Revelation's Seven Bowls of Wrath
March 04, 2026 Below is the 28th of multiple excerpts of commentary on the Book of Revelation from The Parousia , the late 19th-century masterpiece on the Second Coming by James Stuart Russell: "The Fifth Vision "THE SEVEN VIALS [BOWLS] , Chaps. xv. [15] xvi. [16] "Chap. xv. 1 [Rev. 15:1-8]--- ‘And I saw another sign in heaven, great and marvelous, seven angels having the seven last plagues; for in them is completed the wrath of God,’ etc. [SEVEN ANGELS TO POUR BOWLS OF WRATH ON THE GUILTY LAND -- 1ST-CENTURY ISRAEL] "This vision opens, like the first [messages to the seven churches], second [the seven seals], and third [the seven trumpets], with a prologue or preamble. The scene is laid in heaven, where the Seer [John] beholds seven angels, charged with the infliction of seven plagues, which are called the last , as being the completion of the divine wrath upon the guilty nation [1st-century Israel]. The imagery in this introductory scene is conceived in a...