Revelation 15: The Seven Angels and the Seven Last Plagues

Victors over the beast sing the song of Moses and the Lamb beside a sea of glass mingled with fire.

Revelation 15 is the shortest chapter in the book, a brief but weighty scene between the harvest of Revelation 14 and the outpouring of wrath that follows. John sees seven angels holding the seven last plagues, and those who had refused the beast's mark standing beside a sea of glass mingled with fire, harps in hand.


Then I saw another great and marvelous sign in heaven: seven angels with the seven final plagues, with which the wrath of God is completed.

And I saw something like a sea of glass mixed with fire, beside which stood those who had conquered the beast and its image and the number of its name. They were holding harps from God,

and they sang the song of God’s servant Moses and of the Lamb: “Great and wonderful are Your works, O Lord God Almighty! Just and true are Your ways, O King of the nations!

Who will not fear You, O Lord, and glorify Your name? For You alone are holy. All nations will come and worship before You, for Your righteous acts have been revealed.”

After this I looked, and the temple—the tabernacle of the Testimony—was opened in heaven.

And out of the temple came the seven angels with the seven plagues, dressed in clean and bright linen and girded with golden sashes around their chests.

Then one of the four living creatures gave the seven angels seven golden bowls full of the wrath of God, who lives forever and ever.

And the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God and from His power; and no one could enter the temple until the seven plagues of the seven angels were completed.

They sing the song of Moses and the Lamb, declaring that all nations shall come and worship before God, an echo of the praise found in <a href="/bible/bsb/psalms/chapter-86/9">Psalms 86:9</a>. The temple fills with smoke from God's glory, and no one may enter until the seven plagues are finished; explore the full <a href="/bible/bsb/revelation">Revelation overview</a> to see how this scene fits the larger vision.