Their victims suffer mental and spiritual pain because of the sting, but, though they desire it, they do not die. The word for torment is used of Lot and by the demon who possessed the man in the land of the Gadarenes. (2 Peter 2:8; Mark 5:7; Luke 8:28) Again, we can see that God is in control because he only allows this to continue for five months.

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