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Revelation 16 Bible study: The seven bowls

After the third bowl, John hears, "Yes, Lord God, the Almighty, true and righteous are your judgments" (16:7), and when the seventh is poured out into the air, a loud voice from the throne says, "It is done!" (16:17).

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“I heard the altar saying, “Yes, Lord God, the Almighty, true and righteous are your judgments.””
Revelation 16:7 · World English Bible

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“In Revelation 16, both the command to pour out the bowls and the words "It is done!" come from a loud voice out of the temple.”

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Go and pour out the seven bowls

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John says, "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!”" (16:1) (tap pour out, bowls and wrath). "The first went, and poured out his bowl into the earth, and it became a harmful and painful sore on the people who had the mark of the beast, and who worshiped his image." (16:2). "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." (16:3). "The third poured out his bowl into the rivers and springs of water, and they became blood." (16:4). "I heard the angel of the waters saying, “You are righteous, who are and who were, O Holy One, because you have judged these things." (16:5) (tap righteous). "For they poured out the blood of saints and prophets, and you have given them blood to drink. They deserve this.”" (16:6). The words of the angel of the waters run from 16:5 to the end of 16:6. Then John says, "I heard the altar saying, “Yes, Lord God, the Almighty, true and righteous are your judgments.”" (16:7) (tap Yes, true and judgments). These notes identify nothing in this chapter with any person, people, power, place, nation, army, war or event: not the bowls, the sea, the rivers and springs, the sun, the throne of the beast or his kingdom, the great river, the Euphrates, the kings that come from the sunrise, the three unclean spirits, the dragon, the beast or the false prophet, Harmagedon, the great city, the cities of the nations, Babylon the great, the islands or the mountains. They give no time for anything in it, apply none of it to anyone, then or now, and say no more of the mark of the beast, his image or any of the bowls than the chapter's own words.

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The Greek word behind it

ἐκχέωekcheosay ek-KHEH-o

Strong's: "to pour forth". "Go and pour out the seven bowls" (16:1): behind pour out is this verb, and it is behind poured out in 16:12 and 16:17 too. Revelation has it nine times, all in this chapter, and this is the first (counted in RP2018, and in all eight editions TAGNT compares).

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Revelation 16 Bible study questions

  1. 1"You are righteous" (16:5). Where would it help you this week to remember that God is righteous?
  2. 2The words John hears in 16:7 begin with "Yes". What would you like to say "Yes" to God about this week?
  3. 316:14 speaks of "God the Almighty". What difference does it make to your week that God is the Almighty?

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