Revelation 15:8

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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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  • Isa 6:4 : 4 The sound of their voices shook the door frames, and the temple was filled with smoke.
  • Exod 40:34-35 : 34 Then the cloud covered the tent of meeting, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle. 35 Moses was not able to enter the tent of meeting because the cloud settled on it and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.
  • 1 Kgs 8:10-11 : 10 Once the priests left the holy place, a cloud filled the LORD’s temple. 11 The priests could not carry out their duties because of the cloud; the LORD’s glory filled his temple.
  • 2 Chr 5:13-14 : 13 The trumpeters and musicians played together, praising and giving thanks to the LORD. Accompanied by trumpets, cymbals, and other instruments, they loudly praised the LORD, singing:“Certainly he is good; certainly his loyal love endures!” Then a cloud filled the LORD’s temple. 14 The priests could not carry out their duties because of the cloud; the LORD’s splendor filled God’s temple.
  • Ps 18:8-9 : 8 Smoke ascended from his nose; fire devoured as it came from his mouth; he hurled down fiery coals. 9 He made the sky sink as he descended; a thick cloud was under his feet. 10 He mounted a winged angel and flew; he glided on the wings of the wind. 11 He shrouded himself in darkness, in thick rain clouds. 12 From the brightness in front of him came hail and fiery coals. 13 The LORD thundered in the sky; the Most High shouted. 14 He shot his arrows and scattered them, many lightning bolts and routed them.
  • Ps 29:9 : 9 The LORD’s shout bends the large trees and strips the leaves from the forests. Everyone in his temple says,“Majestic!”
  • Jer 15:1 : 1 Then the LORD said to me,“Even if Moses and Samuel stood before me pleading for these people, I would not feel pity for them! Get them away from me! Tell them to go away!
  • Lam 3:44 : 44 You shrouded yourself with a cloud so that no prayer can get through.
  • Rom 11:33 : 33 Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how unfathomable his ways!
  • 2 Thess 1:9 : 9 They will undergo the penalty of eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his strength,
  • Rev 15:1 : 1 The Final Plagues 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).

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  • Rev 15:5-7
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    5After these things I looked, and the temple(the tent of the testimony) was opened in heaven,

    6and 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.

    7Then one of the four living creatures gave the seven angels seven golden bowls filled with the wrath of God who lives forever and ever,

  • Rev 15:1-2
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    1The Final Plagues 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).

    2Then 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.

  • Rev 16:1-2
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    1The Bowls of God’s Wrath Then I heard a loud voice from the temple declaring to the seven angels:“Go and pour out on the earth the seven bowls containing God’s wrath.”

    2So the first angel went and poured out his bowl on the earth. Then ugly and painful sores appeared on the people who had the mark of the beast and who worshiped his image.

  • Rev 8:1-6
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    1The Seventh Seal Now when the Lamb opened the seventh seal there was silence in heaven for about half an hour.

    2Then I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and seven trumpets were given to them.

    3Another angel holding a golden censer came and was stationed at the altar. A large amount of incense was given to him to offer up, with the prayers of all the saints, on the golden altar that is before the throne.

    4The smoke coming from the incense, along with the prayers of the saints, ascended before God from the angel’s hand.

    5Then the angel took the censer, filled it with fire from the altar, and threw it on the earth, and there were crashes of thunder, roaring, flashes of lightning, and an earthquake.

    6Now the seven angels holding the seven trumpets prepared to blow them.

  • Isa 6:3-4
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    3They called out to one another,“Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of Heaven’s Armies! His majestic splendor fills the entire earth!”

    4The sound of their voices shook the door frames, and the temple was filled with smoke.

  • 2 Chr 7:2
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    2The priests were unable to enter the LORD’s temple because the LORD’s splendor filled the LORD’s temple.

  • 2 Chr 5:14
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    14The priests could not carry out their duties because of the cloud; the LORD’s splendor filled God’s temple.

  • Rev 11:18-19
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    18The nations were enraged, but your wrath has come, and the time has come for the dead to be judged, and the time has come to give to your servants, the prophets, their reward, as well as to the saints and to those who revere your name, both small and great, and the time has come to destroy those who destroy the earth.”

    19Then the temple of God in heaven was opened and the ark of his covenant was visible within his temple. And there were flashes of lightning, roaring, crashes of thunder, an earthquake, and a great hailstorm.

  • Rev 16:17-18
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    17Finally the seventh angel poured out his bowl into the air and a loud voice came out of the temple from the throne, saying:“It is done!”

    18Then there were flashes of lightning, roaring, and crashes of thunder, and there was a tremendous earthquake– an earthquake unequaled since humanity has been on the earth, so tremendous was that earthquake.

  • 1 Kgs 8:10-11
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    10Once the priests left the holy place, a cloud filled the LORD’s temple.

    11The priests could not carry out their duties because of the cloud; the LORD’s glory filled his temple.

  • Rev 16:7-10
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    7Then I heard the altar reply,“Yes, Lord God, the All-Powerful, your judgments are true and just!”

    8Then the fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun, and it was permitted to scorch people with fire.

    9Thus people were scorched by the terrible heat, yet they blasphemed the name of God, who has ruling authority over these plagues, and they would not repent and give him glory.

    10Then the fifth angel poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast so that darkness covered his kingdom, and people began to bite their tongues because of their pain.

  • Rev 14:9-11
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    9A third angel followed the first two, declaring in a loud voice:“If anyone worships the beast and his image, and takes the mark on his forehead or his hand,

    10that person will also drink of the wine of God’s anger that has been mixed undiluted in the cup of his wrath, and he will be tortured with fire and sulfur in front of the holy angels and in front of the Lamb.

    11And the smoke from their torture will go up forever and ever, and those who worship the beast and his image will have no rest day or night, along with anyone who receives the mark of his name.”

  • Rev 7:15
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    15For this reason they are before the throne of God, and they serve him day and night in his temple, and the one seated on the throne will shelter them.

  • Rev 4:5
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    5From the throne came out flashes of lightning and roaring and crashes of thunder. Seven flaming torches, which are the seven spirits of God, were burning in front of the throne

  • Rev 18:1
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    1Babylon is Destroyed After these things I saw another angel, who possessed great authority, coming down out of heaven, and the earth was lit up by his radiance.

  • Rev 9:13
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    13Then the sixth angel blew his trumpet, and I heard a single voice coming from the horns on the golden altar that is before God,

  • Rev 19:3
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    3Then a second time the crowd shouted,“Hallelujah!” The smoke rises from her forever and ever.

  • Rev 6:17
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    17because the great day of their wrath has come, and who is able to withstand it?”

  • Rev 7:2-3
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    2Then I saw another angel ascending from the east, who had the seal of the living God. He shouted out with a loud voice to the four angels who had been given permission to damage the earth and the sea:

    3“Do not damage the earth or the sea or the trees until we have put a seal on the foreheads of the servants of our God.”

  • Rev 21:22
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    22Now I saw no temple in the city, because the Lord God– the All-Powerful– and the Lamb are its temple.

  • Rev 4:8
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    8Each one of the four living creatures had six wings and was full of eyes all around and inside. They never rest day or night, saying:“Holy Holy Holy is the Lord God, the All-Powerful, Who was and who is, and who is still to come!”

  • Ezek 10:3-4
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    3(The cherubim were standing on the south side of the temple when the man went in, and a cloud filled the inner court.)

    4Then the glory of the LORD arose from the cherub and moved to the threshold of the temple. The temple was filled with the cloud while the court was filled with the brightness of the LORD’s glory.

  • Rev 10:1
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    1The Angel with the Little Scroll Then I saw another powerful angel descending from heaven, wrapped in a cloud, with a rainbow above his head; his face was like the sun and his legs were like pillars of fire.

  • Rev 14:7
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    7He declared in a loud voice:“Fear God and give him glory, because the hour of his judgment has arrived, and worship the one who made heaven and earth, the sea and the springs of water!”

  • Exod 40:34-35
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    34Then the cloud covered the tent of meeting, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.

    35Moses was not able to enter the tent of meeting because the cloud settled on it and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.

  • Rev 9:2-3
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    2He opened the shaft of the abyss and smoke rose out of it like smoke from a giant furnace. The sun and the air were darkened with smoke from the shaft.

    3Then out of the smoke came locusts onto the earth, and they were given power like that of the scorpions of the earth.

  • Rev 5:8
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    8and when he had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders threw themselves to the ground before the Lamb. Each of them had a harp and golden bowls full of incense(which are the prayers of the saints).

  • Rev 11:1
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    1The Fate of the Two Witnesses Then a measuring rod like a staff was given to me, and I was told,“Get up and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and the ones who worship there.