Revelation 15:1

2. The chapter of War Preparation (at Jerusalem) for Babylon’s destruction, Revelation 15:1-8.

The seven destroying angels in the temple; presented with the vials, Revelation 15:1-7.

1. And As the menaces of the last chapter were in Jerusalem and the temple, so here we are still in the temple at the glass sea; the martyr spirits on its shore are chanting anticipated victory over the beast, 1-4; the tabernacle is opened, 5; the seven angels of the last plagues come from the temple, 6, 7; while the divine presence of Jehovah himself stays in the temple, 8, until the seven plagues do their fatal work on antichrist’s capital.

Another sign Or symbol. Another, in addition to those in Revelation 12:1; Revelation 12:3.

In heaven That is, in the heaven or region, of symbol. Note Revelation 4:11. The seven angels, as being the main figures in the great overthrow, are mentioned before their time, (which comes at Revelation 15:6,) and as emphatically the sign… great and marvellous. Or, we may say the sign… great and marvellous comprehends the entire exhibition of this chapter; nay, perhaps even including the process and catastrophe of next chapter. And thus this another sign forms a marvellous antithesis to the two of 12 and 13.

Last plagues Last as being final for Babylon.

For Assigning reason for their being a finality; they fill up the retribution due to Satan’s capital.

Plagues The Greek word for plague signifies, literally, a blow, a smite; and the infliction is thus assumed to be made by a divine stroke. It is as if the outpouring of the vial was the external sign; but a stroke from Jehovah from his secret place in the temple (Revelation 15:8) made the infliction.