The Revelation of Jesus Christ Part 6
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God answers the prayers of His people.
God answers the prayers of His people.
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1 When the Lamb opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour.
2 Then I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and seven trumpets were given to them.
3 And another angel came and stood at the altar with a golden censer, and he was given much incense to offer with the prayers of all the saints on the golden altar before the throne,
4 and the smoke of the incense, with the prayers of the saints, rose before God from the hand of the angel.
5 Then the angel took the censer and filled it with fire from the altar and threw it on the earth, and there were peals of thunder, rumblings, flashes of lightning, and an earthquake.
Prayer ascends to God like incense.
Prayer ascends to God like incense.
Prayer connects the people of God to His Sovereign will.
Prayer connects the people of God to His Sovereign will.
The judgments that follow occur in response to the prayers of God’s people
The judgments that follow occur in response to the prayers of God’s people
Prayer matters in the plan of God - SO PRAY!
Prayer matters in the plan of God - SO PRAY!
2. God brings salvation through judgment.
2. God brings salvation through judgment.
6 Now the seven angels who had the seven trumpets prepared to blow them.
7 The first angel blew his trumpet, and there followed hail and fire, mixed with blood, and these were thrown upon the earth. And a third of the earth was burned up, and a third of the trees were burned up, and all green grass was burned up.
8 The second angel blew his trumpet, and something like a great mountain, burning with fire, was thrown into the sea, and a third of the sea became blood.
9 A third of the living creatures in the sea died, and a third of the ships were destroyed.
10 The third angel blew his trumpet, and a great star fell from heaven, blazing like a torch, and it fell on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water.
11 The name of the star is Wormwood. A third of the waters became wormwood, and many people died from the water, because it had been made bitter.
12 The fourth angel blew his trumpet, and a third of the sun was struck, and a third of the moon, and a third of the stars, so that a third of their light might be darkened, and a third of the day might be kept from shining, and likewise a third of the night.
How did God save His people in Egypt?
How did God save His people in Egypt?
23 During those many days the king of Egypt died, and the people of Israel groaned because of their slavery and cried out for help. Their cry for rescue from slavery came up to God.
24 And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
25 God saw the people of Israel—and God knew.
Preaching the Word: Revelation—The Spirit Speaks to the Churches Revelation 8:6–12: The First Four Trumpets: Wrath on the World
As at the exodus from Egypt, God is going to judge the wicked world and deliver his people in response to their prayers.
As at the exodus from Egypt, God is going to judge the wicked world and deliver his people in response to their prayers.
As at the exodus from Egypt, God is going to judge the wicked world and deliver his people in response to their prayers.
Just as Pharaoh and Egypt refuse to repent at the judgment so to will those who dwell on the earth.
These first four trumpets seem indicate judgment within creation.
These first four trumpets seem indicate judgment within creation.
The first trumpet affects the Land.
The first trumpet affects the Land.
The second affects the sea.
The second affects the sea.
The third affects the rivers and springs.
The third affects the rivers and springs.
The fourth affects the sun.
The fourth affects the sun.
Please note the scope of this judgment.
Please note the scope of this judgment.
Key Phrase - “A third”
Key Phrase - “A third”
Approximately 13 in this chapter - (8:7, 88, 8:9, 8:10, 8:11, 8:12)
One third is not full and final judgment. It is the judgment of God with restraint. It is judgment but it is limited judgment.
These judgments occurring throughout the time between Christ’s first and second coming are bitter foretastes of the final judgment.
These judgments occurring throughout the time between Christ’s first and second coming are bitter foretastes of the final judgment.
In the scriptures what was the purpose of a trumpet?
In the scriptures what was the purpose of a trumpet?
1 Blow a trumpet in Zion; sound an alarm on my holy mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, for the day of the Lord is coming; it is near,
Joel 2:1
What is the message of the trumpets?
The final judgment is coming repent or perish.
The final judgment is coming repent or perish.
Rev 9
1 And the fifth angel blew his trumpet, and I saw a star fallen from heaven to earth, and he was given the key to the shaft of the bottomless pit.
2 He opened the shaft of the bottomless pit, and from the shaft rose smoke like the smoke of a great furnace, and the sun and the air were darkened with the smoke from the shaft.
3 Then from the smoke came locusts on the earth, and they were given power like the power of scorpions of the earth.
4 They were told not to harm the grass of the earth or any green plant or any tree, but only those people who do not have the seal of God on their foreheads.
5 They were allowed to torment them for five months, but not to kill them, and their torment was like the torment of a scorpion when it stings someone.
6 And in those days people will seek death and will not find it. They will long to die, but death will flee from them.
7 In appearance the locusts were like horses prepared for battle: on their heads were what looked like crowns of gold; their faces were like human faces,
8 their hair like women’s hair, and their teeth like lions’ teeth;
9 they had breastplates like breastplates of iron, and the noise of their wings was like the noise of many chariots with horses rushing into battle.
10 They have tails and stings like scorpions, and their power to hurt people for five months is in their tails.
11 They have as king over them the angel of the bottomless pit. His name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek he is called Apollyon.
12 The first woe has passed; behold, two woes are still to come.
13 Then the sixth angel blew his trumpet, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar before God,
14 saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, “Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates.”
15 So the four angels, who had been prepared for the hour, the day, the month, and the year, were released to kill a third of mankind.
16 The number of mounted troops was twice ten thousand times ten thousand; I heard their number.
17 And this is how I saw the horses in my vision and those who rode them: they wore breastplates the color of fire and of sapphire and of sulfur, and the heads of the horses were like lions’ heads, and fire and smoke and sulfur came out of their mouths.
18 By these three plagues a third of mankind was killed, by the fire and smoke and sulfur coming out of their mouths.
19 For the power of the horses is in their mouths and in their tails, for their tails are like serpents with heads, and by means of them they wound.
20 The rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands nor give up worshiping demons and idols of gold and silver and bronze and stone and wood, which cannot see or hear or walk,
21 nor did they repent of their murders or their sorceries or their sexual immorality or their thefts.