Revelation 15
THIRD SET OF SEVENS
THE THIRD WOE
AN INTRODUCTION TO THE SEVEN PLAGUES:
1: & I SAW ANOTHER SIGN IN HEAVEN, GREAT & MARVELLOUS, SEVEN ANGELS HAVING THE SEVEN LAST PLAGUES; FOR IN THEM IS FILLED UP THE WRATH OF GOD
2: & I SAW AS IT WERE A SEA OF GLASS MINGLED WITH FIRE: & THEM THAT HAD GOTTEN THE VICTORY OVER THE BEAST, & OVER HIS IMAGE, & OVER HIS MARK, & OVER THE NUMBER OF HIS NAME, STAND ON THE SEA OF GLASS, HAVING THE HARPS OF GOD.
3: & THEY SING THE SONG OF MOSES THE SERVANT OF GOD, & THE SONG OF THE LAMB, SAYING, GREAT & MARVELLOUS ARE THY WORKS, LORD GOD ALMIGHTY; JUST & TRUE ARE THY WAYS, THOU KING OF SAINTS.
4: WHO SHALL NOT FEAR THEE, O LORD, & GLORIFY THY NAME? FOR THOU ONLY ART HOLY: FOR ALL NATIONS SHALL COME & WORSHIP BEFORE THEE; FOR THY JUDGMENTS ARE MADE MANIFEST.
5: & AFTER THAT I LOOKED, &, BEHOLD, THE TEMPLE OF THE TABERNACLE OF THE TESTIMONY IN HEAVEN WAS OPENED:
6: & THE SEVEN ANGELS CAME OUT OF THE TEMPLE, HAVING THE SEVEN PLAGUES, CLOTHED IN PURE & WHITE LINEN, & HAVING THEIR BREASTS GIRDED WITH GOLDEN GIRDLES.
7: & ONE OF THE FOUR BEASTS GAVE UNTO THE SEVEN ANGELS SEVEN GOLDEN VIALS FULL OF THE WRATH OF GOD, WHO LIVETH FOR EVER & EVER. 8& THE TEMPLE WAS FILLED WITH SMOKE FROM THE GLORY OF GOD, & FROM HIS POWER; & NO MAN WAS ABLE TO ENTER INTO THE TEMPLE, TILL THE SEVEN PLAGUES OF THE SEVEN ANGELS WERE FULFILLED
another introduction to another set of seven chapters reflecting somewhat what the other 2 have related
The seven plagues are of the seventh trumpet, [the 3rd woe] & denotes the end - transfer is made to the Son.
The seven plagues are shown to be far different than most imagine - religious leaders would rather we believe something metaphysical
- in fact many believe we are now suffering plagues throughout the world - these plagues are not the plagues of nature, or of mankind's acts towards nature, like pollution, aids, cancers & heart diseases, polio of the 1930, or typhoid fever.
The scourges escalate in seven steps from Christianity - in its blasphemous fashion - through Armageddon to the last cataclysm.