Revelation 15:1-4

1 I saw in heaven another great and marvelous sign: seven angels with the seven last plagues--last, because with them God's wrath is completed.

The seven last plagues mentioned is the final judgement and will fall upon Earth, now know as the Kingdom of the Beast.  They are the final horrors.  They will be discussed in detail in Chapter 16.

Interesting note:  The word seven is used 54 times in Revelation:

Here are the Kinds of sevens mentioned:
Churches
Spirits
Golden candlesticks
Lamps
Stars
Eyes
Horns
Thousand men
Thunders
Trumpets
Angels
Mountains
Golden vials
Last plagues
Crowns
Heads
Kingdoms (or Kings)
Seals.

http://www.biblestudy.org/bibleref/meaning-of-numbers-in-bible/7.html  This is an interesting article concerning the number 7 and some of the relevance to our Heavenly Father that you may want to glance at.   Let's just say that the number 7 is a number of "spiritual perfection" and the number 6 is the number of man.

2 And I saw what looked like a sea of glass mixed with fire and, standing beside the sea, those who had been victorious over the beast and his image and over the number of his name. They held harps given them by God 3 and sang the song of Moses the servant of God and the song of the Lamb: "Great and marvelous are your deeds, Lord God Almighty. Just and true are your ways, King of the ages.4 Who will not fear you, O Lord, and bring glory to your name? For you alone are holy. All nations will come and worship before you, for your righteous acts have been revealed."

We are going into the 6th parenthetical passage in the book of Revelation. (vs 2-4).  What we are viewing is a scene in Heaven.  The sea of glass was in chapter 4:6, this time there is fire mixed in.  Fire in Scripture is often a symbol of judgement.  In this case the judgement that will put upon the Earth.

But, who are these saints with the harps singing?  The songs may give us a clue.  The Song of Moses is one of triumph over Pharaoh and his armies from Exodus.  The song of the Lamb is a song of redemption.  These are those who have been raised from the dead and ruptured in the tribulation.  They were faithful to God on the Earth, and because of their faithfulness and the witness bearing, they were martyred.  They are singing the Glory To God and to our Lord. 

Now, look at the song.  Notice it is composed of quotations from the old Testament. In addition, the song is only about God, not anything the martyrs did...Only God!





Blessing on all!


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Ref:

The Dakes Annotated Reference Bible
Lectures on the Revelation; Ironside
The Revelation of John Vol 1 & 2 Barclay