The Levites of the Old Testament had to pour out their bowls of ashes on the ash heap “outside the camp” (Leviticus 4:12), that is, away from human habitation. The implication was that the people’s sins were no longer a barrier hindering a relationship with God. In Revelation 16, however, the seven angels all need to “go” from heaven to “earth” and “on the earth” empty their bowls of ashes (= God’s wrath). “Earth,” of course, is the home of mankind (Psalm 115:16; Genesis 1:1–31). In the eye of our mind, we are now to see these seven angels obediently departing the sanctuary of God and carrying away their smoking bowls of wrath (Revelation 15:8). One after the other, they tip them over “on the earth.” The implication is that on the earth there is unatoned sin attracting the righteous judgment of God.