Revelation 8:4

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 141:2 : 2 May you accept my prayer like incense, my uplifted hands like the evening offering!
  • Luke 1:10 : 10 Now the whole crowd of people were praying outside at the hour of the incense offering.
  • Rev 8:3 : 3 Another 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.
  • Rev 15:8 : 8 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.
  • Exod 30:1 : 1 The Altar of Incense“You are to make an altar for burning incense; you are to make it of acacia wood.

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  • Rev 8:2-3
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    2 Then I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and seven trumpets were given to them.

    3 Another 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.

  • Rev 8:5-6
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    5 Then 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.

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

  • Rev 5:7-8
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    7 Then he came and took the scroll from the right hand of the one who was seated on the throne,

    8 and 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 15:5-8
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    5 After these things I looked, and the temple(the tent of the testimony) was opened in heaven,

    6 and 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.

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

    8 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.

  • Luke 1:9-11
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    9 he was chosen by lot, according to the custom of the priesthood, to enter the holy place of the Lord and burn incense.

    10 Now the whole crowd of people were praying outside at the hour of the incense offering.

    11 An angel of the Lord, standing on the right side of the altar of incense, appeared to him.

  • 11 Seventy men from the elders of the house of Israel(with Jaazaniah son of Shaphan standing among them) were standing in front of them, each with a censer in his hand, and fragrant vapors from a cloud of incense were swirling upward.

  • 2 May you accept my prayer like incense, my uplifted hands like the evening offering!

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

  • Lev 16:12-13
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    12 and take a censer full of coals of fire from the altar before the LORD and a full double handful of finely ground fragrant incense, and bring them inside the curtain.

    13 He must then put the incense on the fire before the LORD, and the cloud of incense will cover the atonement lid which is above the ark of the testimony, so that he will not die.

  • 5 From 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 16:7-8
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    7 Then I heard the altar reply,“Yes, Lord God, the All-Powerful, your judgments are true and just!”

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

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

  • Rev 7:1-2
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    1 The Sealing of the 144,000 After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding back the four winds of the earth so no wind could blow on the earth, on the sea, or on any tree.

    2 Then 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:

  • 5 Then the angel I saw standing on the sea and on the land raised his right hand to heaven

  • 11 And all the angels stood there in a circle around the throne and around the elders and the four living creatures, and they threw themselves down with their faces to the ground before the throne and worshiped God,

  • 27 and he burned fragrant incense on it, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.

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

  • 5 The messenger replied,“These are the four spirits of heaven going out after presenting themselves before the Lord of all the earth.

  • 1 The 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.

  • 9 They went up on the broad plain of the earth and encircled the camp of the saints and the beloved city, but fire came down from heaven and devoured them completely.

  • 1 The 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.”

  • 8 Smoke ascended from his nose; fire devoured as it came from his mouth; he hurled down fiery coals.

  • Rev 14:17-18
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    17 Then another angel came out of the temple in heaven, and he too had a sharp sickle.

    18 Another angel, who was in charge of the fire, came from the altar and called in a loud voice to the angel who had the sharp sickle,“Use your sharp sickle and gather the clusters of grapes off the vine of the earth, because its grapes are now ripe.”

  • 18 So everyone took his censer, put fire in it, and set incense on it, and stood at the entrance of the tent of meeting, with Moses and Aaron.

  • 38 and the gold altar, and the anointing oil, and the fragrant incense; and the curtain for the entrance to the tent;

  • 1 Babylon 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.

  • 8 Each 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!”

  • Exod 30:7-8
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    7 Aaron is to burn sweet incense on it morning by morning; when he attends to the lamps he is to burn incense.

    8 When Aaron sets up the lamps around sundown he is to burn incense on it; it is to be a regular incense offering before the LORD throughout your generations.

  • 15 and the altar of incense with its poles, the anointing oil, and the fragrant incense; the hanging for the door at the entrance of the tabernacle;

  • 15 Then another angel came out of the temple, shouting in a loud voice to the one seated on the cloud,“Use your sickle and start to reap, because the time to reap has come, since the earth’s harvest is ripe!”

  • 27 The priests and Levites got up and pronounced blessings on the people. The LORD responded favorably to them as their prayers reached his holy dwelling place in heaven.

  • 15 and the priest must take up with his hand some of the choice wheat flour of the grain offering and some of its olive oil, and all of the frankincense that is on the grain offering, and he must offer its memorial portion up in smoke on the altar as a soothing aroma to the LORD.

  • 11 And 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.”

  • 7 Then one of the cherubim stretched out his hand toward the fire which was among the cherubim. He took some and put it into the hands of the man dressed in linen, who took it and left.