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The Giving of the Seven Bowls of Wrath / The First Six Plagues, Revelation 16:1-16. Matthias Gerung, c. 1531 Fifth Bowl, the Seven-headed Beast. Escorial Beatus Statue of an Etruscan priest, holding a phialē from which he is to pour a libation; the plagues of Revelation are poured out on the world like offerings.
This chapter describes the seven bowls, vials [4] or phials [5] of God's wrath, [6] poured out on the wicked and the followers of the Antichrist after the sounding of the seven trumpets, [7] on the command of "a loud voice from the temple" heard by the author. [8]
The books of the New Testament frequently cite Jewish scripture to support the claim of the Early Christians that Jesus was the promised Jewish Messiah.Scholars have observed that few of these citations are actual predictions in context; the majority of these quotations and references are taken from the prophetic Book of Isaiah, but they range over the entire corpus of Jewish writings.
The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb: Revelation 19:20
A third angel declares God's wrath on those who worship or receive the mark of the beast. This requires endurance by the faithful. A heavenly voice pronounces the blessedness and reward of the dead "in the Lord"(Revelation 14:13). An angel invites a crowned "son of man", seated on a cloud, to use his sickle to harvest the earth.
This is known as the end-time tribulation that stretches across world history. Thus the “kingdom of God” is in history, but “not yet” triumphant. [19] Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints view. During the fifth seal, the period from our Lord's birth down to 1000 A. D., the following happened: [22] The birth into mortality of God ...
The traditional viewpoint interprets this biblical prophecy to be symbolic of the progression of the world toward the "great day of God, the Almighty" in which the great looming mountain of God's just and holy wrath is poured out against unrepentant sinners, led by Satan, in a literal end-of-the-world final confrontation.
Heinrich Meyer observes in his consideration of John 3:36 that the wrath of God "remains" on anyone who rejects belief in the Son, meaning that the rejection of faith is not the trigger for God's wrath, it is there already. Their refusal to believe amounts to a refusal to allow the wrath of God to be lifted from them. [22]