Revelation 16:7

And I heard the altar saying, Yea, O Lord God, the Almighty, true and righteous are thy judgments.

A voice from the altar ... In connection with that altar, we remember the prayers of the martyrs for the execution of God's judgment upon the wicked, and these bowls of wrath are the answer of those prayers.

True and righteous are thy judgments ... It is startling to find some commentators of the opinion that the profound condemnations and punishments of this chapter are "unworthy of the kind of God revealed in the New Testament." Our own view is that such sentiments are unworthy of Christian commentators. People are not wiser than God, a delusion which these visions were designed to correct! Note, also, that these awful punishments of a world gone berserk in its rebellion against God are not capricious reactions of a peevish God who is annoyed with human "mistakes." Ah no! These are the just retributions which the wicked bring upon themselves. The only way in which such wicked men can be contained and corrected by God is in removing the restraints, giving them up (Romans 1:24,26,28), and throwing the derail switch at the head of the canyon.