Revelation 15:8 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

And the temple; that is, the church, as temple most ordinarily signifieth in this book. Was filled with smoke: by smoke, doubtless, is meant confusions and troubles. From the glory of God, and from his power; caused by God's glorious manifestation of his power, in bringing antichrist to ruin, who had so twisted his interest with that of the civil magistracy in several kingdoms, that there was no rooting him out, without a terrible shaking of all those parts of the earth where he set his foot. And no man was able to enter into the temple, till the seven plagues of the seven angels were fulfilled; so as no part of the church could be at rest until God had fulfilled his ruin by these plagues: nor must any quiet state of the church be expected, until this great work be effected.