The Second Trumpet’s Burning Mountain
The Second Trumpet
(8) 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; (9) 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.” (Revelation 8:8-9)
The description of a burning mountain collapsing into the sea sounds like a description of a volcano collapsing into the sea as volcanoes can easily be described as “burning mountains”. The impact of the burning mountain’s collapse has wide-scale impact; likely over a large geographic area since 1/3 of the world’s ships are destroyed from its collapse.
No mountain is large enough to destroy 1/3 of the world’s ships by just crashing into them. However, the resulting tsunami from a collapsing mountain would have the potential to create massive destruction far beyond the area of the collapse.