Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Revelation 16:1-10
Revelation 16:2 . The first bowl. The wrath of God is poured out on the worshippers of the beast, i.e. Antichrist, i.e. Nero.— mark of the beast: Revelation 13:16 *.— worshipped his image: i.e. the image or statue of the emperor ( cf. Revelation 13:14 f.). Revelation 16:3 . The second bowl, like the second trumpet ( Revelation 8:8), destroys the “ living creatures in the sea.” Cf. also the first of the Egyptian plagues ( Exodus 7:7-Ecclesiastes :). Revelation 16:4 . The third... read more
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Revelation 16:12
‘And the sixth poured out his bowl on the great river, the River Euphrates, and its water was dried up in order that the way may be made ready for the kings who come from the sunrising. And I saw coming out of the mouth of the monster and out of the mouth of the beast and out of the mouth of the false prophet, three unclean spirits as it were frogs. For they are spirits of devils, working signs, which go forth to the kings of the whole world to gather them together to the war of the great day... read more