III: Exodus and Wilderness

Seven Bowls of Wrath

the second Exodus against every opposing system

Root
Exod 7-12 · mizraq (H4219)
Old Testament chain
  1. Exod 7-12
  2. Lev 26:18-28
  3. Deut 32:22-25
  4. Isa 11:15-16
  5. Jer 25:15
  6. Mic 7:15
  7. Rev 16:1
New Testament
Rev 15-16; Rev 15:1; Rev 15:3-4; Rev 15:7; Rev 16:1-21; Rev 16:1

The plagues on Egypt (Exod 7-12) set the pattern, and the Torah promises covenant breakers punishment "seven times more for your sins" (Lev 26:18, 21, 24, 28). Isaiah foresees a second crossing "like as it was to Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt" (Isa 11:16), and Micah, "marvellous things" as in the days of the Exodus (Mic 7:15). The sanctuary bowl (Num 7:13) becomes the vessel of wrath. Revelation presents the bowls as the second Exodus, aimed at every system opposing Yahuah, covenant judgments, not acts of rage. A full bowl cannot receive more: the trumpets struck a third; the bowls strike everything. Dispensationalism wrongly confines them to a future seven-year tribulation.

From The Courtroom of Heaven, pp. 186, 188, 237–238, 241, 243, 254–255