44. Bowls of Wrath


REVELATION 15.1 I saw another great and marvelous sign in the sky: seven angels having the seven last plagues, for in them God’s wrath is finished.  15.6 The seven angels who had the seven plagues came out of the temple, clothed with pure, bright linen, and wearing golden sashes around their breasts. 15.7 One of the four living creatures gave to the seven angels seven golden bowls full of the wrath of God. 15.8 The temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God, and from his power. No one was able to enter into the temple, until the seven plagues of the seven angels would be finished.

REVELATION 16.1 I heard a loud voice out of the temple, saying to the seven angels, “Go and pour out the seven bowls of the wrath of God on the earth!” 16.2 The first angel went, and poured out his bowl into the earth, and it became a harmful and evil sore on the people who had the mark of the beast, and who worshiped his image.

16.3 The second angel poured out his bowl into the sea, and it became blood as of a dead man. Every living thing in the sea died.

16.4 The third poured out his bowl into the rivers and springs of water, and they became blood. 16.5 I heard the angel of the waters saying, “You are righteous, who are and who were, you Holy One, because you have judged these things. 16.6 For they poured out the blood of the saints and prophets, and you have given them blood to drink. They deserve this.” 16.7 I heard the altar saying, “Yes, Lord God, the Almighty, true and righteous are your judgments.”

16.8 The fourth poured out his bowl on the sun, and it was given to him to scorch men with fire. 16.9 People were scorched with great heat, and people blasphemed the name of God who has the power over these plagues. They didn’t repent and give him glory.

16.10 The fifth poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast, and his kingdom was darkened. They gnawed their tongues because of the pain, 16.11 and they blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores. They didn’t repent of their works.

16.12 The sixth poured out his bowl on the great river, the Euphrates. Its water was dried up, that the way might be prepared for the kings that come from the sunrise. 16.13 I saw coming out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet, three unclean spirits, something like frogs; 16.14 for they are spirits of demons, performing signs; which go out to the kings of the whole inhabited earth, to gather them together for the war of that great day of God, the Almighty. 16.16 He gathered them together into the place which is called in Hebrew, Megiddo or Armageddon.

16.17 The seventh poured out his bowl into the air. A loud voice came out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, “It is done!” 16.18 There were lightnings, sounds, and thunders; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since there were men on the earth, so great an earthquake, so mighty. 16.19 The great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell. 16.20 Every island fled away, and the mountains were not found. 16.21 Great hailstones came down out of the sky on people. People blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail, for this plague is exceedingly severe.  -WEB Bible


IMAGE CREDIT
: The illustration of the Bowls of God’s Wrath is from an ancient mural at the Dionysiou Monastery in Greece, circa 1600's.