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Seventh Trumpet & The Rapture Of The Church
Contributed by Robert Simmons on Feb 24, 2002 (message contributor)
Summary: Exploration of the verses dealing with the Rapture and comparing these with the text on the seventh trumpet from the book of Revelation. Good overview of a "pre-wrath" view of end-time events.
SEALS
1ST SEAL-- WHITE HORSE (CONQUERING)
2ND SEAL-- RED HORSE (SWORD)
3RD SEAL-- BLACK HORSE (BALANCES)
4TH SEAL-- PALE HORSE (DEATH)
5TH SEAL-- SOULS SLAIN FOR WORD OF GOD
6TH SEAL-- EARTHQUAKE, SUN BECAME BLACK, MOON BECAME BLOOD, STARS FEEL TO EARTH
7TH SEAL-- SILENCE IN HEAVEN
AND THEY HAVE CONQUERED HIM BY THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB AND BY THE WORD OF THEIR TESTIMONY, FOR THEY LOVED NOT THEIR LIVES EVEN UNTO DEATH. REJOICE THEN, O HEAVEN AND YOU THAT DWELL THEREIN! BUT WOE TO YOU, O EARTH AND SEA AND FOR THE DEVIL HAS COME DOWN TO YOU IN GREAT WRATH, BECAUSE HE KNOWS THAT HIS TIME IS SHORT!
TRUMPETS
1ST TRUMPET-- HAIL AND FIRE MINGLED WITH BLOOD
2ND TRUMPET-- GREAT MOUNTAIN BURNING WITH FIRE CAST IN SEA AND 1/3 SEA BECAME BLOOD
3RD TRUMPET-- WORMWOOD (GREAT STAR) FELL ON RIVERS (1/3 WATERS BECAME BITTER)
4TH TRUMPET-- 1/3 OF STARS, MOON, AND SUN DARKENED
5TH TRUMPET-- UNLOCKING BOTTOMLESS PIT (SMOKE, LOCUST, SCORPIONS)
IN APPEARANCE THE LOCUSTS WERE LIKE HORSES ARRAYED FOR BATTLE; ON THEIR HEADS WERE WHAT LOOKED LIKE CROWNS OF GOLD; THEIR FACES WERE LIKE HUMAN FACES, THEIR HAIR LIKE WOMEN’S HAIR, AND THEIR TEETH LIKE LION’S TEETH; THEY HAD SCALES LIKE IRON BREASTPLATES, AND THE NOISE OF THEIR WINGS WAS LIKE THE NOISE OF MANY CHARIOTS WITH HORSES RUSHING INTO BATTLE. THEY HAVE TAILS LIKE SCORPIONS, AND STINGS, AND THEIR POWER OF HURTING MEN FOR FIVES MONTHS LIES IN THEIR TAILS.
6TH TRUMPET-- FOUR ANGELS LOOSED FROM EUPHRATES TO SLAY 1/3 OF MEN
**EMERGENCE OF ANTICHRIST
MINISTRY OF TWO WITNESSES
7TH TRUMPET--
THEN THE SEVENTH ANGEL BLEW HIS TRUMPET, 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 SHALL REIGN FOREVER AND EVER."
WOMAN WITH CHILD VS RED DRAGON
ADVANCEMENT OF ANTICHRIST’S KINGDOM
DECEPTION OF THE FALSE PROPHET
IMAGE OF THE BEAST, MARK OF THE BEAST, NUMBER OF THE BEAST
"THIS CALLS FOR WISDOM: LET HIM WHO HAS UNDERSTANDING RECKON THE NUMBER OF THE BEAST, FOR IT IS THE NUMBER OF A MAN, IT NUMBER IS 666. REVELATION 13:7
ALSO IT WAS ALLOWED TO MAKE WAR ON THE SAINTS AND TO CONQUER THEM. AND AUTHORITY WAS GIVEN IT OVER EVERY TRIBE AND PEOPLE AND TONGUE AND NATION.
AND ALL WHO DWELL ON EARTH WILL WORSHIP IT, EVERY ONE WHOSE NAME HAS NOT BEEN WRITTEN BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD IN THE BOOK OF LIFE OF THE LAMB THAT WAS SLAIN.
IF ANYONE HAS AN EAR, LET HIM HEAR.
IF ANYONE IS TO BE TAKEN CAPTIVE, TO CAPTIVITY HE GOES; IF ANYONE SLAYS WITH THE SWORD, WITH THE SWORD MUST HE BE SLAIN. HERE IS A CALL FOR THE ENDURANCE AND FAITH OF THE SAINTS.
AND I SAW ANOTHER ANGEL FLY IN THE MIDST OF HEAVEN, HAVING THE EVERLASTING GOSPEL TO PREACH UNTO THEM THAT DWELL ON THE EARTH, AND TO EVERY NATION, AND KINDRED, AND TONGUE, AND PEOPLE.
SAYING WITH A LOUD VOICE, FEAR GOD, AND GIVE GLORY TO HIM: FOR THE HOUR OF HIS JUDGMENT IS COME: AND WORSHIP HIM THAT MADE HEAVEN, AND EARTH, AND THE SEA, AND THE FOUNTAINS OF WATERS.
AND THERE FOLLOWED ANOTHER ANGEL, SAYING, BABYLON IS FALLEN, IS FALLEN, THAT GREAT CITY, BECAUSE SHE MADE ALL NATIONS DRINK OF THE WINE OF THE WRATH OF HER FORNICATION.
HERE IS THE PATIENCE OF THE SAINTS: HERE ARE THEY THAT KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD, AND THE FAITH OF JESUS.
AND THEN SHALL APPEAR THE SIGN OF THE SON OF MAN IN HEAVEN: AND THEN SHALL ALL THE TRIBES OF THE EARTH MOURN, AND THEY SHALL SEE THE SON OF MAN COMING IN THE CLOUDS OF HEAVEN WITH POWER AND GREAT GLORY.
AND HE SHALL SEND HIS ANGELS WITH A GREAT SOUND OF A TRUMPET, AND THEY SHALL GATHER TOGETHER HIS ELECT FROM FOUR WINDS, FROM ONE END OF HEAVEN TO THE OTHER.
BUT I WOULD NOT HAVE YOU TO BE IGNORANT, BRETHREN, CONCERNING THEM WHICH ARE ASLEEP, THAT YE SORROW NOT, EVEN AS OTHERS WHICH HAVE NO HOPE.
FOR IF WE BELIEVE THAT JESUS DIED AND ROSE AGAIN, EVEN SO THEM ALSO WHICH SLEEP IN JESUS WILL GOD BRING WITH HIM.
FOR THIS WE SAY UNTO YOU BY THE WORD OF THE LORD, THAT WE WHICH ARE ALIVE AND REMAIN UNTO THE COMING OF THE LORD SHALL NOT PREVENT THEM WHICH ARE ASLEEP.
FOR THE LORD HIMSELF SHALL DESCEND FROM HEAVEN WITH A SHOUT, WITH THE VOICE OF THE ARCHANGEL, AND WITH THE TRUMP OF GOD: AND THE DEAD IN CHRIST SHALL RISE FIRST:
THEN WE WHICH ARE ALIVE AND REMAIN SHALL BE CAUGHT UP TOGETHER WITH THEM IN THE CLOUDS, TO MEET THE LORD IN THE AIR: AND SO SHALL WE EVER BE WITH THE LORD.
