The Seven Bowls Judgments (1)                                           

Revelation 15-16

Key vs. 15:1 “I saw in heaven another great and marvelous sing: seven angels with the seven last plagues – last, because with them God’s wrath is completed.”

1. Read 15:1-4.  What does the great and marvelous sign signify? (1)  What do the victorious believers do? (2)  How could they overcome the furious persecution of the beasts and his image? (12:11, 13:10)  What can we learn about God’s judgment from their singing? (3,4)

2. Read vs. 5-8.  What does it show that the seven angels with the seven plagues come out of the temple? (6)  What does it signify that they wear golden sashes and are given the seven golden bowls? (7)  What does it tell that no one could enter the temple until the seven plagues are completed? (8)

3. Read vs. 16:1-9. How does God pour out the first 3 bowls of his wrath upon the unbelieving world? (2,3,4)  How do the unbelieving people suffer? Why is God’s judgment just and true? (6,7,6:10)  When God pours out his 4^th bowl, how do the people suffer by the intense heat? (9,2Pet3:10) How do they respond to God’s judgment? 

4. Read vs. 10-16.  With the 5^th  bowl, how does God zero in upon the throne of the beast? (10) How are their agony intensified? (11,9:5)  As the 6^th bowl is poured out, how does the devil gather the kings together in preparation for the final battle at Armageddon? (13,14,16, 9:14,20:8) 

5. Read vs. 17-21.  What does it signify that a voice from the throne says, ‘It is done!’ (17,21:6)  What happens to the great city Babylon as God pours out his final wrath upon it? (18-21,18:1-24)  Compare the judgments of  the seven trumpets with those of the seven bowls. What are the similarities and differences? How do they progress?