Chapter Thirty-Two/God's Anger Brought to a Finish -Darkness and Gnawing Pain - Continue

 The fifth trumpet blast is not exactly the same as the fifth bowl of God's anger, since the trumpet blasts heralded a plague of locusts. But notice that at the release of that plague of locusts, there was a darkening of the sun and the air.  (Revelation 9:2-5) And at Exodus 10:14, 15, we read concerning the locusts with which Jehovah plagued Egypt: 'They were very burdensome. Before them there had never turned up in this way locusts like them, and there will never turn up any in this way after them. And they went covering the visible surface of the entire land, and the land grew dark." Yes, darkness! Today, the world's spiritual darkness has become all too evident as a result of the sounding of the fifth trumpet and the pouring out of the fifth bowl of God's anger. The stinging message proclaimed by the modern-day locust swarm brings torment and pain to those wicked ones who "have loved the darkness rather than the light." - JOHN 3:19. 

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