Revelation 16:1

3. The chapter of the destruction of Babylon by batteries of wrath poured from Jerusalem, Revelation 16:1-21.

a. The four creational vials upon earth, sea, waters, and sun. Revelation 16:1-9 .

1. And The preparations of war are complete; (see introduction to xiv;) the officers are armed with their ammunition of plagues; the object is Babylon, the beast; and from the inmost holy place, where omnipotent Justice is secreted, the command for action comes forth. Go…

pour… earth For this Babylon is not wholly local; Rome is, indeed, with John, its primal representative, but its virtual presence, wickedness, and liability to retribution, cover the human earth. And so the angels receive their vials from one of the four beasts who represent creation; and the first four are poured upon the four creational points. The plagues, like the menaces of the fourteenth chapter, appear, at first, general, but at each advance grow in definiteness until the real object is struck with the final blow.