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TRUMPET 1
Hail and fire mixed with blood hurled to the earth. . .
Revelation 8: 6-7
7The
first angel sounded his trumpet, and there came hail and fire mixed
with blood, and it was hurled down upon the earth. A third of the
earth was burned up, a third of the trees were burned up, and all
the green grass was burned up.
TRUMPET 2
A mountain thrown into the sea, turning it to blood. . .
Revelation 8: 8-9
8The
second angel sounded his trumpet, and something like a huge mountain, all
ablaze, was thrown into the sea. A third of the sea turned into blood,
9a third of the living creatures
in the sea died, and a third of the ships were destroyed.
TRUMPET 3
The star Wormwood (i.e. Bitterness) falls like a torch. . .
Revelation 8: 10-11
10The third angel sounded his
trumpet, and a great star, blazing like a torch, fell from the sky on a
third of the rivers and on the springs of water—
11the name of the star is
Wormwood.[a]
A third of the waters turned bitter, and many people died from the waters
that had become bitter.
TRUMPET 4
The heavens struck one third. . .
Revelation 8: 12-13
12The fourth angel sounded his
trumpet, and a third of the sun was struck, a third of the moon, and a third
of the stars, so that a third of them turned dark. A third of the day was
without light, and also a third of the night. 13As
I watched, I heard an eagle that was flying in midair call out in a loud
voice: "Woe! Woe! Woe to the inhabitants of the earth, because of the
trumpet blasts about to be sounded by the other three angels!"
TRUMPET 5
The gigantic furnace and plague of locust. . .
Revelation 9: 1-7
1The
fifth angel sounded his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from the
sky to the earth. The star was given the key to the shaft of the Abyss.
2When he opened the Abyss, smoke
rose from it like the smoke from a gigantic furnace. The sun and sky were
darkened by the smoke from the Abyss. 3And
out of the smoke locusts came down upon the earth and were given power like
that of scorpions of the earth. 4They
were told not to harm the grass of the earth or any plant or tree, but only
those people who did not have the seal of God on their foreheads.
5They were not given power to
kill them, but only to torture them for five months. And the agony they
suffered was like that of the sting of a scorpion when it strikes a man.
6During those days men will seek
death, but will not find it; they will long to die, but death will elude
them.
7The
locusts looked like horses prepared for battle. On their heads they wore
something like crowns of gold, and their faces resembled human faces.
8Their hair was like women's
hair, and their teeth were like lions' teeth.
9They had breastplates like
breastplates of iron, and the sound of their wings was like the thundering
of many horses and chariots rushing into battle.
10They had tails and stings like
scorpions, and in their tails they had power to torment people for five
months. 11They had as king over
them the angel of the Abyss, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek,
Apollyon.[a]
TRUMPET 6
A voice coming from the altar and release of the four angels. . .
Revelation 9: 13-21
12The
first woe is past; two other woes are yet to come.
13The
sixth angel sounded his trumpet, and I heard a voice coming from the
horns[b]
of the golden altar that is before God.
14It said to the sixth
angel who had the trumpet, "Release the four angels who are bound at
the great river Euphrates." 15And
the four angels who had been kept ready for this very hour and day
and month and year were released to kill a third of mankind.
16The number of the
mounted troops was two hundred million. I heard their number.
17The
horses and riders I saw in my vision looked like this: Their
breastplates were fiery red, dark blue, and yellow as sulfur. The
heads of the horses resembled the heads of lions, and out of their
mouths came fire, smoke and sulfur.
18A third of mankind was
killed by the three plagues of fire, smoke and sulfur that came out
of their mouths. 19The
power of the horses was in their mouths and in their tails; for
their tails were like snakes, having heads with which they inflict
injury.
20The
rest of mankind that were not killed by these plagues still did not
repent of the work of their hands; they did not stop worshiping
demons, and idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone and wood—idols that
cannot see or hear or walk. 21Nor
did they repent of their murders, their magic arts, their sexual
immorality or their thefts.
TRUMPET 7
The temple opened, an earthquake: judgement and rewards. . .
Revelation 11: 15-19
15The seventh angel
sounded his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven, which
said:
"The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and
of his Christ,
and he will reign for ever and ever."
16And the twenty-four
elders, who were seated on their thrones before God, fell on their
faces and worshiped God, 17saying:
"We give thanks to you, Lord God Almighty,
the One who is and who was,
because you have taken your great power
and have begun to reign.
18The nations were
angry; and your wrath has come.
The time has come for judging the dead,
and for rewarding your servants the prophets
and your saints and those who reverence your name,
both small and great—
and for destroying those who destroy the earth."
19Then
God's temple in heaven was opened, and within his temple was seen
the ark of his covenant. And there came flashes of lightning,
rumblings, peals of thunder, an earthquake and a great hailstorm.
Artist: Devi Anne Moore |
