Julie
This sounds very scary and not really something that I would want to experience. The one thing that stood out and I am wondering if I missed it previously is those having the seal of God on their foreheads being saved. Has this seal been mentioned before and I don't remember? Is this something that shows if you are a true follower of God?
More words of wisdom for how we should live and what we should avoid doing.
Michelle
I agree, this does sound like a horrible experience. Regarding the seal of God, it was very briefly stated in chapter 7, "Do not harm the land or the sea or the trees until we put a seal on the foreheads of the servants of God". I don't know that we would actually know if this was done to us or not as it seems the Angels are the ones saying this. And in today's reading, as they are each killing a third of mankind, it makes me think that this is a vision of the future as we are a great many people at this point, and back in that time, it would seem that there wasn't as many. Now, I could be totally wrong about that, and they could have had similar numbers back then and only after such an event would there have been smaller numbers on earth. But it seems that we must repent for whatever sins we have committed in order to be given the seal of God. In addition to that, we must maintain our focus on God and godly things.
There are many things in this reading of the Proverbs. Nothing specific stood out, just that I wondered if they were just randomly writing these as they came mind because all of the Proverbs seem to be all over the place. Good information, but it's all random and it seems they could have been sectioned out by theme at some point.
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