REVELATION ITS GRAND CIMAX AT HAND!/Chapter Thirty Two - The Sea Becomes Blood

 The second bowl  of God's anger must now be poured out. What will it mean for mankind?  John tells us: "And the second one poured out his bowl into the sea. And it became blood as of a dead man, and every living soul died, yes, the things in the sea." (Revelation 16:3)  Like the second trumpet blast, this bowl is directed against "the sea"-the settling of the rebellious mass of humanity alienated from Jehovah. (Isaiah 57:20, 21; Revelation 8:8, 9)  In Jehovah's eyes this "sea"  like blood, unfit for creatures to live in.  That is why Christians must be no part of the world. (John 17:14) The pouring out of the second bowl of God's anger reveals that all of mankind who inhabit this sea are dead in Jehovah's eyes.  By reasons of community responsibility, mankind is guilty of gross shedding of innocent blood. When Jehovah's day of anger arrives, they will initially die at the hands of his executional forces. -REVELATION 19:17, 18; compare EPHESIANS 2:1; COLOSSIANS 2:13. 

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