The heavenly sanctuary filling with smoke from God’s glory in Revelation 15 recalls the tabernacle scene in Exodus 40, where the cloud covers the tent, YHWH’s glory fills it, and Moses cannot enter. Both passages use overwhelming divine presence to mark a sanctuary as filled by God’s glory.

Revelation’s sanctuary filled with smoke from God’s glory until no one can enter strongly recalls Solomon’s temple filled by YHWH’s glory cloud so that the priests cannot minister. The later apocalypse reuses the unenterable glory-filled sanctuary pattern in a final judgment setting.

The heavenly temple filled with smoke from God's glory recalls Isaiah 6's sanctuary filled with smoke.