The Second Vial

In the outpouring of the vials, we do not find their effect limited to a third part, or a fourth part, as the trumpets and seals were; and the character of the judgments not only is more severe, but more extensive. If the Apocalyptic judgments have a special bearing on the nations where the light of the gospel and outward privileges have so abounded, now they are giver up in a thoroughly apostate state to the fury of God. The second vial is poured on the sea bringing death on everything. “The second angel poured out his vial upon the sea; and it became as the blood of a dead man: and every living soul died in the sea.” (verse 3.)