Revelation · 8 verses
Revelation 15
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The heavenly temple opens, and then becomes the one place nobody may enter until the plagues are finished.
A sea like glass, and a songvv. 1–4
Seven angels appear with the seven final plagues, while beside a sea like glass mixed with fire stand those who conquered the beast, its image, and the number of its name. They hold harps from God and sing the song of God’s servant Moses and of the Lamb: a hymn of great works, just ways, holiness, and nations coming to worship. Moses is present here by way of the song, which is a rather splendid entrance for a man who is not otherwise in the scene.
The open temple that must waitvv. 5–8
After this, the heavenly temple—the tabernacle of the Testimony—opens. Seven angels come out in clean, bright linen and golden sashes, and one of the four living creatures hands them seven golden bowls full of God’s wrath. Then smoke fills the temple from God’s glory and power, and the newly opened place becomes inaccessible until the seven plagues are complete: heaven, briefly, has an entrance and a timetable.
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Rev 15:1Then I saw another great and marvelous sign in heaven: seven angels with the seven final plagues, with which the wrath of God is completed.
Rev 15:2And I saw something like a sea of glass mixed with fire, beside which stood those who had conquered the beast and its image and the number of its name. They were holding harps from God,
Rev 15:3and they sang the song of God’s servant Moses and of the Lamb: “Great and wonderful are Your works, O Lord God Almighty! Just and true are Your ways, O King of the nations!
Rev 15:4Who will not fear You, O Lord, and glorify Your name? For You alone are holy. All nations will come and worship before You, for Your righteous acts have been revealed.”
Rev 15:5After this I looked, and the temple—the tabernacle of the Testimony—was opened in heaven.
Rev 15:6And out of the temple came the seven angels with the seven plagues, dressed in clean and bright linen and girded with golden sashes around their chests.
Rev 15:7Then one of the four living creatures gave the seven angels seven golden bowls full of the wrath of God, who lives forever and ever.
Rev 15:8And 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.
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Where this is echoed
Readers' own connections, from OpenBible's crowd-voted cross-references — agreement about relevance, and not scholarly confidence. 144 passages were voted onto 8 verses of this chapter; the 16 shown lead on votes, and each is listed at the verse it was voted onto most strongly.
- 4Psalms 86:9All the nations You have made will come and bow before You, O Lord, and they will glorify Your name.
- 4Jeremiah 10:7Who would not fear You, O King of nations? This is Your due. For among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their kingdoms, there is none like You.
- 4Malachi 1:11For My name will be great among the nations, from where the sun rises to where it sets. In every place, incense and pure offerings will be presented in My name, because My name will be great among the nations,” says the LORD of Hosts.
- 4Psalms 22:27All the ends of the earth will remember and turn to the LORD. All the families of the nations will bow down before Him.
- 3Psalms 111:2Great are the works of the LORD; they are pondered by all who delight in them.
- 3Exodus 15:1–18Then Moses and the Israelites sang this song to the LORD: “I will sing to the LORD, for He is highly exalted. The horse and rider He has thrown into the sea.
- 4Revelation 14:7And he said in a loud voice, “Fear God and give Him glory, because the hour of His judgment has come. Worship the One who made the heavens and the earth and the sea and the springs of waters.”
- 4Isaiah 25:3Therefore, a strong people will honor You. The cities of ruthless nations will revere You.
- 4Zechariah 14:16Then all the survivors from the nations that came against Jerusalem will go up year after year to worship the King, the LORD of Hosts, and to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles.
- 4Isaiah 66:22–23“For just as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, will endure before Me,” declares the LORD, “so your descendants and your name will endure.
- 2Revelation 4:6And before the throne was something like a sea of glass, as clear as crystal. In the center, around the throne, were four living creatures, covered with eyes in front and back.
- 3Psalms 139:14I praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Marvelous are Your works, and I know this very well.
- 41 Peter 1:16for it is written: “Be holy, because I am holy.”
- 3Revelation 5:9–13And they sang a new song: “Worthy are You to take the scroll and open its seals, because You were slain, and by Your blood You purchased for God those from every tribe and tongue and people and nation.
- 3Hebrews 3:5Now Moses was faithful as a servant in all God’s house, testifying to what would be spoken later.
- 3Isaiah 33:22For the LORD is our Judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our King. It is He who will save us.
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