NOTES for Rev 7:13-8:6
13 And one of the elders answered, saying unto me, What are these which are arrayed in white robes? and whence came they? |
14 And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. |
15 Therefore are they before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple: and he that sitteth on the throne shall dwell among them. |
16 They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat. |
17 For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes. |
1 And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour. |
2 And I saw the seven angels which stood before God; and to them were given seven trumpets. |
3 And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer; and there was given unto him much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne. |
4 And the smoke of the incense, which came with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out of the angel's hand. |
5 And the angel took the censer, and filled it with fire of the altar, and cast it into the earth: and there were voices, and thunderings, and lightnings, and an earthquake. |
6 And the seven angels which had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound. |
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In speaking about the end of the world, the apostle John uses the same words as the great prophets and teachers of the Old Testament. The seven angels described in the book of Tobit stand before the throne of God and serve the One; the seven plagues make us remember the plagues of Egypt.
But in the midst of horror and catastrophes, the prayers of the saints rise like incense, and as a refrain to the book of the prophet Isaiah the apostle speaks about what the world looks like when it has been freed from the power of death and sin. No evil can any longer touch those who come to the Lamb. No suffering will have power over them, no darkness will be able to swallow them, because the One who has conquered death will be near, and the One who is Light, in whom there is no darkness at all.
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