Bowl #1- Harmful & Painful Sores (TMF:1375)

Friday, May 22, 2020
Peace to Live By: Bowl #1- Harmful & Painful Sores (TMF:1375) - Daniel Litton
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       “Then I heard a loud voice from the temple telling the seven angels, “Go and pour out on the earth the seven bowls of the wrath of God.” So the first angel went and poured out his bowl on the earth, and harmful and painful sores came upon the people who bore the mark of the beast and worshiped its image” (Revelation 16:1-2, ESV). All of the prior judgments from God either affected the earth or outer-space, which in turn affected the earth. Now, God is moving to directly affecting people by inflicting their bodies. In this plague, we see that God causes men and women, those who are still alive on the earth and will not repent of their sins, to be inflicted with sores. These are people who John says have received the mark of the beast and worshiped the image that has been going throughout the world. That’s going to be a tremendous amount of people, as that will surely be most people in the world. John notes that these sores were both harmful and painful. The wording here seems to denote that the sores are malignant, that is, they are terminal. Not that that really matters anyway since all the unsaved in the world are about to die. But, the severity of the soars will certainly cause fear to fall upon people as they are inflicted with them, and as they deal with them in their pain. Perhaps people will realize that they appear incurable.