With no caves, no buildings, no shelter there were people exposed the world over. It was on these that the immense hailstones were falling.
Another reminder of wrath not forever
In Revelation 15 the ominous scene of these 7 bowls was set and prefacing it was the announcement that these bowls would complete, or finish the wrath of God. When that chapter closed we saw the temple filled with smoke and no one able to enter it as God said watch my response to sin. The same theme is carried on in verse 17 as God the Father sends out his voice from the temple announcing the completion of wrath. From the cross Jesus called “It is finished.”
Back in the Garden of Eden Adam and Eve were chased blocking their access to the Tree of Life. Man’s experiment with sin would not be forever. God would not have men to be trapped in their evils, deceived unto a life of hell for all time. He would have a people who are his very own eager to do what is good.
Where is Beast Two now?
There had been a one world government led by that second beast who’d sold his soul to be the world-emperor. How well has that one done? How is peace and safety going? What about employment? Is the jobs report this month doing well? Is the Gross Global Product 1 up? How about building starts? Crime rate? Infant mortality? Race relations?
Well, the emperor puts on his pants like everyone else. He, too, has been playing that life-and-death dodge ball with those 100 pound hailstones. Like everyone else he has been rushing to whatever high ground he can find as the mountains fell and the seas rose. All bad things come to an end and he, like the rest of humanity is swept up by the judgments of God. About the best the world population can do at this point is curse God. Curse him they do, but Solomon wrote a bit about undeserved curses in his book of Proverbs. “Like a fluttering sparrow or a darting swallow, an undeserved curse will not land on its intended victim.” (Proverbs 26:2–ESV) Hailstones are probably more effective than curses.
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