Revelation 15:1 “And I saw another sign in heaven, great and marvellous, seven angels having the seven last plagues; for in them is filled up the wrath of God.”

John sees another sign that’s up in heaven, which was great and marvelous.

The signs that he sees are the seven last plagues. These plagues are called great and marvelous. God’s judgment is known to be great and marvelous. Every work of God is good, it is great and marvelous whether positive or negative in your life. That’s the thing a lot of people don’t think about.

There will be seven judgments, or more accurately, seven last plagues. Now it doesn’t just say plagues, it says seven last plagues. This should be very revealing because this means that there were other plagues before but these are the last plagues that the Lord is sending. God’s wrath is in these seven last plagues.

There’s a group out there who believe in the pre-wrath rapture; they believe that the church will go through the tribulation and before God’s wrath is poured out sometime near the end of the tribulation, they’ll be raptured and then God’s wrath will fall. But that’s actually inaccurate because God’s wrath which is contained in the last plagues shows that His wrath was already going before.

If you believe in the pre-tribulation rapture of the church, you’re actually the real pre-wrathers, because the entire timeline of the tribulation was God’s wrath and His plagues. This was so evident when we saw the seals in Revelation 6. God’s wrath was already starting with the beginning of the Antichrist being unleashed, that first seal unleased.

So we see here that there were plagues before and there was God’s wrath ongoing before.

Revelation 15:2 “And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire: and them that had gotten the victory over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark, and over the number of his name, stand on the sea of glass, having the harps of God.”

John sees the sea of glass and it has fire on it.

At Revelation 4, the floor of heaven is called the sea of glass, and that divides the universe where our outer space (the stars, nebulas, galaxies etc) is.

The tribulation saints won and conquered the beast.

They conquered his image.

They overcame his mark, 666.

His name would have a number and there is a really strong possibility about the Antichrist having the name of blasphemy. If you look at the pope’s crown where it goes ‘Vicarius Filli Dei’ and if you look at the Roman numerals in that, it would be 666. A lot of preachers were giving heyday to the Catholic church on that one so they got rid of it.

The tribulation saints are up in heaven, standing on the sea of glass and fire and they have the harps of God. These are the people who endured to the end, thus they’ve gotten the victory.

These people are definitely not the church age saints. The church is not going through the tribulation, we are not the tribulation saints who conquered the beast, his image, the mark of the beast and go to heaven. The church is raptured before the tribulation as proven in Revelation 4. This is also proven in verse 3.

Revelation 15:3 “And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvellous are thy works, Lord God Almighty; just and true are thy ways, thou King of saints.”

Notice the Jewish flavor again. In the tribulation, God is not concentrating on the church, but the nation of Israel. Where’s the church then? It’s gone, the church has disappeared (raptured).

Moses represents the law and the Lamb is Jesus, which is faith. Notice in the tribulation, their salvation is faith and works, that is undeniable.

Here’s another proof at Revelation 14:2-3, these 144,000 or the tribulation saints, they sing a song that’s different from the elders at Revelation 14:3.

The elders sing their song that they’re washed by the blood of the Lamb whereas the tribulation saints, they sing about the lamb and the law. Why? Because it’s Jews under the Mosaic law looking at their Messiah Jesus Christ. Faith and works.

There’s so much of difference between Christians and the Jews. People try to combine the law with saved Christians but what are you going to do with apostle Paul at Galatians and Colossians where it says the law is finished.

Not only that, the book of John recognize that Jesus Christ fulfills and gets rid of the entire law, He completed it already for us. So we’re not going to be singing the song of Moses at Revelation 15:3.

God’s works, remember His seven last plagues are called great and marvelous, they’re praising it.

These tribulation saints were heavily persecuted by the Antichrist and the beast, because of such tremendous persecution, that’s why in Revelation 6 they sought vengeance.

Christians don’t pray for vengeance because at Romans 12 we’re supposed to bestow good upon our enemies. There’s always a distinction between Christian and tribulation saints. It makes more sense when you rightly divide, not combine.

God is obviously the king of saints of all time, whether tribulation, Christian or Old Testament Jew.

Revelation 15:4 “Who shall not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify thy name? for thou only art holy: for all nations shall come and worship before thee; for thy judgments are made manifest.”

Who’s not going to fear God when He sends in the plagues? But this nation has still not learned its lesson on fearing God despite Covid-19 and all. What’s more amazing is that when we hit Revelation 16, they still don’t fear God. What does God have to do to finally get you to open your eyes?

Does it have to take the damnation of hell for you to scream in eternity for you to finally get it? That’s sad.