One would expect that the death of “one third” of the human population (Revelation 9:15, Revelation 9:18) would make people rethink their values and repent. But that is not the case. Humanity’s depravity is such that people harden in their sins despite the pressure of the Lord’s heavy hand upon our species.
20 The rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands nor give up worshiping demons and idols of gold and silver and bronze and stone and wood, which cannot see or hear or walk,