The Seven Bowl Judgements follow the Seven Trumpets, which followed the Seven Seals of Revelation. The AI Art interpretations of the Scriptures will complete this series. To begin, we start with the First and Second Bowl Judgements. Before doing so, I am including the preceding chapter of Revelation as it gives a preface to the plagues to follow. "Seven Angels With Seven Plagues
15 I saw in heaven another great and marvelous sign: seven angels with the seven last plagues—last, because with them God’s wrath is completed. 2 And I saw what looked like a sea of glass glowing with fire and, standing beside the sea, those who had been victorious over the beast and its image and over the number of its name. They held harps given them by God 3 and sang the song of God’s servant Moses and of the Lamb:
“Great and marvelous are your deeds,
Lord God Almighty.
Just and true are your ways,
King of the nations.[a]
4 Who will not fear you, Lord,
and bring glory to your name?
For you alone are holy.
All nations will come
and worship before you,
for your righteous acts have been revealed.”[b]
5 After this I looked, and I saw in heaven the temple—that is, the tabernacle of the covenant law—and it was opened. 6 Out of the temple came the seven angels with the seven plagues. They were dressed in clean, shining linen and wore golden sashes around their chests. 7 Then one of the four living creatures gave to the seven angels seven golden bowls filled with the wrath of God, who lives for ever and ever. 8 And the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God and from his power, and no one could enter the temple until the seven plagues of the seven angels were completed.
Footnotes
Revelation 15:3 Some manuscripts ages
Revelation 15:4 Phrases in this song are drawn from Psalm 111:2,3; Deut. 32:4; Jer. 10:7; Psalms 86:9; 98:2." - New International Version
The First Bowl Judgement Revelation 16:1-2 "Then I heard a loud voice from the temple saying to the seven angels, “Go, pour out the seven bowls of God’s wrath on the earth.” 2 The first angel went and poured out his bowl on the land, and ugly, festering sores broke out on the people who had the mark of the beast and worshiped its image."
In this image, the seven angels all seem to be bearing the sores. Interesting, but not surprising. The angels with the bowls are the main thing I would assume to be visualized. Sores need a source, so the AI choosing them does not seem that odd.
I am uncertain what the AI was focusing on for this visualization. It would see to be more of a representation of the beast than an angel. While humans can interpret more liberally, AI draws from the references it has be trained on. An assessment of what a human would have intended seems to be a reasonable assumption of what the computer was steering towards.
I do not see much similarity between the text and this image, but it is quite detailed and interesting.
This one is bananas. Not sure how it ended up here. I can see elements that could have evoked the pieces, but the whole seems so strange for the verses.
The art style here reminds me of woodcuts.
The preceding images have been mostly dark and ominous. This feels like the first image produced that was not inarguably dark. I could still see an argument for it, but it is not nearly as apparent.
This image is missing many elements of the text, but does feel closer to classical depictions of angels. I was expecting more images to resemble something like this. I feel like the renaissance depictions are what come to mind for most with an angelic subject.
Now, this one has the angels above, casting an energy down. The assembled masses have great sores. This may be the closest image to the text.
The Second Bowl Judgement
Revelation 16:3
"The second angel poured out his bowl on the sea, and it turned into blood like that of a dead person, and every living thing in the sea died."
The brevity of this verse allows for wide interpretation. Because of that, it seems like most of the images are reasonably within expectations. I did find this group of images to stand out in intensity compared to other iterative experiments.
The images produced for the second bowl would not have benefited from my thoughts on them. Part 2 will cover bowls three and four.