Summary of the Seven Vials of Revelation

• God levied the seven vial judgments against the Catholic Church and its interests

The First Five Vials (Revelation 15:1-16:11)

• First Vial: Spread of atheism through France during the Enlightenment, beginning in 1715 AD

• Second Vial: Haitian Revolution and the devastation of the French navy during a series of naval battles, beginning in 1791 AD

• Third Vial: Rural battles during the French Revolution and drownings at Nantes in the Loire River, beginning in 1793 AD

• Fourth Vial: Napoleon takes command of the French Army of Italy in 1796 AD

• Fifth Vial: The French general Louis-Alexandre Berthier invades Rome, deposes Pope Pius VI, and removes papal temporal power in 1798 AD

  • This event also marked the end of the 1,260-year Great Tribulation

• The Sixth Vial (Revelation 16:12-16)

  • Began to be fulfilled in 1914 AD with the start of World War I

  • Three Unclean Spirits Like Frogs: Three World Wars encouraged by Satan, the papacy, and the Jesuit superior general, beginning in 1914 AD

  • Drying Up of the Euphrates: Fall of the Ottoman Empire, 1918 AD

  • The Ottoman Empire’s collapse prepared the way for the “kings of the East”—the modern Middle Eastern nations

  • The Battle of Armageddon: The Battle of Megiddo, 1918 AD

  • The last part of the sixth vial to be fulfilled is the third frog-like spirit—World War III

• The Seventh Vial (Revelation 16:17-21)

  • Vial is poured out into the air

  • Rome will be destroyed

  • Other cities will also be destroyed

  • The greatest spiritual earthquake in history divides Babylon into thirds

  • Brings Mystery Babylon “into remembrance before God”

• Destruction of Mystery Babylon (Revelation 18:1-24)

  • Mystery Babylon’s ruin will occur in one prophetic hour—fifteen days

  • Mystery Babylon “shall be utterly burned with fire” and plagued with death, mourning, and famine

  • World leaders will stand afar off and mourn the destruction when they see the smoke of her burning

  • Jesus Christ’s second coming will not immediately follow the destruction of Rome

  • The lukewarm Christians, and possibly the Jews, will return to God