In this study, because of questions that came up after last week’s study, Pastor Kevin clarifies why he thinks that the hundred and forty four thousand are early church Jewish saints that are resurrected at the rapture and then sent back to earth for this mission during the tribulation.

Then the study covers the first five trumpet judgments:

1ST 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.

2ND And something like a great mountain burning with fire was thrown into the sea, and a third of the sea became blood. And a third of the living creatures in the sea died, and a third of the ships were destroyed

3RD 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. 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.

4TH 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.

5TH Then the fifth angel sounded: And I saw a star [angel] fallen from heaven to the earth. To him was given the key to the bottomless pit. And he opened the bottomless pit.

Kevin explains how we know these judgments take more than a year and how it appears that the second and third trumpets are prophesying asteroid/comet collisions with earth, where one lands in the sea and another on land. Kevin also speculates what the bitter water might be talking about.

For the fifth seal, the scriptures are clear that the locusts/scorpions unleashed on the earth are not attack helicopters as Hal Lindsey famously conjectured in the 70s in his book Late Great Planet Earth, but rather demonic beings let loose from the holding place of demon spirits. Kevin gives parallel verses where the same Greek word for bottomless pit is used to describe this holding place of demon spirits.

Kevin has posted the associated notes and links at the church’s website under sermon archives, Revelation

https://calvarypo.org/multimedia-archive/the-wrath-of-god-in-the-trumpet-judgments-revelation-81-912/

Next Sunday Kevin will cover the 6th trumpet judgment and then start the parenthetical prophecies of revelation chapters ten and eleven.

Maranatha!