What will unbelievers experience during the bowl judgments?
Unbelievers will experience the seven last plagues—the completed wrath of God—during the final part of the tribulation. These judgments become more severe and come faster, bringing physical emotions, pain, and suffering, with no hope of escaping them.
Les explains that Revelation 15:1 introduces seven angels with the seven last plagues, the final judgments that finish or consummate the wrath of God. This is the wind-down of the tribulation, a period not of love, mercy, and grace but only of God’s wrath. The judgments grow more severe and come faster. Unbelievers—those who have never experienced salvation—will go through them with physical emotions, physical pain, and suffering, and no hope of escaping. Les notes that believers will not be present; the church is insulated and taken out before these things, saved from wrath rather than saved to it. He presents this as a warning, an instigation to get right with the Lord, because the plagues are awful, and eternal hell is worse since it is without end.