BLOW YE THE TRUMPETS REVELATION 8 The plagues

BLOW YE THE TRUMPETS REVELATION 8 The plagues associated with the trumpets begin!

“BUT JEHOVAH IS IN HIS HOLY TEMPLE; LET ALL THE EARTH KEEP SILENCE BEFORE HIM. ” HABAKKUK 2: 20 ASV

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Military Conquest War Famine Death Martyrs Under Altar Natural Catastrophe Silence 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Hail, Blood, Fire, 1/3 Plant life Mt. of Fire, 1/3 Sea, 1/3 Living Star, 1/3 Waters Poisoned 1/3 luminaries, 1/3 Days Locusts out of the Pit 200 M Cavalry w/ 3 plagues Worship in Heaven (Rev. 11: 15)

Tobit 12: 14 -15 (ca. 220 BC) Comes to heal and is 1 of 7 who stand ready to enter God’s Presence I Enoch 9: 1 -11 (ca. 185 BC) Michael and Gabriel, Raphael, Suryal, and Uriel notice injustice and call the cries and moans of men to the attention of God.

Futurist Chart

Mt. Vesuvius—AD 79 AD 62 – earthquake on fault line (opened vent / 600 sheep killed by fumes / both Herculaneum and Pompeii in ruins) AD 79 – main eruption (during feast of emperor worship of Augustus / huge cloud of ash by day, fiery red skies at night / ground shifted topographically / lava to sea / panic and evacuation by ships and boats)

Vesuvius Eruption Results

Four of Seven Trumpets As: Anti-Catholic 1. Decline of Catholicism 2. 1/3 of churches destroyed by heresy 3. Fall of Pope 4. Fall of clergy 1 st Century First two trumpets sound like Vesuvius Third sounds like meteor Fourth sounds like eclipses in Ancient Rome

Four of Seven Trumpets Premillenial (Talbot) (Woodbridge) 1. Divine plagues as in Exodus 9: 18 ff Premillenial 1. Destruction of 1/3 of the earth 2. Mountain = Babylon (Jeremiah 51: 25) 3. Fall of major religious authority / denomination 2. Destruction of 1/3 of sea 4. Spiritual darkness 4. Cosmic phenomena 3. Destruction of water supply (reverse of Exodus 15: 23)

1. From the futurist, we learn that humanity even rejects the gospel in the face of cataclysmic circumstances 2. From the preterist, we learn that the believers in John’s time were alarmed at natural and human disasters and needed to know God was in control. 3. The Continuous-Historical reminds us that heresy is dangerous. 4. The Symbolist reminds of trouble believers