III: Exodus and Wilderness

First Bowl: Sores

inner uncleanness made visible outside

Root
Exod 9:8-11 · shechin (H7822)
Old Testament chain
  1. Exod 9:9
  2. Lev 13:18-20
  3. Deut 28:27, 35
  4. 2 Chr 26:19-21
  5. Isa 1:5-6
  6. Rev 16:2
New Testament
Rev 16:2; Rev 16:11

Ashes thrown toward heaven become "a boil breaking forth with blains" on Egypt, so that even the magicians cannot stand before Moses (Exod 9:9-11). Leviticus uses the same shechin in its uncleanness law (Lev 13:18-20), and Israel is warned that Yahuah will smite the disobedient "with the botch of Egypt" (Deut 28:27). Uzziah, struck with leprosy, is cut off from the house of Yahuah (2 Chr 26:21). The first bowl falls on those bearing the beast's mark (Rev 16:2): the sores make visible on the outside what was already real on the inside, a ritual uncleanness that bars entry to the sanctuary (Lev 15:31).

From The Courtroom of Heaven, pp. 255–256