Preparation for the Bowl Judgments
Lord God, the Almighty;
righteous and true are Your ways,
King of the Nations.[d]
4 Lord, who will not fear
and glorify Your name?
Because You alone are holy,
for all the nations will come
and worship before You
because Your righteous acts
have been revealed.
5 After this I looked, and the heavenly sanctuary—the tabernacle of testimony—was opened. 6 Out of the sanctuary came the seven angels with the seven plagues, dressed in clean, bright linen, with gold sashes wrapped around their chests. 7 One of the four living creatures gave the seven angels seven gold bowls filled with the wrath of God who lives forever and ever. 8 Then the sanctuary was filled with smoke from God’s glory and from His power, and no one could enter the sanctuary until the seven plagues of the seven angels were completed.
Footnotes
- Revelation 15:1 Or and awesome symbolic display
- Revelation 15:2 Other mss add his mark
- Revelation 15:2 Or harps of God; = harps belonging to the service of God
- Revelation 15:3 Other mss read ages