When did John see the temple of the tabernacle of testimony opened before Revelation 15?
John saw the temple of the tabernacle of testimony opened earlier in Revelation chapter 11, when the seven angels came out of the temple having the seven plagues. That earlier opening preceded the final bowl judgments and the events of Revelation 15.
Les explains that in Revelation 15, after the song of Moses and the Lamb, John looked and saw the temple of the tabernacle of testimony in heaven opened. This same opening had occurred once before in chapter 11, when the seven angels came out of the temple having the seven plagues. Now in Revelation 15, the seven angels with the seven final plagues come out, clothed in pure white linen with golden girdles, and one of the four living creatures gives them seven golden bowls full of the wrath of God. These are the final bowl judgments, symbolically portraying how God's wrath will be poured out. Les notes that despite the awfulness of the tribulation, God is just and true, and the judgments are deserved.
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When did John previously see the temple in heaven opened and the seven angels with the seven plagues?
The opening of the heavenly temple of the tabernacle of testimony in John's vision had happened once before in Revelation 11, and then the seven angels came out of the temple carrying the seven plagues.