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An Intertextuality Pair — one connection between two passages, shown as linked verse cards: the Later text and the Earlier text it quotes, alludes to or echoes. The Significance essay explains why the link matters and where it points in Christ.

Reference Type— how explicit the link is: Quotation, Allusion, or Echo
Connection Method(s)— how it carries meaning: e.g. Typology, Promise-Fulfillment, Analogy, Longitudinal Theme
Found via— where the connection was identified, e.g. the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge or an Anchor-Text Network

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Intertextuality Pair

Revelation 15:8 → Ezekiel 10:2-4

Allusion

Later text

Revelation 15:8BSB

And the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God and from His power; and no one could enter the temple until the seven plagues of the seven angels were completed.

Earlier text

Ezekiel 10:2-4BSB

And the LORD said to the man clothed in linen, “Go inside the wheelwork beneath the cherubim. Fill your hands with burning coals from among the cherubim and scatter them over the city.” And as I watched, he went in. Now when the man went in, the cherubim were standing on the south side of the temple, and a cloud filled the inner court. Then the glory of the LORD rose from above the cherubim and stood over the threshold of the temple. The temple was filled with the cloud, and the court was filled with the brightness of the glory of the LORD.

Walk the Square · a single-voice walk of this pair around the Clowney square13:26

Significance

In Ezekiel 10:2-4, the glory of YHWH fills the temple with a cloud and brightness as coals of fire are taken from between the cherubim for judgment on Jerusalem. Similarly, Revelation 15:8 describes the heavenly temple "filled with smoke from the glory of God and from His power" so that no one could enter until the seven plagues were completed. Both scenes depict the glory-cloud filling the temple as a prelude to judgment — in Ezekiel upon apostate Jerusalem, in Revelation upon the beast's kingdom. The motif also echoes the original Sinai theophany (Exod 40:34-35) and Solomon's dedication (1 Kgs 8:10-11), where no one could enter or minister because of the glory. The escalation is from localized historical judgments to the final, universal outpouring of divine wrath.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Longitudinal Theme + Analogy