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Text -- Revelation 15:1-8 (NET)
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The Final Plagues
15:1 Then I saw another great and astounding sign in heaven : seven angels who have seven final plagues (they are final because in them God’s anger is completed ).
15:2 Then I saw something like a sea of glass mixed with fire , and those who had conquered the beast and his image and the number of his name . They were standing by the sea of glass , holding harps given to them by God .
15:3 They sang the song of Moses the servant of God and the song of the Lamb : “Great and astounding are your deeds , Lord God , the All-Powerful ! Just and true are your ways , King over the nations !
15:4 Who will not fear you, O Lord , and glorify your name , because you alone are holy ? All nations will come and worship before you for your righteous acts have been revealed .”
15:5 After these things I looked , and the temple (the tent of the testimony ) was opened in heaven ,
15:6 and the seven angels who had the seven plagues came out of the temple , dressed in clean bright linen, wearing wide golden belts around their chests .
15:7 Then one of the four living creatures gave the seven angels seven golden bowls filled with the wrath of God who lives forever and ever ,
15:8 and the temple was filled with smoke from God’s glory and from his power . Thus no one could enter the temple until the seven plagues from the seven angels were completed .
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Names, People and Places:
Dictionary Themes and Topics:
REVELATION OF JOHN |
Angel |
Jesus, The Christ |
Vision |
RETRIBUTION |
God |
Temple |
Meteorology and Celestial Phenomena |
Plague |
Seven |
GLASS, SEA OF |
MOSES, SONG OF |
Praise |
Anger |
Music |
PERSECUTION |
Song |
Worship |
Glass |
FINISH |
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NET Notes: Rev 15:2 Grk “harps of God.” The phrase τοῦ θεοῦ (tou qeou) has been translated as a genitive of agency.
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NET Notes: Rev 15:3 Certain mss (Ì47 א*,2 C 1006 1611 1841 pc) read “ages” (αἰώνων, aiwnwn) instead of “natio...
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NET Notes: Rev 15:4 Or perhaps, “your sentences of condemnation.” On δικαίωμα (dikaiwma) in this context BDAG 249 s.v....
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NET Notes: Rev 15:5 In the OT the expression “tent of the testimony” occurs frequently (130 times in Exodus through Deuteronomy). The “testimony” ...
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NET Notes: Rev 15:6 Or “wide golden sashes,” but these would not be diagonal, as some modern sashes are, but horizontal. The Greek term can refer to a wide ba...
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