Episode 304: Six trumpets

Revelation 8-9

The seventh seal: seven angels are given trumpets

8 ¹ When he opened the seventh seal, it was silent in heaven for about a half-hour.

² I saw the seven angels standing in front of God. A trumpet was given to each of them.

⁵ An angel took a censer, filled it with fire, and cast it to the earth.

This caused voices, thunders, lightnings, and earthquakes.

⁶ And the seven angels got ready to blow their trumpets.

The first trumpet: hail, fire, and blood burn all grass and one-third of trees

⁷ When the first trumpet was blown, hail and fire mixed with blood was cast down on the earth. This burned all the grass and a third of the trees.

The second trumpet: one-third of sea becomes blood, one-third of sea life dies, one-third of ships destroyed

⁸ When the second trumpet was blown, a large, burning mountain was cast into the sea. And one-third of the sea became blood.

⁹ A third of the living things in the sea died, and a third of the world's ships were destroyed.

The third trumpet: a star named Wormwood falls to earth

¹⁰ When the third trumpet was blown, a great, burning star fell from heaven on a third of the rivers and springs.

¹¹ The name of the star is Wormwood, and a third of the waters became wormwood, which killed many people who drank the bitter water.

The fourth trumpet: one-third of sun, moon, and stars are destroyed

¹² When the fourth trumpet was blown, one-third of the sun, moon, and stars were destroyed, another third was darkened, and days and nights were one-third shorter.

¹³ I saw and heard an angel flying through heaven saying in a loud voice,

Woe, woe, woe to inhabitants of the earth, because there are another three angels who haven't yet blown their trumpets.

The fifth trumpet and first woe: scorpion-like locusts torment people for five months

9 ¹ When the fifth trumpet was blown, I saw a star fall from heaven onto the earth, and he was given the key to the bottomless pit.

² He opened the bottomless pit, and the sun and air were darkened by the smoke that came out.

³ Locusts came out of the smoke and they were given power like scorpions on the earth.

⁴ They were told not to hurt grass, green things, or trees, but only those without the seal of God on their foreheads.

⁵ They were to torment them for five months, like that of the sting of a scorpion.

⁶ In those days, people will want to die, but won't be able to.

^7-9 The locusts will be like horses, with gold crowns on their head, human faces, hair like women, teeth like lions, with iron breastplates and wings that sound like chariots.

¹⁰ They’ll have stings in their tails like scorpions and will hurt humans for five months.

¹¹ Their king is the angel in the bottomless pit, whose name is Abaddon in Hebrew and Apollyon in Greek.

¹² One woe is down, two more to come.

The sixth trumpet: Four angels with an army of 200 million, kill one-third of the earth's population

^13-14 The sixth trumpet blew, and I heard a voice saying,

Set the four angels loose who are tied up in the Euphrates River.

¹⁵ And the four angels were set free.

They then spent a year, a month, a day, and an hour preparing to kill 1/3 of the people on earth.

¹⁶ They gathered an army of 200 million horsemen.

¹⁷ The horses had lion heads, with fire, smoke, and brimstone coming out of their mouths.

¹⁸ The fire, smoke, and brimstone killed 1/3 of the human population on earth.

¹⁹ (The horses also had tails like scorpions.)

²⁰ The two-thirds that survived, didn't repent. They still worshiped devils, and gold, silver, brass, stone, and wood idols.