The last days of earth are marked by such intense judgment that one scarcely dares to believe it. Most issues taken with the text of Revelation are that way: it is not hard to understand, it is hard to believe.

The bowl (or vial) judgments of Revelation 16 reveal the conditions of earth in its last days, even its last hours. So intense are these judgments that none of them would be survivable. Each one is an extinction-level event. And yet seven judgments come in those last horrible hours.

Nevertheless, each judgment is righteous and deserved (Rev. 16:6)