Come and study the Holy Scriptures with us as Father Stephen DeYoung teaches verse by verse on the podcast, The Whole Council of God.

Father Stephen holds a Ph.D. in biblical studies, and it's an Orthodox priest serving at Archangel Gabriel Orthodox Church in Lafayette, Louisiana.

So chapter 16, verse 1, then I heard a loud voice from the

temple saying to the seven angels, go and pour out the bowls of the wrath of God on the earth.

So they get sent out. Verse two, so the first went out and poured out his bowl upon the earth,

and a foul and loathsome sore came upon the men who had the mark of the beast and those who worshipped his image.

So this is a literal plague the way we tend to use it.

This is, again, a visible sore.

But notice, as we were just saying, this is on the people who have received the

work of the beast, people who are worshipping the beasts, the people who were involved in the

system. Notice also it doesn't kill them. Right. So this is a judgment, but this is a judgment

that could potentially bring about repentance.

They're bringing even this physical, unpleasant, painful image of what they're doing, right,

in the attempt to draw them back.

Verse three.

And by the way, sores, remember, was one of the plagues on egypt bowl two

verse three

then 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

right water turning to blood

another one of the ten plagues on egypt

verse four then the third angel Water turning to blood. Another one of the ten plagues on Egypt.

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