1. Revelation 16:7 (ESV)
  2. Exposition

Why does the altar call God “the Almighty”?

Revelation 16:7 (ESV)

7 And I heard the altar saying, “Yes, Lord God the Almighty, true and just are your judgments!”

The dragon and the beast had acquired so much power, to the point that the whole earth worshipped them (Revelation 13:3–4, Revelation 13:12). Yet the Lord God is greater, even able to cause sores to break out on all those who worship the beast, to make the sea coagulate like the blood of a corpse, to turn the water of every river and spring into blood, and so mess up thoroughly the best-planned civilization man can develop.