New Testament - REVELATION 8:1-13 - (4 Trumpet Judgments) -
Channel: Calvary Chapel Windward
Date: 2016-06-12

New Testament - REVELATION 8:1-13 - (4 Trumpet Judgments) - CC Windward - Pastor Tim

New Testament - REVELATION 8:1-13 - (4 Trumpet Judgments) - Calvary Chapel Windward - OAHU, HAWAII - Pastor Tim Newman - From Local Olelo / Oceanic / Time Warner Cable show "A View from Calvary" - Episode # 201: - Original Air Date: 02 28 2010 A.D.

PASTOR TIM's NOTES

Revelation 8:1-13
“The Trumpet Judgments Begin”
1. SILENCE and a SPECIAL angel precede these judgments
Vs. 1-6
1a. There is SILENCE in heaven
The silence is a contrast to the previous worship.
The silence is the lull before the storm.
“Hold thy peace at the presence of the Lord God: for the day of the Lord is at
hand” (Zeph. 1:7; note also vv. 14–18, especially v. 16, “A day of the trumpet”).
Zech. 2:13, Hab. 2:20).
The silence is followed by the giving of 7 Trumpets.
We have been previously introduced to these seven angels who are before
God’s throne.
They stand ready to do God's bidding, to carry out His orders.
According to Numbers 10, trumpets had three important uses:
 they called the people together (Num. 10:1–8);
 they announced war (Num. 10:9);
 and they announced special times (Num. 10:10).
1b. There is SPECIAL angel with a golden censer.
Burning incense on this altar was a picture of prayer ascending to
God (Ps. 141:2).
For centuries, God’s people have been praying,
“Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done!”
2. SUDDEN Ecological Disasters are the results of these judgments.
Vs. 7-13

2a. The first SUDDEN disasters destroys vegetation.
Ex. 9:18–26, Joel 2:30
Imagine how this would affect the food supply.
2b. The second SUDDEN disasters destroys the sea.
Turning water into blood reminds us of the first Egyptian plague
(Ex. 7:19–21).
The word "sea" is both singular and preceded by the article-it is "the sea"
which is affected.
That would seem to indicate the Mediterranean Sea. Hos 4:3, Zeph 1:2-3
Some of the world’s busiest shipping routes are in the Mediterranean Sea.
2c. The third SUDDEN disasters destroys the water supply.
God’s wrath next reaches inland making the fresh water taste bitter like
wormwood.
Jeremiah, “the Weeping Prophet,” often used it (Jer. 9:15; 23:15;
Lam. 3:15, 19), and so did Amos (Amos 5:7, “those who turn justice into
wormwood,” NASB).
2d. The fourth SUDDEN disasters destroys a portion of the
solar system.
This judgment parallels the ninth plague in Egypt (Ex. 10:21–23),
which lasted three days.

“The Day of the Lord is darkness, and not light” (Amos 5:18).
2e. These SUDDEN judgments are followed by a warning.
At this point, a remarkable messenger will appear in the sky,
proclaiming woe to the earth’s inhabitants.
Angels are blowing the trumpets that announce these judgments-why not
an angel to warn the planet that the worst is yet to come?
The three “woes” in Revelation 8:13 refer to the judgments yet to come when the
remaining three angels blow their trumpets.