The Bowls of Wrath- Rev. 16 – Joseph Moore

6-8-25

The Bowls of Wrath

Revelation 16:1–16 (ESV)
¹Then I heard a loud voice from the temple telling the seven angels, “Go and pour out on the earth the seven bowls of the wrath of God.” ²So the first angel went and poured out his bowl on the earth, and harmful and painful sores came upon the people who bore the mark of the beast and worshiped its image. ³The second angel poured out his bowl into the sea, and it became like the blood of a corpse, and every living thing died that was in the sea. ⁴The third angel poured out his bowl into the rivers and the springs of water, and they became blood. ⁵And I heard the angel in charge of the waters say, “Just are you, O Holy One, who is and who was, for you brought these judgments. ⁶For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and you have given them blood to drink. It is what they deserve!” ⁷And I heard the altar saying, “Yes, Lord God the Almighty, true and just are your judgments!” 

• Harmful and Painful Sores
  • Similar

Exodus 9:8–10 (ESV)

Revelation 9:3–6 (ESV)
³Then from the smoke came locusts on the earth, and they were given power like the power of scorpions of the earth. ⁴They were told not to harm the grass of the earth or any green plant or any tree, but only those people who do not have the seal of God on their foreheads. ⁵They were allowed to torment them for five months, but not to kill them, and their torment was like the torment of a scorpion when it stings someone. ⁶And in those days people will seek death and will not find it. They will long to die, but death will flee from them.

• The Sea and the Rivers
  • From to all

Revelation 8:8–10 (ESV)
⁸The second angel blew his trumpet, and something like a great mountain, burning with fire, was thrown into the sea, and a third of the sea became blood. ⁹A third of the living creatures in the sea died, and a third of the ships were destroyed. ¹⁰The third angel blew his trumpet, and a great star fell from heaven, blazing like a torch, and it fell on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water.

• The angel in charge of the waters…

Genesis 1:16–18 (ESV)

Revelation 14:18 (ESV)

Daniel 10:20 (ESV)

Jude 6 (ESV)

Just and Holy… It is what they

• • Rejoicing at the execution of God’s judgements

Psalm 149:5–9 (ESV)
⁵Let the godly exult in glory; let them sing for joy on their beds. ⁶Let the high praises of God be in their throats and two-edged swords in their hands, ⁷to execute vengeance on the nations and punishments on the peoples, ⁸to bind their kings with chains and their nobles with fetters of iron, ⁹to execute on them the judgment written! This is honor for all his godly ones. Praise the Lord!

Psalm 58:10–11 (ESV)
¹⁰The righteous will rejoice when he sees the vengeance; he will bathe his feet in the blood of the wicked. ¹¹Mankind will say, “Surely there is a reward for the righteous; surely there is a God who judges on earth.”

Psalm 33:4–9 (ESV)

⁸The fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun, and it was allowed to scorch people with fire. ⁹They were scorched by the fierce heat, and they cursed the name of God who had power over these plagues. They did not repent and give him glory. ¹⁰The fifth angel poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast, and its kingdom was plunged into darkness. People gnawed their tongues in anguish ¹¹and cursed the God of heaven for their pain and sores. They did not repent of their deeds. 

• Scorching Heat and
  • Targeted
  • Did not repent

Exodus 10:21–22 (ESV)²¹Then the Lord said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, a darkness to be felt.” ²²So Moses stretched out his hand toward heaven, and there was pitch darkness in all the land of Egypt three days.

¹²The sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up, to prepare the way for the kings from the east. 

• The ____________________

Genesis 2:10–14 (ESV)
Genesis 15:18 (ESV)
¹⁸On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your offspring I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates,

Revelation 9:13–15 (ESV)

Isaiah 17:1–3 (ESV)
¹An oracle concerning Damascus. Behold, Damascus will cease to be a city and will become a heap of ruins. ²The cities of Aroer are deserted; they will be for flocks, which will lie down, and none will make them afraid. ³The fortress will disappear from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus; and the remnant of Syria will be like the glory of the children of Israel, declares the Lord of hosts.

¹³And 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 like frogs. ¹⁴For they are demonic spirits, performing signs, who go abroad to the kings of the whole world, to assemble them for battle on the great day of God the Almighty. 

• The of God the Almighty

Zephaniah 3:6–8

Malachi 4:1–3 (ESV)

Isaiah 30:25–28 (ESV)

¹⁵(“Behold, I am coming like a thief! Blessed is the one who stays awake, keeping his garments on, that he may not go about naked and be seen exposed!”) ¹⁶And they assembled them at the place that in Hebrew is called Armageddon.

• Blessed is the one who

Matthew 24:42–44 (ESV)
⁴²Therefore, stay awake, for you do not know on what day your Lord is coming. ⁴³But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what part of the night the thief was coming, he would have stayed awake and would not have let his house be broken into. ⁴⁴Therefore you also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.

• Application
  • Not will be as we want it
  • We have faith in a hope, not a present blessing
  • Those that reject the Lord have made themselves enemies of God
  • We must live in
    • The desire for the wicked to turn from their way and live,
    • Accept that those that refuse God deserve

Habakkuk 3:17–19 (ESV)
¹⁷Though the fig tree should not blossom, nor fruit be on the vines, the produce of the olive fail and the fields yield no food, the flock be cut off from the fold and there be no herd in the stalls, ¹⁸yet I will rejoice in the Lord; I will take joy in the God of my salvation. ¹⁹God, the Lord, is my strength; he makes my feet like the deer’s; he makes me tread on my high places.