[MHGinTN]

It is Jesus opening the seals. God has used agents to deliver His wrath in the past. The keys to understanding it is the wrath of God throughout the entire seven years is revealed with the terms of what is happening prior to Rev 6:16, when the pagans come to realize that the wrath has arrived (written in the Greek using the aorist indicative 'elethen' meaning arrived well before they realized it). With the first seal the key words are given which characterize God's wrath: war, famine, pestilence.

A word searhc in Isaiah, Zachariah, and Ezekiel, to name three, will reaveals how God sent His wrath on Israel. And sometimes the word 'wrath' is used and sometimes not, but war and famine and pestilence are the hallmarks of God's wrath upon the Hebrews.

[HKMk23]

“With the first seal the key words are given which characterize God’s wrath: war, famine, pestilence.

...war and famine and pestilence are the hallmarks of God’s wrath upon the Hebrews.”

So...hallmark allusions mean for sure it’s “wrath” but the EXPLICIT DECLARATION “Bowls of Wrath” has zero implication that what came before WASN’T?

How is that at all an acceptable hermeneutic? Denying the explicit while promoting the supposed?

Was WWI “wrath” then?
The Tohoku quake and tsunami?
COVID?

Ya got war and pestilence looking straight atcha. Wrath or no?

If not, what marked trait determines when war is wrath and which is not? Which famines and pestilences are “wrath” and which aren’t, and how can we know?

Isn’t it a little embarrassing to have to shuck and jive all around this stuff, when — if you’d just read the text literally — it flat TELLS you “Bowls of Wrath”? Could God have made it any more clear?