Victorious worshippers with harps stand beside a crystal sea glowing with fire as seven white-robed angels emerge from the opened heavenly temple with golden bowls.
KING JAMES VERSION

REVELATION 15

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CHAPTER VISUAL

Revelation 15 — Those who overcame the beast sing beside the fiery sea while seven angels receive the final bowls of wrath.

About this illustration

The song of Moses and the Lamb is shown through worship rather than visible lyrics. Temple smoke and the seven bowls anticipate chapter 16 without depicting those judgments before they are poured out.

Scripture basis: Revelation 15:1–8
  1. 1And I saw another sign in heaven, great and marvellous, seven angels having the seven last plagues; for in them is filled up the wrath of God.
  2. 2And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire: and them that had gotten the victory over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark, and over the number of his name, stand on the sea of glass, having the harps of God.
  3. 3And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvellous are thy works, Lord God Almighty; just and true are thy ways, thou King of saints.
  4. 4Who shall not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify thy name? for thou only art holy: for all nations shall come and worship before thee; for thy judgments are made manifest.
  5. 5And after that I looked, and, behold, the temple of the tabernacle of the testimony in heaven was opened:
  6. 6And the seven angels came out of the temple, having the seven plagues, clothed in pure and white linen, and having their breasts girded with golden girdles.
  7. 7And one of the four beasts gave unto the seven angels seven golden vials full of the wrath of God, who liveth for ever and ever.
  8. 8And the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God, and from his power; and no man was able to enter into the temple, till the seven plagues of the seven angels were fulfilled.

King James Version · Standardized 1769 text with Strong’s numbering · Public domain outside the United Kingdom

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