REVELATION ITS GRAND CLIMAX AT HAND!/Chapter Seventeen - 'Slaughtered Souls ' Rewarded - Continue

 The scenario begins to unfold: "And they cried with a loud voice, saying: 'Until when, Sovereign Lord holy and true, ae you refraining from judging and avenging our blood upon those who dwell on the earth?'" (Revelation 6:10) How can their souls, or blood cry out  for vengeance, since the Bible shows that the dead  are unconscious?  (Ecclesiastes 9:5) Well, did not righteous Abel's blood cry out after Cain murdered him?  Jehovah then said to Cain:  "What have  you done? Listen! Your brother's blood is crying out to m from the ground." (Genesis 4:10, 11; Hebrews 12:24) It was not that Abel's blood was literally uttering words. Rather, Abel had died  as an innocent victim, and justice called out for his murderer to be punished. Similarly, those Christian martyrs are innocent, and in justice they must be avenged. (Luke 18:7, 8)  The cry for vengeance is loud because many thousands have thus died. - Compare Jeremiah 15:15, 16.

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