Seven Vials

Paul uses a striking image to describe the tribulation the church of the Thessalonians was experiencing. He says the Jews were “fill(ing) up their sins” so that God’s wrath could come on them. This imagery validates inmillennialism’s view of a two-phased tribulation: the preliminary tribulations and the final “great tribulation”/“wrath” that…

According to Inmillennialism, Revelation describes God’s first-century judgment of apostate Israel. It does so in visions two through six. In vision two, seven seals reveal that judgment. Seven trumpets announce it in vision three. In vision four, seven actors dramatize the judgment. Now, in vision five, the saints in heaven…

The Song of Moses was an age-changing song. As we saw in our last post, John hears the saints in heaven singing it in the Vision of Seven Vials. God would soon judge apostate Israel. This judgment would end the Mosaic age and allow the Messianic Age—started by Jesus during his…

The music of Moses plays an important role in prophetic interpretation. He joined all of Israel as they sang a song of victory over the armies of Pharaoh (Exod. 15:1–18). Over 400 years earlier, God had told Abraham about their bondage in Egypt and how he would redeem them from…