REVELATION ITS GRAND CLIMAX AT HAND!/Chapter Twenty One - Identifying the "Third"

 As we shall see, when the first four trumpets are blown, plagues are inflicted on "a third" of the earth, of the sea, of the rivers and fountains of waters, and of the earth's sources of light. (Revelation 8:7-12)  A third is a considerable part of something but not the whole.  (Compare Isaiah 19:24; Ezekiel 5:2; Zechariah 13:8, 9) So which "third" would be most deserving  of these plagues? The vast majority of mankind has been blinded and  by Satan and his seed. (Genesis 3:15; 2 Corinthians 4:4) The situation is as described by David: "They have all turned aside, they are all alike corrupt; there is no one doing good, not even one." (Psalm 14:3)  Yes, the whole of mankind is in danger of receiving an adverse judgment. But one section thereof is particularly guilty. One part -"a third"-should  have known better! What is that "third."?

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