"I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels, Go your ways, pour out the vials of the wrath of God upon the earth.” (v.1)
John now records for us the voice of God who dispatches the seven angels with the seven final plagues, with which He will smite the earth. This will be done prior to the sending of His Son to take control and to rule over the earth. Sin must be judged one way or another. The sickness, the cancer, the perversion and carnality which permeates and pollutes the world will now reap what it has sown.
Scripture tells us, “if you sow to the wind, you will reap the whirlwind” (Hosea 8:7). The whirlwind now comes upon the earth in the final outpouring of God’s wrath in the form of the seven bowl judgments. The last of which are the 100 lb. hail stones which fall down upon the people gathered there in the valley of Armageddon (v.21). These hail stones are unlike any hailstones that have ever fallen upon the earth, for they come from the fury of God Almighty and are deadly upon impact.
Someone once said about this judgment, “You can either hail Him as the King of Kings, or get hail “from” Him as the King of Kings! It is your choice...” Better to proclaim the former, than to receive the latter.
The Truth: "Sow for yourselves righteousness and reap the fruit of loving devotion; break up your unplowed ground. For it is time to seek the LORD until He comes and sends righteousness upon you like rain.” (Hosea 10:12)
