The great hail in Revelation 11:19, which appears immediately after the heavenly temple opens and the Ark of the Covenant is seen, signifies the final, intense, and physical manifestation of God’s wrath, serving as a powerful foreshadowing of the ultimate judgments to come. This catastrophic natural event is the culmination of the signs that signal the end of the current age.

The significance is first rooted in biblical typology, where hail is consistently presented as an instrument of direct divine retribution and judgment against the enemies of God, as seen in the plagues of Egypt and prophetic warnings in the Old Testament. Its inclusion here—alongside lightnings, voices, thunderings, and an earthquake—is meant to physically conclude the judgmental sequence initiated by the trumpets, bringing the total damage and chaos to a final, climactic peak before the final period of judgment begins.

Furthermore, the great hail factually serves as the prophetic foreshadowing for the ultimate execution of wrath. The presence of this specific element here directly precedes and anticipates the final, most severe judgment in the subsequent Bowl sequence, where the Seventh Bowl releases a similar and even more destructive hail upon the earth (Revelation 16:21). In the context of the Dynamic God, the great hail is the immediate, terrifying physical assurance that the period of forbearance is over; it is the first raw force of the Creator’s power unleashed to enforce the sovereignty declared by the Seventh Trumpet. Its appearance upon the revealing of the Ark of the Covenant (the symbol of God's covenant presence and mercy seat) confirms that the era of intercession has ceased, and the period of final, physical judgment has begun.