Revelation 8:1
AND WHEN HE HAD OPENED THE SEVENTH SEAL, THERE WAS SILENCE IN HEAVEN ABOUT THE SPACE OF HALF AN HOUR.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN HE HAD OPENED THE SEVENTH SEAL, THERE WAS SILENCE IN HEAVEN ABOUT THE SPACE OF HALF AN HOUR.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE THIRD VISION AND THE OPENING OF THE SEVENTH SEAL. The preparation for the sounding of the trumpets:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND I SAW THE SEVEN, ANGELS WHICH STOOD BEFORE GOD; AND TO THEM WERE GIVEN SEVEN TRUMPETS.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND ANOTHER ANGEL CAME AND STOOD AT THE ALTAR HAVING A GOLDEN CENSER; AND THERE WAS GIVEN UNTO HIM MUCH INCENSE THAT HE SHOULD OFFER IT WITH THE PRAYERS OF ALL SAINTS UPON THE GOLDEN ALTAR WHICH WAS BEFORE THE THRONE.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE SMOKE OF THE INCENSE WHICH CAME WITH THE PRAYERS OF THE SAINTS ASCENDED UP BEFORE GOD OUT OF THE ANGEL'S HAND.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE ANGEL TOOK THE CENSER, AND FILLED IT WITH FIRE OF THE ALTAR, AND CAST IT INTO THE EARTH; AND THERE WERE VOICES AND THUNDERINGS AND LIGHTNINGS AND AN EARTHQUAKE.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE SEVEN ANGELS WHICH HAD THE SEVEN TRUMPETS PREPARED THEMSELVES TO SOUND. The narrative at this point, with all its simplicity, is full of dramatic intensity: And when He opened the seventh seal, silence reigned in heaven for about a half-hour. It was a silence of strained expectation, of bre... [ Continue Reading ]
THE FIRST ANGEL SOUNDED, AND THERE FOLLOWED HAIL AND FIRE MINGLED WITH BLOOD, AND THEY WERE CAST UPON THE EARTH; AND THE THIRD PART OF TREES WAS BURNED UP, AND ALL GREEN GRASS WAS BURNED UP.... [ Continue Reading ]
The sounding of the first and second trumpets:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE SECOND ANGEL SOUNDED, AND AS IT WERE A GREAT MOUNTAIN BURNING WITH FIRE WAS CAST INTO THE SEA; AND THE THIRD PART OF THE SEA BECAME BLOOD;... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE THIRD PART OF THE CREATURES WHICH WERE IN THE SEA, AND HAD LIFE, DIED; AND THE THIRD PART OF THE SHIPS WERE DESTROYED. The first four trumpets set in motion forces of ruin whose destruction is directed against natural objects, the disasters calling to mind the Egyptian plagues. The first pl... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE THIRD ANGEL SOUNDED, AND THERE FELL A GREAT STAR FROM HEAVEN, BURNING AS IT WERE A LAMP, AND IT FELL UPON A THIRD ART OF THE RIVERS AND UPON THE FOUNTAINS OF WATERS;... [ Continue Reading ]
The sounding of the third and fourth trumpets:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE NAME OF THE STAR IS CALLED WORMWOOD; AND THE THIRD ART OF THE WATERS BECAME WORMWOOD; AND MANY MEN DIED OF THE WATERS BECAUSE THEY WERE MADE BITTER.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE FOURTH ANGEL SOUNDED, AND THE THIRD PART OF THE SUN WAS SMITTEN AND THE THIRD PART OF THE MOON AND THE THIRD ART OF THE STARS, SO AS THE THIRD ART OF THEM WAS DARKENED, AND THE DAY SHONE NOT FOR A THIRD PART OF IT, AND THE NIGHT LIKEWISE.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND I BEHELD, AND HEARD AN ANGEL FLYING THROUGH THE MIDST OF HEAVEN, SAYING WITH A LOUD VOICE, WOE, WOE, WOE, TO THE INHIBITERS OF THE EARTH BY REASON OF THE OTHER VOICES OF THE TRUMPET OF THE THREE ANGELS WHICH ARE YET TO SOUND! The third plague struck the waters of the earth: And the third angel s... [ Continue Reading ]