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1. What occurs on earth after the first trumpet is
blown? Verse
7.
CoMMENT: The result of limited use of chemical
defoliants during the Vietnam War-and major use
in
the next round of world war-will seem trifiing after
God shows his power by this supernatural fire when it
burns al! the grass and one third of the trees on earth!
2. What does the blast of the second angel's t rumpet
announce? Verses
8-9.
COMMENT: Because humans have dumped nuclear
wastes in the oceans and the streams and will have
waged nuclear war in the oceans, God will show his
power and turn one third of the waters to blood. One
third of all life in the oceans and other bodies of water
will consequently die for lack of oxygen.
3.
Next, what happens to part of the earth's supplies
of drinking water when the third angel's trumpet is
sounded? Verse
1O.
Will many die from drinking this
poisoned water? Verse
JI.
4.
What ter rifying plague is announced by the
fourth trumpet? Verse
12.
S.
What are the last three trumpets called? Verse
13.
CoMMENT: The last three trumpet plagues specifi–
cally picture three phases of coming world war. At the
third stage-the third "woe" and last trumpet-man–
kind, left to his own devices, will have to be saved from
extinction by a direct miracle from God. If God were
not to personally intervene, despotic leaders would
utterly destroy
the last vestige of human life from the
face of the earth! (Matt.
24:22.)
6. As the fifth angel sounds his trl\mpet, how is the
first woe described? Rev.
9: 1-11.
Are mento be tor–
mented by symbolic "locusts"? Verses
3-6.
Are these
" locusts" described as operated by men? Verses
7-10.
CoMMENT: John described what he saw in the vision
God revealed to him. These symbolic, locust- and
horse-like creatures with power to hurt men can only
refer to terrifying war machines man would be capable
of inventing in the end time-possibly sophisticated
attack helicopters. Today machines carry men as
horses did then. And helicopter gunships are highly
maneuverable so as to seem able to hop and jump and
fly like locusts.
Precisely what these weapons are and how they will be
used by power-crazed men will become plain when the
fifth trumpet is blown and this terrible warfare begins.
7.
Where does the super army symbolized by this
first woe come from? Verses
2-3.
Where do we find
the "bottomless pi t" interpreted? Rev.
17:8-14.
CoMMENT: The soon-coming final resurrection of
the ROMAN EMPIRE is the power that emerges from the
bottomless pit or abyss.
lt
is a war-making power
(verse
14)
equipped with soph isticated weaponry.
Mussolini restored the pitifully weak, insignificant
sixth "head" of the "beast"- the ancient Roman
Empire. A seventh and final reviva! is prophesied soon
to occur. (To learn the identity of the various revivals
of the Reman Empire, send for the free booklet
Who
Js the Beast?)
8.
Who is the motivating force- the real leader-of
this war-making power? Rev.
9:11.
COMMENT: The Hebrew word
Abaddon
and the
14
Greek word
Apollyon
both mean "destroyer. " The
sinister power guiding the beast's army will be none
other than the great deceiver and destroyer himself–
Satan the devil! (Rev.
12:9.)
9.
But who will be spared from this blitzkrieg-type
warfare? Rev.
9:4,
last part.
COMMENT: When the forces of the beast attack its
enemies, those who are "sealed" by God's Spirit (see all
of chapter
7)
will not be harmed. They will be protected
from
a/1
of these terrible plagues. (The true Church of
God, which is doing God's Work of proclaiming Christ's
true Gospel to the world, will aiready have been taken to
a place of safety to spare it from the great tribulation,
which is Satan's wrath- Rev.
12:13-16.)
Meanwhile, hordes of people in Asia will also be
preparing for war. The second woe is now ready to
begin- the sixth trumpet is ready to sound.
10.
Are the sixth angel's trumpet plague and the
second woe clearly one and the same? Rev.
9:12-13.
What happens when the sixth trumpet is blown?
Verses
14-16.
And how are their weapons described?
Verses
17-19.
COMMENT: To the north and east (from the point of
view of Jerusalem) , beyond the Euphrates River, líes a
realm. From there
~
Eurasian army of
200
mil/ion men
will attack westward! Their war machines, here again
described in symbolic terms, deal death from front and
rear-principally by "fire," "smoke" and "brimstone."
These symbols may represent firebombs and other forms
of explosives, including atomic and hydrogen, as well as
poison gas and other chemical agents.
The seventh angel has yet to sound his trumpet–
one more "woe" is to occur. All that the last trumpet
signifies will be covered in next month's study.
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