with Elder Elico Manenji
✝️In this chapter we hear of seven angels with the seven last plagues, the sea of glass and those who had a victory over the beast.
The song of Moses and the Lamb, the temple in heaven opened and seven angels come out of the temple who receive from one of the four living creatures seven golden vials full of the wrath of God.
_1️⃣Revelation 15:1-4:The seven last plagues and the song of Moses and the Lamb_
⏹️The seven last plagues are the final punishment of the wicked, the enemies of God's people before their destruction. The seven last plagues fall under the seventh and last trumpet.
For when the seventh trumpet was sounded in Revelation 11:15, the twenty-four elders fell on their faces and thanked God, worshipping Him that sits on the throne saying, "Saying, We give you thanks, O LORD God Almighty, which are, and were, and are to come;b because you have taken to you your great power, and have reigned. And the nations were angry, and your wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that you should give reward to your servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear your name, small and great; and should destroy them which destroy the earth" (Revelation 11:17-18).
⤴️Under the harvest of the earth, the seventh seal contains the seven trumpets and under the wrath of God, the seventh trumpet contains the seven plagues.
As seven angels sounded the seven trumpets, so the seven angels are appointed to pour out their seven bowls of Gods wrath on the earth. Again, angels are always ministers of God' Providence.
The Apostle Paul says, "Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?" (Hebrews 1:14).
⏭️The sea of glass mingled with fire is a description of God's throne as similarly seen in Revelation 4:6, but this time a new feature is added to it, that is fire.
The Scripture say, "Understand therefore this day, that the LORD your God is he which goes over before you; as a consuming fire he shall destroy them, and he shall bring them down before your face: so shall you drive them out, and destroy them quickly, as the LORD has said to you" (Deuteronomy 9:3).
⏭️The victorious saints stood on the sea of glass for they had overcome the beast and his image and his mark of authority and even the number of his name.
The Revelator says, "And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name" (Revelation 13:17).
⏭️The saints sang the song of Moses and the Lamb. Moses symbolize deliverance from the tyranny of Babylon and the Lamb/ Christ brought deliverance by His blood shed on the cross.
Moses was the servant of God and Christ was the only-begotten Son of God. So the saints had served God in testing and trying times, now they are victorious children of God.
The Apostle John says, "Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it does not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is" (1John 3:2).
_2️⃣Revelation 15:5-8:Seven angels receive the seven golden bowels full of the wrath of God._
⏹️The door to the temple of the tabernacle of the testimony was opened. In the history of Israel, no man ever entered the Most Holy place whence was the Ark of the Covenant, with the Shekinah glory, the Mercy seat, the cherubims, from whence was the two tables of God's commandments, the rod of Aaron that had budded, the pot of manna and holy anointing oil except the High Priest on the Day of Atonement.
Here, a sign that mediation had been completed and sealed the door to God's throne is opened for all to see.
All bearing testimony to the truth of God and his miraculous interposition behalf of the saints.
The prophet Daniel says, "I saw in the night visions, and, behold, one like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of days, and they brought him near before him"(Daniel 7:13).
And the Revelator says, "And I looked, and behold a white cloud, and on the cloud one sat like to the Son of man, having on his head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle." (Revelation 14:14).
⏭️The seven angels came out of the temple, having seven bowels, clothed in pure and white linen-
To show that they were sent from God himself and habited as priests of God.
In the earthly sanctuary, two cherubims attended the presence of God, so in the heavenly sanctuary, angels also attend and minister to Him in all holiness, were given seven bowels of God's wrath since ministration for mercy had ended, so the vials are emblems of divine wrath to be inflicted on the beast and his image and those who worshipped the beast.
The warning had been made prior to this event, "If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand,
The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb" (Revelation 14:9-10).
🅰️Appeal
Smoke filled the temple, no man could enter to the God's mercy-seat, it became inaccessible for the time of judgment on the great foe had come and the destruction of the grand enemy of the church was certain but those who believed his lies will be destroyed with him.
Their fate was long foretold, "Depart from me, you cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels" (Matthew 25:41). Amen!!!
Elico Manenji
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