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Hello, I'm Dr. Cheryl Davis, and thank you for listening to Truth Matters. Last time we were together, we finished the short chapter of chapter 15, which is a prelude to the Bowl Judgments, and today we're getting into the seven Bowl Judgments that are characteristic of chapter 16, which are the final judgments before the coming of Christ. Just as an overview, just to really level set where we are, the Book of Revelation is organized.
There are around three sets of symbols. The first one are the seals, the second are the trumpets, and the third are the bowls. If you remember in Revelation 4-5, we covered the seal judgments when the world is ruined by man. In chapter 8, we covered the trumpet judgments when the world is ruined by Satan. And in chapter 16, we see the bowl judgments when the world is reclaimed by God. So here in chapter 16, we're going to see where the world is reclaimed by God. So let's read verse 1.
The first bowl judgments come in rapid succession, and some of them probably overlap each other. So the first bowl that we're going to discuss are the loathsome sores in verse 2. The loathsome sores afflict all who have taken the mark of the beast upon themselves and all who have worshipped the image. But what we know is that a sore is an outward sign or evidence of some inward corruption. In this case, the sores are a manifestation of the inner spiritual poison present in the person's heart.
These sores come upon people as a direct consequence of their spiritual hardness of their heart. That is the first bowl, and look how rapidly they come. There's no space in between. There's no interlude in between verses 2 and 3. The next verse comes and the second angel poured out his bowl on the sea, and it became blood as of a dead man, and every living creature in the sea died. So the second vial is called blood in the seas. The emptying of the second bowl results in the oceans of the world turning to blood, causing the death of every living creature in the sea. This judgment is similar to the second seal and the second judgment. If you remember, the second seal release was a fiery red horse in Revelation 6.3-4, and the second trumpet announced a burning mountain that was thrown into the sea, turning a third of it into blood. All of this is very similar to the plagues of Egypt where Moses turned the Nile to blood.
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