Then I saw another great and marvelous sign in heaven: seven angels with the seven final plagues, with which the wrath of God is completed.
Parallel translations
- WEB I saw another great and marvelous sign in the sky: seven angels having the seven last plagues, for in them God’s wrath is finished.
- KJV And I saw another sign in heaven, great and marvellous, seven angels having the seven last plagues; for in them is filled up the wrath of God.
- NKJV Then I saw another sign in heaven, great and marvelous: seven angels having the seven last plagues, for in them the wrath of God is complete.
- NASB Then I saw another sign in heaven, great and marvelous, seven angels who had seven plagues, which are the last, because in them the wrath of God is finished.
- NLT Then I saw in heaven another marvelous event of great significance. Seven angels were holding the seven last plagues, which would bring God’s wrath to completion.
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Quick answer
John sees seven angels with the seven last plagues, in which God's wrath is completed. This introduces the final series of judgments.
Overview
This 'great and marvelous sign' announces the seven last plagues that bring God's wrath to its appointed completion. The word 'finished' signals that these judgments consummate the outpouring of divine justice on the unrepentant world. Before the bowls fall, the scene first turns to the triumphant worship of the redeemed.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 19
- Lev 26:21If you walk in hostility toward Me and refuse to obey Me, I will multiply your plagues seven times, according to your sins.
- Rev 15:6–7And out of the temple came the seven angels with the seven plagues, dressed in clean and bright linen and girded with golden sashes around their chests.
- Rev 21:9Then one of the seven angels with the seven bowls full of the seven final plagues came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb.”
- Dan 4:2–3I am pleased to declare the signs and wonders that the Most High God has performed for me.
- Rev 19:15And from His mouth proceeds a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations, and He will rule them with an iron scepter. He treads the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God the Almighty.
- Dan 6:27He delivers and rescues; He performs signs and wonders in the heavens and on the earth, for He has rescued Daniel from the power of the lions.”
- Rev 14:10he too will drink the wine of God’s anger, poured undiluted into the cup of His wrath. And he will be tormented in fire and sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and of the Lamb.
- Dan 12:6–7One of them said to the man dressed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, “How long until the fulfillment of these wonders?”
- Rev 14:19So the angel swung his sickle over the earth and gathered the grapes of the earth, and he threw them into the great winepress of God’s wrath.
- Rev 16:1Then I heard a loud voice from the temple saying to the seven angels, “Go, pour out on the earth the seven bowls of God’s wrath.”
- Matt 13:41–42The Son of Man will send out His angels, and they will weed out of His kingdom every cause of sin and all who practice lawlessness.
- Rev 8:6And the seven angels with the seven trumpets prepared to sound them.
- Rev 10:3Then he cried out in a loud voice like the roar of a lion. And when he cried out, the seven thunders sounded their voices.
- Matt 13:49–50So will it be at the end of the age: The angels will come and separate the wicked from the righteous,
- Dan 12:11–12And from the time the daily sacrifice is abolished and the abomination of desolation set up, there will be 1,290 days.
- Rev 11:14The second woe has passed. Behold, the third woe is coming shortly.
- Rev 8:2And I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and they were given seven trumpets.
- Rev 12:1–3And a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed in the sun, with the moon under her feet and a crown of twelve stars on her head.
- Rev 8:13And as I observed, I heard an eagle flying overhead, calling in a loud voice, “Woe! Woe! Woe to those who dwell on the earth, because of the trumpet blasts about to be sounded by the remaining three angels!”
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