The Seven Trumpets
Parts 4-6
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Begin Text:
There are some key
points that we need to address as we
proceed with this study. Ultimately,
I want you to consider and understand
that the seven trumpets were deliberately
and purposefully designed by God
to accomplish several marvelous
objectives during the Great
Tribulation. This is one of the most
impressive things about God: Everything
He does has layers or purposes.
For example, I like to
think of God’s temple in
Heaven as a multipurpose room. It
is a courtroom, a stateroom and a
cathedral – all at the same
time!
Let’s begin with
revelation 8:2:
Revelation 8:2
and I saw the seven angels’ who
stand before God, and to them were
given seven trumpets. [This event
is a punctilliar moment –
therefore, we have to ask: “When
does this event occur?”]
You may recall from
last month’s study that I
believe the best answer to this
question is 1994. The
termination of the Jubilee calendar
in 1994 harmoniously resolves three
key issues in the book of Revelation:
1. The
full cup principle – there is a
limit to God’s patience, thus
the end of corporate mercy at the
altar of incense is appropriate after
1994
2. There
is a delay in Revelation 7 –
Jesus is waiting for the selection of
the 144,000
3. There
is literal time in Daniel and
Revelation – for example, the
1,260 days, 42 months, 1,000 years,
1,290 days and 1,335 days
(Furthermore, for
those of you who understand that
Daniel 8:14 reaches to the Spring of
1844, the termination of the Jubilee
Calendar at the end of the seven
full “great days” in
1994 makes a lot more sense than
trying to terminate the Jubilee
calendar in 1844, which is 150 years
short of fulfilling the “great
day” of Sabbath. In other words,
from the Exodus in 1437 B.C. to 1844
is 340 years short of seven
“great days.” However, 1437
B.C. to 1994 is a full 3,430 years,
making seven great days of 490 years
each.) If you are still foggy on the
operation of the Jubilee Calendar, I
hope you review this study.
We have been informed
about a delay in God’s wrath in
Revelation 7 because God wants us to
know that He is waiting for
something more important than the
execution of His wrath against sin.
Jesus is waiting upon “the
appointed time!” With God,
timing is everything!
Habakkuk 2:3
“For the revelation awaits an
appointed time; it speaks of the
end and will not prove false. Though
it may linger, wait for it; it will
certainly come and will not
delay.”
Daniel 8:19
He said: “I am going to tell you
what will happen later in the time of
wrath, because the vision concerns the
appointed time of the end.”
Daniel 11:27
The two kings, with their hearts bent
on evil, will sit at the same table
and lie to each other, but to no
avail, because an end will still come
at the appointed time.”
Revelation 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.”
Again, “With God,
timing is everything.”
Let’s assemble a few ideas:
We know from our study
on the seven seals that the fourth
seal is the next seal to open.
Revelation 6:7
When the Lamb opened the fourth seal,
I heard the voice of the fourth
living creature say,
“Come!”
Revelation 6:8
I looked, and there before me was a
pale horse! Its rider was named Death,
and Hades was following close behind
him. They were given power over a
fourth of the earth to kill by sword,
famine and plague, and by the wild
beasts of the earth.”
The fourth seal
consists of punitive judgments that
will kill 25% of Earth’s
population. Sword, famine, plague and
wild beasts are used by God to punish
wickedness. When Israel became
hopelessly wicked, the Lord told
Ezekiel:
Ezekiel 14:21
“For this is what the Sovereign
Lord says: How much worse will it be
when I send against Jerusalem my four
dreadful judgments – sword and
famine and wild beasts and the plague
– to kill its men and their
animals!”
In our day, the
judgments of the fourth seal will be
accomplished by the seven trumpets!
When corporate mercy ends, when the censer
at the corporate altar is cast
down, God’s wrath begins.
God’s four judgments are
punitive in nature, that is, they
produce corporate punishment.
Last month, we looked at the first
four trumpets and found them to be
destructive judgments: 1/3 of the
Earth will be burned up, two
asteroids impacts will cause enormous
destruction and the loss of life and
the darkness of the fourth trumpet
will keep food crops from
growing….
Add to these facts the
fact that four angels in Revelation 7
have been waiting since 1994 to
release their harm on the Earth, sea,
and trees and there is no wiggle room
left on this topic.
When the censer is
cast down in Revelation 8:5,
corporate intercession will end and
the wrath of God will break out on
this planet because the intercession
of Jesus on behalf of the whole world
will be ‘taken out of the
way.”
Jesus has been “standing
in the way” of God’s wrath
upon this world for almost 6,000
years. [In other words, Jesus has
been interceding between God and
man.]
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