Page 9 - 16 The Plague Poured Out

DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 16 – The Plagues Poured Out
trouble, against the day of battle and war.

Job 38:22, 23.

The First Plague. — “And the first went, and

poured out his vial upon the earth; and there

fell a noisome and grievous sore upon the men

which had the mark of the beast, and upon

them which worshiped his image.”

There is no apparent reason why this should

not be regarded as strictly literal. These

plagues are almost identical with those which

God inflicted upon the Egyptians as he was

about to deliver his people from the yoke of

bondage, the literality of which is seldom, if

ever, called in question. God is now about to

crown his people with their final deliverance

and redemption, and his judgments will be

manifested in a manner no less literal and

terrible. What the sore here threatened is, we