16:1
We now come to the release of the seven bowls of God’s wrath and we need to remember that these are the “seven last plagues”. So we have had a progression from the seals to the trumpets to the bowls, with things being ramped up as we go along. Israel and Judah received many warnings before they fell before Assyria and Babylon, respectively. Likewise, mankind will not be able to say that he was now warned, not given the chance to repent. Just as Judah could have repented at the time of the Babylonian crisis, so even here man had the chance to repent, but refused to do so. Sin is deeply ingrained within man.
16:2
The first bowl affects the people who had the mark of the beast and worshipped its image. Thsi bowl produced “ugly, festering sores”. Following the beast does not produce anything good, and does produce many terrible effects. Look at society’s reaction against any call that stable families of a husband and wife are the best environment for bringing up children. All the evidence says that lack of a stable family makes a child’s life chances that much worse, but secular man or woman refuses to listen and reacts against this.
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