Revelation 15:1, “Then I saw in heaven another significant event, and it was great and marvelous. Seven angels were holding the seven last plagues, which would bring God’s wrath to completion.”
Chapters 15 and 16 present the final outpouring of God’s wrath before Christ’s return here to earth. That wrath is expressed by the effects of the seventh trumpet in 11:16, which are the seven bowl judgments described in Chapter 16. Chapter 15 is an introduction to the rapid fire bowl judgments, but shouldn’t be taking lightly for many reasons. Revelation 15 gives us a glimpse of God’s mercy in the midst of the greatest outpouring of divine justice that is God’s divine justice for sin. God is absolutely holy and demands retribution for the sins of the world. While Christ died on the Cross for our sins, and the sins of those who have accepted Him are forgiven, those who remain hidden in secret there sins still demand God’s justice, and the sins of those who do believe and yet hide in the secret places afraid to come to the Light so that God may forgive the sins they have committed. It really boils down to receiving God’s forgiveness in light of His divine justice. God is just; meaning God’s is fair. “His Word is perfect all His ways are just” (Deut 32:4).
Another significant event points to the expectation of the divine judgment about to occur. As early in the case of the seals (chapters 4-5) and trumpet (8:2-6) judgments. This would be the third sign or significant event John has thus seen in Revelation, for in 12:1 he saw the sign of a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet and on her head a crown of twelve stars, while in 12:3 he saw the sign of, “a great red dragon having seven heads and ten horns and on his heads were seven diadems.” Great and marvelous simply points out to the importance of this event in the final outpouring of God’s wrath on those who wish to remain hidden in sin and not come to the Light and thus know Christ. This all revolves around the word heaven simply because it is heaven that anticipates the events that will thus occur in relation to the bowl judgments as before in the seal, and trumpet judgments. What this ought to show us is that we are to be ready and not live ashamed lives, but stand at the ready as witnesses for our Lord as the saints in the Tribulation will be.
The angels will be the same angels who minister and care for God’s people (Heb 1:14) yet will bring God’s wrath to a sinful world (Matthew 13:37-42). Plege (Plagues) literally means “a blow”, or “a wound”, and is so used in such passages in relation to Luke 12:48, Acts 16:23, 33; 2 Cor 6:5 and 11:23. In 13:3 and 12 it describes the beast’s fatal wound. Thus the seven plagues are not diseases or anything else, but powerful deadly blows (9:18-20; 11:6) that will strike the world with shocking consequences.
As we shall see today the point of this is that Seven angels were holding the seven last plagues, which would bring God’s wrath to completion. This is important for us for the simple fact that it points too the completion of God’s wrath. This also would point to the fact that last indicates completion that the bowl judgments are in fact the last judgments that will occur during the Tribulation. In this then we see the fact that divine retribution and justice does in deed show mercy in the respect that God will not limit His wrath, but He will see boundaries upon His wrath so as to not cause humanity’s hope to be squandered. God desires that humanity come unto Himself and receive the Son, and have the life of God within them, but the reality is that humanity in arrogant pride stick their nose up at the face of God and instead of adopting the posture of praise; adopt the posture and posterior towards themselves and the self made glorified kingdoms and kings of this world.
To point this out though is the fact that God through the Apostle John actually prophesied that this time would come to a close. It is the culmination of the “great day of [God the Father’s and Jesus Christ’s] (6:17). It is the “third woe” predicted in 11:14; the time of destruction (11:18); the unmixed wine of God’s wrath (14:10); the final reaping of the earth (14:14-16); the final trampling of the grapes of God’s wrath (14:17-20).
God’s anger will be expressed during this time in wrath. Thumos (wrath) is a strong word describing rage, or a passionate outburst of anger. God’s anger must be shown against all sin (14:8,19). In 16:19 and 19:15 God’s wrath is called His fierce wrath. The Prophet Zephaniah expressed this well in Zephaniah 3:8, “So now the LORD says: "Be patient; the time is coming soon when I will stand up and accuse these evil nations. For it is my decision to gather together the kingdoms of the earth and pour out my fiercest anger and fury on them. All the earth will be devoured by the fire of my jealousy.” God desires that all, “The Lord isn’t really being slow about his promise to return, as some people think. No, he is being patient for your sake. He does not want anyone to perish, so he is giving more time for everyone to repent.” ( 2 Peter 2:9).
Verse one describes the preparation of the seven angels to receive the bowls, which we have here discussed in relation to another significant event, great and marvelous and the completion of God’s divine justice. In verse 2 we will look at the victorious saints rejoicing over the Satanic hordes, in verses 3-4 the declaration of God’s faithfulness in the midst of God’s justice and mercy. In verse 5 we will see the emergence of divine justice coming forth. In verse six the coming forth of the preparation of the seven angels to execute divine justice. In verse 7, the handing of the bowls by the cherubim to execute divine retribution in the midst of God’s faithfulness, and in verse 8 the emergence of God’s Law and the pouring out of His justice.
Revelation 15:2, “I saw before me what seemed to be a crystal sea mixed with fire. And on it stood all the people who had been victorious over the beast and his statue and the number representing his name. They were all holding harps that God had given them.”
The crystal sea seems to refer back to Revelation 4:6, “Before the throne there was something like a sea of glass, like crystal.” Moses described it as, “Under His feet there appeared to be a pavement of sapphire, as clear as the sky itself” (Ex 24:10). Ezekiel described it as “something like an expanse, like the awesome gleam of crystal” (Ezek 1:22). This ought to show us that God’s judgment is ready to be poured out during the Great Tribulation period, which we are now covering. Further this proves the fact that for those who reject God’s grace only the final fury of a fire which will consume His adversaries will be available to them, for it is “a terrifying expectation of judgment and the fury of a fire which will consume the adversaries” (Heb 10:27), because “our God is a consuming fire” (Heb 12:29). Fire is frequently in Scripture used in reference to God’s judgment (Numbers 11:1; 16:35; Deut 9:3; Pss 50:3; 97:3; Isa 66:15; 2 Thess 1:7-9; 2 Peter 3:7).
This then point out to the fact that they will be victorious over the beast, his statue, and the number representing his name which indicates that the believers during this time will have undying faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. Revelation 20:4-6 describes their resurrection and reward. In 13:7 Antichrist is described, “It was also given to him to make war with the saints and to overcome them”, yet Antichrist’s triumphant victory in fact turns out to be a short lived victory and in the end the Tribulation saints will be granted victory over him, prevailing under the pressure to which the world succumbed (13:4, 14:17; 14:9.11; 19:20).
The Antichrist false prophet will set up a statue in order for those who don’t believe in the matchless name of Jesus Christ to worship. Yet the victory and the establishment of the victory over the statue, and the kingdom of the Antichrist, and the false prophet will be such that the victorious saints rejoice over the Satanic harp by holding harps that God had given to them to sing eternal songs of joy unto the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords.
The believers faith were secured in the revelation knowledge of God’s love in the midsts of God’s divine justice, and they understand not only that God was love but that He demanded retribution for humanity’s sin and through Christ they were redeemed, but awaiting the impending judgment of God’s wrath. To them the Gospel war more than a story that was being played out, it was the execution of the very story of which Christ purchased for them granting them new life through the blood atonement of Jesus Christ, and for these saints they rejoiced in the expectation of the knowledge of God’s coming judgment in the Great Tribulation knowing fully well that God would have the victory and that His appearing loomed only over the corner.
It is the same for us today, in the middle of our lives trials we ought to sing unto the King and bless His name, because He has considered us worthy to suffer for the name of Christ. It is an honor to suffer a privilege to know and to understand God’s Word, for the Prophets would have reveled in the opportunity that we now as saints covered in the Blood Covenant which Christ purchased for us on the Cross now enjoy. It is that enjoyment through His blood that we can go into the Holy of Holies to praise God and to enjoy Him.
It is through the blood of Christ that we can enjoy to relationship and be new creations not have hard hearts and praise unto ourselves, but to rejoice in the Lamb and to know Him at the depths of our hearts. It is this knowledge that these tribulation saints understood so well, that pure sacrifice involves pure worship, and pure worship involves giving up of yourself in order for God to reign completely. A vessel can only be used when it is in turn emptied out and then put back together and repaired. We are vessels each one of us, and it is only through the sacrifice of Christ who repaired the vessel (or the means by which we can know Him) through His sacrifice on the Cross that we can be in turn emptied out and worship the Lamb as He desires. Is that your hearts desire today? These victorious saints rejoiced because they had received the revelation of God’s love so they rejoice over their victory over the Satanic hordes because they considered the name of Jesus Christ worthy to be praised, worthy to be praised, and basked in the revelation of His love.
The false prophet will require everyone to have the number representing his name and those without that mark will face execution and will be unable to buy or sell during this time. But the tribulation believes, will by God’s power, eternally triumph over the whole enterprise of Satan, the beast, and the false prophet. Even those martyred for their triumphant faith will receive their glorious rewards (20:4). The tribulation saints are holding harps of God indicating further that they are in the posture and position of praise and worship to God. Harps were also frequently used in the Old Testament (2 Sam 6:5; 1 Chron 13:8; 15:16, 28; 2 Chron 5:12-13; Neh 12:27; Pss 33:2; 71:22; 144:9; 150:3). These believers rejoice because their prayers for God to take vengeance on their persecutors (6:9-10 are about to be answered in more ways than they ever imagined.
The appearance of the Tribulation saints makes the point that God sends His wrath as an act of vengeance on those who mistreat His people. Jesus warned in Matthew 18:6-10, “But if anyone causes one of these little ones who trusts in me to lose faith, it would be better for that person to be thrown into the sea with a large millstone tied around the neck.7"How terrible it will be for anyone who causes others to sin. Temptation to do wrong is inevitable, but how terrible it will be for the person who does the tempting. 8So if your hand or foot causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better to enter heaven crippled or lame than to be thrown into the unquenchable fire with both of your hands and feet. 9And if your eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better to enter heaven half blind than to have two eyes and be thrown into hell.10"Beware that you don’t despise a single one of these little ones. For I tell you that in heaven their angels are always in the presence of my heavenly Father.” Unbelievers will be condemned to eternal hell for mistreating God’s people, because that mistreatment reveals their evil, unrepentant hearts: Matthew 25:41-45, “"Then the King will turn to those on the left and say, `Away with you, you cursed ones, into the eternal fire prepared for the Devil and his demons! 42For I was hungry, and you didn’t feed me. I was thirsty, and you didn’t give me anything to drink. 43I was a stranger, and you didn’t invite me into your home. I was naked, and you gave me no clothing. I was sick and in prison, and you didn’t visit me.’44"Then they will reply, `Lord, when did we ever see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and not help you?’ 45And he will answer, `I assure you, when you refused to help the least of these my brothers and sisters, you were refusing to help me.’
The Apostle Paul wrote, “Never take your own revenge, beloved, but leave room for the wrath of God, for it is written, ‘Vengeance is Mine, I will repay’, says the Lord’ (Romans 12:19). The Old Testament likens persecuting God’s people to poking a finger in His eye (Zechariah 2:8, “After a period of glory, the LORD Almighty sent me against the nations who oppressed you. For he said, `Anyone who harms you harms my most precious possession.) The Psalmist wrote of God’s vengeance in Psalm 94:1-10,21-23, “1
O LORD, the God to whom vengeance belongs,
O God of vengeance, let your glorious justice be seen!
2
Arise, O judge of the earth.
Sentence the proud to the penalties they deserve.
3
How long, O LORD?
How long will the wicked be allowed to gloat?
4
Hear their arrogance!
How these evildoers boast!
5
They oppress your people, LORD,
hurting those you love.
6
They kill widows and foreigners
and murder orphans.
7
"The LORD isn’t looking," they say,
"and besides, the God of Israel[1] doesn’t care."
8
Think again, you fools!
When will you finally catch on?
9
Is the one who made your ears deaf?
Is the one who formed your eyes blind?
10
He punishes the nations--won’t he also punish you?
He knows everything--doesn’t he also know what you are doing?
21
They attack the righteous
and condemn the innocent to death.
22
But the LORD is my fortress;
my God is a mighty rock where I can hide.
23
God will make the sins of evil people fall back upon them.
He will destroy them for their sins.
The LORD our God will destroy them.”
These Tribulation saints will understand the importance of praise and worship but not only that they will have undergone more horrors than the Jews did during the Holocaust, for they will see the terrible wrath of Satan, and the wrath of God revealed in the Great Tribulation but yet through it all will have endured the greatest suffering known to man and the most intense persecution the world will ever know, their faith, which is a gift from the Lord will still endure and prevail. Eventually, they will stand triumphantly before the throne of God, watching as God takes vengeance on their persecutors.
Revelation 15:3-4, “3And they were singing the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb:
"Great and marvelous are your actions,
Lord God Almighty.
Just and true are your ways,
O King of the nations.[1]
4
Who will not fear, O Lord, and glorify your name?
For you alone are holy.
All nations will come and worship before you,
for your righteous deeds have been revealed."”
The motivation for God’s wrath is His holy righteous character, which demands that He judge those who oppose Himself and judge sinners as the just Judge of the world. It is God’s holy nature soon to be revealed in judgment against their persecutors that elicits this song from the redeemed. The Song of Moses records for us the first of several songs recorded in the Old Testament. The Israelites sang this song of praise when the Lord gave them water in the wilderness (Numbers 21:17-28). Moses taught the children of Israel a song of remembrance shortly before His death (Deut 31:19-22; 32:1-44). That song of Moses; however is not in view here because it deals with Israel’s unfaithfulness while this deals with God’s punishment of the nation before her restoration. The point of Revelation 15 is not unfaithfulness but of faithfulness that triumphs. Deborah and Barak sang a triumphant victory song celebrating Israel’s defeat of the Canaanites, whose forces were led by the notorious Sisera (Judges 5:1-31). There was a song sung by the Lord as part of the restoration of true worship in Hezekiah’s day (2 Chron 29:27). In addition, David and others wrote the Psalms, the hymnbook of ancient Israel, and Solomon wrote the Song of Solomon.
The historical setting for us for the Song of Moses comes from the time of Exodus. Moses was called to lead the people of Israel out of captivity in Egypt. God delivered them from this captivity from Pharaoh’s pursuing army by parting the Red Sea, stacking the water on either side of a path, thus allowing the Israelites to cross safely on dry land. After they were safely across, the collapsing waters drowned the Egyptian army. On the far side of the Red Sea, the Israelites sang a song of praise to God for their deliverance in Exodus 15:1-18. The Song of Moses was a song of victory and deliverance for the righteous and at the same time of judgment the wrath on God’s enemies. The Tribulation saints, gathered in triumph in a place of safety and security, will echo the same song of deliverance sung long ago by the people of Israel.
In addition to this the saints will also sing the song of the Lamb who is their Redeemer, and this song was first heard in Revelation 5:8-14. Like the Song of Moses, the song of the Lamb expresses the themes of God’s faithfulness, deliverance of His people and judgment of His enemies. John Phillips compares and contrasts the two songs: “The song of Moses was sung at the Red Sea, the song of the Lamb is sung at the crystal sea; the song of Moses was a song of triumph over Egypt, the song of the Lamb is a song of triumph over Babylon; the song of Moses told how God brought His people out; the song of the Lamb tells how God brings His people in; the song of Moses was the first song in Scripture, the song of the Lamb is the last. The song of Moses commemorated the execution of the foe, the expectation of the saints, and the exaltation of the Lord; the son of the Lamb deals with the same three themes. (Exploring Revelation, rev.ed. [Chicago: Moody, 1987; reprint, Neptune, N.J.: Loizeux, 1991], 187) Dr. Lahaye points out, “This song is a prophetic foreglimpse of the true treatment of Jesus Christ at the end of the Tribulation that will exist for the entire millennium and eternal order.”
What this then points out for us is the fact of the declaration of God’s faithfulness in the midst of God’s justice and mercy. The words of Exodus 15 where the Song of Moses is recorded or the Song of the Lamb in Revelation 5 differ but the themes and many of the key terms are still similar. Great and marvelous are your actions points to the awesomeness of God found in Psalm 19:14, “Wonderful are Your works, and my soul knows it very well.” Dr. Walvoord points out, “The unusual expression of verse 1 is carried over here to the works of God as “great” in extent and marvelous” or wonderful, that is, arousing wonder or astonishment, which could apply to the works of God in the past, but more probably anticipates the great work just ahead. The verb is omitted and could be past, present or future, through the thought seems to be the present tense with a futuristic intent.” Lord God Almighty celebrates God’s omnipotence, essential to the triumphant power of the last judgments appears frequently in Revelation (1:8; 4:8; 11:17; 16:7, 14; 19:6, 15; 21:22), and the title “God Almighty” was the name by which God revealed Himself to Abraham (Gen 17:1; Gen 35:11; 48:3; Ex 6:3). The exclamation Just and true are your ways reflects back to the Old Testament truth that “all God’s works are true and His ways are just” (Dan 4:37; Deut 32:4; Hos 14:9). God is called O King of the nations in Jeremiah 10:7.
Who will not fear, O Lord, and glorify your name? again goes back to Jeremiah 10:7 (Psalm 86:9). The truth that For you alone are holy is an often repeated Old Testament theme celebrating God’s holiness (1 Sam 2:2; Pss 22:3; 99:5, 9; 111:9; Isa 6:3; 47:15; Hab 1:12). All nations will come and worship before you quotes Psalm 86:9 (Jer 10:7), while the phrase for your righteous deeds have been revealed echoes Old Testament passages such as Judges 5:11; 1 Samuel 12:7, Psalm 103:6; Daniel 9:16; and Micah 6:5
God is the judge of the universe and the song of these saints extols God’s character as the omnipotent, immutable, soverign, perfect, and righteous Creator and Judge. God judges sinners on the basis of His holy character, for if He were to not judge according to His holiness then He, Himself would not be without sin and He would then not be holy, righteous and true to His very nature. The Prophet Habakkuk, speaking to God, put it this way, “Your eyes are too pure to approve evil, and You can not look on wickedness with favor” (Hab 1:13). “Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert what is right? Asks Job 8:3. Psalm 19:9 answers, “The judgments of the Lord are true; they are righteous altogether.”
The song ends All nations will come and worship before you which points towards God’s eternal millennial reign. Psalm 66:4 declares, “All the earth will worship You, and will sing praises to You; they will sing praises to Your name”. In the earthly, millennial kingdom, “it will come about that any who are left of all the nations that went against Jerusalem will go up from year to year to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, and to celebrate the Feast of Booths” (Zech 14:16). After God’s final wrath is poured out and revealed then Isaiah 66:23 will come to pass, “And it shall be from new moon to new moon and from Sabbath to Sabbath, all mankind will come to bow down before Me’, says the Lord” (Isa. 66:23). This will then mark the beginning of the fulfillment of Phil 2:10-11, “At that name of Jesus every knee will bow, of those who are in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and… every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.”
Revelation 15:5-8, “Then I looked and saw that the Temple in heaven, God’s Tabernacle, was thrown wide open!” 6The seven angels who were holding the bowls of the seven plagues came from the Temple, clothed in spotless white linen[2] with gold belts across their chests. 7And one of the four living beings handed each of the seven angels a gold bowl filled with the terrible wrath of God, who lives forever and forever. 8The Temple was filled with smoke from God’s glory and power. No one could enter the Temple until the seven angels had completed pouring out the seven plagues.”
Verse 5 indicates the emergency of divine justice, while verse 6 the coming forth of the preparation of the seven angels to execute divine justice, while verse 7, the handing of the bowls by the cherubim to execute divine retribution in the midst of God’s faithfulness and verse 8 the emergence of God’s Law and the pouring out of His justice.
Matthew 25:41 points out, “The eternal fire… has already been prepared for the devil and his angels.” This points out to the fact that God will one day sentence unrepentant sinners to the hands of eternal punishment there. God’s holy angels await the time when they will execute God’s final judgment according to His holiness and to play their role in the process of judgment (Matthew 13:41-42; 49-50). Here and now they are given the instruments of execution of God’s divine justice.
Then I looked and saw is used (4:1; 6:2,5; 8; 7:9; 14:1, 14; 19:11), the phrase indicates something drew John’s attention away from the redeemed saints singing praises before God’s throne. This vision revealed to him refers to the bowl judgments (Revelation 16:1-21), but first John saw the angels who will carry out those judgments. What John saw was the Temple in heaven, God’s Tabernacle, was thrown wide open. The NKJV indicates that this is the tabernacle of the testimony which points back to 11:19, “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 lightening and sounds and peals of thunder and an earthquake and a great hailstorm.”
Naos (temple) refers to the Holy of Holies, the inner sanctuary where God’s presence dwells, emphasizing that God is the source of the plagues. The tabernacle was sometimes referred to as the tabernacle of testimony (ex 38:21; Numbers 1:50, 53; 10:11; acts 7:44) because the most important item in it was the dark of the covenant, sometimes called the ark of testimony (Ex 25:22; 26:33-34; 30:6; Lev 16:13; Numbers 4:5; 7:89; Josh. 4:16). It was so named because it contained the testimony, the two stone tablets on which God had written the Ten Commandment (Ex 25:16, 21; 40:2-; Ps 78:5).
God’s throne was earlier opened in Revelation to the faithful in 4:1. The earthly tabernacle is only a copy of the heavenly one (Heb 8:2,5) which points out to the fact that it was opened to reveal the most severe earthly judgment ever on the unfaithful. 6The seven angels who were holding the bowls of the seven plagues came from the Temple this point out for us the fact that God’s divine justice is now ready to be poured out and the execution of divine justice has emerged. God’s sovereign plan is for the seven plagues which represent the final deadly judgments will execute that plan on the world (Hebrews 10:31). The angels will be clothed in spotless white linen which points to the fabric representing their holiness and purity (Acts 10:30). Not only this though but with gold belts across their chests which will run across the torso from the shoulder to the waist.
After the emergence of the angels from the inner sanctuary of God’s heavenly temple the seven angels received the means by which they will dump God’s judgment upon humanity. And one of the four living beings (Cherubim; an order of high-ranking angels; 4:6, 8-9; 5:6, 8,11, 14; 6:1, 6; :11; 14:3; 19:4; Ezek. 1:4-25; 10:15; 1 Sam 4:4; 2 Sam 6:2; 22:11; Pss 80:1; 99:1; Isa 37:16) handed each of the seven angels a gold bowl filled with the terrible wrath of God, who lives forever and forever. Phialas (bowls) refers to shallow saucers. This imagery clearly shows that it is not of a stream being poured gradually out of a pitcher, but of the whole contents of the shallow saucers being hurled down in an instant flood of judgment. Bowls were part of the temple furnishings (1 Kings 7:50; 2 Kings 12:13; 25:15; 1 Chron 28:17; Zech 14:20) and were associated with the sacrifices (Ex 27:3; 38:3). Those who refuse to drink the cup of salvation (Ps 116:13) will be drowned in the judgments of the bowls of wrath. God lives forever and ever and because of that He has the power to end sin so that it cannot exist again forever in His holy presence.
Out of the temple comes not only the angels but smoke symbolizing the glory of God and His power. Smoke is an emblem of majesty (Exodus 19:16-18) which is also symbolic for God’s glorious presence in the Old Testament tabernacle or temple (Ex 40:34-35; 1 Kings 8:10-11; Isa 6:1-4). This smoke also symbolize God’s wrath; thus No one could enter the Temple until the seven angels had completed pouring out the seven plagues.” The glory cloud will remain in the heavenly temple unto the earth is completely purged, cleansed and prepared for the King and His Kingdom.
This also ought to point out for us the fact that this chapter merely sets the stage for the background of Revelation 16. The wrath of God was poured out on Jesus Christ because of what He did for sinners; in the future wrath will be poured out on sinners because of what they did on account of the name of Jesus Christ. Yet the point of this is that God desires not the men will perish but that they will come into a personal relationship with Himself (2 Peter 3:9); yet in that wrath, He will remember mercy (Hab 3:2). Yet by this time sinners will have been warned of the impending doom through the 144,000 Jewish evangelists, the many believers at this time, in addition to the seals, trumpet judgments, the two witnesses, and the angel with the everlasting Gospel. Sinners will be have experienced numerous terrifying judgments, which will then force them to acknowledge came from God (6:16-17). Yet the sad thing is that they will harden their hearts and fall into calamity (Proverbs 28:14). They will pay a price they will regret for all eternity as they writhe in pain in the lake of fire along with the rest of the Satanic horde.
The reality is that the angels emergence from the Temple ought to show us that God is ready to pour out wrath, but restrains Himself so that mankind will have yet another chance to turn from its sins and thus be able to enter His Kingdom. Yet the emergence of God’s Law from the angels emerging from the temple also points out that it will be God’s Law that will go forth to executive Divine justice and retribution according to His holiness and thus the pouring out of His justice will thus reveal His hatred towards sin. Unrepentant sinners will then learn that following after the ways of the world are an utterly foolish thing and that it is a terrible thing to fall into the hands of the living God, but that it is also a fearful and terrible price to pay for not heeding the Scriptures warning: “Today if you hear His voce, do not harden your hearts” (Hebrews 3:15; 4:7).
What this then shows us that God’s Law will go forth causing doom, that the Law then becomes the executioner of divine justice for God has restrained His holiness long enough so that those who wish to repent and turn to Him will thus have ample opportunity to do so. Thus this reveals that God’s Law coming forth from God’s temple leads us to see that the Temple in heaven becomes the Temple of execution of Divine Justice thus revealing God’s holiness so that would lead us to see that the Heavenly Temple will then be the Temple of Doom thus showing forth God’s absolute holiness. God’s Kingdom will go forth much to the ill of Satan, his demonic agents, and demons, because the Lord Jesus Christ will reign over all despite the world’s sayings and doings, the Lord’s Kingdom will come, but even so Come Lord Jesus Come and establish Your everlasting eternal Kingdom, for Your glory and Your praise, Amen!
Pastor Jenkins
