Once again John sees a sign in Heaven, just like the sign of the woman in Heaven and the sign of the dragon in Heaven. It is a paradigm, a general spiritual principle of how God acts—as is shown very visible afterwards through events on earth.
The ‘hundred and forty-four thousand’ are standing on Mount Zion. The conquerors of the triple evil – the ‘beast’, its ‘image’ and the ‘number of its name’, are standing on the shore of the ‘sea of glass like crystal’.
What are the ‘conquerors’ singing? The song of Moses! And the parallel is thus drawn between the saint’s experiences during the end times with the Exodus from Egypt of the Israelites through the Red Sea.
The Book of Revelation is the ‘unveiling’ of the Glory of Jesus Christ and the release of the judgments that accompany it. They have both now been ‘revealed’, ‘unveiled’, and the ‘victors’ praise the Lord and His Anointed for this.
For the second time God’s Temple in Heaven is opened. Preceding the opening of the Heavenly Temple in Revelation 11:15-1 a song of praise is heard, in which the praises of the climax of this part of world-history is sung: “The Kingdom of the world has become the Kingdom of our Lord
This celestial sign of the seven angels with the seven last ‘plagues’ has been mentioned earlier in verse 1 of chapter 15. We saw the seven angels with the seven last plagues in this celestial sign
When Moses completed work on the Tabernacle a ‘cloud’ covered the ‘Tent of Meeting’. Then the ‘Glory of the Lord’ filled the Tabernacle, so that Moses was unable to enter the ‘Tent of Meeting’ for the ‘cloud’ was resting upon it, and the ‘Glory of the Lord’ filled the Tabernacle.
