We are looking at Revelation 15. In Revelation, we have come to a place where there was no chronological movement for a while. At the end of Revelation 11 we find the seventh Trumpet Judgment that was sounded starting in Revelation 15:15. There is some detail there, but the content of the seventh Trumpet Judgment is not given at that point and then in Revelation 12, 13 & 14, we have some other information given that doesn’t seem to advance the chronological narrative of the account. Then we come to Revelation 15 and the chronology picks up and we start to move forward now in time. It says in Revelation 15:1, “Then I saw another sign in heaven, great and marvelous.” John is going to see a sign. As a matter of fact, Revelation 15 has two visions that John sees and the first one pertains to the Tribulation saints and that is what we will look at today. The first vision pertaining to the Tribulation saints. So, he sees this sign and it continues, “seven angels who had seven plagues, which are the last, because in them the wrath of God is finished.” This is the final outpouring of the wrath of God in the Tribulation period. We have already seen the Trumpet Judgments and we have seen the Seal Judgments before that and there was something called the Thunder Judgments that we were not given the content of. They are sealed up. Now, we have the Bowl Judgments. These are being poured out right at the very end of the Tribulation. It is coming right to the very last weeks perhaps and so forth. These are being poured out and it says here that, “in them the wrath of God is finished.” We are going to have a great worship service here that begins in Revelation 15:2 saying, “And I saw something like a sea of glass mixed with fire, and those who had been victorious over the beast and his image and the number of his name, standing on the sea of glass, holding harps of God.” Then we move into the worship service. As we think about that, we see these victorious saints coming out of the Tribulation. It is a little hard to know if victorious means they escaped death and martyrdom and have come to the end of the Tribulation without dying, or perhaps they were victorious in dying for the Lord and are with Him. We find them here standing on the sea of glass holding harps of God . . .
