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Revelation 8

Jeremy Paschall
12/10/23 - Podcast

And now, a minute with the Word…

In Revelation 4-5, God’s presence is accompanied by “the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders…each having a harp, and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints” (5.8). To these is added the cry of martyrs, “How long, O Lord, holy and true, until You judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?” (6.10). Now “another angel…was given much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all the saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne. And the smoke of the incense, with the prayers of the saints, ascended before God from the angel’s hand. Then the angel took the censer, filled it with fire from the altar, and threw it to the earth. And there were noises, thunderings, lightnings, and an earthquake” (8.3-5). Indeed, “The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much” (James 5.16).