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Revelation 15: Jesus is Glorified in Justice

Brandon Cannon Episode 813

What would change if you worshiped today knowing your biggest prayer would be answered tomorrow? In this exploration of Revelation 15, we dive deep into a profound spiritual truth that transformed the early church and can revolutionize your faith today.

Revelation 15 presents us with a stunning scene: those who remained faithful through persecution now stand victorious, singing praises before God's throne. They've drawn strength from a powerful truth—the battle may be raging, but the outcome is already decided. This heavenly worship service teaches us to celebrate God's justice before it fully arrives.

Pastor Brandon skillfully unpacks this chapter's rich imagery, explaining how early Christians under Roman persecution would have understood these apocalyptic visions. The seven angels with seven plagues, the sea of glass mixed with fire, and the smoke-filled temple aren't just future predictions—they're messages of hope for believers suffering now. The "song of Moses and the Lamb" connects God's past deliverance of Israel to His promised deliverance of the church, showing His consistent character throughout history.

The most transformative insight comes through a simple yet profound principle: "Worship now as if the battle is already won." This isn't naive optimism but radical faith. When we face health challenges, financial struggles, or heartbreak over loved ones far from God, we can worship in advance of our victory because we know Who holds tomorrow. God's justice may not operate on our timetable, but it always arrives perfectly on His.

Join us for this powerful episode that will change how you view your current struggles and teach you to sing victory songs even in life's fiercest battles. Subscribe, share, and join our Bible Breakdown discussion group to continue unpacking these life-changing truths with our growing community of believers who are discovering that God's Word truly is good.

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Well, hello everybody. Welcome back to the Bible Breakdown podcast with your host, pastor Brandon, today, revelation chapter 15, and today's title is Jesus is Glorified in Justice. Jesus is Glorified in Justice. We're going to get some singing going on today and listen. I don't know about you, but if you don't like singing and you don't like music, you're really not going to like heaven, because apparently folks be singing all the time. They just be dropping a beat all the time and just getting their sing on, and we're going to get some more singing today. So if you got your Bibles, want to open up with me to Revelation, chapter 15. As always, while you're doing that, if you're new around here, take just a moment. Pause the video, pause the podcast, like share, subscribe to all of it. We really need your help because we are on the road to just continually spreading the news that God's word is good, and every time we read through another chapter of the Bible, it's another opportunity to know God. So I want you to help us to spread the word by leaving us a five-star review. Let other people know how you're connecting with God's word and make sure you're going to the Bible breakdown discussion. There's an amazing group of people there doing a wonderful job, and they're so faithful, just every day, encouraging us with God's word, sending us these different devotions and things and giving us things to think about, and so I want to encourage you to also engage with them and send in your questions and make some comments about some of the things that you know about the book of Revelation, because the more we dig, the more we find, and once again, it's also important and we're going to do this for every chapter moving on from here is this idea that we want to give a disclaimer, to say that there are wonderful teachings out there. You can go to Dr Michael Heiser's teaching, you can go to the Bama podcast. You can look at all these other things that are great. There's even a gentleman who recently came and spoke at Real Life Church called Dr Andy Gowns, and he has written an amazing book about the book of Revelation and its future meaning, and all of that it's wonderful.

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The goal of this podcast is not to look into the far future, but instead to look at the principles of God's word that was written to the early church, because primarily, it was written to these early churches that were under persecution and the overall goal of this was that Jesus wins. That was the goal is to remind them that first, beginning and last, first, middle and last, jesus wins it all. There's nothing left after Jesus. And that's important because they were living in this era where you've got these seven churches and they are getting all kinds of persecution from Rome because of emperor worship, persecution from the Jewish community, persecution from all these other places, and then just persecution and this temptation to compromise. And so every one of these chapters is the apostle John saying hey, I had a vision and in my vision Jesus wins and let me show you how he wins. And it's also important, before we continue, because I know we can kind of get lost in the weeds, and so I want to bring this up a few times that there's different genres in the Bible.

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There are different, just like you know. There's fiction, nonfiction, poetry, you know all these different things. There's different genres of literature in the New Testament and the Old Testament, and so there is what's called didactic literature, and that's just where someone is dictating to you what you need to do. That's like the letters of Paul. Then there's narrative, historical narrative, that's where it's telling the story of something such as the four Gospels. Then you have what's called apocalyptic literature.

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It's the prophets, the book of Daniel and the book of Revelation, where what the writer is doing is they will use these different illustrations, metaphors, allusions, that will then talk about something that is real, but it will do that in almost a form of parables, like what Jesus would do, because it's in these stories that they are able to relate complex spiritual principles. And so that's what the book of Revelation is doing, because how in the world would God, writing through the apostle John, tell the church that, hey, you're going to be persecuted, it's going to be bad, it's going to look like you're losing over and over and over again. However, god is doing more than you realize and in the spirit that you can't see, he is defeating evil rulers, evil principalities, all these different things, and he is winning more victories than you realize. So it's going to look like you're losing in the physical world, but in the spiritual world, man, god's wrecking shop, how's he going to say that? He's going to say that by talking about bowl judgments and all these other things and all this stuff. And so that's why we look at this and we realize that, yes, he very well may be talking about something that's coming in the future, and those are wonderful things to look at, but I'm interested in what the early church would have learned and how we can learn from them. And so in this chapter chapter 15, as we're looking at these seven churches, he's going to talk about the song of Moses and the song of the lambs. We're going to read this and then we want to remember why the song of Moses was so important. So, if you're ready, revelation, chapter 15, verse one says this.

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Then I saw in heaven another marvelous event of great significance Seven angels were holding the seven last plagues, thank goodness, which would bring God's wrath to completion. I saw before me what seemed to be a glass sea mixed with fire, and on it stood all the people who had been victorious over the beast and his statue. And this is what they sang. Great and marvelous are your works, o Lord, god the Almighty, just and true are your ways, o King of the nations, who will not fear, who will not fear you, lord, and glorify your name, for you alone are holy. All nations will come and worship before you, for your righteous deeds have been revealed. Then I looked and saw in the temple of heaven, god's tabernacle was thrown wide open and the seven angels who were holding the seven plagues came out of the temple, and they were clothed with spotless white linen, with gold sashes across their chests, and one of the four living beings handed each of them of the seven angels a gold bowl filled with the wrath of God, who lives forever and ever. The temple was filled with smoke from God's glory and power, and no one could enter the temple until the seven angels had completed pouring out the seven plagues. Wow, so what we see here is, if you remember that the song of Moses was the song that Moses sang after they had been delivered from Egyptian bondage, because, if you remember, they had been delivered, they were set free, but then, after they were set free, the armies of Egypt tried to destroy them, and so that's when they went across the Red Sea on dry ground, and then God calls to miracle and the water cover back over, across the Red Sea on dry ground, and then God calls to miracle and the water cover back over, and it was after that that Moses sang this amazing song of deliverance. And so what's happening is is these people, who have been delivered from this persecution, were singing a song to the Lord that only they could sing about their deliverance from the persecution of the enemy. And I think the overall application point that we can get from this is that worship now as if the battle is already won. Worship now as if the battle is already won.

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I wanna ask you a question how would you live today if you knew the answer to your biggest prayer was already on the way? Let's say, right now you have a physical issue and you're praying for God to heal you. How would you worship God today if you knew that tomorrow the doctor was going to call you and say Mr or Miss, I have no idea how this happened, but it's gone. How would you worship God today if you had a child who was far from God? And tomorrow you got a phone call and you were worried at first because you couldn't understand them, because they were crying so hard. You thought something bad had happened. But finally, when they were able to get their voice, they would say Mom, dad, I had an encounter with Jesus, I know he's real, I'm following him for the rest of my life and I'm so thankful that you didn't give up on me.

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How would you worship God today If that happened tomorrow? Maybe it's a financial issue. Maybe you're doing everything you know to do, you're working as hard as you can, but there's always too much month at the end of the money. Right? What if, tomorrow, you got a check in the mail from a time when you had invested in someone else and they said I don't know why, but God told me to give you this and to tell you it's all going to be okay. And it was exactly what you needed to not just get caught up, but to get ahead. And then, while you were celebrating about that, your boss called you and said hey, I've got a promotion for you. It's been coming for a long time. Here you go.

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How would you worship God today If you knew the victory was on the way? Well, in this chapter, that's what God promises the early church. He promises them that one day, because they are faithful, they're going to be in the very presence of God. And while God is dealing with his enemies, he is giving them an opportunity to celebrate the victory. This one, can I tell you. That's the truth for us.

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You know, the answer to the problem of evil is that many of us, we struggle sometimes with our relationship with God because we think that, for some reason, god is faithful to some people but not faithful to others. Well, here's the thing God is always just and he's always faithful. And just because God isn't faithful in our timetable doesn't mean he's not faithful, but one day he's going to right every wrong, he's going to have complete justice and he is going to be faithful. And so we can worship God today because we know in some tomorrow God's going to make all things new. Let's pray together right now. God, thank you so much that we can trust you and that you are worthy Lord.

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I don't know who may be listening or watching this today and what battle they may be fighting, may be facing, and God, the enemy wants to make that battle and that enemy so big that all they can see is the problem. I pray today you will help them see your solution and that it is to be faithful to you. Jesus, we determine faithfulness, you determine fruitfulness and we trust you to make a way in all things. In Jesus' name, we pray amen, amen. What God's word says in Revelation 1, verse seven, say it with me if you know it by now. Look, he is coming in the clouds of heaven and everyone will see him. My prayer is the more we look for Jesus, the more we will find him in our everyday life. I love you. I'll see you tomorrow for Revelation, chapter 16.

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