Eschatology : No. 16 The Pouring out of the Last Seal Judgment.

Revelation 8,9; 11:15-19.

The Seven Trumpets

This Seal involves the Seven Trumpet Plagues on the earth.

1. The Sounding of the First trumpet. Rev 8:6  And the seven angels that had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound.

Rev 8:7  And the first sounded, and there followed hail and fire, mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of the earth was burnt up, and the third part of the trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.

b. The Sounding of the Second trumpet. Rev 8:8  And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood;

Rev 8:9  and there died the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, even they that had life; and the third part of the ships was destroyed.

3. The Sounding of the Third trumpet.

Rev 8:10  And the third angel sounded, and there fell from heaven a great star, burning as a torch, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of the waters;

Rev 8:11  and the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.

A Great Star

4. d. The Sounding of the Fourth Trumpet.

Rev 8:12  And the fourth angel sounded, and the third part of the sun was smitten, and the third part of the moon, and the third part of the stars; that the third part of them should be darkened, and the day should not shine for the third part of it, and the night in like manner.

The first four Trumpets are evidently separated from the three which follow them, both by the words of Rev_8:13 and by the fact that they refer to things of earth, while in the latter we are brought into contact with the spiritual world. A transition of a similar kind met us at the opening of the fifth Seal in chap. Rev_6:9, and the correspondence, in a book constructed upon so symmetrical a plan as the Apocalypse, is sufficient to show us that the transition is in both cases designed. Popular Commentary of the NT.

5. The Sounding of the Fifth Trumpet.

Rev 9:1  And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star from heaven fallen unto the earth: and there was given to him the key of the pit of the abyss.

Rev 9:2  And he opened the pit of the abyss; and there went up a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.

Rev 9:3  And out of the smoke came forth locusts upon the earth; and power was given them, as the scorpions of the earth have power.

Rev 9:4  And it was said unto them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree, but only such men as have not the seal of God on their foreheads.

Rev 9:5  And it was given them that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when it striketh a man.

Rev 9:6  And in those days men shall seek death, and shall in no wise find it; and they shall desire to die, and death fleeth from them.

6. The Sounding of the Sixth Trumpet.

Rev 9:13  And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the horns of the golden altar which is before God,

Rev 9:14  one saying to the sixth angel that had one trumpet, Loose the four angels that are bound at the great river Euphrates.

Rev 9:15  And the four angels were loosed, that had been prepared for the hour and day and month and year, that they should kill the third part of men.

Rev 9:16  And the number of the armies of the horsemen was twice ten thousand times ten thousand: I heard the number of them.

Rev 9:17  And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates as of fire and of hyacinth and of brimstone: and the heads of lions; and out of their mouths proceedeth fire and smoke and brimstone.

Rev 9:18  By these three plagues was the third part of men killed, by the fire and the smoke and the brimstone, which proceeded out of their mouths.

Rev 9:19  For the power of the horses is in their mouth, and in their tails: for their tails are like unto serpents, and have heads; and with them they hurt.

Rev 9:20  And the rest of mankind, who were not killed with these plagues, repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship demons, and the idols of gold, and of silver, and of brass, and of stone, and of wood; which can neither see, nor hear, nor walk:

Rev 9:21  and they repented not of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.

7. The Sounding of the Seventh Trumpet.

Rev 11:14  The second Woe is past: behold, the third Woe cometh quickly.

Rev 11:15  And the seventh angel sounded; and there followed great voices in heaven, and they said, The kingdom of the world is become the kingdom of our Lord, and of his Christ: and he shall reign for ever and ever.

Rev 11:16  And the four and twenty elders, who sit before God on their thrones, fell upon their faces and worshipped God,

Rev 11:17  saying, We give thee thanks, O Lord God, the Almighty, who art and who wast; because thou hast taken thy great power, and didst reign.

Rev 11:18  And the nations were wroth, and thy wrath came, and the time of the dead to be judged, and the time to give their reward to thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and to them that fear thy name, the small and the great; and to destroy them that destroy the earth.

Rev 11:19  And there was opened the temple of God that is in heaven; and there was seen in his temple the ark of his covenant; and there followed lightnings, and voices, and thunders, and an earthquake, and great hail.