Judgment Prepared, Observed, and Begun

God's trumptet judgments serve as warnings to repent. But those who reject such warnings face the judgments of bowls of wrath poured out. In these judgments, God's wrath is completed, that is, it acheives its goal of destroying His enemies and saving His people.

God's people do not experience these judgments, they merely 'observe them with their eyes.' (Psalm 91.8) Rather, like the Israelites of old at the Red Sea, they behold the wrath of God envelope their enemies: wrath that they, too should have experienced, but from which they were delivered by the grace of God.