One reassuring thing about this chapter is that it opens up talking about our prayers being presented before God. He cares about us, and our heart's desires -even right before judgement day.
This chapter is a continuation of John's vision. At this point, all but the seventh seal was opened. Once it was opened, there was a great silence in the heavens in his vision. Then there were seven angels with seven trumpets standing before God. Then another angel with a censer appeared. He offered a bowl of incense that symbolized the prayers of all of God's people.
The angels prepared to sound their trumpets...
The first angel sounded his trumpet, and there came hail and fire mixed with blood...A third of the earth was burned up...The second angel's trumpet plunged a firey mountain like thing into sea turned into blood, a third of the living creatures in the sea died, and a third of the ships were destroyed.
The third angel sounded his trumpet, and a great star... called wormwood plunged into the sea and turned a third of the water bitter, and many people died.
With the fourth angel's trumpet, a third of the sun was struck, a third of the moon, and a third of the stars, so that a third of them turned dark. A third of the day was without light, and also a third of the night.
As I watched, I heard an eagle that was flying in midair call out in a loud voice: “Woe! Woe! Woe to the inhabitants of the earth, because of the trumpet blasts about to be sounded by the other three angels!”
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