What is the sweetest incense to God?
According to Revelation, the sweetest incense to God is the prayers of the saints. Incense was given with the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar before the throne, and its smoke ascended up before God. The purpose of incense is to give a sweet aroma of worship, holiness, and righteousness.
Les explains that in Revelation an angel stood at the altar with a golden censer, and much incense was given to him to offer with the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar before the throne. The smoke of the incense, coming with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out of the angel's hand. Les teaches that the purpose of incense in the tabernacle, and anytime, is to give a sweet aroma—an aura of worship, holiness, and righteousness. For God, the sweetest incense that could ever come up to His nostrils are the prayers of the saints. This scene occurs at the midpoint in the tribulation, yet in the throne room of heaven. Then the angel took the censer, filled it with fire from the altar, and cast it into the earth, beginning the trumpet judgments, with voices, thunderings, lightnings, and still another earthquake—recalling Exodus when God came down on Mount Sinai.