What is the state of the earth's population before Revelation 9:21?
By Revelation 9:21, a goodly percentage of the earth's population has already been removed by God's tribulation judgments, yet the remaining population remains unrepentant. They have not turned from murders, sorceries—identified as pharmakia or drugs—immorality, and thefts, leaving the world saturated with a drug culture.
Les explains that Revelation chapter 9 comes right out of the tribulation period itself, when the judgments of God are being poured out on the human race. By the time we reach chapter 9 and verse 21, a bunch of judgments have already hit them. A goodly percentage of the earth's population is already gone. Yet the verse says, "neither repented they of their murders, sorceries, immorality, nor thefts." Les points out that the word "sorceries" in the Greek is pharmakia, from which we get "pharmacy," meaning drugs. So it is going to be a world literally saturated with a drug culture. He notes this is the perfect picture of end-time humanity described in Romans.
Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.
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Do the survivors in Revelation 9:21 repent of their sins?
At Revelation 9:21, even after a goodly percentage of the earth's population has already died in God's judgments, those left still do not repent of murders, sorceries, immorality, or thefts.
What does Revelation 9:21 say about people's repentance after judgment?
In Revelation 9:21, even after all the judgments have occurred and a goodly percentage of the earth's population has died, the survivors do not repent of their murders, sorceries, immorality, or thefts.