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The Seven Trumpets (Shofars)

David Mitts

So the seven angels who had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound. - Rev 8:6 NKJV

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The Seven Trumpets

Book of Revelation - Divided into Three Segments (Revelation 1:19)
a) Things which thou hast seen: chapter one – vision John saw
b) Things which are: chapters two and three – Letters written to seven churches - 2,000 years ago
c) Things which shall be hereafter – prophetic portion (Revelation 4:1)
Four Major Categories Form Skeletal Structure
a) Seven Seals – Long story
b) Seven Trumpets – Shorter story
c) Seven Vials (Bowls) – Very short story
i) First Vial happens after Mark of the Beast implemented.
ii) Unleashed on whomever takes - Mark of the Beast
d) Seven Thunders not explained (Revelation 10:4)
i) God only allowed John to write what He wanted understood.
e) Seals, Trumpets, Vials and Thunders begin at different times - end at the same time.
i) Proves the Book of Revelation is not written in chronological order.
Parenthetical Chapters – Color Commentary
a) Events were revealed to provide fuller understanding of Revelation.
i) War in Heaven (Revelation 12)
ii) One-world government - Antichrist, one-world religion - False Prophet and Mark of the Beast
iii) (Revelation 13)
Seven Trumpets (Revelation 8:6)
a) Third Trumpet sounded (Chernobyl nuclear disaster) - April 26, 1986. (Revelation 8:10-11)
“The third angel sounded, and a great star fell from heaven, burning like a torch, and it fell on a third of the rivers and on the springs of waters. The star is named Wormwood; and a third of the waters became wormwood, and many people died from the waters because they were made bitter.” (Rev 8:10-11)
b)
i) Russian word Chernobyl means wormwood.
ii) Worst nuclear disaster in history of world
c) Ten times as much radiation as Hiroshima and Nagasaki
d) Nuclide Caesium-137 contaminated the waters. 30 year half-life
e) Many have died - others developed cancer from radiation.
i) Star of Wormwood Memorial Complex - dedicated to liquidators
“Trumpeting Angel” monument - 30-foot-tall iron angel sounding trumpet - symbolizes the prophecy.
Second Trumpet – World War II (Revelation 8:8-9)
“The second angel sounded, and something like a great mountain burning with fire was hurled into the sea; and a third of the sea became blood, and a third of the creatures which were in the sea and had life, died; and a third of the ships were destroyed.” (Rev 8:8-9)

a) One-third of ships – 36,387 ships destroyed of 105,125.

b) Great mountain burning with fire – first nuclear bomb dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

c) Largest death toll of any war – 52 million
First Trumpet – World War I (Revelation 8:7)
“The first sounded, and there was hail and fire mixed with blood, and it was hurled to the earth; and a third of the earth was burned up, and a third of the trees were burned up, and all the green grass was burned up.” (Rev 8:7)

a) 8.2 million died.
b) Scorched earth policy

c) Biological weapons first used
Fifth Trumpet – Gulf War 1991 (Revelation 9:1-3, 7-9, 11)
“Then the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star from heaven which had fallen to the earth; and the key to the shaft of the abyss was given to him. He opened the shaft of the abyss, and smoke ascended out of the shaft like the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened from the smoke of the shaft. Then out of the smoke came locusts upon the earth, and power was given them, as the scorpions of the earth have power.” (Rev 9:1-3)

a) Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait - 1990.
b) Hussein set 700 oil wells on fire.
c) Smoke from the pit darkened the sun and sky for three months.

d) Locusts with breastplates of iron - faces of men
“The appearance of the locusts was like horses prepared for battle; and on their heads appeared to be crowns like gold, and their faces were like human faces. They had hair like the hair of women, and their teeth were like the teeth of lions. They had breastplates like breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings was like the sound of chariots, of many horses rushing to battle.” (Rev 9:7-9)
“They have as king over them, the angel of the abyss; his name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in the Greek he has the name Apollyon.” (Rev 9:11
e) Helicopters and jet airplanes

f) Abaddon in Hebrew - Apollyon in Greek - means destroyer.
g) The Arabic word for Saddam means destroyer.
Fourth Trumpet – 1989 (Revelation 8:12, Matthew 24:22)

“The fourth angel sounded, and a third of the sun, a third of the moon, and a third of the stars were struck, so that a third of them would be darkened and the day would not shine for a third of it, and the night in the same way.” (Rev 8:12)
a) Length of days and nights shortened by 1/3
b) Number of days not shortened (Daniel 12:11)
c) Time sped up
How could a man run a four-minute mile?
Einstein’s Theory of Relativity – time and speed - relative to each other

a) Fall of Berlin Wall – a pivotal day in history
Beginning of the New World Order
An article from the London School of Economics called “The Global 1989? The year that changed the world”
Sixth Trumpet (Revelation 9:13-16)
a) War will kill one-third of mankind.
“Then the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God, saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, “Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates.” And the four angels, who had been prepared for the hour and day and month and year, were released, so that they would kill a third of mankind. The number of the armies of the horsemen was two hundred million; I heard the number of them. And this is how I saw in my vision the horses and those who sat on them: the riders had breastplates the color of fire, of hyacinth, and of brimstone; and the heads of the horses are like the heads of lions; and out of their mouths *came fire and smoke and brimstone. A third of mankind was killed by these three plagues, by the fire, the smoke, and the brimstone which came out of their mouths.” (Rev 9:13-18)
USAWatchdog.com - May 17, 2022, “Third of Global Population Killed in Next War
Cycle – Charles Nenner”

a) War originates from Euphrates River area.
Four angels/evil spirits bound in Euphrates
Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran house the Euphrates River.

a) Why will this war be fought?
Unsustainable population growth may be a factor.

a) Army of 200 million will participate.
China – largest military force in the world
Islam – population around 1.9 billion
India – population around 1.35 billion
Thousands of United States troops stationed in Euphrates River region.

a) Nuclear war highly likely (Revelation 9:17-19, Zechariah 14:12)
“Now this will be the plague with which the LORD will strike all the peoples who have gone to war against Jerusalem; their flesh will rot while they stand on their feet, and their eyes will rot in their sockets, and their tongue will rot in their mouth.” (Zec 14:12)
John appears to be describing modern-day warfare.
John calls the fire, smoke and brimstone plagues.
Zechariah described flesh falling from people’s bodies.

a) Seventh Trumpet (Revelation 11:15-18)
Then the seventh angel sounded; and there were loud voices in heaven, saying:
“The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ; and He will reign forever and ever.” And the twenty-four elders, who sit on their thrones before God, fell on their faces and worshiped God, saying, “We give You thanks, Lord God, the Almighty, the One who is and who was, because You have taken Your great power and have begun to reign. “And the nations were enraged, and Your wrath came, and the time came for the dead to be judged, and the time to reward Your bond-servants the prophets and the saints and those who fear Your name, the small and the great, and to destroy those who destroy the earth.”” (Rev 11:15-18)

a) Kingdoms of this world become kingdoms of our Lord and of His Christ.
Reward given to the saints.
God’s Wrath will come.
Second Coming of Jesus Christ

a) Apostle Paul taught about the last trumpet. (1 Corinthians 15:51-53, 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17)

i) “Behold, I am telling you a mystery; we will not all sleep, but we will all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet; for the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. For this perishable must put on the imperishable, and this mortal must put on immortality.” (1Co 15:51-53)

ii) “For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive, who remain, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord.” (1Th 4:16-17)
Those who died and were born again will raise from the dead.
Those alive and serving God will be changed from mortal to immortal in the twinkling of an eye.
Caught up to meet the Lord in the air – the Rapture (Romans 8:11)
Summary
a) To be in the Rapture, make sure you receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.
b) The Holy Ghost is the power that will raise you up on that last day.
c) Be prepared for the soon return of the Lord to this Earth