Friday, November 6, 2015

The Sounding Of The Seven Trumpets (Part 1)

Revelation 8:7 
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 burnt up, and 
all green grass was burnt up. 

         These seven angels, known as the angels of the presence; "The Presence of God" were the same as the archangels.  The earliest reference to a system of "seven archangels" as a group appears to be in Enoch 1 (The Book of Enoch (chap 10; 11). Their names were Uriel, Raphael, Raguel, Michael, Sariel, Gabriel and Remiel , this was not translated into The King James Bible. While the "Book of Enoch" today is non-canonical in most Christian Churches, it was explicitly quoted in the New Testament, (Jude 1:14-15) and by many of the early Churches.     
         When the "trumpets sounding"starts; forces of nature are hurled in judgment against the world. At each blast on the trumpet a different part of the world is attacked; the destruction that follows is not total for this is only the prelude to the end. First, the blast of destruction falls on the earth (Rev. 8:7); then it falls upon the sea (Rev. 8:8-9); then it falls upon the fresh water rivers and springs (Rev. 8:10-11); then it falls on the heavenly bodies (Rev. 8:12). The tide of destruction is unleashed on every part of the created universe. 

        As the "First Trumpet" sounds "hail" and "fire mingled with blood" will be cast upon the earth and a "third part of all the trees" and "all green grass" will be "burnt up." This  will be the fulfillment of Joel; "And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke. The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come (Joel 2:30-31. 
        Notice that this is the a repetition of the "Seventh Egyptian Plague,"  And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch forth thine hand toward heaven, that there may be hail in all the land of Egypt, upon man, and upon beast, and upon every herb of the field, throughout the land of Egypt.  And Moses stretched forth his rod toward heaven: and the LORD sent thunder and hail, and the fire ran along upon the ground; and the LORD rained hail upon the land of Egypt.  So there was hail, and fire mingled with the hail, very grievous, such as there was none like it in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation.  And the hail smote throughout all the land of Egypt all that was in the field, both man and beast; and the hail smote every herb of the field, and brake every tree of the field.  Only in the land of Goshen, where the children of Israel were, was there no hail (Ex. 9:22-26).  Let me ask, Is this not fitting for the Tribulation?
       Amen!!


Reading: (Rev. 8:7)
Ref: (Book of Enoch)
        (HGSB; BSB)
        (C.Larkin) 


May God Bless You
And Your Family

Minister Robert A. Lail Sr.
The Cross Life Ministry

            
















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