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An Intertextuality Pair — one connection between two passages, shown as linked verse cards: the Later text and the Earlier text it quotes, alludes to or echoes. The Significance essay explains why the link matters and where it points in Christ.

Reference Type— how explicit the link is: Quotation, Allusion, or Echo
Connection Method(s)— how it carries meaning: e.g. Typology, Promise-Fulfillment, Analogy, Longitudinal Theme
Found via— where the connection was identified, e.g. the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge or an Anchor-Text Network

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Intertextuality Pair

Revelation 16:1 → Isaiah 66:6

Allusion

Later text

Revelation 16:1BSB

Then I heard a loud voice from the temple saying to the seven angels, “Go, pour out on the earth the seven bowls of God’s wrath.”

Earlier text

Isaiah 66:6BSB

Hear the uproar from the city; listen to the voice from the temple! It is the voice of the LORD, repaying His enemies what they deserve!

Significance

Isaiah 66:6 announces, "A voice of uproar from the city, a voice from the temple, a voice of YHWH rendering recompense to His enemies." Revelation 16:1 depicts "a loud voice from the temple saying to the seven angels, 'Go, pour out on the earth the seven bowls of God's wrath.'" Both texts share the striking image of a divine voice issuing from the temple to pronounce judgment. In Isaiah, this occurs in the context of the eschatological restoration of Zion and the judgment of those who rejected YHWH's ways. In Revelation, the command initiates the final seven plagues. The verbal link — voice (qol / phōnē) from the temple (hekal / naos) commanding recompense — is precise. John reads Isaiah's prophetic vision as finding its ultimate enactment in the bowl judgments.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Promise-Fulfillment + Analogy