Revelation 14:15
Revelation 14:1515Then another angel came out of the temple, crying out in a loud voice to the One seated on the cloud, “Swing Your sickle and reap, because the time has come to harvest; for the crop of the earth is ripe.”
Watchtower commentary takes the "temple sanctuary" of as a heavenly reality from which the angel emerges to announce the harvest at Armageddon. The temple imagery is understood as God's heavenly seat of authority; the harvest is the gathering of the wicked for destruction. The verse fits within the Watchtower's overall Armageddon eschatology.
Note where this temple sanctuary is. The Greek word is naos — and in Revelation, naos is consistently the heavenly inner sanctuary. has another angel emerging from "the temple sanctuary that is in heaven"; describes "the sanctuary of the tent of the witness" being opened "in heaven." The relevance to JW theology: says the great crowd "renders sacred service day and night in his temple [naos]." If naos is the heavenly inner sanctuary in every other Revelation occurrence, the great crowd of 7:15 is also in heaven — not on a paradise earth looking up. The two-class system breaks against the consistent use of naos throughout the book.