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Pastor Scott L. Harris
Grace Bible Church, NY
November 2, 2025
*Worship & Preparation in Heaven
Revelation 15:1-8
Introduction
Several people told me that last week’s review of Revelation 1-14 was helpful in understanding the structure and flow of the book. The Apocalypse is not an easy book to understand since the vast majority of it is set in the future, it uses a lot of symbolism, and it reveals things outside of our experience. It is also easy to get lost in the details and then fail to see how it all fits together. The old adage fits here of failing to see the forest because of the trees.
*The glorified Jesus Christ commissioned the apostle John to write down the things that would be revealed to him concerning the things that were, the things that are, and the things which shall take place. The past was John’s commission while exiled on the isle of Patmos detailed in chapter 1. The seven letters to the churches in Asia in chapters 2 -3 concerned the time that was present for John. The rest of the book is revelation of what is future for both John and us for it concerns the end times when God will fulfill all the eschatological prophecies to Israel. God will purge His people, put and end to the times of the Gentiles and destroy the wicked. This will be followed by Christ setting up His millennial kingdom and then His eternal kingdom. *The book of Revelation gives warning to the wicked to repent for God’s judgment is at hand, and at the same time, it gives hope to the godly for it demonstrates God’s sovereignty in bringing about Christ’s victory even in the midst of the worst period of rampaging evil there will be in earth’s history.
*In Revelation 4 & 5 John gives a description of God on His glorious throne in Heaven and the worship being given to Him, and what is declared gives the foundational reason for God’s wrath against unrepentant sinners. The eternal God is absolutely Holy, and He created all things according to His own will and therefore is worthy to receive glory, honor and power from all of creation. *His decree for the future in His victory against those who refuse to do so is set in the seven sealed scroll. Only the Lion from the tribe of Judah, the Lamb standing as if slain, Jesus Christ is worthy to break the seals and open the scroll. *As He does so in chapter 6, the first sequence of the wrath of God comes upon those who dwell on the earth. Between the breaking of the sixth and seventh seal there is an intercalation (an explanatory interlude in the sequencing) in chapter 7 that explains both the origin of the 144,000 sealed Jewish slaves of God who remain on the earth, and the rest and blessing that is given to the innumerable martyrs that will then be in heaven.
*The breaking of the seventh seal in Revelation 8 brings about the second sequence of God’s wrath upon those that dwell on the earth in the seven trumpet judgments. The first six of the trumpet judgments described in Revelation 8 & 9 are even more devastating than the first six of the seal judgments. *An intercalation between the sixth and seventh trumpet in Revelation 10 & 11 emphasizes that John is obedient to either hide or disclose the revelation given to him as directed. It also explains the 1,260 day ministry of the two witnesses.
*The seventh trumpet is sounded in Revelation 11:15 which is immediately followed by a declaration in heaven that “The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ; and He will reign forever and ever.” The twenty-four elders then join in with thanksgiving, praise, and a proleptic declaration in verse 18, And the nations were enraged, and Your wrath came, and the time came for the dead to be judged, and the time to reward Your bond servants the prophets and the saints and those who fear Your name, the small and the great, and to destroy those who destroy the earth.” Verse 19 then records, “And the temple of God which is in heaven was opened; and the ark of His covenant appeared in His temple, and there were flashes of lightning and sounds and peals of thunder and an earthquake and a great hailstorm.” Keep this in mind for our study today in Revelation 15 will connect directly back to this point.
*Revelation 12-14 is an intercalation, an explanatory section between the blowing of the seventh trumpet and bringing about its consequences in the seven bowl judgments. It took me eight sermons to get through those three chapters since they explain so much about the background, characters and plot of what will come in the final stages of God’s judgments. *Satan’s efforts to stop God’s plan of redemption through the life, death & resurrection of Messiah fail. Since Jesus is God in human flesh and He lived a sinless life, His sacrifice of His life on the cross was sufficient to pay the price of sin. Jesus’ resurrection proved all of His claims and promises are true. All who will turn from their sin to believe in the person and work of Jesus Christ will be forgiven their sin and granted eternal life. Jesus’ ascension prevents Satan from being able to attack Him directly, so *Satan will eventually wage war in heaven, but will be utterly defeated and he and his demons will be thrown out. Satan’s wrath will then come against the Jews, but God will supernaturally protect and provide for the remnant that flees. * Satan will then make war on the rest of the Jews that did not flee and those who “keep the commandments of God and hold to the testimony of Jesus.” That will bring about the worse time of persecution as the beast from the sea, the future Antichrist, becomes the world’s military and political dictator and declares himself to be a god. The beast from the earth, the Antichrist’s prophet, persuades many to worship the image of the beast from the sea, *and then coerces it by cutting off those that will not take the mark of the beast from commerce and placing those that will not participate in the idolatry under a sentence of execution.
*The seeming triumph of Satan through the beasts of the sea and earth described in Revelation 13 are short lived for the three scenes in Revelation 14 point to the ultimate victory of the Lamb and His followers at the beginning of the millennium. *The four announcements at the end of the tribulation period give hope and warning: 1) The eternal gospel will be preached to everyone, 2) Babylon is fallen, 3) Those who take the mark of the beat are doomed for eternity. 4) Those who are martyrs for Christ are blessed. *The final scene of the reaping of the wicked and their destruction in the wine press of the wrath of God is a very sobering and final warning in this explanatory section. Chapter 15 begins the next section which ties immediately back to the end of chapter 11 and the scene in heaven after the seventh trumpet was sounded.
*Revelation 15:1–8 (LSB)
1 Then I saw another sign in heaven, great and marvelous, seven angels who have seven plagues, which are the last, because in them the wrath of God is finished. 2 Then I saw something like a sea of glass mixed with fire, and those who have overcome the beast and his image and the number of his name, standing on the sea of glass, having harps of God. 3 And they sang the song of Moses, the slave of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, “Great and marvelous are Your works, O Lord God, the Almighty; Righteous and true are Your ways, King of the nations! 4 “Who will not fear, O Lord, and glorify Your name? For You alone are holy; For all the nations will come and worship before You, For Your righteous acts have been revealed.” 5 And after these things I looked, and the sanctuary of the tabernacle of testimony in heaven was opened, 6 and the seven angels who have the seven plagues came out of the sanctuary, clothed in linen, clean and bright, and girded around their chests with golden sashes. 7 Then one of the four living creatures gave to the seven angels seven golden bowls full of the wrath of God, who lives forever and ever. 8 And the sanctuary was filled with smoke from the glory of God and from His power; and no one was able to enter the sanctuary until the seven plagues of the seven angels were finished.
*The Sign in Heaven – Revelation 15:1
Revelation 15 picks up the narrative sequence where Rev. 11 ended with John being in heaven and hearing the seventh angel sounding his trumpet followed immediately by the declarations of the victory of Christ’s kingdom over the kingdom of this world and that God’s wrath had come upon on sinful mankind. Verse 19 then described the scene in heaven. “And the temple of God which is in heaven was opened; and the ark of His covenant appeared in His temple, and there were flashes of lightning and sounds and peals of thunder and an earthquake and a great hailstorm.”
Revelation 15 begins with John seeing “another sign in heaven.” The previous signs he had seen in heaven are listed in Rev. 12:1-4 and were of the “woman clothed with the sun” who “was with child” and of the “great red dragon.” The first sign was “great,” but this sign in heaven is both “great and marvelous.” The combination points to this sign having a sense of divine awe and being of exceeding importance.
*The great and marvelous character of this sign is self-explanatory for the sign is the “seven angels having seven plagues, the last ones, because in them the wrath of God is finished.” The angels will appear as a group seven more times and as individuals nine more times in Revelation. Each angel has a specific plhghv / pl g from which we get our word plague. *While we use that word commonly to describe an epidemic disease, the Greek word actually refers to a blow or a wound (Acts 16:23, 33), and it is used in Revelation to describe the “fatal wound” of the beast (Rev. 13:3, 12, 14) as well as the various specific expressions of divine retribution such as the deadly fire, smoke and brimstone of the sixth trumpet judgment that killed a third of mankind (Rev. 9:18, 20). It is a fitting descriptive word for each of the bowl judgments because each is a disastrous affliction.
*The text specifically states that these seven plagues are “the last,” e[scatoV / eschatos, from which we get the word eschatology. They are the final ones in a sequence which shows there is a chronology to the judgments of God’s wrath in the breaking of the seals, the trumpets and the bowls. The latter are not recapitulations of the former. These plagues are not a different view or retelling of the earlier ones. They are distinct manifestations of God’s wrath, and there are no more after them with the reason for them being the final ones given in the next phrase of the sentence, “because in them the wrath of God is finished.” *This sentence precludes all the interpretations that try to fit these plagues of the seven bowl judgments into some scheme in which they have already been fulfilled in some way in past history. Finished is televw / tele , to come to an end. When the seventh plague, the seventh bowl judgment, has been poured out and all its consequences have reached their conclusion, there will no longer be wrath coming from God. This fact will also be critical to our understanding of the extent of the final plague. *Denial of the plain meaning of this verse or extensive theological gymnastics to explain it away to make it fit into a preconceived theological framework are eisegesis and the musings of man rather than exegesis to understand the revelation of God. The plain fact is that God’s wrath, qumovV / thumos – violent upwelling anger, will not end until after Satan and his followers are captured and punished, and that will not happen until after the consequences of the seventh plague have reached their conclusion. No wonder John described this sign as both great and marvelous. It is great in its scope and purpose. It is marvelous as the outworking of God’s will.
*The Scene in Heaven – Revelation 15:2
John’s attention is next drawn to a second scene in heaven. 2 “Then I saw something like a sea of glass mixed with fire, and those who have overcome the beast and his image and the number of his name, standing on the sea of glass, having harps of God.” *This is a peaceful scene of the martyrs out of the great tribulation in their bliss in heaven. Their troubles are behind them. They are quite a contrast to the seven angels having the seven plagues which will be bringing extreme trouble to those who dwell on the earth.
*This scene resembling a sea of glass is probably the same as the one John describes in Revelation 4 as being before the throne of God. The phrase describes a place that is tranquil like a sea so calm it is smooth and reflective as glass. *It is described as being mixed with fire which is not explained precisely within the text, but it should not be thought of as being like an ocean with flames of fire erupting out of it here and there since the martyrs are standing on it. This is more likely the fire in the heavenly scene being reflected on it, for remember that John had earlier described there were flashes of lightning in this heavenly scene (Rev. 11:19) as there were in his earlier vision of the throne room of God which also had the seven lamps of fire burning before the throne (Rev. 4:5). Since the meaning of the fire is not stated, it may be related to reflecting the glory of God or it may be related to the mission of the angels. Either way, it adds to the total scene in heaven being “great and marvelous.”
*Standing on this sea of glass are those who have overcome the beast and his image and the number of his name. This is a reversal of the beast overcoming the martyrs during the great tribulation (Rev. 13:11-18). Now that they are in heaven, they had overcome the beast by being faithful unto death in refusing to yield to his demand to worship his image or be marked with the number of his name. They have received the blessings of martyrdom as described in the fourth announcement in Rev. 14:13. *One of those blessings described here is that they will have “harps of God.” Earlier in Revelation it was noted that the four living beings and twenty-four elders had harps (Rev. 5:8) as will the heavenly singers in Rev. 14:2-3 that teach the 144,000 a new song. These musical instruments are used in the worship of God and will be their accompaniment as they sing the Song of Moses and the Song of the Lamb described in the next verses.
*The Song of Moses & The Song of the Lamb – Revelation 15:3-4
3 And they sang the song of Moses, the slave of God, and the song of the Lamb.” These are two distinct songs which parallel each other in theme. They are delineated from each other as the song of Moses and the song of the Lamb. If it was one song, it would be the song of Moses, the servant of God, and of the Lamb. Only the words of the Song of the Lamb are recorded here since the words of the Song of Moses are recorded in Exodus 15 which we read earlier in the service.
*There is some thought that the Song of Moses is what is recorded in Deuteronomy 32 which Moses wrote toward the end his life as he looks back at God’s actions toward Israel and forward to the ultimate conquest and subjection of all nations to God. However, Moses also deals with Israel’s unfaithfulness and God’s punishment of the nation in that song, so it does not properly parallel the song of the Lamb recorded here in verses 3-4. *Moses’ song in Exodus 15 following the destruction of Pharaoh and his army in the Red Sea is the better parallel. It extols Yahweh for His actions toward the Egyptians in destroying them, for His loving-kindness toward them in redeeming them, and for the consequence of those actions in causing the nations to fear Yahweh for there is none like Him. As Exodus 15:11 states, “Who is like You among the gods, O Lord? Who is like You, majestic in holiness, Awesome in praises, working wonders?” The Song of Moses concludes verses 17-18 with the promise that in the future Yahweh will bring His people and “plant them in the mountain of Your inheritance, The place, O Lord, which You have made for Your dwelling, The sanctuary, O Lord, which Your hands have established. 18 “The Lord shall reign forever and ever.”
*The song of the Lamb is parallel in thought beginning in verse 3 with extolling Him for actions, character and position. “Great and marvelous are Your works, O Lord God, the Almighty; Righteous and true are Your ways, King of the nations!” Great and marvelous here are the same adjectives used to describe the sign John saw in verse 1. *Great is mevgaV / megas, of high magnitude, markedly superior, as certainly the works of the Lord are since nothing can compare to what our creator and sustainer has done and does. *Marvelous, qaumavsioV / thaumasios, is that which astounds, causes amazement and wonder, and certainly that is a good description of the works of God. *The concept is found often in the Psalms in praise and wonder of God such as Psalm 8 in which begins, “O Yahweh, our Lord, How majestic is Your name in all the earth, Who displays Your splendor above the heavens!” It then continues in verse 3, “When I see Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, The moon and the stars, which You have established; What is man that You remember him, And the son of man that you care for him?” Creation alone is enough to declare God to be great and marvelous, but to that in this context is added His redemption of His people and His wrath poured out on the wicked. *The seal and trumpet judgments are such works of God that are great and marvelous. Added to that He is specifically identified as the Lord God, the Almighty. He is master and the all powerful one. The theological term we use for that is omnipotent and provides the reason God’s words are great & marvelous.
*The song continues on to declare the Lord God to be “righteous and true in all your ways.” Both of those qualities will be applied to God’s judgments in Revelation 16:7 and 19:2, and that would certainly be included here, but this is much more broad for it applies “in all your ways,” and the setting is Jesus reigning as King of the nations. God is absolutely just and in complete conformity to truth in everything. Not only in bringing His wrath and condemnation upon the unrepentant wicked, but also in providing redemption from sin in Christ and in granting forgiveness and imputing righteousness to those who repent to place their faith in the person and work of Jesus Christ.
*Verse 4 is a contrast and rebuke to those that worshiped the beast in Rev. 13:4 saying, “Who is like the beast, and who is able to wage war with him?” The answer comes in wrath of the Lord God being poured out upon the beast in the bowl judgments that destroys him and his system. The beast is just a man and easily destroyed by God. *The song of the Lamb therefore proclaims, 4 “Who will not fear, O Lord, and glorify Your name? For You alone are holy; For all the nations will come and worship before You, For Your righteous acts have been revealed.” The answer to the rhetorical question is that no one will not fear and glorify the name of the Lord. He will be universally praised for all that He is, all that He has done, and all that He will do. Three reasons are given for this universal glorification of the Lord.
*The first is that He alone is holy. False gods and egotistical people who want to be worshiped are not worthy of it, but they demand it on the basis of having some power over those who pay homage to them. Since God is the almighty, the all powerful one, He can certainly demand worship on the same basis, but God actually is worthy of worship, and not just because of His position, but also because of His nature and character. He alone is holy. The word here is o”sioV / hosios, meaning pure, sacred, morally superior in every way for he is without any flaw or taint of evil.
*The second reason confirms a common theme found in the descriptions of the future kingdom of Messiah. There will be universal worship of the Messiah and all nations will pay homage to Him. That is prophesied in the Psalms, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Zephaniah, Zechariah and Malachi. Psalm 22:27–28, 27 “All the ends of the earth will remember and turn to Yahweh, And all the families of the nations will worship before You. 28 For the kingdom is Yahweh’s And He rules over the nations.” Isaiah 45:23, “I have sworn by Myself, The word has gone forth from My mouth in righteousness And will not turn back, That to Me every knee will bow, every tongue will swear allegiance.” Isaiah 66:18, “For I know their works and their thoughts; the time is coming to gather all nations and tongues. And they shall come and see My glory.” Jeremiah 3:17, “At that time they will call Jerusalem ‘The Throne of Yahweh,’ and all the nations will be gathered to it, to Jerusalem, for the name of Yahweh; nor will they walk anymore after the stubbornness of their evil heart.” Zechariah 14:16, “Then it will be that any who are left of all the nations that went against Jerusalem will go up from year to year to worship the King, Yahweh of hosts, and to celebrate the Feast of Booths.”
*The third reason is the revelation of His righteous acts. God is righteous in every respect so that the things He does reflect and reveal that righteousness. That is true in the present. That will be true in the future when His wrath is poured out on the wicked and Satan and all who remain in unrepentant rebellion against God are justly cast into the eternal lake of fire. God’s wrath is just as righteous as His love by which He has made provision to redeem man from that wrath through faith in Jesus Christ.
*The Tabernacle of the Testimony – Revelation 15:5-6
In verse 5-6 John takes note of what he sees next in heaven. 5 “And after these things I looked, and the sanctuary of the tabernacle of testimony in heaven was opened.” *John had already remarked about seeing this in Rev. 11:19, “And the sanctuary of God which is in heaven was opened, and the ark of His covenant appeared in His sanctuary, and there were flashes of lightning and sounds and peals of thunder and an earthquake and a great hailstorm.” The term here for sanctuary, naovV / naos, can also be translated as temple, but sanctuary is probably better here since it is pointing to only one part of what made up the tabernacle of the testimony. Remember that Moses had the tabernacle constructed according to the pattern that God showed him on Mount Sinai (Exodus 25:9, 40), so what John is describing here would be of the same design.
The tabernacle was the location in which God manifested His presence by the pillar of fire by night and pillar of cloud by day and so was referred to as God’s dwelling place – tabernacle. The tent inside the compound of the tabernacle contained the holy place which included the altar of incense, the table for the show bread, the lampstand, and the area separated by a curtain to be the holy of holies which housed the ark of the covenant which had on top if it the mercy seat with its two sculpted seraphim and within it the tablets of law also referred to as the testimony (Exodus 25). *John points out here that all the barriers to the sanctuary of the tabernacle of testimony in heaven have been opened so that what comes out from it is coming from the very presence of God. That is described in verse 6.
6 “and the seven angels who have the seven plagues came out of the sanctuary, clothed in linen, clean and bright, and girded around their chests with golden sashes.” This adds to this whole scene being “great and marvelous.” These seven angels appear in clothing reflective of holiness and reverence as would be expected in coming from the presence of God. The golden sashes match that worn by the gloried Christ in Revelation 1:13 and would carry the same symbolism of being of great dignity and position.
*The Seven Golden Bowls – Revelation 15:7
Verse 7 introduces the source of the judgments these angels will bring upon the earth. 7 “Then one of the four living creatures gave to the seven angels seven golden bowls full of the wrath of God, who lives forever and ever.” Each of the living creatures first described in Revelation 4 as surrounding God’s throne and call out “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God, the Almighty, who was and who is and who is to come,” are the ones that give the commands that send out the first four plagues of the seal judgments. *One of these same living creatures distributes to the seven angels the seven golden bowls that are full to the brim of God’s wrath. A few translations describe these as vials, but the word here, fiavlh / phial , is a broad, shallow bowl used for cooking, serving liquids or as a container (Rev. 5:8).
*Wrath here is the same as in verse 1. It is the violent, upwelling anger of the eternal, living God who is the holy Creator against the wicked who have remained unrepentant and unbelieving. They will receive the full measure of the plagues this anger will bring upon them which will begin in chapter 16. As Hebrews 10:31 states, “It is a terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the living God.”
*The Smoke Filled Sanctuary – Revelation 15:8
The description of what happens next is very similar to when the Shekinah glory of God filled the tabernacle in its dedication in Exodus 40:34-35 and in the dedication of the temple constructed by Solomon in 1 Kings 8:10-11 which drove everyone out. 8 “And the sanctuary was filled with smoke from the glory of God and from His power; and no one was able to enter the sanctuary until the seven plagues of the seven angels were finished.”
*We do well to keep these descriptions in mind when we come before God to worship Him. His glory invokes a response of humility before Him. Much too often people, including professing Christians, down play God’s glory and majesty to the point of being casual or even irreverent when coming into His presence. No human is worthy to come before God. *The book of Hebrews explains that with Jesus as our High Priest and with the Holy Spirit interceding for us, we who are Christians can come with confidence before God’s throne of grace, but we must come with great reverence due to God’s very holiness and the high cost that enables that access. The price was Jesus’ own blood shed as the sacrifice for sin that redeems and grants forgiveness to those who believe in Him.
Our celebration of Communion this morning is a reminder of the price Jesus paid which enables us to be adopted into God’s family and enables us to have hope in the future, both near and far. No matter how much circumstances now or in the future give the appearance that Satan is being victorious, the truth and reality is that he is doomed. God is still on His throne. He never loses control. He will have the ultimate victory. Christians rejoice in these truths! Non-Christians, repent, cast yourself on the mercies of God to receive His grace to believe, be forgiven and receive eternal life.
Sermon Notes
Worship & Preparation in Heaven – Revelation 15:1-8
Introduction
The glorified __________commissions John to write His revelation of the past, present & future
Revelation ________the wicked to repent & ___________to the righteous for God is sovereign & victorious
John sees God’s _________in heaven & hears the declaration of the Creator’s worthiness to be worshiped
God’s decree of His ________victory & retribution on the unrepentant wicked are set in the 7 sealed scroll
The breaking of the _____in Rev. 6 is the first sequence of the wrath of God on those that dwell on the earth
Rev. 7 is an intercalation explaining the 144,000 ___________slaves of God & the innumerable martyrs
Rev. 8 & 9 records the braking of the 7th seal & the first 6 ______judgments with are even more devastating
A 2nd intercalation in Rev. 10 & 11 covers John’s prophetic ministry & the 1,260 ministry of the 2 ________
The 7th trumpet brings the proleptic proclamation of the victory of Christ’s _________& the scene in heaven
Revelation 12-14 ____________the background, character & plot of the final stages of God’s judgment
Satan _________ at all points to stop God’s plan of redemption – now past history
In the Future, Satan will _____his war in heaven, be thrown out, and then fail to destroy the Jewish remnant
Satan will make war on the rest of the Jews & on godly Gentiles through __________& his prophet
Worship of the image of the beast will be ____________by economic sanctions & threat of execution
Satan’s victories are short lived – The Lamb & his followers will have ultimate __________
____proclamations: The eternal gospel. Babylon is fallen. Beast worshipers are doomed. Martyrs are blessed
The wicked of the earth will be ____________and cast into the wine press of God’s wrath
Revelation 15:1–8
The Sign in Heaven – Revelation 15:1
The narrative ___________picks up from Revelation 11:15-19
The sign is great & marvelous, and it is of the _______having the 7 last plagues that finish the wrath of God
A plague is a _______or wound (Acts 16:23, 33), a divine retribution (Rev. 9:18, 20) – these are disastrous
These 7 are the last plagues – the ______ones in the chronology of God’s wrath. They are not recapitulations
They end God’s wrath which precludes all interpretative schemes of ____________fulfillment of Revelation
Forcing Revelation into pre-conceived theological schemes is eisegesis & the ___________of man
The Scene in Heaven – Revelation 15:2
A peaceful scene of the martyrs of the Tribulation in the ________of heaven with their troubles behind them
The something like a sea of glass is probably same as in Rev. 4, its __________surface would be reflective
mixed with fire is not explained – __________of the lightning or 7 burning lamps or God’s glory? (4; 11:19)
The martyrs _________the beast, his image & number of his name by being unyielding & faithful unto death
They are given ________of God which will be used as accompaniment in their worship of God
The Song of Moses & The Song of the Lamb – Revelation 15:3-4
This song of Moses is ___from Deut. 32 which includes Israel’s unfaithfulness & God’s punishment of them
This fits __________extolling Yahweh’s destruction of the Egyptians, Israel’s redemption, & fear of nations
The Song of the Lamb is ___________in thought extolling God for His actions, character & position
Great = of high magnitude, markedly ________. Marvelous = that which is astounding, causes __________
God’s _______of creation are both great & marvelous – Psalm 8, etc. So also are His __________& identity
God is “righteous & true” in ____of His ways – includes extremes of wrath & condemnation, & redemption
Verse 4 is a rebuke to those who wrongly praised the ______in Rev. 13:4 – just a man who will be destroyed
All will _______________________ the Lord for all that He is, all that He has done, and all that He will do
The Lord alone is __________- pure, sacred, morally pure in every way – and therefore worthy of worship
All the nations will ___the Lord & pay homage to Him – Ps. 22:27-28; Isa. 45:23; 66:18; Jer. 3:17; Zech. 14
God is ____________in every respect, and all that He does reflects & reveals that righteousness
The Tabernacle of the Testimony – Revelation 15:5-6
Already noted in Rev. 11:19 – the sanctuary is part of the tabernacle of testimony – the _______place of God
All the barriers to the sanctuary are _________and the 7 angels with the 7 plagues come out from it
The Seven Golden Bowls – Revelation 15:7
One of the 4 living creatures distributes to the 7 angels the _________________filled with God’s wrath
The full measure of God’s ___________will be poured out on the unrepentant wicked
The Smoke Filled Sanctuary – Revelation 15:8
This is similar to the __________glory of God in the Tabernacle in Exodus 40 & in the Temple in 1 Kings 8
God’s is holy, and His glory invokes a response of _______. Do not be casual, irreverent in worship / prayer
We can only come into God’s presence due to the ______________of Christ on our behalf
KIDS KORNER
Parents, you are responsible to apply God’s Word to your children’s lives. Here is some help. Young Children – draw a picture about something you hear during the sermon. Explain your picture(s) to your parents at lunch. Older Children – Do one or more of the following: 1) Count how many times the word “Heaven” is said. 2) Discuss with your parents the importance of being reverent when you worship God or pray.
THINK ABOUT IT!
Questions to consider in discussing the sermon with others. What “plagues” are mentioned in the New Testament? In what ways will the last 7 plagues in Revelation 16f be worse than all that have occurred before? What is the significance of these 7 plagues being the “last” and that they “finish” God’s wrath? Where is the “sea of glass” and who is standing on it? How did they overcome the beast, his image and his number? What is the significance of them having harps of God? What is the Song of Moses? How is it parallel in thought to the Song of the Lamb? In what specific ways does the Song of the Lamb give praise to Him? In what ways are the works of God great and marvelous? What is the sanctuary of the tabernacle of testimony and what is the significance that the 7 angels come from it? What is the significance of their clothing? What is the wrath of God? Compare Exodus 40:34-35 & 1 Kings 8:10-11 to Revelation 15:8. What is the proper attitude in worship?
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