| Seals | Trumpets | |
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| 1 | Fake Christs | Hail and fire cast to earth |
| 2 | War | Space rock cast to earth |
| 3 | Famine | Comet cast to earth |
| 4 | Pandemic/Death | 1/3 earth covered by debris |
| 5 | Persecution of Christians | Tormenting non-believers by demons |
| 6 | Major astronomic and seismic event | Final War (fought in Israel) |
| 7 | Introduce 7 trumpets | Introduce 7 bowls - wrath of God |
Because the corresponding events don't match up, I do not buy the theory that the 7 thrumpets and the 7 seals are similar prophecies.
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(Where as most of the events announced by the seals are man-made in nature:
My reason is as follows...
| Rev 16:1 Then I heard a loud voice from the temple saying to the seven angels, "Go, pour out the seven bowls of God's wrath on the earth." |
| Rev 15:1 I saw in heaven another great and marvelous sign: seven angels with the seven last plagues -- last, because with them God's wrath is completed. |
The event that triggered the 7 trumpets is the persecution (killing) of the Christians.
So I can imagine that God is getting angry...
God's people will be slaughtered:
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Zech 14:1 A day of the LORD is coming when your plunder will be divided
among you.
Zech 14:2 I will gather all the nations to Jerusalem to fight against it; the city will be captured, the houses ransacked, and the women raped. Half of the city will go into exile, but the rest of the people will not be taken from the city. |
Now God is fuming...
He is so angry that He leaves heaven, and come down to earth to take matters into His own hand (Jesus' Second coming will be as a king)
A gravitational wave plane is able to explain all the phenomenons in the prophecies related with the 6th seal
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The sun's
movement through the Milky Way
regularly sends
comets hurtling into the inner solar system --
coinciding with mass life extinctions on earth, a
new study claims. The study suggests a link
between comet bombardment and the movement
through the galaxy.
... The Cardiff team found that we pass through the galactic plane every 35 to 40 million years, increasing the chances of a comet collision tenfold. Evidence from craters on Earth also suggests we suffer more collisions approximately 36 million years. Professor William Napier, of the Cardiff Centre for Astrobiology, said: "It's a beautiful match between what we see on the ground and what is expected from the galactic record." |
Article: click here
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Rev 8:7 The first angel sounded his trumpet,
and there came hail and fire
mixed with blood,
and it was hurled down upon the earth.
A third of the earth was burned up, a third of the trees were burned up,
and all the green grass was burned up.
Rev 8:8 The second angel sounded his trumpet, and something like a huge mountain, all ablaze, was thrown into the sea. A third of the sea turned into blood, 9a third of the living creatures in the sea died, and a third of the ships were destroyed.
Rev 8:10 The third angel sounded his trumpet, and a great star, blazing like a torch, fell from the sky on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water
Rev 8:11 the name of the star is
Rev 8:12 The fourth angel sounded his trumpet, and a third of the sun was struck, a third of the moon, and a third of the stars, so that a third of them turned dark. A third of the day was without light, and also a third of the night.
Rev 8:13 As I watched, I heard an eagle that was flying in midair call out in a loud voice: "Woe! Woe! Woe to the inhabitants of the earth, because of the trumpet blasts about to be sounded by the other three angels!"
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Rev 9:1 The fifth angel sounded his trumpet,
and I saw a
star that had fallen
from the sky to the earth.
The star
was given the key to the shaft of the
Abyss.
Rev 9:2 When he opened the Abyss, smoke rose from it like the smoke from a gigantic furnace. The sun and sky were darkened by the smoke from the Abyss. Rev 9:3 And out of the smoke locusts came down upon the earth and were given power like that of scorpions of the earth.
Rev 9:4 They were told not to harm the grass of the earth or any plant or tree, but only those people who did not have the seal of God on their foreheads. Rev 9:5 They were not given power to kill them, but only to torture them for five months. And the agony they suffered was like that of the sting of a scorpion when it strikes a man. Rev 9:6 During those days men will seek death, but will not find it; they will long to die, but death will elude them.
Rev 9:7 The locusts looked like horses prepared for battle. On their heads they wore something like crowns of gold, and their faces resembled human faces. Rev 9:8 Their hair was like women's hair, and their teeth were like lions' teeth. Rev 9:9 They had breastplates like breastplates of iron, and the sound of their wings was like the thundering of many horses and chariots rushing into battle. Rev 9:10 They had tails and stings like scorpions, and in their tails they had power to torment people for five months. Rev 9:11 They had as king over them the angel of the Abyss, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek, Apollyon.
Rev 9:12 The first woe is past; two other woes are yet to come. Rev 9:13 The sixth angel sounded his trumpet, and I heard a voice coming from the horns of the golden altar that is before God. Rev 9:14 It said to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, "Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates." Rev 9:15 And the four angels who had been kept ready for this very hour and day and month and year were released to kill a third of mankind. Rev 9:16 The number of the mounted troops was two hundred million. I heard their number.
Rev 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. Rev 9:18 A third of mankind was killed by the three plagues of fire, smoke and sulfur that came out of their mouths. Rev 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.
Rev 9:20 The rest of mankind that were not killed by these plagues still did not repent of the work of their hands; they did not stop worshiping demons, and idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone and woodidols that cannot see or hear or walk. Rev 9:21 Nor did they repent of their murders, their magic arts, their sexual immorality or their thefts.
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| Rev 10:4 And when the seven thunders spoke, I was about to write; but I heard a voice from heaven say, "Seal up what the seven thunders have said and do not write it down." |
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I.e., where in the sequence of trumpets do you place these events ?
I have thought long and hard on this question and I came to the following - consistent - conclusion...
The 7th trumpet will signal the wrath of God at full strength...
So the period of the 6th trumpet is right before the time that Jesus' second coming !!
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The time of the start (beginning) of the event is not given in the prophecy...
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Rev 11:1 I was given a reed like a measuring rod and was told,
"Go and
measure the temple of God and the altar,
and count the worshipers there.
Rev 11:2 But exclude the outer court; do not measure it, because it has been given to the Gentiles.
Rev 11:3 And I will give power to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth." Rev 11:4 These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth. Rev 11:5 If anyone tries to harm them, fire comes from their mouths and devours their enemies. This is how anyone who wants to harm them must die. Rev 11:6 These men have power to shut up the sky so that it will not rain during the time they are prophesying; and they have power to turn the waters into blood and to strike the earth with every kind of plague as often as they want.
Rev 11:7 Now when they have finished their testimony, the beast that comes up from the Abyss will attack them, and overpower and kill them.
Rev 11:8 Their bodies will lie in the street of the great city, which is figuratively called Sodom and Egypt, where also their Lord was crucified.
Rev 11:9 For three and a half days men from every people, tribe, language and nation will gaze on their bodies and refuse them burial. Rev 11:10 The inhabitants of the earth will gloat over them and will celebrate by sending each other gifts, because these two prophets had tormented those who live on the earth.
Rev 11:11 But after the three and a half days a breath of life from God entered them, and they stood on their feet, and terror struck those who saw them. Rev 11:12 Then they heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them, "Come up here." And they went up to heaven in a cloud, while their enemies looked on. Rev 11:13 At that very hour there was a severe earthquake and a tenth of the city collapsed. Seven thousand people were killed in the earthquake, and the survivors were terrified and gave glory to the God of heaven. Rev 11:14 The second woe has passed; the third woe is coming soon.
Rev 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."
I will skip the remainder of Chapter 11 because they does not contain anything prophetic events.... |
