Verse 1: "Then I heard a loud voice from the temple telling the seven angels, 'Go and pour out on the earth the seven bowls of the wrath of God.'"

"A loud voice" signifies that this message will be heard and understood by a large number of the people—of the things that are going to fall upon man, because the Christians have not recognized the return of Christ in Baha'u'llah, and because the Baha'is have broken the Covenant of Baha'u'llah.

Verse 2: "So the first angel went and poured his bowl on the earth, and foul and evil sores came upon the men who bore the mark of the beast and worshipped its image."

The plague from the first angel is the radiation burns in a nuclear war. This will affect those within a one hundred mile radius of the target areas for those who are not killed by the blasts, and are not in proper shelters to protect them from the radiation. This will take place in the Muslim Middle East, as they are the ones who have the mark of the beast on their foreheads and on the back of their hands, and among the Christians who worship the image of the beast, the crucifix. This beast is the four nations that have the veto power on the Security Council of the United Nations (England, France, the United States and Russia), and thus they rule the world, but they will get into a fight among themselves, specifically Russia and the United States with its allies of England and France.