Another calamity in nature is here used to describe a warning coming from God. Something like a great mountain on fire is cast into the sea and one-third is turned to blood, onethird of all creatures in the sea destroyed, along with one-third of all ships. God can use natural disasters to warn wicked men. When God was preparing to bring judgment down upon Babylon, he used similar words. (Jeremiah 51:24-25; Jeremiah 51:42)

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