EUPHRATES RIVER BIBLE SERIES

When we consider the rest of the verse, which speaks of the river Euphrates as drying up to allow an invading army, the context becomes more transparent. The drying up of water bodies is a biblical sign of imminent peril, in which in Rev 16, the reference is related to God's wrath upon Israel. Thus, Revelation is written in signs and symbols And He signified it through having sent His angel to His servant, John,

Rev 1:1 says: The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave Him to show to His bond-servants what things it behooves to take place in quickness.

Rev 17:15 says: Then the angel said to me, “The waters you saw, where the prostitute was seated, are peoples and multitudes and nations and tongues.'.

The remainder of the 6th plague is clearly and obviously symbolic as stated above.

EUPHRATES RIVER BIBLE SERIES

There is a half-way house that suggests some things are literal and some are symbolic but this is just as troublesome as we must then arbitrarily decide which is which - a series of decisions that will invariably be based one one's presuppositions.

Under the literal interpretation, the description collapses under the weight of its own absurdities. However, if the description is literal, then we must explain what is a literal dragon, what is a literal beast (from the sea, Rev 13:1) what is a beast/false prophet (from the land, Rev 13:11) vomiting evil spirits like frogs to speak to world leaders. If symbolic then we must interpret the symbols as per Rev 1:1, 2. OK - we have two choices - either the description of the 6th plague is literal or it is symbolic.

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