Revelation
16:1 And I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to
the seven angels, Go your ways, and pour out the vials of
the wrath of God upon the earth.
(This is an extremely important moment in
the revealing of Jesus Christ.
This chapter is when he finally has his
angels pour out his wrath upon the wickedness of man upon
the earth.
He sends the seven angels with a great
voice, and he concludes the pouring out of the wrath with a
great voice in line 17.)
Revelation
16:17 And the seventh angel poured out his vial into the
air; and there came a great voice out of the temple
of heaven, from the throne, saying, It is done.
(Jesus saying this loudly, with a great
voice, should remind us of the last time that the world
heard his voice:)
Matthew
27:50 Jesus,
when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the
ghost.
John
19:30 When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar,
he said,
It is
finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the
ghost.
(At the cross, his loud voice said, “It is
finished”, at the completion of the pouring out of his
blood, to take away sin.
Here, his great voice says, “It is done”,
at the completion of the pouring out of his wrath upon sin.
The similarity is as significant as the
contrast.
At the first Jesus became the Lamb of God
which taketh away the sin of the world.
Since the cross, whosoever repents and
believes on Jesus, has their sins forgiven, washed in his
blood, and they are saved.
Even all the way up to the pouring out of
the fifth vial of wrath, it appears that Jesus is still
looking for repentance.
People in the world, who hadn’t taken the
antichrist’s mark, will still be able to repent and believe
on Jesus, the Lamb.
But, clearly, at the time of the pouring
out of the seventh vial, the world can only then face Jesus
as the Lion of the tribe of Judah.
The time for repentance, for the Gentiles,
will be over.)