Revelation 15:1 introduces the seven plagues whose completion allows entry into the temple, directly preceding this verse.

Exodus 40:34 describes the glory of the Lord filling the tabernacle with a cloud — a direct OT parallel to the temple filled with smoke here.

1 Kings 8:10 recounts the cloud filling Solomon's temple at its dedication, echoing the same divine presence filling the temple here.

2 Chronicles 5:14 parallels 1 Kings 8:10 — the priests unable to minister because of the cloud, similar to no one entering the temple here.

Isaiah 6:4 describes the temple filling with smoke during Isaiah's vision — a direct OT type of the smoke from God's glory here.

In Lamentations 3:44, a cloud blocks prayer; here smoke blocks entry to the temple — both barriers to divine access.

In Exodus 19:18, Mount Sinai is covered with smoke at God's descent, prefiguring the temple smoke of God's glory here.

In Exodus 40:35, Moses cannot enter the tabernacle because of the glory cloud, directly mirrored here in the heavenly temple.

In 2 Chronicles 7:2, priests cannot enter the temple because glory fills it, a direct type of this scene.

Isaiah 6:1 depicts the Lord's glory filling the temple with smoke — the same theophanic imagery here where God's glory fills the heavenly temple.

Ezekiel 10:4 shows the glory cloud filling the temple — here the heavenly temple is filled with smoke from God's glory, echoing that scene.