A chapter of eight brief, but all-encompassing verses, set in the heavenly realm of God and with the victors in Christ singing a song of gratitude and praise, of worship and honour. The gathering complete, they are now with Almighty God – always they will serve Him, will be present with Him.
The events proceed with preparation for judgment – unspeakable and yet insatiable guilt awaiting punishent. Such calamitous acts were committed within the earthly sphere, now concluded with the elimination of believers worldwide – “those who die in the Lord from this moment on.”
1 Then I saw another great and marvelous sign in heaven: seven angels with the seven final plagues, with which the wrath of God is completed.
2 And 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, 3 and 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!
4 Who 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.
5 After this I looked, and the temple—the tabernacle of the Testimony—was opened in heaven. 6 And 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.
7 Then one of the four living creatures gave the seven angels seven golden bowls full of the wrath of God, who lives forever and ever. 8 And 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.
Seven plagues are to come – and these do not come from a bioweapons lab.
End Times Prophecy 