Revelation 8:3

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer; and there was given unto him much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne.

Another

Acts 7:30

Stood

Hebrews 7:25

Much

Leviticus 16:13

Numbers 16:46

Malachi 1:11

Offer it with the prayers

1 John 2:1

General references

Exodus 37:25

Luke 1:10

Revelation 8:4

Bible References

Another

Then I saw another angel, who had the seal of the living God rise up from the east. He cried out in a loud voice to the four angels who were empowered to harm the earth and the sea:

Then I saw another mighty angel coming down from heaven, surrounded by a cloud, with a rainbow over his head. His face was like the sun, his legs were like fiery pillars,

Then he blessed Joseph and said:

The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked,
the God who has been my shepherd all my life to this day,

Then the Angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire within a bush. As Moses looked, he saw that the bush was on fire but was not consumed.

After 40 years had passed, an angel appeared to him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai, in the flame of a burning bush.

Stood

The sixth angel blew his trumpet. From the four horns of the gold altar that is before God, I heard a voice

“You are to make an altar for the burning of incense; make it of acacia wood.

But when he became strong, he grew arrogant and it led to his own destruction. He acted unfaithfully against the Lord his God by going into the Lord’s sanctuary to burn incense on the incense altar.

Who is the one who condemns?
Christ Jesus is the One who died,
but even more, has been raised;
He also is at the right hand of God
and intercedes for us.

Therefore, He is always able to save those who come to God through Him, since He always lives to intercede for them.

Much

He is to put the incense on the fire before the Lord, so that the cloud of incense covers the mercy seat that is over the testimony, or else he will die.

Then Moses told Aaron, “Take your firepan, place fire from the altar in it, and add incense. Go quickly to the community and make atonement for them, because wrath has come from the Lord; the plague has begun.”

“For My name will be great among the nations, from the rising of the sun to its setting. Incense and pure offerings will be presented in My name in every place because My name will be great among the nations,” says Yahweh of Hosts.

Offer it with the prayers

The smoke of the incense, with the prayers of the saints, went up in the presence of God from the angel’s hand.

When He took the scroll, the four living creatures and the 24 elders fell down before the Lamb. Each one had a harp and gold bowls filled with incense, which are the prayers of the saints.

May my prayer be set before You as incense,
the raising of my hands as the evening offering.

At the hour of incense the whole assembly of the people was praying outside.

For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but One who has been tested in every way as we are, yet without sin.

Therefore, brothers, since we have boldness to enter the sanctuary through the blood of Jesus,

My little children, I am writing you these things so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father—Jesus Christ the Righteous One.

General references

He made the altar of incense out of acacia wood. It was square, 18 inches long and 18 inches wide; it was 36 inches high. Its horns were of one piece.

At the hour of incense the whole assembly of the people was praying outside.

The smoke of the incense, with the prayers of the saints, went up in the presence of God from the angel’s hand.