The Seven Trumpets

Parts 10-12
(The Fifth, Sixth and Seventh Trumpet)

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Parallel:

 

Malachi 3:16.   A scroll of remembrance was written in his presence concerning those who feared the Lord and honored his name. 

Malachi 3:17   “They will be mine,” says the Lord Almighty, “In the day when I make up my treasured possession. I will spare them, just as in compassion a man spares his son who serves him.

 

Malachi 3:18   And you will again see the distinction between the righteous and the wicked, between those who serve God and those who do not.”

 

Once the tattoos are in place, the killing of the opposition will begin. This killing is described in the 6^th trumpet.

 

Revelation 9:13   The sixth angel sounded his trumpet [in Heaven’s temple], and I heard a voice coming from the horns of the golden altar that is before God. [The golden altar is the Altar of Incense, and a voice is heard coming from the horns because the four horns represent the omnipresent work of the Holy Spirit. See Zechariah 1:18,19. A horn represents an entity of power – such as ten horns on the monster beast in Daniel 7. The four horns on the Altar of Incense and the four living creatures represent four of the same thing respectively; they represent the omnipresence of the Holy Spirit, an entity or member of the Godhead.

 

When the time arrives for the sixth trumpet, the Holy Spirit – that member of the Godhead who knows every heart simultaneously – speaks from the Altar of Incense. He speaks because the door of mercy is not yet closed. He releases the devil to kill one-third of mankind so that if possible, someone in the valley of decision might repent. When the 6^th trumpet blows, the time has come for the devil to set up his kingdom by killing the opposition and this killing will force everyone in accepting or rejecting the mark of the beast.]

Revelation 9:14   It [the Holy Spirit] said to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, “Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates.” [Parallel language indicating a flood of overwhelming destruction is coming down from the north]

 

Revelation 9:15   And the four angels [four demons] who had been kept ready for this very hour and day and month and year were released to kill a third of mankind.

 

Revelation 9:16   The number of the mounted troops [demons on horses] was two hundred million. I heard their number.

 

Revelation 9:17   The 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.

 

Revelation 9:18   A third of mankind was killedby the three plagues of fire, smoke and sulfur that came out of their mouths.

 

Revelation 9:19   The 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.

 

Revelation 9:20   The rest of mankind [the 2/3] that were not killed by these plagues still did not repent of their 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.

 

Revelation 9:21   Nor did they repent of their murders, their magic arts, their sexual immorality or their thefts.”

 

Why didn’t they repent? Those receiving the mark of the beast commit the unpardonable sin.  They have gone past repentance.

 

“[The angel said to me, “John,] The [great red dragon] beast, which you saw [cast out of Heaven in Revelation 12:7-9], once was [in Heaven], now is not[in Heaven because he was cast out into the Abyss], and [at the appointed time, he] will come up out of the Abyss[e.g., the spirit realm where he has been confined] and [after a great display of authority and power for about a year he will] go to his destruction. The inhabitants of the Earth whose names have not been written in the Book of Life from the creation of the world will be astonished when they [actually] see the [great red dragon] beast. Because he once was [a glorious angel in Heaven], now [he is confined to the Abyss and] is not [visible to human beings], and yet [during the fifth trumpet, he] will [be permitted to] come [out of hiding and masquerade as Almighty God. He will astonish the wicked with incredible glory, counterfeit wonders and miracles!]. The [great red dragon] beast who once was [in Heaven], and now is not [in Heaven], the eighth king. [This stern-faced king is called an eighth king because he will rule over the seven heads as the eighth horn ruled over the seven horns in Daniel 7.] He [the great red dragon] belongs to the seven [heads because he opposes God’s authority and truth. The great red dragon is the dreaded Antichrist] and [even though he will appear to be invincible for a while, you can be sure that he] is going to his destruction.” (Revelation 17:8-11, emphasis and insertions mine)

 

By the end of the 1,260 days, the six trumpet judgments will have taken place and every survivor will be found worshiping the devil (the lamblike beast or worshiping Jesus (the lamb).

 

At the end of the 1,260 days this time, most if not all of the 144,000 will be dead. But, on Sunday, the 1,265^th day of the Great Tribulation, the 144,000 will be resurrected and taken to Heaven – presented as the first fruits of an innumerable harvest that Jesus is about to gather up. On the 1,265^th day, right after the 144,000 are gathered around the throne, the seventh trumpet sounds in Heaven.

 

Revelation 11:15   The 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.”

 

Revelation 11:16   And the twenty-four elders, who were seated on their thrones before God, fell on their faces and worshiped God,

 

Revelation 11:17   saying: “We give thanks to you, Lord God Almighty, the One who is and who was, because you have [saved everyone that loves truth and] taken your great power and have begun to reign [over the Earth].

 

Revelation 11:18   The nations were angry [they have been hostile toward your saints]; and [the time for] your [destructive] wrath has come. The time has come for judging [avenging] the dead [who stood firmly for the Word of God], and for rewarding your servants the prophets and your saints and [all] those who reverence your name, both small and great – and [the time has come] for destroying those who destroy the earth.”

 

Revelation 11:19   Then God’s temple in heaven was opened [to the view of everyone on Earth so that everyone on Earth could behold God’s covenant with man], and within his temple was seen the Ark of the Covenant. And there came flashes of lightening, rumblings, peals of thunder, an earthquake and a great hailstorm.”

 

Interesting point:  

 

The Great Tribulation starts with a global earthquake, flashes of lightening, rumblings, peals of thunder, and a great hailstorm [first trumpet].”

 

The seventh trumpet marks the end of God’s extended mercy to mankind and this event is marked by a global earthquake, flashes of lightening, rumblings, peals of thunder, and a great hailstorm.” Then, the Great Tribulation ends with a global earthquake that moves all the mountains and islands out of their places, flashes of lightening, rumblings, peals of thunder, and a great hailstorm, and each hailstone weighs about 100 pounds.”

 

I have to smile at people who insist all of these things are symbolic. How much damage could a 100 pound symbolic hailstone cause? I believe real hailstones, weighing 100 pounds, will kill every wicked person who is alive when Jesus returns.

 

Revelation 19:19   When I saw the [composite] beast and the [ten]kings of the earth and their armies gathered together to make war against the rider on the horse [Jesus] and his army.

 

Revelation 19:20   But the [composite] beast was captured, and with him the false prophet [the devil] who had performed the miraculous signs on his behalf. With these signs he [the devil] had deluded those who had received the mark of the beast and worshiped his image. The two were thrown alive into the fiery lake of burning sulfur [at the Second Coming].

 

Revelation 19:21   The rest of them [the wicked] were killed with the sword that came out of the mouth of the rider on the horse, and all the birds gorged themselves on their flesh.”

 

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