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Page 1: Studies in the Apocalypse First Trumpet - Rev.8:7 Second Trumpet - Rev.8:8 Third Trumpet - Rev.8:10 Fourth Trumpet - Rev.8:12

Studies in the Apocalypse

First Trumpet - Rev.8:7

Second Trumpet - Rev.8:8

Third Trumpet - Rev.8:10

Fourth Trumpet - Rev.8:12

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‘Recap’ of historical details so far

Seal period revealed to John: internal events in the Roman . world AD 96 - 312

6th Seal - First of three ‘great earthquakes’ when the government changed from Paganism to ‘Christianity’

When the 7th Seal was opened John sees 7 angels with trumpets

Before the Barbarian nations invaded, they began to threaten and make inroads into the empire by peaceful means (365 - 395) - The Angels were ‘preparing to sound’

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Why Change the symbol from seal to trumpet?

Unloosing the seals revealed events within the Roman EmpireThe trumpets were blown to summon armies from without to attack the empire

Jeremiah 51:27 Set ye up a standard in the land, blow the trumpet among the nations, prepare the nations against her, call together against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashchenaz;

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Gibbon Identifies 4 principle events which brought about the collapse of the Western Empire.

1. Attack by the Visigoths 395 - First Trumpet

2. Attack by the Vandals 429 - Second Trumpet

3 Attack by the Huns 450 - Third Trumpet

4. Attack by Ostrogoths 476 - Fourth Trumpet

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6 Seals Ch.6 6 Trumpets Ch.8&9 7 Vials Ch.16

7th Seal7th Trumpet

AD96 312 1793 2???

96AD

180

211

235

303

312

395

429

450

476

632

1062

1793

1794

1795

1805

1809

1820

20??

Overview of historic details prophesied in the Apocalypse

6th seal – Ch.6:12:17

Ch.7:1-3 - After 6th seal a period of calm on earth

Ch. 8:1-2 - 7 angels with trumpets and a period of silence in heaven

The period of silence in heaven relates to a period of calm on earth

3 great earthquakes

Each results in a change of Religion

Constantine makes ‘Christianity’ the state religion

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Atlas of World History by The National Geographic Society. p67

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The Western third of the empire fell during the first 4 trumpetsNorth Africa & the Middle East fell during the 5th trumpet

Asia minor, Greece etc fell during the 6th trumpet

“the third part” 8:7 etc

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The First Trumpet - Rev.8:7

The Visigoths invade the Roman Empire

(AD 395-410)

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Psalm 148:8 Fire, and hail; snow, and vapour; stormy wind fulfilling his word:

Isaiah 28:2 Behold, the Lord hath a mighty and strong one, which as a tempest of hail and a destroying storm, as a flood of mighty waters overflowing, shall cast down to the earth with the hand. (Assyria destroys Israel)

Rev.8:7 “hail and fire mingled with blood,” the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.

Joel 2:3 A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them. (Babylon destroying Judah)

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Sounding the first trumpet summoned Alaric & the

Visigoths24th August 410. For three days German hordes have roamed the streets of Rome, burning and pillaging the greatest city in the known world. Under their leader, king Alaric…..

The contemporary writer ‘Claudian’ refered to Alaric and his armies as “the hail storm”

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Areas devastated by the ravages of Alaric and his armies

and the third part of trees (Jud.9:8-15) was burnt up, and all green grass (Isa.40:6-7) was burnt up.

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The siege of Rome by Alaric

October 408 - Rome besieged - dreadful famine ensues (First time for over 600 years the capital had been attacked)

Inhabitants eat the flesh of those who die

Eventually Alaric accepts an enormous ransom to retreat

Negotiations for peace fail & Alaric returns in 409

In 410 the city falls, the Goths sweep through with great fury & plundered the city for three days.

Alaric died in 410

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Second Trumpet

The Vandals under Gaiseric are summoned to attack 429 - 464

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Rev.8:8 “a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea:”

Jeremiah 51:25 Behold, I am against thee, O destroying mountain, saith the LORD, which destroyest all the earth: and I will stretch out mine hand upon thee, and roll thee down from the rocks, and will make thee a burnt mountain.

Dan.2:35

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Penguin Atlas of World History Vol. 1 page116

“The fleet of the Vandals dominated the Western Mediterranean, putting Rome, which depended on grain imports from North Africa, under pressure” (Page 117)

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Rev.8:8 “a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood”

“He (Genseric) animated his daring vandals to embrace a mode of warefare which would render every maritime country accessible to their arms” (Gibbon – decline & fall vol.3 p.408)

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Rome is sacked for the second time in less than 50 years

Rome June 455 The Vandal army, laden with booty and taking thousands of captives is leaving Rome. This is the second attack of the city in 50 years, the first being in 410 at the hands of the Visigoths. The Vandal king, Gaiseric, took the city with an army landed by the powerful Vandal fleet.

Now Gaiseric’s fleet is roaming freely throughout the western Mediterranean, with rich island prizes at its mercy.

(Chronicle page 265)

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Third Trumpet

Attila & the Huns are summoned to attack

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Atlas of World History by The National Geographic Society. p67

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451 Battle of Chalons, Attila Defeated

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there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp,

Isa.14:12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!

Attila (406-453) King of the Huns who invaded the Roman empire with an army that included Franks, Vandals and Ostrogoths. He was practically unbeaten in Europe until the battle of Chalons in 451, when his forces were annihilated by the son of Theodoric….(World History - Geddes & Grosset)

The empire of Attila was of too ephemeral a nature to be crucially dangerous; his attack on the west was like the passing of a transitory meteor, (Cambridge Medieval History. Vol.1 p. 417)

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there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp,

But the meteor was not yet exhausted; and Italy had to feel in 452, what Gaul had experienced in 451. Attila marched from Pannonia over the Julian Alps: Aqueleia fell, and the whole province of Venetia was ravaged. Passing from Venetia into Liguria, the Huns sacked Milan and Pavia; and the way seemed clear across the Apennines to Rome. (Cambridge Medieval History. Vol. 1 p.417)

A meteor is a bright streak of light in the sky (a "shooting star" or a "falling star") produced by the entry of a small meteoroid into the Earth's atmosphere

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…. and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters;

Danube

Rhine

Po

SeinLoire

Panonia

. Aquileia

Milan.

Pavia.

GaulLiguria

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Ex 7:19 And the LORD spake unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Take thy rod, and stretch out thine hand upon the waters of Egypt, upon their streams, upon their rivers, and upon their ponds, and upon all their pools of water, that they may become blood; and that there may be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, both in vessels of wood, and in vessels of stone.

…. and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters;

Figuratively, he made the waters of public and private life bitter everywhere, with fatal affect to the drinkers. Wormwood was an appropriate name for the agent of such effects. (R.Roberts – 13 Lectures on the Aposalypse P.66)

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Rev.8:11 And the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.

Wormwood Gr. Apsinthos = bitterness

Ways in which Attila made life bitter

1. Imposing heavy taxes on the people of the Roman empire

2. His next demand was half the entire region of the empire3. When this was refused he laid siege to, and destroyed many cities - loss of life was great

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Rev.8:11 And the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.

Wormwood Gr. Apsinthos = bitterness

Lam.3:15 He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.

18 And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD:19 Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.

Apsinthos is the name of a river in the region of Illyricum where Attila ruled.

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First Trumpet - Trees & grass destroyed

Second Trumpet - Burning mountain falls into the seaThird Trumpet - Rivers & fountains of waters made bitter

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Fourth Trumpet

8:12 And the fourth angel sounded, and the third part of the sun was smitten, and the third part of the moon, and the third part of the stars; so as the third part of them was darkened, and the day shone not for a third part of it, and the night likewise.

Attack by the Ostrogoths - 476

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GLORIOUS GOTH IS MASTER OF THE WEST. Italy 510. The Ostrogoths, now the most powerful nation in western Europe following their annexation of southeastern Gaul. The move, aimed at containing the Franks, puts the Ostrogothic king Theodoric, in control of a kingdom that stretches from Gaul to Illyricum ... (Chronicle of the World Page 271)

Gaul

Illyricum

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Times Atlas of European History page 50

Southwest Europe at the overthrow of the last western emperor 476

A Barbarian ruling with the agreement of the emperor in the East

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Penguin Atlas of world history vol.1 page 116 (526 AD)

1st T

rum

pet

2nd Trumpet

4th Trumpet

3rd Trumpet? The star has fallen, meteor is burned out

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526 AD

395AD

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8:13 And I beheld, and heard an angel flying through the midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice, Woe, woe, woe, to the inhabiters of the earth by reason of the other voices of the trumpet of the three angels, which are yet to sound!

5th Trumpet = 1st Woe ch.9:1-12

6th Trumpet = 2nd Woe ch.9:13-21

7th Trumpet = 3rd Woe ch.10:7

Gr. “mello” - translated ‘shall’ 25 times, ‘should 20’ times, ‘would’ 9 times, ‘shall begin’ 1

when he shall begin to sound

10:7 ... in the days of the trumpet call to be sounded by the seventh angel, the mystery of God, as he announced to his servants the prophets, should be fulfilled. (RSV & ESV)

See also intro. To7th trumpet (3rd woe) ch.11:13-19

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AN OVERVIEW OF THE APOCALYPSE

* Multitudinous Christ 1:12-18) *White robed multitude (7:9-17) * Lamb on Mt. Sion (14:1-7) Marriage of the Lamb (19:7) * *Throne in Heaven (4:1;11) * Angel with cloud & rainbow (10:1-11) New Jerusalem (21:1-8) *

7 Kingdom Visions

SEALS TRUMPETS VIALSJudgment on Pagan Rome AD 96-312 Rev.12 Judgment on Political Rome 312- 1453 Judgment on Papal Rome & preparations for 2 nd advent

INTERNAL EVENTS ( DRAGON PERIOD) INVASIONS ON WEST ON EAST ON HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE 1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

(6:1)Peace

White horse

AD96

(6:3)Civil war

Red horse

180

(6:5) Famine

Black horse

211

(6:7) Death

Pale Horse

235

(6:9) Perse-cution

Souls under altar 303

(6:12) Pagans deposed

Earth- quake

312

(8:7)Goths invade

Hail/ fire

395

(8:8) Vandalsinvade

Burning mount-ain429

(8:10)Huns invade

Star falls

450

(8:12)PoliticalEclipse

Sun & moon dark476

(9:1)Saracens invade

Locusts (1st woe)

1062

(9:13) Turks invade

Euphratean Angels loosed 1062

( 16:2) FrenchRev’n

On earth

1793

( 16:3) British blockade

On sea

1794

(16:4) Napoleon invades

On rivers

1795

(16:8)Royalty eclipsed

On sun

1805

16:10 Religious / civil eclipseOn beast

1809

16:12 Demise of TurksOn Euphrates + frog

spitits 1827

16:17 Armag-eddon

7 Thunders

?????7th Trumpet (3rd woe) ch.11:15 Contains the vials

7th Seal (ch.8:1) contains the 7 trumpets & lasts until the kingdom > > >

Earthquake,- ch.6:12 – Pseudo Christianity becomes the state religion

Sea Beast Rev.13:1 (10 horns crowned) Barbarian nations invade Western Emp.

Earth Beast (2 Horns) – Emperor in Vienna & Pope in Rome (Holy Roman empire) Rev.13:11

425 Earth & Woman witness 1260 days – ch.11:3 1685

Diminishing of Protestant witnessing

Scarlet Beast/Whore Rev.17:3 Europe/Papacy (False Prophet)

Political death of witnesses for 105 years Political ascension - ch.11:12

312 – ‘Christianity becomes state religion1572 = Massacre of St. Bartholomew425 = ‘Protestant’ witness begins , Nestorius v Arianism1685 = Edict of Nantes revoked – witness crushed

Red Dragon - Pagan Rome – 7 heads 10 h Dragon moves East as Constantine makes his capital Constantinople Dragon moves North to Moscow

312 Saints witness 42 months (11:2) 15727 Ecclesias

Ch.2&3

Red Dragon – Pagan Rome – 7 Heads 10 horns

Dan.7:7 & Rev.12:3 - crowns on heads – representing different forms of government in the pagan empire

Earthquake ch.11:13 French Rev.’n Resulting in a religion of Humanism

Faithful remnantRevival of the truth

Papal power to persecute removed

2 legs of Image – Dan.2

Earthquake – ch.16:18 resulting in true Christianity

Kingdom establishedAD 96

Ch.6 Ch.8&9

Ch.7 ↓

Ch.10 →

↑Ch.11 ↓

Ch.12 ↓

↑Ch.13 ↑

Ch.14 ↓

Ch.15&16

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AN OVERVIEW OF THE APOCALYPSE

* Multitudinous Christ 1:12-18) *White robed multitude (7:9-17) * Lamb on Mt. Sion (14:1-7) Marriage of the Lamb (19:7) * *Throne in Heaven (4:1;11) * Angel with cloud & rainbow (10:1-11) New Jerusalem (21:1-8) *

7 Kingdom Visions

SEALS TRUMPETS VIALSJudgment on Pagan Rome AD 96-312 Rev.12 Judgment on Political Rome 312- 1453 Judgment on Papal Rome & preparations for 2 nd advent

INTERNAL EVENTS ( DRAGON PERIOD) INVASIONS ON WEST ON EAST ON HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE 1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

(6:1)Peace

White horse

AD96

(6:3)Civil war

Red horse

180

(6:5) Famine

Black horse

211

(6:7) Death

Pale Horse

235

(6:9) Perse-cution

Souls under altar 303

(6:12) Pagans deposed

Earth- quake

312

(8:7)Goths invade

Hail/ fire

395

(8:8) Vandalsinvade

Burning mount-ain429

(8:10)Huns invade

Star falls

450

(8:12)PoliticalEclipse

Sun & moon dark476

(9:1)Saracens invade

Locusts (1st woe)

1062

(9:13) Turks invade

Euphratean Angels loosed 1062

( 16:2) FrenchRev’n

On earth

1793

( 16:3) British blockade

On sea

1794

(16:4) Napoleon invades

On rivers

1795

(16:8)Royalty eclipsed

On sun

1805

16:10 Religious / civil eclipseOn beast

1809

16:12 Demise of TurksOn Euphrates + frog

spitits 1827

16:17 Armag-eddon

7 Thunders

?????7th Trumpet (3rd woe) ch.11:15 Contains the vials

7th Seal (ch.8:1) contains the 7 trumpets & lasts until the kingdom > > >

Earthquake,- ch.6:12 – Pseudo Christianity becomes the state religion

Sea Beast Rev.13:1 (10 horns crowned) Barbarian nations invade Western Emp.

Earth Beast (2 Horns) – Emperor in Vienna & Pope in Rome (Holy Roman empire) Rev.13:11

425 Earth & Woman witness 1260 days – ch.11:3 1685

Diminishing of Protestant witnessing

Scarlet Beast/Whore Rev.17:3 Europe/Papacy (False Prophet)

Political death of witnesses for 105 years Political ascension - ch.11:12

312 – ‘Christianity becomes state religion1572 = Massacre of St. Bartholomew425 = ‘Protestant’ witness begins , Nestorius v Arianism1685 = Edict of Nantes revoked – witness crushed

Red Dragon - Pagan Rome – 7 heads 10 h Dragon moves East as Constantine makes his capital Constantinople Dragon moves North to Moscow

312 Saints witness 42 months (11:2) 15727 Ecclesias

Ch.2&3

Red Dragon – Pagan Rome – 7 Heads 10 horns

Dan.7:7 & Rev.12:3 - crowns on heads – representing different forms of government in the pagan empire

Earthquake ch.11:13 French Rev.’n Resulting in a religion of Humanism

Faithful remnantRevival of the truth

Papal power to persecute removed

2 legs of Image – Dan.2

Earthquake – ch.16:18 resulting in true Christianity

Kingdom establishedAD 96

Ch.6 Ch.8&9

Ch.7 ↓

Ch.10 →

↑Ch.11 ↓

Ch.12 ↓

↑Ch.13 ↑

Ch.14 ↓

Ch.15&16

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