Revelation 16:2

So the first went and poured out his bowl upon the earth, and a foul and loathsome sore came upon the men who had the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image.

• ·        Only the Antichrist “worshipers” and “reprobate” who took the “mark of the Beast” receive these tormenting sores.

• ·        These sores will be foul or revolting with an offensive odor, even as foul meat is rotten or putrid. They will also be loathsome in being so painful that men will loath life itself. The very pain will pull some people away from the lure of sinful pleasure and demonic worship.

Exodus 9:9  And it will become fine dust in all the land of Egypt, and it will cause boils that break out in sores on man and beast throughout all the land of Egypt.

Deuteronomy 28:35  The LORD will strike you in the knees and on the legs with severe boils which cannot be healed, and from the sole of your foot to the top of your head.

Revelation 16:1

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

• ·        The seven bowls of wrath are the third and final numbered judgment series (7 seals, 7 trumpets, 7 bowls).

• ·        The 7 bowls are the fullness of God’s wrath (Rev. 14:10; 15:1) sent to destroy all the evil infrastructures of the Antichrist’s empire, as a “rod of iron” shatters clay pottery to pieces. No infrastructure of society (transportation, water, education, financial, etc.) is exempt from the “rod of justice”, as Jesus takes His promised inheritance of the nations (Ps. 2:7-9).

Psalm 79:6  Pour out Your wrath on the nations that do not know You, and on the kingdoms that do not call on Your name.

Ezekiel 22:31 Therefore I have poured out My indignation on them; I have consumed them with the fire of My wrath; and I have recompensed their deeds on their own heads,” says the LORD GOD.

Revelation 15:8

The temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God and from His power, and no one was able to enter the temple till the seven plagues of the seven angels were completed.

• ·        They were all wrapt up in clouds of smoke, which filled the temple, from the glorious and powerful presence of God (MH)

• ·        God Himself was now preaching to the church and to all the world, by terrible things in righteousness; but when this work was done, the temple would be opened. (MH)

Exodus 40:34  Then the cloud covered the tabernacle of meeting, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.

Isaiah 6:1-4 ….And the posts of the door were shaken by the voice of him who cried out, and the house was filled with smoke.