We read in Revelation 16:3-7:
”The second angel poured out his bowl on the sea, and it turned into blood like that of a dead man, and every living thing in the sea died.The third angel poured out his bowl on the rivers and springs of water, and they became blood. Then I heard the angel in charge of the waters say: ”You are just in these judgments, you who are and who were, the Holy One, because you have so judged; for they have shed the blood of your saints and prophets, and you have given them blood to drink as they deserve.” And I heard the altar respond: ”Yes, Lord God Almighty, true and just are your judgments.”
Remember another place in Scripture where the sea was turned into blood?
You got it, Moses with Pharaoh in Exodus 7:20-25:
”Moses and Aaron did just as the LORD had commanded. He raised his staff in the presence of Pharaoh and his officials and struck the water of the Nile, and all the water was changed into blood. The fish in the Nile died, and the river smelled so bad that the Egyptians could not drink its water. Blood was everywhere in Egypt. But the Egyptian magicians did the same things by their secret arts, and Pharaoh’s heart became hard; he would not listen to Moses and Aaron, just as the LORD had said. Instead, he turned and went into his palace, and did not take even this to heart. And all the Egyptians dug along the Nile to get drinking water, because they could not drink the water of the river.”
It happened before and you can see in the two texts that it is a result of God’s judgment.
Now, is it the fulfillment of Revelation 16:3 that is happenning now?
Verse 3 is interesting because it says ”Into blood like that of a dead man”
John Macarthur in a sermon on Revelation 16:
”The second angel pours his bowl into the sea and it becomes like blood, like that of a dead man…thick, black, dark, cooled, coagulated. It just pictures the sea like the pool of blood that would come from a man who had been stabbed and all his blood was lying in a pool. I don’t know what it is that the Lord is going to use to do this.”
It’s almost like he was describing the Gulf of Mexico today…
Now, we’re not trying to guess the date the Lord will return but we still should keep in mind that He will return someday and we should be ready…
”For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first.” – 1 Thes. 4:16
