Revelation 15:1-16:21
“And I saw another sign in heaven, great and marvellous, seven angels having the seven last plagues; for in them is filled up the wrath of God... And the seventh angel poured out his vial into the air; and there came a great voice... saying, It is done... and there was a great earthquake.”
King James Version
The seven last plagues — the bowls of God's wrath poured on the earth, sea, rivers, sun, the beast's throne, the Euphrates (Armageddon), and the air — completing God's judgment.
Fulfillment References
Exodus 7-12 Revelation 16:16 Revelation 8:1-9:21 Zephaniah 1:14-18
How Traditions Read This Prophecy
Apostolic (Oneness) Pentecostal'It is done' — the one God's wrath complete; the Lord who saved at the Exodus judges the unrepentant world.
JewishThe bowls reprise the plagues of Egypt — the LORD's final reckoning with a Pharaoh-like world.
CatholicThe completion of God's wrath, the 'seven last plagues' filling up judgment.
ProtestantThe final, unmixed outpouring of wrath, echoing the Exodus plagues and the trumpets, gathered at Armageddon.
OrthodoxThe fullness of divine judgment before the end.
DispensationalThe literal bowl-judgments at the climax of the future Tribulation.
AcademicThe bowls parallel the trumpets and the Exodus plagues; their relation (recapitulation vs. intensifying sequence) is central to the structure debate. 'Armageddon' (16:16) likely evokes Megiddo.
Scholarship & Sources
The bowls deliberately echo the Exodus plagues (Ex. 7-12) and parallel the trumpets, sharpening the recapitulation-vs-sequence debate. 'Armageddon' (Har-Magedon, 16:16) is usually linked to Megiddo (cf. Judg. 5; 2 Kings 23:29).
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