Revelation 16:1 meaning and explanation

Then I heard a loud voice from the temple saying to the seven angels, “Go, pour out on the earth the seven bowls of God’s wrath.”

Revelation 16:1, Berean Standard Bible

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Revelation 16 continues the series of seven judgments, and here the command comes from the temple in heaven, most likely from God himself, since no human or angel gives orders to these seven angels. The bowls are shallow offering bowls, and the Greek word thumos, rendered wrath, carries the sense of fierce, boiling anger.

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