TUMWATER CHAPEL UPDATE: SUNDAY 11.15. 2015 Revelation Eight PASTOR CECIL A. THOMPSON

TUMWATER CHAPEL UPDATE: SUNDAY 11.15. 2015 Revelation Eight PASTOR CECIL A. THOMPSON

Revelation Eight (NKJV)

¹When He opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour. ² And I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and to them were given seven trumpets. ³ Then another angel, having a golden censer, came and stood at the altar. He was given much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all the saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne. ⁴ And the smoke of the incense, with the prayers of the saints, ascended before God from the angel’s hand. ⁵ Then the angel took the censer, filled it with fire from the altar, and threw it to the earth. And there were noises, thunderings, lightnings, and an earthquake. ⁶ So the seven angels who had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound.

1. What happened when the seventh seal was opened? For how long?
2. What was given to the seven angels who stand before God? V. 2
3. Another angel appeared. What did he hold and what happened?
4. What effect did it have on earth?
5. What did the seven angels prepared to do?

First Trumpet: Vegetation Struck

⁷ The first angel sounded: And hail and fire followed, mingled with blood, and they were thrown to the earth. And a third of the trees were burned up, and all green grass was burned up.

1. What destruction occurred on earth at the sound of the first trumpet?

Second Trumpet: The Seas Struck 

⁸ Then the second angel sounded: And something like a great mountain burning with fire was thrown into the sea, and a third of the sea became blood. ⁹ And a third of the living creatures in the sea died, and a third of the ships were destroyed.

1. Describe what fell into the sea?
2. What effect did it have?
3. (Today there are well over 55,000 merchants ships on the world’s oceans. Think of the financial impact on world trade?)

Third Trumpet: The Waters Struck

¹⁰ Then the third angel sounded: And a great star fell from heaven, burning like a torch, and it fell on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water. ¹¹ The name of the star is Wormwood. A third of the waters became wormwood, and many men died from the water, because it was made bitter.

1. In verse ten, what happened when the third angel sounded?
2. How was this different than verse eight?
3. What effect did it have?
4. What was the name of the star?
5. What is meant by the word bitter? How do we know?

Fourth Trumpet: The Heavens Struck

¹² Then the fourth angel sounded: And a third of the sun was struck, a third of the moon, and a third of the stars, so that a third of them were darkened. A third of the day did not shine, and likewise the night. ¹³ And I looked, and I heard an angel flying through the midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice, “Woe, woe, woe to the inhabitants of the earth, because of the remaining blasts of the trumpet of the three angels who are about to sound!”

1. What was different when the fourth angel sounded?
2. Did anything fall on the earth?
3. What happened in the heavens?
4. What effect would that have on the earth?
5. Who gave the warning in verse 13?
6. What warning was given?