Seven Angels With Seven Plagues
1.I saw in heaven another great and marvelous sign: seven angels with the seven last plagues—last, because with them God’s wrath is completed. 2.And I saw what looked like a sea of glass glowing with fire and, standing beside the sea, those who had been victorious over the beast and its image and over the number of its name. They held harps given them by God 3.and sang the song of God’s servant Moses and of the Lamb:
“Great and marvelous are your deeds,
Lord God Almighty.
Just and true are your ways,
King of the nations.15:3 Some manuscripts ages
4.Who will not fear you, Lord,
and bring glory to your name?
For you alone are holy.
All nations will come
and worship before you,
for your righteous acts have been revealed.”15:3,4 Phrases in this song are drawn from Psalm 111:2,3; Deut. 32:4; Jer. 10:7; Psalms 86:9; 98:2.
5.After this I looked, and I saw in heaven the temple—that is, the tabernacle of the covenant law—and it was opened. 6.Out of the temple came the seven angels with the seven plagues. They were dressed in clean, shining linen and wore golden sashes around their chests. 7.Then one of the four living creatures gave to the seven angels seven golden bowls filled with the wrath of God, who lives for ever and ever. 8.And the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God and from his power, and no one could enter the temple until the seven plagues of the seven angels were completed.
The Seven Bowls of God’s Wrath
1.Then I heard a loud voice from the temple saying to the seven angels, “Go, pour out the seven bowls of God’s wrath on the earth.”
2.The first angel went and poured out his bowl on the land, and ugly, festering sores broke out on the people who had the mark of the beast and worshiped its image.
3.The second angel poured out his bowl on the sea, and it turned into blood like that of a dead person, and every living thing in the sea died.
4.The third angel poured out his bowl on the rivers and springs of water, and they became blood. 5.Then I heard the angel in charge of the waters say:
“You are just in these judgments, O Holy One,
you who are and who were;
6.for they have shed the blood of your holy people and your prophets,
and you have given them blood to drink as they deserve.”
7.And I heard the altar respond:
“Yes, Lord God Almighty,
true and just are your judgments.”
8.The fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun, and the sun was allowed to scorch people with fire. 9.They were seared by the intense heat and they cursed the name of God, who had control over these plagues, but they refused to repent and glorify him.
10.The fifth angel poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast, and its kingdom was plunged into darkness. People gnawed their tongues in agony 11.and cursed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, but they refused to repent of what they had done.
12.The sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up to prepare the way for the kings from the East. 13.Then I saw three impure spirits that looked like frogs; they came out of the mouth of the dragon, out of the mouth of the beast and out of the mouth of the false prophet. 14.They are demonic spirits that perform signs, and they go out to the kings of the whole world, to gather them for the battle on the great day of God Almighty.
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“Look, I come like a thief! Blessed is the one who stays awake and remains clothed, so as not to go naked and be shamefully exposed.”
16.Then they gathered the kings together to the place that in Hebrew is called Armageddon.
17.The seventh angel poured out his bowl into the air, and out of the temple came a loud voice from the throne, saying, “It is done!” 18.Then there came flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder and a severe earthquake. No earthquake like it has ever occurred since mankind has been on earth, so tremendous was the quake. 19.The great city split into three parts, and the cities of the nations collapsed. God remembered Babylon the Great and gave her the cup filled with the wine of the fury of his wrath. 20.Every island fled away and the mountains could not be found. 21.From the sky huge hailstones, each weighing about a hundred pounds,16:21 Or about 45 kilograms fell on people. And they cursed God on account of the plague of hail, because the plague was so terrible.
16.For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes: first to the Jew, then to the Gentile. 17.For in the gospel the righteousness of God is revealed—a righteousness that is by faith from first to last,1:17 Or is from faith to faith just as it is written: “The righteous will live by faith.”1:17 Hab. 2:418.The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness,
21.These are the amounts of the materials used for the tabernacle, the tabernacle of the covenant law, which were recorded at Moses’ command by the Levites under the direction of Ithamar son of Aaron, the priest.
7.Now Moses used to take a tent and pitch it outside the camp some distance away, calling it the “tent of meeting.” Anyone inquiring of the Lord would go to the tent of meeting outside the camp.
34.Then the cloud covered the tent of meeting, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle. 35.Moses could not enter the tent of meeting because the cloud had settled on it, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle.
20.The rest of mankind who were not killed by these plagues still did not repent of the work of their hands; they did not stop worshiping demons, and idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone and wood—idols that cannot see or hear or walk. 21.Nor did they repent of their murders, their magic arts, their sexual immorality or their thefts.
9.If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 10.For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved.
17.From that time on Jesus began to preach, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven has come near.”
8.But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day. 9.The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. Instead he is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.
1.As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, 2.in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient. 3.All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our flesh2:3 In contexts like this, the Greek word for flesh (sarx) refers to the sinful state of human beings, often presented as a power in opposition to the Spirit. and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature deserving of wrath. 4.But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, 5.made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved. 6.And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, 7.in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus. 8.For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— 9.not by works, so that no one can boast. 10.For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.
30.When he had received the drink, Jesus said, “It is finished.” With that, he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.
1.The fifth angel sounded his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from the sky to the earth. The star was given the key to the shaft of the Abyss. 2.When he opened the Abyss, smoke rose from it like the smoke from a gigantic furnace. The sun and sky were darkened by the smoke from the Abyss. 3.And out of the smoke locusts came down on the earth and were given power like that of scorpions of the earth. 4.They were told not to harm the grass of the earth or any plant or tree, but only those people who did not have the seal of God on their foreheads. 5.They were not allowed to kill them but only to torture them for five months. And the agony they suffered was like that of the sting of a scorpion when it strikes. 6.During those days people will seek death but will not find it; they will long to die, but death will elude them.
7.The locusts looked like horses prepared for battle. On their heads they wore something like crowns of gold, and their faces resembled human faces. 8.Their hair was like women’s hair, and their teeth were like lions’ teeth. 9.They had breastplates like breastplates of iron, and the sound of their wings was like the thundering of many horses and chariots rushing into battle. 10.They had tails with stingers, like scorpions, and in their tails they had power to torment people for five months. 11.They had as king over them the angel of the Abyss, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon and in Greek is Apollyon (that is, Destroyer).
12.The first woe is past; two other woes are yet to come.
13.The sixth angel sounded his trumpet, and I heard a voice coming from the four horns of the golden altar that is before God. 14.It said to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, “Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates.” 15.And the four angels who had been kept ready for this very hour and day and month and year were released to kill a third of mankind. 16.The number of the mounted troops was twice ten thousand times ten thousand. I heard their number.
17.The horses and riders I saw in my vision looked like this: Their breastplates were fiery red, dark blue, and yellow as sulfur. The heads of the horses resembled the heads of lions, and out of their mouths came fire, smoke and sulfur. 18.A third of mankind was killed by the three plagues of fire, smoke and sulfur that came out of their mouths. 19.The power of the horses was in their mouths and in their tails; for their tails were like snakes, having heads with which they inflict injury.
20.The rest of mankind who were not killed by these plagues still did not repent of the work of their hands; they did not stop worshiping demons, and idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone and wood—idols that cannot see or hear or walk. 21.Nor did they repent of their murders, their magic arts, their sexual immorality or their thefts.
