:20: "The rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands, so as not to worship demons, and the idols of gold and of silver and of brass and of stone and of wood, which can neither see nor hear nor walk; ²¹ and they did not repent of their murders nor of their sorceries nor of their immorality nor of their thefts."
 

Rev 16:21: "And huge hailstones, about one hundred pounds each, came down from heaven upon men; and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail, because its plague was extremely severe."

We know from Revelation that there will be an uncountable multitude of tribulation saints who have been saved during the tribulation.

Rev 7:9:  After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude which no one could count, from every nation and all tribes and peoples and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, and palm branches were in their hands; 
Rev 7:14b: “These are the ones who come out of the great tribulation, and they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb."

But we also know from Revelation that there will be an uncountable multitude who will not believe, even while Christ is reigning on earth for 1000 years.  Yet they won't believe.  Satan is released from his chains in the abyss and gathers people together to fight against the armies of God.  Rev 20:7-8: "When the thousand years are completed, Satan will be released from his prison, ⁸ and will come out to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together for the war; the number of them is like the sand of the seashore."

Humans are eternal beings - after our physical death here on earth, we will be in 1 of 2 places:

1)  With God and Jesus forever in heaven;
2)  In Hell, waiting for the great white throne of judgment, and then eventually into the lake of fire and brimstone and eternal punishment.  Rev 14:11: " And the smoke of their torment goes up forever and ever; they have no rest day and night, those who worship the beast and his image, and whoever receives the mark of his name."

Jesus says in Revelation that time is short.  He is coming quickly:
Rev 3:11: "I am coming quickly; hold fast what you have, so that no one will take your crown."
Rev 22:7: "“And behold, I am coming quickly. Blessed is he who heeds the words of the prophecy of this book.”
Rev 22:12: “Behold, I am coming quickly, and My reward is with Me, to render to every man according to what he has done.

Please my friends, do not wait to make the most important eternal decision of your short life here on earth.  Do not wait.  No one is assured of tomorrow.