NT Text: Revelation 16:17
OT Source(s):
Source: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Typology (Direct Type, Forward-Looking) + Longitudinal Theme
Significance: The seventh bowl plague — hailstones "weighing almost a hundred pounds each" (16:21) accompanied by the declaration "It is done!" — echoes the seventh Egyptian plague of unprecedented hail in Exodus 9:22-34, described as the worst ever seen in Egypt. Both are climactic in their respective plague sequences. Exodus 9:24 describes "hail, and fire flashing continually in the midst of the hail, very severe, such as had never been in all the land of Egypt." Revelation escalates the scale to hundred-pound stones with an earthquake "the likes of which had not occurred since men were upon the earth." The typological correspondence extends to the response: Pharaoh's temporary repentance (Exod 9:27-34) parallels mankind's refusal to repent despite the severity of judgment (Rev 16:21). The new-exodus pattern culminates in this final plague.