What Kind of Plagues?
Frequent visitors to this web site will have noticed silence on my part for the last few weeks. This was necessary because of travel in remote places like the South Pacific where my access to the internet was limited. I am back in the office now and planning to do a little catching up in the blog business. I also plan to read through the comments to earlier blogs and leave some responses here and there, so come back often in the next two weeks! A recent visitor to the web site sent in the following question: “I have a question concerning the trumpets and plagues. The first four trumpets affect the earth, sea, rivers, and heavenly bodies and most Adventist take them as symbolic. The first four plagues affect man, seas, rivers, and heavenly bodies and they are taken literal. What is the rationale behind this? Why is one taken symbolic and the other literal?” This is an excellent question and one I hear quite often. Are the bowl plagues of Revelation literal or figurative? It is difficult
