Chapter Thirty-One -Jehovah's Works - Great and Wonderful

The Bowls and the Trumpet Blasts

The bowls of Jehovah's anger reveal features of the world scene as Jehovah view them and warn of judgments that Jehovah will execute.  The angels pour out the bowls through the agency of the congregation of anointed Christians on earth, the ones singing the song of Moses and of the Lamb. While proclaiming the Kingdom as good news, the John class have boldly revealed  the contents of these bowls of anger.  (Matthew  24:14; Revelation 14:6, 7)  Thus, their twofold message has been peaceful in proclaiming liberty to mankind but warlike in warning of "the day  of vengeance on the part of our God." -Isaiah 61:1, 2. 

The targets of the first four bowls of God's anger correspond to those of the first four trumpet blasts, that is, the earth, the sea, the rivers and fountains of water, and the  heavenly sources of light.  (Revelation 8:1-12)  But the trumpet blasts announced plagues on "a third," whereas an entirety is afflicted by the pouring out of bowls of God's anger. Thus, while Christendom, as "a third," has received first attention during the Lord's day, not one part of Satan's system  has been exempted from being plagued by Jehovah's vexatious judgment messages and the sorrows they bring. 

The final three trumpet blasts were different, for they were called woes.  (Revelation 8:13; 9:12)  The first two of these consisted particularly of the locusts and the armies of cavalry, while the third introduced  the birth of Jehovah's Kingdom.  (Revelation 9:1-21; 11:15-19) As we shall see, the final three bowls of his wrath also cover some of these aspects, but they are somewhat different from the three woes. Let us now pay close attention to the dramatic disclosures that result from the pouring out of the bowls of Jehovah's anger.

Next time:  Chapter Thirty-Two -God's Anger Brought to a Finish 

From the book of Revelation