He] RV 'they,' i.e. the frog-like spirits.

17-21. The seventh bowl is poured out, and the voice of God announces that the end of the preparatory judgments is reached (Revelation 16:17). With the lightnings and thunderings and voices which close each vision (cp. Revelation 8:5; Revelation 11:19), comes now a great earthquake (Revelation 16:18), which splits Babylon (Rome) into three, and overthrows other worldly powers (Revelation 16:19). Some have understood this as a literal prediction that Rome was to be destroyed by an earthquake. More probably the earthquake represents the shaking of all earthly institutions when God comes to judgment: cp. Revelation 6:12; Revelation 8:5; Revelation 11:19. The judgments of the bowls end with a picture, expressed in physical figures, of the upheaval and destruction which accompany the manifestation of the wrath of God: cp. Revelation 6:14; Revelation 11:19; Revelation 20:11; (vv. Revelation 20:11). The cup] see on Revelation 14:8.

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