I do not like mosquitos. When I get bit by one, I get a big welt that itches like crazy and lasts for days. If there is one misquote in an area, they will bite me even if no one else gets bitten. Did I mention that I hate mosquitos! I carry a bottle of 100% deet in my pocket whenever I am outside, especially in Alaska. I hate mosquitos, and I am convinced that they are little demons. I evidently got bitten by a spider or something bigger than a mosquito a couple of days ago because I have this massive welt on my neck that itches like double crazy. I hate spiders even more than mosquitos.

Look at this passage from the book of Revelation describing the Tribulation period. The fifth trumpet sounds and the bottomless pit opens, and these creatures come out who have stingers on their tails.

Revelation 9:5-6 And they were not permitted to kill anyone, but to torment for five months, and their torment was like the torment of a scorpion when it stings a man. And in those days men will seek death and will not find it; they will long to die, and death flees from them.

This event is a God-caused event or a God-allowed event. Why would He do such a thing or allow such a thing? I think it is God’s last effort to get people to repent and come to Him. Look at what it says about those on the earth at this time who don’t know God.

Revelation 9:20-21 The rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands, so as not to worship demons, and the idols of gold and of silver and of brass and of stone and of wood, which can neither see nor hear nor walk; and they did not repent of their murders nor of their sorceries nor of their immorality nor of their thefts.

There are so many people today that are so resistant to the good news of the gospel. It seems so crazy to me that people can be so blind to the gospel that will give them eternal life in heaven. But it looks like that blindness gets even worse in the days ahead. Crazy!

I will keep praying.