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And now, here's Gary.

We are going to continue on in Revelation.

We have just come out of Revelation 15, which was the prelude to the vile judgments.

The pouring out of the vials of wrath is not easily understood.

I want to put it that way. What appears to be straightforward actually

is not, as we shall see, because the pouring out of God's vials of wrath have multiple effects

in multiple places. And you really have to go back and forth through Revelation to understand

what these vials are doing. In Revelation 15, we ended with the temple in heaven being filled

with this kind of glory of God. And what we have there is a picture of God in the person of the high priest, the Lord Jesus Christ,

functioning as high priest. And vials are brought out of the temple, and then they are poured out.

And this is a ritual, it's a ceremony, and even the wording is ceremonial.

A great voice comes out of the temple speaking to seven angels, telling those angels to go and pour out vials of wrath.

Now these vials are in the Greek called fiali, fiali, which sounds almost like vile in

English, fial or vile. But in fact, fialioli in the Greek means a ritual or ceremonial dish or bowl.

For example, in Greek temple worship, the high priests of the Greek mystery religions

would carry what were called pateras.

They were broad, shallow dishes, the diameter of a dinner plate, and concave with a sort of a stem

on the bottom.

And those are called pteras, and the priests would carry those in ritually and dump out the contents

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