When we were in school long ago, one of the teachers took us out to the ocean in his boat, and showed us a strange phenomenon, red tide. He told us this is what will happen when the sea turns to blood, I brushed it off at the time but now we have both coasts of Florida with red tide killing everything in the sea and the canals have filled with green gunk to a level I have never seen in all my years....what is happening..?

Revelation 16:3

And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea; and it became as the blood of a dead man: and every living soul died in the sea.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLV27fEPdHY Florida's toxic red tide is a perfect storm for the Gulf Coast.

You can consider any world event and, with dread and alarm in your voice, slap on a quote from the book of Revelation. People find conspiracies intriguing. But think for a while about what 16:3 is really saying: "the second angel poured out his vial ..." In other words, the sea becomes blood, NOT BY NATURAL EXPLAINABLE PHENOMENA, but by the direct act of God.

It took Aaron, at the behest of Moses on behalf of God, to deliberately put his rod into the Nile for the water to become like blood. Therefore, 16:3 would ONLY be fulfilled when a man of God says that his actions would surely result in some consequence, he does it and behold, the consequence!

The plagues of Revelation are not about waking up one morning, looking at some youtubes, seeing some dead fish, and running out of your house through the streets, crying aloud, "The sky is falling! The sky is falling!"

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You can consider any world event and, with dread and alarm in your voice, slap on a quote from the book of Revelation. People find conspiracies intriguing. But think for a while about what 16:3 is really saying: "the second angel poured out his vial ..." In other words, the sea becomes blood, NOT BY NATURAL EXPLAINABLE PHENOMENA, but by the direct act of God.

It took Aaron, at the behest of Moses on behalf of God, to deliberately put his rod into the Nile for the water to become like blood. Therefore, 16:3 would ONLY be fulfilled when a man of God says that his actions would surely result in some consequence, he does it and behold, the consequence!

The plagues of Revelation are not about waking up one morning, looking at some youtubes, seeing some dead fish, and running out of your house through the streets, crying aloud, "The sky is falling! The sky is falling!"

Your points are well taken. On the other hand, isn't it true that one reason the Egyptians ignored the plagues is that they could either duplicate them by magic or explain them away as being natural phenomena. And even when they couldn't they still hardened their hearts.

So I'd keep an open mind to Rick's position. Red tide on a much larger scale could be the means God uses but how many will acknowledge it? For some time now I've thought that the plagues in Egypt like frogs, lice and flies were probably the result of "natural" causes that occurred outside of Egypt and that arrived in Egypt in God's timing at His command through Moses.

Your points are well taken. On the other hand, isn't it true that one reason the Egyptians ignored the plagues is that they could either duplicate them by magic or explain them away as being natural phenomena. And even when they couldn't they still hardened their hearts.

So I'd keep an open mind to Rick's position. Red tide on a much larger scale could be the means God uses but how many will acknowledge it? For some time now I've thought that the plagues in Egypt like frogs, lice and flies were probably the result of "natural" causes that occurred outside of Egypt and that arrived in Egypt in God's timing at His command through Moses.

Your points are well taken. On the other hand, isn't it true that one reason the Egyptians ignored the plagues is that they could either duplicate them by magic or explain them away as being natural phenomena. And even when they couldn't they still hardened their hearts.

So I'd keep an open mind to Rick's position. Red tide on a much larger scale could be the means God uses but how many will acknowledge it? For some time now I've thought that the plagues in Egypt like frogs, lice and flies were probably the result of "natural" causes that occurred outside of Egypt and that arrived in Egypt in God's timing at His command through Moses.

Chicken Little got hit on the head with a nut and thought the whole sky was falling.

Yes, IF it happens worldwide. But algae in Florida does not mean it's going to happen worldwide any more than a nut falling means the whole sky is going to fall.

Rick, you should be more concerned with Fukushima which is continuing to spew radiation into the sea. And no one seems really concerned. Much of the wildlife along the west coast have been dying for years with no "scientific" explanation. So a little algae kill in Florida seems rather minuscule and non-eventful. However, it is a great distraction from the real death of our oceans....

Kind of reminds me of change your lightbulbs to reduce carbon dioxide while New York intentionally dumped real pollution of sewage in the past while B.C. dumps over 34 million gallons of raw sewage into the ocean daily