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Revelation 8 Summary
Opening of the Seventh Seal and Trumpet Judgments
When the Lamb opens the seventh seal, there is silence in heaven. Seven angels receive trumpets, and another angel offers prayers of saints with incense before the throne. The angel fills the censer with altar fire and casts it to earth, bringing voices, thunder, lightning, and earthquake. The first four angels sound trumpets, bringing hail and fire, a burning mountain cast into the sea, the star Wormwood poisoning waters, and the darkening of a third of sun, moon, and stars. An angel warns of three remaining woes.
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Revelation 8:1
“And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour.”
Revelation 8:3-5
“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.”
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.”
Revelation 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.”
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