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  • Jehovah’s Works—Great and Wonderful
    Revelation—Its Grand Climax At Hand!
    • and the seven angels with the seven plagues emerged from the sanctuary, clothed with clean, bright linen and girded about their breasts with golden girdles.

  • Jehovah’s Works—Great and Wonderful
    Revelation—Its Grand Climax At Hand!
    • Revelation 15:5-

  • Jehovah’s Works—Great and Wonderful
    Revelation—Its Grand Climax At Hand!
    • Also, they wear golden girdles. Girdles are usually used when a person girds himself for a task to be accomplished. (Leviticus 8:7, 13; 1 Samuel 2:18; Luke 12:37; John 13:4, 5) So the angels are girded for carrying out an assignment. Moreover, their girdles are golden. In the ancient tabernacle, gold was used to represent divine, heavenly things. (Hebrews 9:4, 11, 12) That means that these angels have a precious, divine commission of service to perform.

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