What I find most amazing in Revelation is that rocks and mountains are falling on the people and they still refuse to repent. What does that tell us?
Look around you at the people who are leaving all churches and saying they don’t believe in God.
The Paradise Fire may not have been rocks falling on the people.
I wonder if they still disbelieve or believe?
I’m just as amazed. The Word tells us “as in the days of Noah” and “as in the days of Lot” that the level of evil had become so great, and so is the case now, as Jesus told us it would become. We now have scoffers and blasphemers, rabid haters of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, among other things He said they would do, refusing to repent. Satan of course hates the Lord, and all who refuse Christ are allied with Satan. There is no grey area, no “middle ground”; you are either for Him, or against Him.
They would have no other god except themselves, them on their throne—even as they watch the world around them being hit by one horror after another.
The seals, trumpets, and bowls of wrath are part of God’s increasingly powerful message calling mankind to repent.
After the signs of the first six seals, men in fear called for the rocks to fall on them to hide them from Jesus. (Chap.6)
After the harsher signs of the first six trumpets, men responded with indifference and continued their idolatry. (Chap 9)
After the overwhelming signs of the seven bowls of wrath, men responded by cursing God. (Chap. 16)
What more can God say? Fear, indifference, cursing — all the wrong responses to God’s warnings. Where are we now?
Great article by Msgr. Pope, with some good caveats.