Revelation 15:7

One of the living creatures (Revelation 4:6) gave each angel a bowl full of God’s wrath. It is interesting that God described the prayers of the saints as being held in bowls in Revelation 5:8. These prayers thus connect with the outpouring of these judgments in a suggestive cause and effect relationship. The two sets of bowls in chapters five and here are different, however, and they contain different things. The priests in Israel’s earthly temple also used bowls in their worship (1 Kings 7:50; 2 Kings 12:13; 2 Kings 25:15). The reference to the living God "who lives forever and ever" adds more solemnity to an already solemn scene (cf. Revelation 10:6; Deuteronomy 32:40; Hebrews 10:31).