Apocalypse 15:8-16:3 BDS

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Revelation 15:1-8

The Song of Triumph Revelation 15:3 I. The life of the redeemed is here represented as a 'Service of Song'. This will afford matter neither for merriment nor surprise, if we reflect for a moment or two on the function of song. Music is a language, and frequently the only language that can give expression to the highest thoughts of the mind, or the deepest feelings of the heart. For words cannot utter what is greatest in us. Looks may dp it, glances, gestures, smiles and tears may do it, but it... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Revelation 15:1-8

; Revelation 16:1-21 CHAPTER XIITHE SEVEN BOWLS.Revelation 15:1-8; Revelation 16:1-21.NOTHING can more clearly prove that the Revelation of St John is not written upon chronological principles than the scenes to which we are introduced in the fifteenth and sixteenth chapters of the book. We have already been taken to the end. We have seen in chap. 14 the Son of man upon the throne of judgment, the harvest of the righteous, and the vintage of the wicked. Yet we are now met by another series of... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Revelation 15:1-8

CHAPTERS 15-16 The Seven Vials 1. The victors’ song and worship (Revelation 15:1-4 ) 2. The seven angels leave the temple (Revelation 15:5-8 ) 3. The first vial (Revelation 16:1-2 ) 4. The second vial (Revelation 16:3 ) 5. The third vial (Revelation 16:4-7 ) 6. The fourth vial (Revelation 16:8-9 ) 7. The fifth vial (Revelation 16:10-11 ) 8. The sixth vial (Revelation 16:12 ) 9. Parenthesis: The seventh vial (Revelation 16:13-21 ) Revelation 15:1-4 . And now the last seven angels... read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Revelation 15:8

15:8 And the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God, and from his power; {14} and no man was able to enter into the temple, till the seven plagues of the seven angels were fulfilled.(14) None of those seven angels could return, till he had performed fully the charge committed to him, according to the decree of God. read more

L.M. Grant

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible - Revelation 15:1-8

Preparation For The Seven Last Plagues The seventh trumpet (Revelation 11:15) took us to the end of the Tribulation and to the introduction of the Millennial Kingdom. Revelation 12:1-17 to Revelation 14:1-20 added explanatory details connected with the events of the trumpets, and these also continue to the end of the Tribulation. Therefore the seven vials (or bowls) are not successive to the trumpets or to Revelation 14:1-20, but cover at least part of the same period of time. These "bowls"... read more

James Gray

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Revelation 15:1-8

THE SEVEN VIALS The law of recurrence finds a further illustration here for we are still in the Tribulation period, the latter half of Daniel’s seventieth week, and are looking upon the features of that day of judgment. The Introduction includes the whole of chapter 15, being the revelation of the “overcomers” and the seven angels. No one can read this without being struck by its likeness to the song of Moses after Israel’s deliverance from Pharaoh at the Red Sea. (Exodus 15:0 ). The... read more

Joseph Parker

The People's Bible by Joseph Parker - Revelation 15:1-8

Moses and the Lamb Rev 15:3 This is a marvellous conjunction of names. The song sung by the saints who overcame is a song of the human and divine; a song of the servant and the Son; and it may be worth our while to trace, so far as we may be able, this remarkable and even startling conjunction. It is not proposed to go in quest of remote analogies or resemblances, or to force meanings upon passages contrary to their plain import. We know that Moses was very meek above all men upon the earth,... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Revelation 15:7-8

(7) And one of the four beasts gave unto the seven angels seven golden vials full of the wrath of God, who liveth forever and ever. (8) And the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God, and from his power; and no man was able to enter into the temple, till the seven plagues of the seven angels were fulfilled. We have heard nothing of those beasts since the opening of the vision at the fourth Chapter, to the seventh, excepting once at the, fourteenth; but now here is one of them coming... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Revelation 15:8

REFLECTIONS READER! we were called upon in the last Chapter, to shout with songs of holy joy, in beholding the Lord, our great and glorious Redeemer, standing with his Church, on Mount Zion, encircled with his army: and here we are called upon again, to shout with the Church, in beholding the people of God, who have gotten the victory over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark, standing upon the sea of glass mingled with fire, singing the song of Moses and the Lamb! Oh! the felicity,... read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Revelation 15:8

The temple was filled with smoke, &c., as in the time of Solomon. (2 Paralipomenon vii.) (Witham) --- The vials are given to the Angels by one of the four living creatures, that is, by a prophet, because at that time the effects had not happened, but were to happen in time to come, and are therefore announced by way of prophecy; and the temple was filled with smoke, manifesting first the majesty of God, and secondly his power. (Pastorini) ==================== read more