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 ascending from the east, who had the seal of the living God. He shouted out with a loud voice to the four angels who had been given permission to damage the earth and the sea:

Then I saw another powerful angel descending from heaven, wrapped in a cloud, with a rainbow above his head; his face was like the sun and his legs were like pillars of fire.

Then he blessed Joseph and said, "May the God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked -- the God who has been my shepherd all my life long to this day,

The angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire from within a bush. He looked -- and the bush was ablaze with fire, but it was not being consumed!

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

Stood

Then the sixth angel blew his trumpet, and I heard a single voice coming from the horns on the golden altar that is before God,

"You are to make an altar for burning incense; you are to make it of acacia wood.

But once he became powerful, his pride destroyed him. He disobeyed the Lord his God. He entered the Lord's temple to offer incense on the incense altar.

Who is the one who will condemn? Christ is the one who died (and more than that, he was raised), who is at the right hand of God, and who also is interceding for us.

So he is able to save completely those who come to God through him, because he always lives to intercede for them.

Much

He must then put the incense on the fire before the Lord, and the cloud of incense will cover the atonement plate which is above the ark of the testimony, so that he will not die.

Then Moses said to Aaron, "Take the censer, put burning coals from the altar in it, place incense on it, and go quickly into the assembly and make atonement for them, for wrath has gone out from the Lord -- the plague has begun!"

For from the east to the west my name will be great among the nations. Incense and pure offerings will be offered in my name everywhere, for my name will be great among the nations," says the Lord who rules over all.

Offer it with the prayers

The smoke coming from the incense, along with the prayers of the saints, ascended before God from the angel's hand.

and when he had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders threw themselves to the ground before the Lamb. Each of them had a harp and golden bowls full of incense (which are the prayers of the saints).

May you accept my prayer like incense, my uplifted hands like the evening offering!

Now the whole crowd of people were praying outside at the hour of the incense offering.

For we do not have a high priest incapable of sympathizing with our weaknesses, but one who has been tempted in every way just as we are, yet without sin.

Therefore, brothers and sisters, since we have confidence to enter the sanctuary by the blood of Jesus,

(My little children, I am writing these things to you 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 incense altar of acacia wood. Its length was a foot and a half and its width a foot and a half -- a square -- and its height was three feet. Its horns were of one piece with it.

Now the whole crowd of people were praying outside at the hour of the incense offering.

The smoke coming from the incense, along with the prayers of the saints, ascended before God from the angel's hand.