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Rev. 15:1: And I saw another sign in heaven, great and marvelous, seven angels who had seven plagues, which are the last, because in them the wrath of God is finished.
         When these seven last plagues have gone, there will not be any more suffering; the earth will be at peace and God's servants will be delivered from oppression.
         If this is true for the cosmos, there is the same truth as it pertains to the individual ...that is, the believer who is intended to reach the state of nothingness. This unproductive earth must suffer these seven plagues. After that there will be no more suffering for the planet...or for a formerly rebellious nature. There is no more cause for chastisement. Oh God, as long as there remains something of this living nature, Your wrath is so kindled against it that You do not let it have any rest. This refers to the souls God wants to bring to nought, destroy and then treat only with kindness. As long as they retain the least life, they meet only hardship.

Rev. 15:2:  And I saw, as it were, a sea of glass mixed with fire, and those who had come off victorious from the beast and from his image and from the number of his name, standing on the sea of glass, holding harps of God.
         There is a sea, perhaps in eternity, which is the Godhead. He is a sea in Whom the emptied believer is immersed and lost.  But to reach this place, you-too-must be like a sea, that is...pure and transparent. The transparence and neatness of that sea is mingled with fire-with love. All saints, having been brought back to their origin and being one in God, are like small drops of water in this sea. They are not divided among themselves nor from the sea. All the blessed ones are in the divine unity of their principle. They are one with God though they are very distinct, just as the small drops have their own substance. These are the saints who will have been perfectly delivered and exempt from all self-interest.
         The harps mentioned here are not their own; they are God's. This means they have lost all will of their own and received God's will in exchange. Be assured, such a believer has more freedom in the use of God's will than he ever had in using his own. Oh, the wonderful advantage the loss of all one's will affords! We receive no less than God's will! These harps have a constant harmony which God hears and which charms His heart and fills these poor souls with joy.

Rev. 15: 3,4: And they sang the song of Moses the bond-servant of God and the song of the Lamb, saying,
                                          "Great and marvelous are Thy works,
                                          O Lord God, the Almighty;
                                          Righteous and true are Thy ways,
                                          Thou King of the nations.
                                          Who will not fear, O Lord, and magnify Thy name?
                                          For Thou alone art holy;
                                          For all the nations will come and worship before Thee,
                                          For Thy righteous acts have been revealed."
        In this state, the soul of the believer can well sing the song with a wonderful harmony; God is doing the tuning within, having placed this one in the perfect order of His creation. He sings a twofold song, that of Moses which is a song of deliverance and that of the Lamb which is redemption's song. It is the more wonderful because those who sing it know how beneficial this redemption has been for them. Oh, if the mystery of redemption were well known (and the sacrifice of the Lamb), not a single Christian would be unwilling to die a thousand deaths.
         Rack your brain by studying, get busy meditating as much as you please, you will not understand and know these great mysteries unless you count yourself as nothing.
         An emptied soul receives such a pure knowledge of all that concerns God, of God Himself without study, with or without meditation; nothing is left to him. He gains with simplicity what others have learned so painfully. Ah, do not tire yourself studying as you do! Love, truly and purely, and you will learn more than in any other way.
         But what is this song that these saints sing? If we are filled with all the words of it, we will easily notice the purity of their love, the eminence of their knowledge.
         In the knowledge that is given them about the works of God, they say: "Great and marvelous are Your works, oh Lord." The outward and inward works of God are uncovered and manifested to them with an unimaginable delight. They see everywhere, and in everything, the attributes of His power and the grandeur of God. By what they see they are overwhelmed with joy.
         Oh God, how wonderful Your ways! However, men are so blind that they wish to measure God's ways by their thought. All which they do not clearly understand with their mind is, therefore, impossible to them!
         Oh blindness and folly! Did not the apostle, admiring God's ways, say they were past finding out? His ways are "just and true," for all is just and true in God's conduct.
        The whole earth will be converted to Jesus Christ and united to Him. All nations shall come and worship Him.
         Happy are those who will live then.

Rev. 15:5-8: After these things I looked, and the temple of the tabernacle of testimony in heaven was opened, and the seven angels who had the seven plagues came out of the temple, clothed in linen, clean and bright, and girded around their breasts with golden girdles. And one of the four living creatures gave to the seven angels seven golden bowls full of the wrath of God, who lives forever and ever. And the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God and from His power; and no one was able to enter the temple until the seven plagues of the seven angels were finished.
         The Scripture is so beautiful, so clear, that we are surprised people do not discover its beauty and clarity. There is a tabernacle of the testimony in each one of us. This temple is our spirit, where we receive the witness of the kindnesses of God, of His love for us and our love for Him. This tabernacle is within us like a sacred temple.
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^{(1) Guyon, Mme. Jeanne, CHRIST OUR REVELATION, Gardiner, Main, Reprinted 1987 Christian Books Publishing House ( Book in now out of print)}

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