Revelation 6:17, 11:18, 14:9-10, 14:19, 15:1, 19:15

So the wrath of GOD will be poured out upon the Earth 6 times?

It’s not going to happen; the wrath of GOD will only be poured out once!

These are all the same event.

Rev. 15:1-nasb

¹ Then I saw ⁽¹⁾ another sign in heaven, great and marvelous, ⁽²⁾ seven angels who had ⁽³⁾ seven plagues, which are ⁽⁴⁾ the last, because in them the wrath of God is finished.

It is important to distinguish the difference between the wrath of Satan and the wrath of GOD.

The wrath of satan is mentioned in chpt. 12 of Rev. and it begins when satan is cast out of heaven and is confined to the earth. That happens when there is a war in heaven and it can be proven it happens three & ½ yrs. before Armageddon.

Revelation 12-nasb

¹²   "For this reason, ⁽³⁵⁾ rejoice, O heavens and ⁽³⁶⁾ you who dwell in them. ⁽³⁷⁾ Woe to the earth and the sea, because ⁽³⁸⁾ the devil has come down to you, having great wrath, knowing that he has only ⁽³⁹⁾ a short time."
¹³   And when the ⁽⁴⁰⁾ dragon saw that he was thrown down to the earth, he persecuted ⁽⁴¹⁾ the woman who gave birth to the male child.
¹⁴   But the ⁽⁴²⁾ two wings of the great eagle were given to the woman, so that she could fly ⁽⁴³⁾ into the wilderness to her place, where she was nourished for ⁽⁴⁴⁾ a time and times and half a time, from the presence of the serpent.

The wrath of satan is 3 ½ yrs. before Armageddon, but then the wrath of GOD comes at the end of the great tribulation.

Now we have to note something here. Some people have painted the vials as taking place world wide.

When it talks about the rivers being turned to blood, people have said that every river on the face of the earth will turn to blood, well that’s not accurate when it talks about hailstones weighing 125 pounds apiece, raining over the entire earth. If that was the case then it would kill everyone on the planet.

These are going to be plagues that are local in there scope.

Ezekiel 38

¹⁸   "It will come about on that day, when Gog comes against the land of Israel," declares the Lord GOD, "that My fury will mount up in My ⁽³³⁾ anger.    (Kjv says face)
¹⁹   "In My ⁽³⁴⁾ zeal and in My blazing wrath I declare that on that day there will surely be a great ⁽³⁵⁾ earthquake in the land of Israel. ²⁰   "⁽³⁶⁾ The fish of the sea, the birds of the heavens, the beasts of the field, all the creeping things that creep on the earth, and all the men who are on the face of the earth will shake at My presence; the ⁽³⁷⁾ mountains also will be thrown down, the steep pathways will collapse and every wall will fall to the ground. ²¹   "I will call for a ⁽³⁸⁾ sword against him on all My mountains," declares the Lord GOD. "⁽³⁹⁾ Every man's sword will be against his brother. ²²   "With pestilence and with blood I will enter into ⁽⁴⁰⁾ judgment with him; and I will rain on him and on his troops, and on the many peoples who are with him, a torrential rain, with ⁽⁴¹⁾ hailstones, fire and brimstone.
²³   "I will magnify Myself, sanctify Myself, and ⁽⁴²⁾ make Myself known in the sight of many nations; and they will know that I am the LORD."'

So GOD is going to use these plagues against the invading armies of the United Nations or what ever type of world government is in place at this time just as he used plagues against pharaoh when he wanted the JEWS freed to take them to there own land.

So when you go through these vials, we must see them as a way that GOD is using them to keep Israel out of bondage from an oppressive world government or some type of entity that wants Israel to come under some type of control outside of what GOD has planned.

Let’s move on to verse 2-6

Revelation 15

²   And I saw something like a ⁽⁵⁾ sea of glass mixed with fire, and those who had ⁽⁶⁾ been victorious over the ⁽⁷⁾ beast and ⁽⁸⁾ his image and the ⁽⁹⁾ number of his name, standing on the ⁽¹⁰⁾ sea of glass, holding ⁽¹¹⁾ harps of God.
³   And they sang the ⁽¹²⁾ song of Moses, ⁽¹³⁾ the bond-servant of God, and the ⁽¹⁴⁾ song of the Lamb, saying, "⁽¹⁵⁾ Great and marvelous are Your works,⁽¹⁶⁾ O Lord God, the Almighty; Righteous and true are Your ways,⁽¹⁷⁾ King of the ^[1] nations!
⁴ "⁽¹⁸⁾ Who will not fear, O Lord, and glorify Your name? For You alone are holy;
For ⁽¹⁹⁾ ALL THE NATIONS WILL COME AND WORSHIP BEFORE YOU, FOR YOUR ⁽²⁰⁾ RIGHTEOUS ACTS HAVE BEEN REVEALED."⁵   After these things I looked, and ⁽²¹⁾ the temple of the ⁽²²⁾ tabernacle of testimony in heaven was opened, ⁶   and the ⁽²³⁾ seven angels who had the seven plagues ⁽²⁴⁾ came out of the temple, clothed in ^[2] linen, clean and bright, and ⁽²⁵⁾ girded around their chests with golden sashes.

Key phrase!

Revelation 15

The temple of the ⁽²²⁾ tabernacle of testimony in heaven was opened,

This is going to help us understand something in another place.

How is this going to help us, if we know when the tabernacle is open then we know when the vials come out.

Now let’s go to

The Seventh Trumpet

Revelation 11
¹⁸ "And ⁽¹⁾ the nations were enraged, and ⁽²⁾ Your wrath came, and ⁽³⁾ the time came for the dead to be judged, and the time to reward Your ⁽⁴⁾ bond-servants the prophets and the saints and those who fear Your name, ⁽⁵⁾ the small and the great, and to destroy those who destroy the earth." ¹⁹ And ⁽⁶⁾ the temple of God which is in heaven was opened; and ⁽⁷⁾ the ark of His covenant appeared in His temple, and there were flashes of ⁽⁸⁾ lightning and sounds and peals of thunder and an earthquake and a ⁽⁹⁾ great hailstorm.

So by this scripture we can see that the seven vials all fall under the seventh trumpet.

We know that the seventh trumpet is the time JESUS returns and that is the time of Armageddon.

Let’s go somewhere else

1 Corinthians 15

⁵¹ Behold, I tell you a ⁽⁷⁷⁾ mystery; we will not all sleep, but we will all be ⁽⁷⁸⁾ changed, ⁵² in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet; for ⁽⁷⁹⁾ the trumpet will sound, and ⁽⁸⁰⁾ the dead will be raised imperishable, and ⁽⁸¹⁾ we will be changed.

This is the rapture that the apostle Paul is talking about, and he says it happens at the last trumpet.

So, we can see how the seven vials are the wrath of GOD and the vials do not run in sequential order to the trumpets. It says that the first vial is poured out on those who have the mark of the beast.

Revelation 16

¹ Then I heard a loud voice from ⁽¹⁾ the temple, saying to the ⁽²⁾ seven angels, "Go and ⁽³⁾ pour out on the earth the seven bowls of the wrath of God."
² So the first angel went and poured out his bowl ⁽⁴⁾ on the earth; and it became a loathsome and malignant ⁽⁵⁾ sore on the people ⁽⁶⁾ who had the mark of the beast and who worshiped his image.

So we see here that the mark of the beast is already been implemented, what else does this tell us.

The rapture does not happen until this same time period. So this must mean that we will go through the great tribulation!!!