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The seventh seal is not opened until the beginning of the 8th
chapter. The first trumpet plague blew upon the EARTH, the second
on the seas, the third plague was upon the rivers and lakes, and
the fourth upon the sun, moon and stars.
This left three more plagues, called WOES. The seventh
trumpet--the last--will be the seven LAST PLAGUES, at the very TIME
of Christ's coming to earth to RULE all nations.
The 9th chapter carries the events into the first and second
WOES (or the fifth and sixth trumpet plagues).
But we now come to an INSET chapter, as I have called certain
ones, such as the 13th and 17th chapters--in a sense, "flashback"
chapters, to bring up-to-date earlier events. The seventh trumpet
or THIRD WOE is not opened until chapter 11, verse 15.
Now notice this tenth chapter--an inset chapter, not
necessarily at all occurring at the TIME sequence of the end of
the ninth chapter. The actual recording of EVENTS, TIME-WISE,
is not continued until chapter 11, verse 15.
This chapter 10 has been virtually OVERLOOKED. I did not com-
ment on it in the earlier days, or expound it when I wrote the
OUTLINE of the book of Revelation, or the full booklet on the
revelation. There was NO WAY it could have been understood
then--until
after subsequent events--just as we could not have understood how
Satan sways the entire WORLD, as explained in Eph. 2:1-2, until we
had radio and television.
A MIGHTY ANGEL comes down from heaven, his face as the SUN,
his feet as pillars of fire. His voice was as the roar of a lion.
He set his right foot upon the sea, and his left upon the earth.
He had a LITTLE BOOK open.
This mighty angel in the second half of this inset prophecy,
beginning verse 6, swears by the Eternal GOD there shall be "time
no longer" (A.V.--marginal translation--"no more delay"). But the
angel continues, "But in the days of the voice of the seventh
angel,
(7th trumpet--which shall be the 7 last plagues--and which also is
the PRECISE TIME of Christ's coming as KING over the earth)--when
He shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished..."
(verse 6-7).
I italicized "when He shall" referring to the sounding of the
last and FINAL trumpet, to show that the time setting of this brief
two-part inset prophecy is NOT AT OR IMMEDIATELY AFTER the 6th
trumpet (of chapter 9)--but SOME TIME PRIOR TO IT! Therefore, in
time setting, this is a flashback. Now continue:
The Apostle John in his vision is told to take the little book
which is open in the hand of the angel, and eat it up.