SEVEN PLAGUES (2-1): THE 1ST BOWL OF GOD'S WRATH (REVELATION 16:1-2)
(Message by Tanny Keng)
1. Revelation
a) John wrote Revelation while a prisoner on the Island of Patmos, approximately 85-95 A.D. Its purpose is to give encouragement and hope for all Christians to continue watching for the return and triumph of the Lord Jesus Christ. It also is to warn of the Final Judgment that nonbelievers will endure on that Last Day.
b) John wrote that Revelation is special because,“Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of the prophecy, and heed the things which are written in it; for the time is near” (Revelation 1:3).
c) A brief view of the Book of Revelation. It gives you some basic understanding of the book of Revelation.
2. The First Bowl Of God's Wrath
Revelation 16:1-2
16 Then I heard a loud voice from the temple, saying to the seven angels, “Go and pour out on the earth the seven bowls of the wrath of God.”
2 So the first angel went and poured out his bowl on the earth; and it became a loathsome and malignant sore on the people who had the mark of the beast and who worshiped his image.
3. The Plagues from the Bowls
Revelation 16:1-2
a) On the earth
i) Notice that the wrath and judgment of God is poured out here on the earth. The last judgment comes from heaven, but it does not take place in heaven. Christ will judge the world when he returns to earth (Matthew 25:31-33). Then he will take the saved into heaven (John 14:3).
b) Bowls
i) Each bowl in the vision had some sort of punishment. From the first five bowls came a plague of sores, poisonous blood for the sea, more blood for the drinking water, fiery scorching heat, and darkness over the kingdom of the beast. The sixth bowl caused the river Euphrates to dry up exposing the kingdom to attack. The seventh bowl, as a climax, caused a great earthquake and hailstorm that destroyed “Babylon” and the whole anti-christian kingdom.
The End ...
Revelation 16:1-2
16 Then I heard a loud voice from the temple, saying to the seven angels, “Go and pour out on the earth the seven bowls of the wrath of God.”
2 So the first angel went and poured out his bowl on the earth; and it became a loathsome and malignant sore on the people who had the mark of the beast and who worshiped his image.
3. The Plagues from the Bowls
Revelation 16:1-2
a) On the earth
i) Notice that the wrath and judgment of God is poured out here on the earth. The last judgment comes from heaven, but it does not take place in heaven. Christ will judge the world when he returns to earth (Matthew 25:31-33). Then he will take the saved into heaven (John 14:3).
b) Bowls
i) Each bowl in the vision had some sort of punishment. From the first five bowls came a plague of sores, poisonous blood for the sea, more blood for the drinking water, fiery scorching heat, and darkness over the kingdom of the beast. The sixth bowl caused the river Euphrates to dry up exposing the kingdom to attack. The seventh bowl, as a climax, caused a great earthquake and hailstorm that destroyed “Babylon” and the whole anti-christian kingdom.
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