Mike Bickle discusses the heavenly temple and the release of the seven bowls of wrath as depicted in Revelation 15:1-8. He emphasizes the connection between prayer, God's judgments, and His manifest presence, highlighting the victorious saints who sing praises for God's just and true ways. Bickle explains that the judgments are necessary for cleansing the earth and that the saints will ultimately glorify God for His righteous actions. He encourages believers to align their hearts and minds with the heavenly perspective on these judgments, recognizing their role in God's redemptive plan.

Father, we ask you now, even as we come before your presence, Lord, I ask you for the release of the spirit of wisdom and the spirit of revelation. Father, I ask you for the unfolding of your heart. Lord, we ask you that you would supernaturally empower us to understand and to fill your heart. In Jesus' name, amen. Well, for those that are just visiting this weekend, we're on session 11 out of a 12-week series on the seven seals, the seven trumpets, and the seven bowls of wrath described in the book of Revelation. Here in the 11th session of this 12-part series, we're looking at the heavenly scene, the heavenly sanctuary. John is able by the Holy Spirit to see the heavenly sanctuary, the scene right before the releasing of the seven bowls of wrath, which end God's plan in releasing His judgments in natural history. Paragraph A, John describes the heavenly scene. Now, this heavenly scene is the place where our prayers ascend. It's the same place where the judgments of God are released, and it's the same place where the fullness of the manifest presence of God is. This is where God's presence is most intensely manifest, and all three go together, the prayer, the judgment, and the manifest presence. John sees a vision of the victorious saints at the end of the age, so this is personal. But he also sees a vision of the seven angels who are entrusted with the seven bowls of wrath and how they release them to end God's judgment purposes for natural history. Now, for those that have been following the study in the book of Revelation, this passage begins the fourth chronological section. There's five chronological sections, meaning five sections that the storyline in those sections falls, I mean, unfolds in chronological sequential order. One event happens right after the other one according just to the flow of time. Now, let's read the passage since I'm assuming that most aren't real familiar with this. It's not a passage you hear much about, so I'll read it slow. John said, I saw another sign in heaven. It was great and it was marvelous. It's interesting that he would identify it as marvelous, and it's the angels with the last plagues, but he sees the wisdom of what's happening. That takes the power of God. He says, it's marvelous and great what I see. I saw seven angels, and they have been entrusted or given the seven last plagues, the seven bowls of wrath. John makes a very dramatic statement. Of course, we're used to the statement, but its implications are dramatic. In these seven plagues, the wrath of God in natural history is complete in terms of touching the nations. It's over. Verse 2, now he moves on to his first vision. After he sees the sign, now he sees a vision. I saw something like a sea of glass, this vast sea, but it had fire throughout it, mingled with fire throughout the sea. And those who have the victory over the Antichrist, over the beast, are standing on the sea of glass. So he sees a multitude of saints. Now, I don't believe that the only ones on the sea of glass are those that have the victory over the Antichrist at the end of the age, but I believe we're going to get at them in a few moments. All the saints of history are on that sea. Get ahead of myself. It's a vast sea, but that's the point I want to make. It's vast. There's potentially two to three billion saints or believers from all of redemptive history. Nobody knows the number, but some suggest there's about a billion throughout history up to date and about a billion right now on the earth. Those numbers are both probably a little bit high and about a billion, I believe, for the great end time harvest. So you put that together, you got two or three billion. So it's a vast sea for the saints to gather before the throne. It's not small. And it's mingled with the fire of the Holy Spirit. Verse 3, and they sing the song of Moses. It's a vast multitude. They're singing the song of Moses. And they're singing the song of the Lamb, Jesus' song. And they're saying this along with the song, great and marvelous are your works. Now they're not just talking about God's works in general. They're talking about his works of judgment that are about to be released in the next vision. Because the next vision is the seven angels coming out of the temple, pouring out the judgment. When they say great and marvelous are your works, they're talking about the works of judgment. Just and true are your ways. They're saying your judgments are right. They're necessary. They're not too severe. They're not too lenient. They're not too late. They're not too early. They're perfectly just and they're true to love. That's what he's saying. All the saints are. They see it clearly in that day. And then they declare that the Lord is king of the saints. Who shall not fear you, O Lord? Who shall not glorify your name? What person on the earth from this time forward will refuse to glorify your name? Because there's about to be a cleansing of the earth in a very dramatic way coming up as the result of these seven bowls of wrath. So verse four, they're declaring ahead of time that when these bowls are poured out, there will be nobody on the earth that will neglect to fear the Lord and glorify him. For you alone are holy. All the nations after these judgments are poured out will worship you for your judgments. They have been manifest. Now this song of Moses, the song of the lamb, Jesus's song, the declaration of God's ways and works are directly related to the pouring out of the seven bowls of wrath. Now the reason that's important, because as weak human beings that we all are, we read the bowls of wrath and my natural mind has a an aversion to it. I draw back and go, no, ah. And the Holy Spirit says, but if you understood now what you will understand then, you would not have the same aversion to my wisdom in these judgments. Well I don't know now what I'll know then, but by faith I want to reach into the wisdom of the Holy Spirit. I want to say, Holy Spirit help me see now what I will see clearly then. I want to agree with your leadership. Well the next vision, verse 5, behold the temple of the tabernacle of the testimony was opened. Now that's a awkward name, an unusual name. I mean awkward just for our understanding of the scripture, but we'll see in a minute. It's a very straightforward idea. The temple in heaven is what it's talking about. It's opened. Now John had already seen the temple opened at the seventh trumpet. That was the event just right here, but there's something new than just the fact the temple's open, because it was opened at the seventh trumpet, the event just before revelation 15. Here's the new piece of information. Out of the temple came seven angels, and these seven angels had seven plagues, or the seven bowls of wrath. They're called plagues, and the reason they're called plagues is to relate them, to connect them to the plagues of Egypt, so we understand that the the drama that unfolded in Moses's generation is going to unfold again. So the use of the word plague is meant to tie us back to the plagues of Egypt, and these seven angels, they have the seven plagues, or the seven bowls of wrath. They're clothed in pure and bright linen. They have their chests girded with golden bands. So we might look at these angels who are commissioned with the task of pouring out the bowls of wrath, and we might go, this is dirty work. This is the dark side of the salvation history, and these angels, they say that's not true, for our clothes indicate our countenance and the nature of our personality and who we are. We're bright. We're clean. This is good. This is right. This isn't the something done on the side. It's not something that we're a little bit embarrassed about. It's clean and bright, and it's the good work of God to confront evil face to face. Verse 7, then one of the four living creatures gave these seven angels seven bowls full of wrath. Now these four living creatures, one of them had all the seven bowls. The father has obviously given them, commissioned him with this authority. He brings the seven bowls and gives them to each of these angels. You think, well why would they do that? Well the four living creatures, again, they're not ashamed of these judgments. They actually want to participate in them because they see the wisdom and they see the fruit of these judgments. And the reason this passage, I find it so challenging, but very significant, because the mindset in the church today, and it's understandable. I'm not saying it in a negative way. I'm in a criticism. We're just weak in our minds and our understanding, myself included. We have an aversion for the things that heaven has enthusiasm for. And it's not to cause pain to people, but it's to confront the free will of man that's gone awry at the ultimate way to confront it head on, to drive sin off the planet that love could abound. They're enthusiastic about it. They're not shy in heaven about this. So these four living creatures, one of them says, in essence, I want to be involved in this. And it's an honor to be involved. It's not the dark side, the shadow dimension of God's purposes. But God is bold about confronting injustice on the planet. And He's committed to it. And the four living creatures, one of them says, I'm involved in this. And so He hands the golden bowls. They're full of wrath. He gives them to these seven angels. These seven high-ranking angels. Now notice they're golden bowls, which speaks of their value. It speaks of the relationship to the Godhead. And they're in contrast to the golden bowls that the harlot has that are false and counterfeit. Now these bowls, they're full of wrath. They're overflowing. They're filled to the brim with the wrath of God. And we, it's called the wine of His wrath in the book of Revelation several times. So we have this imagery of this hot wine filled to the brim, about to overflow and to be poured out on the nations. It's the wrath of God who lives forever and forever. In other words, what God is saying, what John is saying in this, God has the big picture. He sees the consequences of this judgment a thousand years from now, a million years from now, a billion years from now, and He sees the consequences and the fruit is good. It's not a narrow-minded, short-term perspective. It's the big picture. The God of love with all power and the big picture is acting decisively in His intervention of natural history to confront the free will of the wicked in the nations who will not relent of their wickedness. He's the God who lives forever and forever. Paragraph, I mean verse 8. Now the temple in heaven was filled with the smoke from the glory, the glory of God, and it was the smoke from His power. Now that's interesting, the smoke from His glory and the smoke from His power. Obviously it's the same reality, but they're making two points of emphasis about one reality. And no one was able to enter the temple. Now the temple is the place where the prayers are offered or that's where they ascend before God. Nobody was able to come into the temple and intercede to stop these judgments from unfolding until they were complete. Huge point. It's one of the most terrifying statements in the Bible right there. Okay, let's go to paragraph B. Now this is a, again, a passage. It's straightforward, but most of the ideas, we're a little bit, we're a little bit unfamiliar with them. At least I find I am. As I read through these, they're, I go, it's not that complicated, but it's hard to get a hold of it to really have it touch our hearts. I love this chapter. I want to just ponder on it many, many times in the years to come. So we eat the scroll, as the angel told John and Ezekiel. I want to devour, I want to meditate on this passage because there's attitudes. The attitudes of the saints are described and of the angels in this passage. It's what they feel and what they think. And that is one of the most important things of preparation right now is that we think and feel in unity with the saints and the angels in heaven, in other words, with the Holy Spirit. But Revelation 15 is about how the saints and how the angels think and how they feel about the most severe intervention of God in history in terms of shaking the nations. And that's our greatest need or one of our greatest needs as we study the book of Revelation. We want to come into agreement. We want to come into alignment in our thinking and our feelings. So this is the chapter. If that's on your heart, and of course it is on many of you, you want that. You want to come into that agreement. This is a chapter to meditate on often. Now we can't enter into a deep agreement even conceptually at the brain level or emotionally at the heart level without the Holy Spirit helping us. I read this, I go, Lord yes, but it still bounces off. You know, I read it and it doesn't penetrate. And I imagine the Holy Spirit is saying something like, well, stay with it. Stay with it. Breakthrough will come in your understanding as well as your heart. And you will see what is great and marvelous about these things. And you'll agree with the angels as well as the saints and their response and their mindset. Okay, paragraph B, there's three parts to this passage. Verse 1, John introduces the angels with the seven bowls. First he tells us they're there. Then he goes right on to the first vision of the victorious saints. And they're thanking God, they're praising Him for the release of judgment. And again, that challenges us. What do they know that we don't know? And that's what the verse is supposed to do. Then third, he describes, John describes the seven angels, what they look like and what their task is. As they leave the temple, the prayer center of heaven, around the throne of God where the manifest place, they leave it to go do this awesome, terrifying task of this final outpouring that probably happens in the course of a couple weeks. All seven unfold. These bowls unfold one after the other. And we'll look at that in our final session, session 12. Paragraph C, now in order to grasp the full implications of Revelation 15, you have to remember the context. What just happened in terms of the storyline I'm talking about? What is the last event described before Revelation 15 in terms of the chronological, sequential unfolding of events in historical sequence? And it is the seventh trumpet, the one we looked at last week. The rapture of the church just happened. The seventh trumpet, the last trumpet was sounded. And Revelation 10 says it sounded for several days, for some days. We don't know how many days, but in the days of the sounding of the seven trumpets. So for some days it was sounding. The church is raptured. Jesus is beginning to go in the sky, in the clouds, across all the nations, so that every eye will see Him. I'm talking about of unbelievers, because the believers are being raptured. Every eye will see Him. And they will mourn when they see Him. So He begins His procession, His royal procession across the earth. And of course He's going to end up in the Mount of Olives. Paragraph D. In the days of the sounding of the seventh angel, the mystery of God is completed. Now it's the mystery of God, as we said last session, it's the mystery of God with the church. The church is perfected. The church is ready. The church is set for her next assignment on the earth with Jesus. But the wrath of God on the wicked is not yet complete at the seventh trumpet. But the mystery of God with the saints is complete. They are now ready to rule with Jesus on the earth. So the seventh trumpet, the church has been raptured. Yet there's another thing that happens, that needs to happen in terms of natural history. The wrath needs to be complete on the earth. Because the mystery of God with the church has now been complete at the time of the rapture. Paragraph E. After the seventh trumpet, we looked at again, our last session, the saints now, this is the first we see of the saints after they've all been raptured. And it describes the saints standing on the sea of glass in great victory. Now at the time of the rapture, paragraph E. Now this is massive, what I'm about to say here. I mean it's obvious, but the implications are massive. When you think about it, I love to think about this. At the time of the rapture, the veil between heaven and earth has been lifted and will remain lifted forever. The veil between the two realms is lifted at the seventh trumpet, at the, at the last trumpet at the rapture of the church. And it's lifted forever. That was the event before Revelation 15. The veil is lifted. Now the scripture doesn't say the veil is lifted in those language, but it says every eye of every unbeliever will see Jesus. It says all the angels are in the sky with Him. The glory of God. All the saints are raptured. The dead, the righteous dead, have been raised. Flaming fires in the sky. That sounds like a lifted veil. It's not talking about just spirit of revival. We're talking about Jesus Himself, never ever to leave the earth. Once, once He comes, Jesus rules on the earth forever. Top of page two. Now we're obviously won't finish all the notes, as usual for those visiting us. Verse 1. I saw another sign in heaven, great and marvelous, seven angels with seven plagues, the last plagues. For in them the wrath of God in natural history is complete. Paragraph B. John sees the last judgments of natural history. And my definition of national, national, natural history, it ends at the time of the second coming, at the rapture and Jesus' return. History doesn't end, but natural history does. From now on there's a supernatural dimension in all the events that happen on the earth. There's still a natural dimension, but there's a supernatural dimension way beyond anything we've known in history. But it's a glorious thing to know, the hour is coming when judgment will be over forever. Isn't that a great, that's, it's, it's terrifying that it's yet to come, but it's assuring that it will be over forever in a short amount of time. We'll never grapple with the subject of preparing the nations for judgment or coming under the judgment. Roman numeral 3. We're gonna go through these verses again, a little slower. I just gave you an overview a few minutes ago. And of course one reason I love to give the overview, in case I don't get to it later, I still, you know, threw it out there. I at least got to throw a few of the ideas out because most of the, towards the last couple pages we never get to. Paragraph 8. The victory. Let's read this. Revelation 15 verse 2. I saw something like a sea of glass. The fire of the Holy Spirit was all over this sea. It's the fire of the Holy Spirit. Now the picture you get is what happened in Acts chapter 2 on 120 people and tongues of fire. This is at the fullness of what Acts chapter 2 at the Pentecost of the day, Pentecost, was only a token. The fire of the Spirit is there on a billion or two billion or three billion, whatever the number is, several billion saints from, believers from all of history. The fire of the Spirit is on the saints on the sea as they're before the Lord. Wow! I look forward to that day. Now John emphasizes those in the end times that have victory over the beast. Now this is talking about actual people who are alive at the time of the Antichrist. But the fact that he emphasizes them does not limit this vision to them. He does this several times in the book of Revelation. He will emphasize a particular group like he does in Revelation 20. He talks about the end-time martyrs reigning. But Scripture is clear. It's not limited to the end-time martyrs to reign with Jesus because Jesus told the Apostles themselves that we're not end-time martyrs. They were alive 2,000 years ago. He goes, you'll reign with me. So we know from the Scripture that even though the book of Revelation emphasizes the end-time saints and the victory, the reward, it doesn't limit the truth to them, the truth of that passage. But the reason it's emphasizing them, because I believe that it's going to get, the conflict is going to be so real, more real than we can imagine in real flesh-and-blood terms, and these verses will be a lifeline to us. And the saints will need them like no other time in history. And so therefore I believe with that in mind the Holy Spirit pressed John to focus on the end-time saints. But I believe that on the sea of glass it's not limited to only those that are alive at the time of the Antichrist. Because the rapture of the church was the event right before Revelation 15 in terms of the sequential order, the chronological order. Revelation 12, 13, and 14 is what we call an angelic explanation. It's a parenthetical section. It's a parentheses. And many commentators agree with that. It's a parentheses. It's not the storyline unfolding, but it's a pause of the storyline to give insight behind the scenes as to what's taking place. Well we know from Revelation 19 that the bride in the generation of the Lord returns. The whole church will be ready. Those that are alive at the time of the Lord's appearing, they will all be ready. There will not be one believer alive at the time of the rapture that will not be prepared. They will make it that far if they're not prepared. There's lots of off-ramps to take if they want to take them. If they're not prepared, they will take those off-ramps to get off the main flow of what God's doing. But there will be, you know, hundreds of millions of believers prepared. Revelation 19, verse 7. And so the church as a whole will be in victory at the time of the coming of the Lord. I believe that John on the sea of glass is seeing all the saints that have just been raptured. Meaning raptured and raised from the dead from history. Not just the end-time martyrs, as some commentators say, and I appreciate their view, but I think it's bigger than that. Because again, in the chronology, the event before was the rapture. Paragraph B. Here's what Jesus said about the rapture. The saints would be gathered together, never ever to leave his presence. We who are alive and remain will be raptured, caught up. That's what the word caught up means. That's where we get the word rapture. We'll be caught up together. We will always be with the Lord. Once the church is together, we will always be in the Lord, with the Lord. There's not a side group over there that's on the sea and everybody else is somewhere far away. We're all together in the presence of the Lord after the seventh trumpet. That's what Paul said. Jesus said the same thing. When the angels come, we'll be gathered together from all the four winds. So I believe we'll be together on the sea of glass. It'll be a couple billion. I'm doing my best to get to the front. You know how you get to the front? By going to the back in this age, truly. By being content at the low place is how you get to the front. There's billions. I'm sure everybody will see clear, but I just kind of, I want to be in that, you know, upper millions, not in the backer billions, you know. I want to see. I want to be there. You want to be there. Whatever. I'm just having fun with that, but I actually, I'm being truthful. Paragraph B. Now it's possible because the seven bows of wrath are being released on the earth and Jesus is marching up through the land. As we looked in Isaiah 63, there's about ten passages describe this. When Jesus marches up through the land, it's in the Bible, real clear, on his way to Jerusalem, killing his enemies before he gets to Jerusalem at the Mount of Olives and splits it. He gets to the Mount of Olives. I don't believe that's where he touches down first, but he ends up there and the mountain splits. And he's on a white horse and saints are with him as he's coming up through the land, through Edom, which is modern-day Jordan, on his way to Jerusalem. Now I don't believe, now the Bible doesn't give a definition of this, so you have to just take this as an opinion, but I don't believe all two or three billion saints are all going to be on the ground on horses coming, marching up with him. I believe that many of them will be on the ground and many of them will be witnessing what I call the sea of glass and what I call the great amphitheater in the sky as a great cloud of witnesses seeing everything in the presence of Jesus, but not on the ground with him during that transitional period. But I believe we'll all be there. Some won't be with him and some not with him. We'll all be there. We'll all witness all the events. Some closer to Jesus and some not as close to Jesus. Three billion saints won't all be in the same proximity to that white horse leading the pack. Paragraph C. Now the sea of glass is foreshadowed in the Old Testament. It's pictured, it means in the Old Testament there were a picture of it to give us insight into what it's about. It's foreshadowed by the bronze laver in the tabernacle or the brazen laver. Now the brazen laver or the bronze laver, you can say the same thing, brazen and bronze is the same idea because some translations say it one way, some say the other, was in Moses's tabernacle and it was a laver where water was in it and the priests would go and they would wash their hands in that water. It was a place to clean themselves. It was also a place they would wash their feet before they would enter into the sanctuary to do the work, the service of the sanctuary. That laver was important in Moses's tabernacle. Then in Solomon's temple, because Solomon's temple replaced Moses's tabernacle, Moses's tabernacle was the temporary set up and then Solomon's temple, he upgraded it. In Solomon's temple it was called the Bronze Sea. It was a big, it wasn't just a little laver, it was a big sea, a lot of water in it. And they would wash the offerings in it. The point is, whether we're talking about the smaller one in Moses's tabernacle, the bronze laver, or the larger one, the Bronze Sea, which was a vast container full of water, it was for cleansing and it was in the outer court and it was for cleansing before they entered into the holy place in the Holy of Holies. And I believe it's a picture of the Sea of Glass. All the saints, using the tabernacle language, they're all in the outer court, but they're in the presence of God and it's a time of preparation for the millennial kingdom and all that's involved in that. Top of page 3. Now we're going to look at the attitude of the saints, not just the fact they're standing on the Sea of Glass. They sing the song of Moses and they sing the song of the Lamb and they proclaim this. So there's song and proclamation. There's a combination of the two. They say to the Lord, and it would be true of the father or the son, some commentators say they're talking to the father, others say they're talking to the son, and I say, well if you talk to the father, the son hears it and smiles. If you talk to the son, the father hears it and smiles. So I'm not overly concerned because they're both smiling and they're both listening. So they sing these two songs and they make this declaration. This is right before, this is on the Sea of Glass. It's a declaration of thanksgiving, of, of they're declaring their agreement with what's about to happen. But I think it's more than they're just saying thank you. I think they're actually, in this declaration, they're actually participating. This is a form of intercession, a prophetic declaration as well. Here's, here's all the saints on the Sea of Glass right before the seven bowls, seven bowls are poured out and they're agreeing with the wisdom of them being poured out. And they say to the Lord, great and marvelous are your works. But again, in context, it's the works of judgment. And the great revival that's just taken place over the last few years before the saints are raptured. Just and true are your ways. And it is the ways of the great revival, but in its context, it's talking about confronting evil and a dramatic intervention on a global level to drive it off the planet. That's what's going on here. Just and true. O King of the saints, and the fruit of this judgment, they said in a rhetorical question, who won't fear you? In other words, everybody will fear you who lives on the earth after this season. Who will ignore Jesus? Nobody. They will all glorify Him. Everyone on the earth after these events are over, everybody that lives on the earth with natural bodies throughout the millennial kingdom, of course all the saints will, of course. But we're talking about the, the nations with natural bodies and the nations go on for another thousand years with a natural dimension, a very powerful natural dimension. I mean, a very significant natural dimension. There's a supernatural dimension as well. They, nobody will ignore Jesus. Nobody will take Him lightly. They will all fear Him in the fear of God in the right sense. They will take His words very seriously. But not just that. They will rejoice in Him. They won't only fear Him, take Him seriously and weigh everything He says. They will glorify Him. They will love Him. They will boast about Him in their everyday conversations and in their work and in their recreation and their occupation, their family life. They will boast in Jesus. There will be nobody who fails to do this. That's the fruit of these judgments. Now, it goes on to say, for you alone are holy and all the nations will worship you because your judgments have been manifest. Now, we all dream of the day when the nations will love Jesus. I mean, the report came, you know, Washington DC. All the senators were slain in the spirit. They came up rejoicing in Jesus. We'd go, yes, yes, yes. Well, this is way beyond all the senators getting overwhelmed by the glory of God in a meeting. I mean, we dream of the, the highest dream we could imagine. All the governments loving Jesus and changing all the laws and in their private life rejoicing in Him. Wow! I mean, what bigger dream could we have for impact, for justice? Well, we dream the dream, but the connection point were to understand this happens because the judgments are manifest. Why am I saying that? Because, as I've already said it, but I want to repeat it over and over. Today, the church is real shy about the judgments of God. It's politically incorrect in society and in the church to line up in agreement with Jesus's judgments. But I want to say, boldly, that the wise and the godly and the humble will rejoice in His judgments and what He's doing. Not for the pain they cause, but for the intervention that they represent to confront evil and free the oppressed. But it's easy to say that here in an environment of unity. That is a very difficult message out there, even in the church. But we meditate on this. We say, if we're gonna say it then, why won't we say it now? If it will be obvious then, why can't we declare it with boldness now? We want all the nations to fear Jesus and all the laws changed and everybody to glorify Him in their recreation, their occupation, their family life. Well then, it's going to require the manifestation of His judgments because God will not suspend the free will of the nations, but He will honor it. And if they choose evil, He will confront them until they can no longer affect society. So you can't have the dream of the breakthrough without the intervention of the God who honors the free will of the people who won't repent. And God honors their free will. He lets them not repent, but He intervenes and confronts them and keeps them from influencing society. That's called judgment. Because God wants love to fill the earth and wisdom. Well that's what's going on here. They sang the song of Moses, paragraph 8. Now there's two songs that Moses sang in the Scripture. So the commentators kind of go back and forth. But I think both of them are alluded to. In Exodus 15, that was the first song in the Bible that's recorded. And it was the song of Israel's victory over Pharaoh. And of course the end time Pharaoh is the Antichrist. Now Exodus 15 was the beginning of Moses's ministry. But Moses sang another song that was well known in Israel, Deuteronomy 32. That was 40 years later at the end of his ministry. So the commentators go, was it the one at the beginning? Or was it the song at the end? I think it's probably both. I think they come together. Well either way, Moses's song is sung. He's got two hit songs. He's got two songs that will be sang forever. So there you have it. Those are major hit songs. Paragraph B. But they don't just sing the song of Moses about the triumph over the old Pharaoh, the Pharaoh of old. But they're gonna sing about the triumph over the end time Pharaoh and the devil and all the works of darkness. That's the song of the Lamb, the song of redemption. So what's happening here is the Old Testament saints and the New Testament saints are singing together of their experience of redemption and right there before the Lord that's one reality with different facets of one master plan of the love of God. So the Old Testament saints, you know David says, I didn't learn those songs that Paul talked about. But I know the songs I wrote about in the Psalms. And I sang Moses's songs. And we'll all be singing out of their actual experience from the earth. Not just their experience in the resurrection. They'll sing lots of new songs forever. But they'll be singing out of what they experienced in the past in their redemption. And that's what's going on. It's all together as one reality. Paragraph C. I've already made this point. But the idea of just and true and great and marvelous are your works. We must agree with heaven's evaluation. We must break our agreement with the secular view. With the humanist mindset that's in the church that hates God actually. Even in the church they devise a God after their own image. We're made in His image. We can't make Him in our image. We have to worship the God of the Bible. We can't refashion Him into our image and then worship Him. That's called idolatry. We're worshiping ourself and calling it Jesus. We have to worship the Jesus of the Bible. Not the God we make in our image. And again that is getting more and more pronounced in the culture. And then in the decades to come I see it getting stronger and stronger and stronger. We break our agreement and we line up with heaven. Paragraph F. They declare great and marvelous are your works. Now all the saints, I don't believe this is just the end-time saints that overcome the Antichrist. I think it's actually the saints from history. But if it's just a few, if it's just a portion, you know, the several hundred million, but I, again, I believe it's all because the raptures just happened. And we're all together. They're saying great. Your works are great in love. I don't have that written down, but it's the obvious. They're great in love. They're great in wisdom. They're great in power. Just the same, the three things you always think about when you think about God's greatness. You're great in love. You're great in wisdom. You're great in power. So they're declaring your end-time judgments are great in love. They're great in wisdom. They're very fruitful. They're very effective. And you have great power to overthrow the Antichrist and to reverse all that's happening in the nations and suddenly turn the earth around. What power! What wisdom! What love! Great associates with all three of those ideas. Love, wisdom, and power. But it's not just that the saints will agree with the greatness. They will marvel. Their hearts will be stirred. They will be fascinated. They will be awestruck. It won't just be like, wow, that was good. We agree. They'll be going, oh man, I can't get over this. It is, I'm awestruck by it. It causes me to marvel. And when we begin by the spirit of prophecy, I'm talking about just the Spirit of Revelation and the Word I'm talking about, the Scripture, we can touch some of that dimensions of His greatness and the marvel that it causes in our heart. We can touch some of that even now by the Holy Spirit and the Word of God. As I study this stuff, and I just know just a little bit, the beginning of the beginning, I'm not, that's not false humility. Some of you are just at the beginning of the beginning of the beginning. But I tell you, the book of Revelation and the whole Scripture as it ties together is a, is an ocean so deep there's none among us, anywhere in the earth, that gets more than in times 101. We're all beginners. No matter who you are, we're beginners of beginners of this. But as I study this, over the years, I feel there's a bigger cry in my spirit saying, great! Oh, your love, your wisdom, your power. Oh, it causes me to marvel. I'm fascinated by this. It touches our spirit now, that which will consume us then. Because you'll be there. You'll be actually saying, great, marvelous. So if you're gonna say it now, why not, why not get a hold of it now? Enjoy it now. Paragraph I. For you alone are holy. You alone are holy. The Antichrist's ways were oppressive and they were, they were perverse and oppressive. Even though they're, they will be called liberating and tolerant, they will be oppressive and they will be perverse. Jesus's ways that are called oppressive and perverse are actually true and holy. They're exactly opposite of what society says. So we're declaring now, you alone are holy. You're the only agenda that creates love. You're the only one with an agenda that is pure, that's not defiled. You're the only one with an agenda that is not ultimately oppressed. All the other agendas ultimately bring oppression because they bring darkness to bear down on the human spirit. They open the doors to Satan and give him legal permission to torment lives. These tolerant ways that society is talking about, they are giving keys to Satan to oppress them and torment them. There's only one that has an agenda that's holy, that's pure, that creates love. It's his. Top of page four. Now after these sayings, verse 5 to 8, we'll just go a couple more moments and leave you to read the rest. After these sayings, here's the second vision. Because I think, I believe the first vision of all the saints in unity declaring these decrees out of gratitude, but they have a prophetic impact, I believe they actually contribute to the second vision here. The one here in verse 5 to 8. Because those that are tracking with me, you know Psalm 149, with the high praises of God in our lips, our mouth, and the two-edged sword in our hands, there's those down on the earth that are warring against the Antichrist in the battle of the earth. Those are the remnant of Israel. And they're praising the saints that are raptured. They're praising in heaven. And these that aren't yet, they didn't get raptured. They're still down there. But they're talking about the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. They don't know who he is yet. They go, oh we love you, help us, help us. And they soon understand it's Yeshua, it's Jesus Himself they've been calling on. But there's Psalm 149. They got swords because the nations have gathered around Jerusalem and they're praising. We're praising on the sea of glass and the great heavenly amphitheater. They're praising down there and the whole thing comes together and looses the seven bowls of wrath. There you have it. It all comes together. After these sayings, I looked and behold, the temple of the tabernacle of the testimony. Again that's a kind of, for us it's an awkward phrase, but it's a very straightforward idea. It was opened. Well John had already seen it open in the last event, which was the seventh trumpet. That's not new information that it was open because he just said that, again the last event before this. But what's new is in verse 6, out of the temple came the seven angels with the bowls of wrath. That was the new piece of information. Now these angels, they had bright linen. They were not doing a dark work. They were not doing kind of the edgy shadow kind of assignment. It was bright, it was clean, it was pure. It would produce love in the earth and they were bold in their spirit about it and shameless because they knew where it was going. This idea of, I mean if you had to be responsible to release the seven bowls of wrath, I mean, have you studied the seven bowls of wrath? I'd go, well Lord, I would rather worship and have somebody else release them. I'd rather have somebody else involved. But the angels go, not if you knew what we knew. Because their very attire reflects the disposition of their spirit. It's a priestly attire that's bright and clean and they're actually doing a priestly function of helping under Jesus' leadership to bring cleansing to the earth. It's a priestly function. That's why they're in priestly attire. Verse 7. Then one of the four living creatures, we already covered this, gave to these angels seven golden bowls full of wrath. Verse 8. The temple was filled with smoke from the glory. Smoke from the power. No one was able to enter the temple until the plagues were completed. Paragraph A. The temple of the tabernacle of the testimony. Now say that. The temple of the tabernacle of, that's kind of hard to say, isn't it? Temple of the tabernacle of the testimony. Now what's happening is John is combining two words. He's combining tabernacle and temple. They're the same thing in essence. The tabernacle is what it was in Moses' day and 500 years later it was called the temple in Solomon's day. Solomon upgraded it. Solomon made a permanent building whereas Moses just a tent that moved around. So John is combining those two time frames and he calls it the temple of the tabernacle. He puts both structures together in a new phrase. It's the only time in the Bible that this phrase, it's a new phrase. Because someone says, well who was doing it more accurately according to God's heart? Moses or Solomon? I mean Solomon had some unsettled issues in his life. But he had more glory in one way. But Moses was, you know, the old time and the, and the Word of the Lord comes, the temple of the tabernacle, the combining of the two realities. These were the two structures referred to in the Old Testament as God's dwelling place. These were the two structures where the presence of God was manifest most. Both of these structures foreshadowed the reality of the temple in heaven. So the temple in heaven is called the temple of the tabernacle. It has both names. What's the testimony? Paragraph B. The testimony is the Ten Commandments. It's called the testimony because in it God testifies of what is pure and what is right and in it he testifies against sin. So in this heavenly temple is the testimony against the Antichrist and all the secular ways of compromise in society. There's a testimony in heaven called the Ten Commandments. It is called, it is the testimony. That's, that's what it's called in the Bible. It is testifying against the compromise that's happening in the nations. Which many in the church are celebrating this compromise. Again it's called tolerance. Spirit of tolerance. Tolerance if understood right is a wonderful thing. But usually it's applied in a very, with a, with a very dark overtones to it. Okay. Top of page 5. Top of page 6. Nobody was able to enter the temple. The smoke of the glory was covering the temple. Nobody could go in there. And I give you examples where the glory came on the, with Moses' day in the, in the, in the tabernacle days and he couldn't enter. And the glory came in Solomon's day in 2 Chronicles 7 and he couldn't enter. In both the tabernacle and the temple in the Old Testament the glory came and the, nobody could enter into the, into the temple. The glory overwhelmed them. But it's not just an issue of the glory overwhelming. That's part of it. There's another issue. Paragraph P. Nobody's able to enter means nobody is given access to the altar of incense, the prayer ministry to stop it. No intercessor could rise up and say no. The Lord says until this is completed nobody can cry out against it. Nobody can get into the temple for this very short period of time. Psalm 76 verse 7. Who may stand in your presence when once you are angry? And the anger of God is to the boiling point. The rapture's already happened. It's the, it's the final, you know, week or two or three before it's all comes to a culmination. And He is confronting the nations to put an end to evil and oppression on the earth. Paragraph Q. There was a time when God told Jeremiah, actually told it, when the city of Jerusalem came to such perversion, He said, there will be judgment. I don't even want you to pray against it right now. You can pray for grace after this next judgment comes. And He was like, Lord I have to pray. He goes, no you don't understand Jeremiah. Don't even ask for this short season. Then He tells him in paragraph R. We'll end with this. He tells Jeremiah, even if Moses and Samuel, the greatest intercessors numbered among the graces, even if they interceded, I would not listen to them. Because something of great hardness has happened in Jerusalem and God sent His judgment and destroyed the city, the Babylonian captivity. That's what's going on, on a global level, what was going to happen in Jerusalem in Jeremiah's day in a very temporary, short-term way. Well when mercy is rejected, in those final days, those final week or two or three, before Jesus enters into Jerusalem, the only alternative is wrath. To confront the free will of man that refuses to yield. If they yield, they can receive. But they're hardened. They've taken the mark of the beast. They're brazen in their heart. And the Lord says, I will intervene and end this now and cause love to prosper on the earth forever. Amen and amen. Let's stand.