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  "schemaVersion": 1,
  "kind": "event",
  "id": "revelation-song-moses-lamb",
  "era": "revelation",
  "order": 520,
  "title": "The song of Moses and the Lamb",
  "group": "rev-babylon",
  "date": {
    "kind": "relative",
    "label": "Revelation 15 · reading sequence",
    "note": "This is the order of the book. It does not assign a calendar date to a vision or choose one scheme of fulfillment."
  },
  "summary": "Those who have conquered the beast sing the song of Moses and the Lamb beside a glasslike sea. They praise God’s just ways and the nations’ worship, before seven angels receive the final bowls of wrath.",
  "context": "The scene links deliverance and worship with judgment. Calling this the song of Moses invites comparison with both the sea deliverance in Exodus 15 and Moses’ witness song in Deuteronomy 32, but Revelation’s short hymn is not a verbatim repetition of either whole song. Its language also recalls the Psalms. The chapter ends with the heavenly sanctuary filled with smoke and inaccessible until the plagues are complete. The sea and sanctuary belong to the vision and are not mapped as another Red Sea crossing or earthly temple visit.",
  "question": "How do the song’s praise of just ways and its vision of the nations’ worship shape the judgment scenes around it?",
  "locationNote": "Visionary setting; no geographic pin or route. The background map shows the historical recipients in western Asia Minor, not the location of this vision.",
  "relatedNote": "These readings illuminate biblical language and themes. Connections do not by themselves settle the timing or every interpretation of the vision.",
  "passages": [
    {
      "reference": "Revelation 15:1–8",
      "range": [
        66015001,
        66015008
      ],
      "translation": "bsb",
      "url": "https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation%2015%3A1%E2%80%938&version=BSB",
      "availability": "bundled",
      "verses": [
        {
          "book": "Revelation",
          "chapter": 15,
          "verse": 1,
          "text": "Then I saw another great and marvelous sign in heaven: seven angels with the seven final plagues, with which the wrath of God is completed."
        },
        {
          "book": "Revelation",
          "chapter": 15,
          "verse": 2,
          "text": "And I saw something like a sea of glass mixed with fire, beside which stood those who had conquered the beast and its image and the number of its name. They were holding harps from God,"
        },
        {
          "book": "Revelation",
          "chapter": 15,
          "verse": 3,
          "text": "and they sang the song of God’s servant Moses and of the Lamb: “Great and wonderful are Your works, O Lord God Almighty! Just and true are Your ways, O King of the nations!"
        },
        {
          "book": "Revelation",
          "chapter": 15,
          "verse": 4,
          "text": "Who will not fear You, O Lord, and glorify Your name? For You alone are holy. All nations will come and worship before You, for Your righteous acts have been revealed.”"
        },
        {
          "book": "Revelation",
          "chapter": 15,
          "verse": 5,
          "text": "After this I looked, and the temple—the tabernacle of the Testimony—was opened in heaven."
        },
        {
          "book": "Revelation",
          "chapter": 15,
          "verse": 6,
          "text": "And out of the temple came the seven angels with the seven plagues, dressed in clean and bright linen and girded with golden sashes around their chests."
        },
        {
          "book": "Revelation",
          "chapter": 15,
          "verse": 7,
          "text": "Then one of the four living creatures gave the seven angels seven golden bowls full of the wrath of God, who lives forever and ever."
        },
        {
          "book": "Revelation",
          "chapter": 15,
          "verse": 8,
          "text": "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."
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "related": [
    {
      "range": [
        5032003,
        5032004
      ],
      "kind": "teaching",
      "note": "Moses’ song praises God’s greatness, faithful character and just ways, illuminating Revelation’s song title and themes.",
      "reference": "Deuteronomy 32:3–4",
      "translation": "bsb",
      "url": "https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy%2032%3A3%E2%80%934&version=BSB"
    },
    {
      "range": [
        2015001,
        2015018
      ],
      "kind": "teaching",
      "note": "The earlier song of Moses celebrates deliverance through the sea; compare the setting and victory language without treating the songs as identical.",
      "reference": "Exodus 15:1–18",
      "translation": "bsb",
      "url": "https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus%2015%3A1%E2%80%9318&version=BSB"
    },
    {
      "range": [
        19086008,
        19086010
      ],
      "kind": "teaching",
      "note": "The psalm anticipates all nations worshiping and glorifying God’s name, language echoed in this hymn.",
      "reference": "Psalm 86:8–10",
      "translation": "bsb",
      "url": "https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%2086%3A8%E2%80%9310&version=BSB"
    }
  ],
  "places": [],
  "mapPeriod": "revelation-asia",
  "further": [],
  "provenance": {
    "sources": [
      {
        "name": "editorial",
        "ref": "content/authored/revelation.json"
      }
    ],
    "review": "draft"
  },
  "eraName": "Revelation",
  "interactiveUrl": "https://wilderness-scripture-atlas.pages.dev/?event=revelation-song-moses-lamb",
  "attribution": [
    "Place coordinates from OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding Data, CC BY 4.0.",
    "Teaching stops, summaries and regional extents are original editorial content of this atlas.",
    "Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain. https://berean.bible/licensing.htm"
  ],
  "translation": "bsb",
  "url": "https://wilderness-scripture-atlas.pages.dev/reference/events/revelation-song-moses-lamb/",
  "markdownUrl": "https://wilderness-scripture-atlas.pages.dev/reference/events/revelation-song-moses-lamb/index.md",
  "jsonUrl": "https://wilderness-scripture-atlas.pages.dev/reference/events/revelation-song-moses-lamb/index.json",
  "cautions": "Narrative order is a reading arrangement, not a proven chronology. Dates retain their stated uncertainty. An identified locality does not establish the exact venue or prove an event. Region extents and routes are illustrative, not surveyed boundaries or ancient roads. Draft material has not completed editorial review.",
  "revision": "9e13a290e2baf262"
}