Revelation 15:
3-5
Rev.15:3 They
sing the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying:
" Great and marvelous are Your works, Lord God Almighty! Just and true are
Your ways, O King of the saints!
Rev.15:4 Who
shall not fear You, O Lord, and glorify Your name? For You alone are holy. For
all nations shall come and worship before You, For Your judgments have been
manifested."
Rev.15:5 After
these things I looked, and behold, the temple of the tabernacle of the
testimony in heaven was opened.
Rev.15:3a They
sing the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying:
The song of Moses was sang after deliverance
through the Red sea after they saw the great power the Lord displayed against
the Egyptians, in which they were destroyed, see Ex 15. It should also be noted
that these plagues are also similar to the plagues of Egypt, but the Egyptians
were not finally destroyed until they entered the Red Sea. There is another
song of Moses in
Deu 31:30 Then
Moses spoke in the hearing of all the assembly of Israel the words of this song
until they were ended:
in the context here, which speaks of God's
deliverance of his people it the song of Moses of Exo 15 is applicable but in
the context of the seven plagues then the song of Moses of Deu 31:30 is more
applicable. Not only did they sing the song of Moses but they sang the song of
the Lamb, probably meaning one song.
Rev 15:3b: " Great and marvelous are
Your works, Lord God Almighty! Just and true are Your ways, O King of the
saints!
Rev.15:4 Who
shall not fear You, O Lord, and glorify Your name? For You alone are holy. For
all nations shall come and worship before You, For Your judgments have been
manifested."
- Just as the Israelites praise God for his
great deeds in bringing them out of Egypt so God’s people in heaven praise him
for his coming judgements. Because of God’s holiness he is perfectly righteous
in bringing about these plagues which are in response to the sin of man. It is
his mercy, which has delayed these final judgements for so long and preceded
them with the warning trumpets. God desires that all men come to a knowledge of
the truth and to be saved,
1 Tim 2:4 Righteous acts could be translated righteous
judgements, the bowls are his judicial sentences, in
Rev. 16:5-7 after the third bowl the
angel declares that God is just in his judgements because mankind shed the
blood of the saints, the martyrs respond likewise. We are reminded here again
of how awful, in God’s sight, is the persecution of his saints. This verse also
reminds us of a number of psalms from which it is taken,
Psa 86:9-10, 9 All nations whom You
have made Shall come and worship before You, O Lord, And shall glorify Your
name.
10 For You are great, and do wondrous
things; You alone are God.
Psa 98:1-2, 1 Oh, sing to the LORD a new song! For He has
done marvelous things; His right hand and His holy arm have gained Him the
victory.
2 The LORD has made known His salvation;
His righteousness He has revealed in the sight of the nations.
Deu 32:4, He is the Rock, His work is perfect; For all His ways are
justice, A God of truth and without injustice; Righteous and upright is He.
1 Sam 2:2, " No one is holy
like the LORD, For there is none besides You, Nor is there any rock like our
God.
Zep 2:11. The LORD will be awesome
to them, For He will reduce to nothing all the gods of the earth; People shall
worship Him, Each one from his place, Indeed all the shores of the nations.
In Zec 14:16 And it shall come to pass that
everyone who is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall go
up from year to year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the
Feast of Tabernacles.
the survivors from those nations
that attack Jerusalem will go up year after year to worship the King, the LORD
Almighty, and to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles. Notice that all nations
will come and worship before God which once again emphasizes that God alone is
to be worshiped, see
Dan 7:14 Then to Him was given
dominion and glory and a kingdom, That all peoples, nations, and languages
should serve Him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion, Which shall not pass
away, And His kingdom the one Which shall not be destroyed.
Rev.15:5 After
these things I looked, and behold, the temple of the tabernacle of the
testimony in heaven was opened.
This is similar to another
occasion when the temple was opened exposing the ark of his covenant,
Rev 11:19 Then those from the
peoples, tribes, tongues, and nations will see their dead bodies
three-and-a-half days, and not allow their dead bodies to be put into graves.
this occurs after the seventh
trumpet and before the vision of the woman clothed with the sun and moon. Some
see this to introduce a new heavenly perspective for the next section another
example of the Exodus typology, after crossing the Red Sea, the giving of the
law amid the smoke of Sinai and the erection of the tent of testimony. The
tabernacle of the testimony
Ex 38:21 This is the inventory of
the tabernacle, the tabernacle of the Testimony, which was counted according to
the commandment of Moses, for the service of the Levites, by the hand of
Ithamar, son of Aaron the priest.
contained the Ark of the Covenant (Rev 11:19)
which contains the two tablets of testimony that testifies against man’s sin
Exo 32:15 And Moses turned and went
down from the mountain, and the two tablets of the Testimony were in his hand.
The tablets were written on both sides; on the one side and on the other they
were written.
Deu 10:4 And He wrote on the tablets according
to the first writing, the Ten Commandments, which the LORD had spoken to you in
the mountain from the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly; and the
LORD gave them to me.
Man has broken God’s commandments
and the bowl judgements are the consequences. It can also be translated tent of
witness, which is also tent of martyr. Hendriksen comments that this sanctuary
is now opened, so that we may understand that the wrath, which is about to be
revealed, is God’s wrath.
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