Revelation 8
*Chapters 4-7 and the opening of the first six seals appears to depict for us the battle between right and wrong through time to the beginning of eternity. The opening of the seventh seal presents a new episode showing the fierce judgment of God upon the world for having rejected the truth and having despised and persecuted the faithful. The sounding of the seven trumpets symbolically depicts this judgment.
1. What occurred in heaven when the seventh seal was opened?
2. What was given to the seven angels which were before the throne of God?
3. Another angel came and stood at the altar.
a. What did he have?
b. What was given to him?
c. And with what was this offered?
4. With what did the angel then fill the censer?
5. What did he do with it?
6. What was its effect which symbolized the awesome presence of God in His judgment (also cf. Ex. 19:16-25)?
Now the judgments of God against the earth begin with the sounding of the trumpets:
7. What followed the sounding of the first trumpet?
8. Upon what was this cast?
9. What was its effect?
10. What followed the sounding of the second trumpet?
11. What was its effect?
12. What followed the sounding of the third trumpet?
13. What was the name of this calamity and what was its effect?
14. What followed the sounding of the fourth trumpet?
15. What was the effect of this calamity?
16. What did an angel then announce?
The message of these judgments against the wicked is simple. there is no security for the wicked.
* Winters, Howard. (1989) Commentary on Revelation: Practical and Explanatory. Carolina Christian: Greenville, S.C.