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  COMMENTARY ON REVELATION 16
  by Chuck Smith
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In the fifteenth chapter of the book of Revelation, we had sort of the
introduction to chapter sixteen, as we saw the seven angels in heaven
who are given the seven final plagues which complete the judgment of God
upon the earth. And these seven angels came out of the temple and they
were clothed in pure white linen. And one of the cherubim gave to the
angels these vials of wrath to pour out upon the earth. And the temple
of God was filled with the smoke from the glory of God and it was closed
now to man. No man was able to enter in during the time that these seven
plagues are being poured out upon the earth.

John said,

I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels, Go
your ways, pour out the vials of the wrath of God upon the earth (Rev
16:1).

And so that awesome command is now given from the temple of God, and
these angels are dispatched with the seven final plagues, with which God
will smite the earth prior to the sending of His Son to take dominion
and control and to rule over the earth.

And the first angel went forth, and poured out his vial upon the earth;
and there fell a noisome and grievous sore upon the man which had the
mark of the beast, and upon them which worshipped his image (Rev 16:2).

It would seem that God now makes a distinction that this noisome, which
literally is a running sore, an ulcer type of a sore that doesn\

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