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Revelation 8
When the Lamb opens the seventh seal there is silence in heaven for about half an hour. An angel offers incense with the prayers of the saints on the golden altar before the throne, and the first four of seven angels blow their trumpets.
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Scripture links rising incense with prayer (a symbolic, typological reading of the altar).
Psalm 141:2 asks that prayer be 'set before you like incense'; Revelation 8:3–4 shows incense rising with the prayers of the saints. Exodus itself does not give the incense this meaning; applying it to the tabernacle altar is a typological reading.