Summary: Exploration of the verses dealing with the Rapture and comparing these with the text on the seventh trumpet from the book of Revelation. Good overview of a "pre-wrath" view of end-time events.

SEALS

1ST SEAL-- WHITE HORSE (CONQUERING)

2ND SEAL-- RED HORSE (SWORD)

3RD SEAL-- BLACK HORSE (BALANCES)

4TH SEAL-- PALE HORSE (DEATH)

5TH SEAL-- SOULS SLAIN FOR WORD OF GOD

6TH SEAL-- EARTHQUAKE, SUN BECAME BLACK, MOON BECAME BLOOD, STARS FEEL TO EARTH

7TH SEAL-- SILENCE IN HEAVEN

REVELATION 12:11-12

AND THEY HAVE CONQUERED HIM BY THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB AND BY THE WORD OF THEIR TESTIMONY, FOR THEY LOVED NOT THEIR LIVES EVEN UNTO DEATH. REJOICE THEN, O HEAVEN AND YOU THAT DWELL THEREIN! BUT WOE TO YOU, O EARTH AND SEA AND FOR THE DEVIL HAS COME DOWN TO YOU IN GREAT WRATH, BECAUSE HE KNOWS THAT HIS TIME IS SHORT!

TRUMPETS

1ST TRUMPET-- HAIL AND FIRE MINGLED WITH BLOOD

2ND TRUMPET-- GREAT MOUNTAIN BURNING WITH FIRE CAST IN SEA AND 1/3 SEA BECAME BLOOD

3RD TRUMPET-- WORMWOOD (GREAT STAR) FELL ON RIVERS (1/3 WATERS BECAME BITTER)

4TH TRUMPET-- 1/3 OF STARS, MOON, AND SUN DARKENED

5TH TRUMPET-- UNLOCKING BOTTOMLESS PIT (SMOKE, LOCUST, SCORPIONS)

REVELATION 9:7-10

IN APPEARANCE THE LOCUSTS WERE LIKE HORSES ARRAYED FOR BATTLE; ON THEIR HEADS WERE WHAT LOOKED LIKE CROWNS OF GOLD; THEIR FACES WERE LIKE HUMAN FACES, THEIR HAIR LIKE WOMEN’S HAIR, AND THEIR TEETH LIKE LION’S TEETH; THEY HAD SCALES LIKE IRON BREASTPLATES, AND THE NOISE OF THEIR WINGS WAS LIKE THE NOISE OF MANY CHARIOTS WITH HORSES RUSHING INTO BATTLE. THEY HAVE TAILS LIKE SCORPIONS, AND STINGS, AND THEIR POWER OF HURTING MEN FOR FIVES MONTHS LIES IN THEIR TAILS.

6TH TRUMPET-- FOUR ANGELS LOOSED FROM EUPHRATES TO SLAY 1/3 OF MEN

**EMERGENCE OF ANTICHRIST

MINISTRY OF TWO WITNESSES

7TH TRUMPET--

REVELATION 11:15

THEN THE SEVENTH ANGEL BLEW HIS TRUMPET, AND THERE WERE LOUD VOICES IN HEAVEN, SAYING, "THE KINGDOM OF THE WORLD HAS BECOME THE KINGDOM OF OUR LORD AND OF HIS CHRIST, AND HE SHALL REIGN FOREVER AND EVER."

WOMAN WITH CHILD VS RED DRAGON

ADVANCEMENT OF ANTICHRIST’S KINGDOM

DECEPTION OF THE FALSE PROPHET

IMAGE OF THE BEAST, MARK OF THE BEAST, NUMBER OF THE BEAST

REVELATION 13:18

"THIS CALLS FOR WISDOM: LET HIM WHO HAS UNDERSTANDING RECKON THE NUMBER OF THE BEAST, FOR IT IS THE NUMBER OF A MAN, IT NUMBER IS 666. REVELATION 13:7

ALSO IT WAS ALLOWED TO MAKE WAR ON THE SAINTS AND TO CONQUER THEM. AND AUTHORITY WAS GIVEN IT OVER EVERY TRIBE AND PEOPLE AND TONGUE AND NATION.

AND ALL WHO DWELL ON EARTH WILL WORSHIP IT, EVERY ONE WHOSE NAME HAS NOT BEEN WRITTEN BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD IN THE BOOK OF LIFE OF THE LAMB THAT WAS SLAIN.

IF ANYONE HAS AN EAR, LET HIM HEAR.

IF ANYONE IS TO BE TAKEN CAPTIVE, TO CAPTIVITY HE GOES; IF ANYONE SLAYS WITH THE SWORD, WITH THE SWORD MUST HE BE SLAIN. HERE IS A CALL FOR THE ENDURANCE AND FAITH OF THE SAINTS.

REVELATION 14:6-8

AND I SAW ANOTHER ANGEL FLY IN THE MIDST OF HEAVEN, HAVING THE EVERLASTING GOSPEL TO PREACH UNTO THEM THAT DWELL ON THE EARTH, AND TO EVERY NATION, AND KINDRED, AND TONGUE, AND PEOPLE.

SAYING WITH A LOUD VOICE, FEAR GOD, AND GIVE GLORY TO HIM: FOR THE HOUR OF HIS JUDGMENT IS COME: AND WORSHIP HIM THAT MADE HEAVEN, AND EARTH, AND THE SEA, AND THE FOUNTAINS OF WATERS.

AND THERE FOLLOWED ANOTHER ANGEL, SAYING, BABYLON IS FALLEN, IS FALLEN, THAT GREAT CITY, BECAUSE SHE MADE ALL NATIONS DRINK OF THE WINE OF THE WRATH OF HER FORNICATION.

REVELATION 14:12

HERE IS THE PATIENCE OF THE SAINTS: HERE ARE THEY THAT KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD, AND THE FAITH OF JESUS.

MATTHEW 24:30-31

AND THEN SHALL APPEAR THE SIGN OF THE SON OF MAN IN HEAVEN: AND THEN SHALL ALL THE TRIBES OF THE EARTH MOURN, AND THEY SHALL SEE THE SON OF MAN COMING IN THE CLOUDS OF HEAVEN WITH POWER AND GREAT GLORY.

AND HE SHALL SEND HIS ANGELS WITH A GREAT SOUND OF A TRUMPET, AND THEY SHALL GATHER TOGETHER HIS ELECT FROM FOUR WINDS, FROM ONE END OF HEAVEN TO THE OTHER.

I THESSALONIANS 4:13-18

BUT I WOULD NOT HAVE YOU TO BE IGNORANT, BRETHREN, CONCERNING THEM WHICH ARE ASLEEP, THAT YE SORROW NOT, EVEN AS OTHERS WHICH HAVE NO HOPE.

FOR IF WE BELIEVE THAT JESUS DIED AND ROSE AGAIN, EVEN SO THEM ALSO WHICH SLEEP IN JESUS WILL GOD BRING WITH HIM.

FOR THIS WE SAY UNTO YOU BY THE WORD OF THE LORD, THAT WE WHICH ARE ALIVE AND REMAIN UNTO THE COMING OF THE LORD SHALL NOT PREVENT THEM WHICH ARE ASLEEP.

FOR THE LORD HIMSELF SHALL DESCEND FROM HEAVEN WITH A SHOUT, WITH THE VOICE OF THE ARCHANGEL, AND WITH THE TRUMP OF GOD: AND THE DEAD IN CHRIST SHALL RISE FIRST:

THEN WE WHICH ARE ALIVE AND REMAIN SHALL BE CAUGHT UP TOGETHER WITH THEM IN THE CLOUDS, TO MEET THE LORD IN THE AIR: AND SO SHALL WE EVER BE WITH THE LORD.

WHEREFORE COMFORT ONE ANOTHER WITH THESE WORDS.

I CORINTHIANS 15:51-58

BEHOLD, I SHEW YOU A MYSTERY: WE SHALL NOT ALL SLEEP, BUT WE SHALL ALL BE CHANGED.

IN A MOMENT, IN THE TWINKLING OF AN EYE, AT THE LAST TRUMP: FOR THE TRUMPET SHALL SOUND, AND THE DEAD SHALL BE RAISED INCORRUPTIBLE, AND WE SHALL BE CHANGED.

SO WHEN THIS CORRUPTIBLE SHALL HAVE PUT ON INCORRUPTION, AND THIS MORTAL SHALL HAVE PUT ON IMMORTALITY, THEN SHALL BE BROUGHT TO PASS THE SAYING THAT IS WRITTEN, DEATH IS SWALLOWED UP IN VICTORY.

O DEATH, WHERE IS THY STING? O GRAVE, WHERE IS THY VICTORY?

THE STING OF DEATH IS SIN; AND THE STRENGTH OF SIN IS THE LAW.

BUT THANKS BE TO GOD, WHICH GIVETH US THE VICTORY THROUGH OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST.

THEREFORE, MY BELOVED BRETHREN, BE YE STEADFAST, UNMOVABLE, ALWAYS ABOUNDING IN THE WORK OF THE LORD, FORASMUCH AS YE KNOW THAT YOUR LABOR IS NOT IN VAIN IN THE LORD.

**THESE ARE SCRIPTURES THAT WE BELIEVE DESCRIBE THE RAPTURE. NOTICE THE THINGS THEY HAVE IN COMMON:

HEAVENLY EVENT, ANGELS, CLOUDS, TRUMPET, GATHERING OF BELIEVERS.

REVELATION 14:14-16

AND I LOOKED, AND BEHOLD A WHITE CLOUD, AND UPON THE CLOUD ONE SAT LIKE THE SON OF MAN, HAVING ON HIS HEAD A GOLDEN CROWN, AND IN HIS HAND A SHARP SICKLE.

AND ANOTHER ANGEL CAME OUT OF THE TEMPLE, CRYING WITH A LOUD VOICE TO HIM THAT SAT ON THE CLOUD, THRUST IN THY SICKLE, AND REAP: FOR THE TIME IS COME FOR THEE TO REAP: FOR THE HARVEST OF THE EARTH IS RIPE.

AND HE THAT SAT ON THE CLOUD THRUST IN HIS SICKLE ON THE EARTH; AND THE EARTH WAS REAPED.

** THIS IS A SCENE OF HEAVEN. WE SEE THE SON OF MAN ON A WHITE CLOUD SITTING IN A PREPARED STATE WAITING ON THE EXACT TIMING AND WORD FROM THE FATHER WITH A SICKLE READY TO REAP THE HARVEST.

** THE ANGEL WHO COMES FROM THE TEMPLE WHERE GOD THE FATHER WATCHES IS APPARENTLY TOLD THAT NOW IS THE TIME FOR THE RAPTURE. NOTICE THAT HE CRIES WITH A LOUD VOICE OR A SHOUT AND TELLS HIM TO REAP.

** THIS IS A PARALLEL WITH I THESSALONIANS 4:16

** THE RAPTURE WILL OCCUR WITH THE SHOUT OF THE ARCHANGEL

** THESE THINGS OCCUR IN SCRIPTURE AFTER THE SEVENTH TRUMPET BUT BEFORE THE BOWLS OF JUDGMENTS THAT ARE THE WRATH OF GOD THAT IS POURED OUT

** THIS IS CONSISTENT WITH WHAT THE SCRIPTURE SAYS ABOUT OUR ESCAPING THE WRATH OF GOD (THE WRATH WILL OCCUR QUICKLY AND WILL DEVASTATE ALL INVOLVED).

WHAT IS THE LAST TRUMP?

** LET’S USE SCRIPTURE TO INTERPRET SCRIPTURE SO THAT WE DO NOT HAVE A THEORY BASED ON OUR PREFERENCES.

** THE 7TH TRUMPET IN REVELATION IS ACTUALLY THE LAST TRUMP IN A SERIES OF SEVEN. WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THIS LAST TRUMP IS BLOWN?

REVELATION 10:5-7

AND THE ANGEL WHICH I SAW STAND UPON THE SEA AND UPON THE EARTH LIFTED UP HIS HAND TO HEAVEN.

AND SWARE BY HIM THAT LIVETH FOR EVER AND EVER, WHO CREATED HEAVEN, AND THE THINGS THAT THEREIN ARE, AND THE EARTH, AND THE THINGS THAT THEREIN ARE, AND THE SEA, AND THE THINGS WHICH ARE THEREIN, THAT THERE SHOULD BE TIME NO LONGER:

BUT IN THE DAYS OF THE VOICE OF THE SEVENTH ANGEL, WHEN HE SHALL BEGIN TO SOUND, THE MYSTERY OF GOD IS FINISHED, AS HE HATH DECLARED TO HIS SERVANTS THE PROPHETS.

** THE MYSTERY IS IDENTIFIED AS THE CHURCH AND THE PREACHING OF JESUS

ROMANS 16:25

NOW TO HIM THAT IS OF POWER TO STABLISH YOU ACCORDING TO MY GOSPEL, AND THE PREACHING OF JESUS CHRIST, ACCORDING TO THE REVELATION OF THE MYSTERY, WHICH WAS KEPT SECRET SINCE THE WORLD BEGAN.

EPHESIANS 5:32

THIS IS A GREAT MYSTERY: BUT I SPEAK CONCERNING CHRIST AND THE CHURCH.

REVELATION 11:15-19

AND THE SEVENTH ANGEL SOUNDED; AND THERE WERE GREAT VOICES IN HEAVEN, SAYING, THE KINGDOMS OF THIS WORLD ARE BECOME THE KINGDOMS OF OUR LORD, AND OF HIS CHRIST; AND HE SHALL REIGN FOR EVER AND EVER.

AND THE FOUR AND TWENTY ELDERS, WHICH SAT BEFORE GOD ON THEIR SEATS, FELL UPON THEIR FACES, AND WORSHIPPED GOD.

SAYING, WE GIVE THEE THANKS, O LORD GOD ALMIGHTY, WHICH ART, AND WAST, AND ART TO COME; BECAUSE THOU HAST TAKEN TO THEE THY GREAT POWER AND HAST REIGNED.

AND THE NATIONS WERE ANGRY, AND THY WRATH IS COME, AND THE TIME OF THE DEAD, THAT THEY SHOULD BE JUDGED, AND THAT THOU SHOULDEST GIVE REWARD UNTO THY SERVANTS THE PROPHETS, AND TO THE SAINTS, AND THEM THAT FEAR THY NAME, SMALL AND GREAT; AND SHOULDEST DESTROY THEM WHICH DESTROY THE EARTH.

AND THE TEMPLE OF GOD WAS OPENED IN HEAVEN, AND THERE WAS SEEN IN HIS TEMPLE THE ARK OF HIS TESTAMENT: AND THERE WERE LIGHTNINGS, AND VOICES, AND THUNDERINGS, AND AN EARTHQUAKE, AND GREAT HAIL.

REVELATION 14:17-20 REAPING OF THOSE FOR THE WINEPRESS OF THE WRATH OF GOD

VIALS

1ST VIAL-- GRIEVOUS SORES

2ND VIAL-- SEA BECAME AS BLOOD OF DEADMAN, EVERYTHING IN SEA DIED

3RD VIAL-- RIVERS & FOUNTAINS BECAME BLOOD

4TH VIAL-- SCORCHING FIRE FROM SUN

5TH VIAL-- FULL DARKNESS IN antichrist’s KINGDOM CAUSING PEOPLE TO GNAW TONGUE IN PAIN

6TH VIAL-- EUPHRATES DRIED UP TO PREPARE FOR ARMAGEDDON

7TH VIAL-- GREAT EARTHQUAKE

GREAT HAIL (114LB)

JUDGMENT OF GREAT WHORE

FALL OF BABYLON

MARRIAGE SUPPER OF LAMB (19:7-9)

LET US BE GLAD AND REJOICE, AND GIVE HONOR TO HIM: FOR THE MARRIAGE OF THE LAMB IS COME, AND HIS WIFE HATH MADE HERSELF READY.

AND TO HER WAS GRANTED THAT SHE SHOULD BE ARRAYED IN FINE LINEN, CLEAN AND WHITE: FOR THE FINE LINEN IS THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF SAINTS.

AND HE SAITH UNTO ME, WRITE, BLESSED ARE THEY WHICH ARE CALLED UNTO THE MARRIAGE SUPPER OF THE LAMB. AND HE SAITH UNTO ME, THESE ARE THE TRUE SAYINGS OF GOD.

ARMAGEDDON (19:11-16)

AND I SAW HEAVEN OPENED, AND BEHOLD A WHITE HORSE; AND HE THAT SAT UPON HIM WAS CALLED FAITHFUL AND TRUE, AND IN RIGHTEOUSNESS HE DOTH JUDGE AND MAKE WAR.

HIS EYES WERE AS A FLAME OF FIRE, AND ON HIS HEAD WERE MANY CROWNS; AND HE HAD A NAME WRITTEN, THAT NO MAN KNEW, BUT HE HIMSELF.

AND HE WAS CLOTHED WITH A VESTURE DIPPED IN BLOOD: AND HIS NAME IS CALLED THE WORD OF GOD.

AND THE ARMIES WHICH WERE IN HEAVEN FOLLOWED HIM UPON WHITE HORSES, CLOTHED IN FINE LINEN, WHITE AND CLEAN.

AND OUT OF HIS MOUTH GOETH A SHARP SWORD, THAT WITH IT HE SHOULD SMITE THE NATIONS: AND HE SHALL RULE THEM WITH A ROD OF IRON: AND HE TREADETH THE WINEPRESS OF THE FIERCENESS AND WRATH OF ALMIGHTY GOD.

AND HE HATH ON HIS VESTURE AND ON HIS THIGH A NAME WRITTEN, KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS.

SATAN IS CAST INTO A BOTTOMLESS PIT (20:1-2)

WHITE THRONE JUDGMENT (20:11-15)

AND I SAW A GREAT WHITE THRONE, AND HIM THAT SAT ON IT, FROM WHOSE FACE THE EARTH AND THE HEAVEN FLED AWAY; AND THERE WAS FOUND NO PLACE FOR THEM.

AND I SAW THE DEAD, SMALL AND GREAT, STAND BEFORE GOD; AND THE BOOKS WERE OPENED: AND ANOTHER BOOK WAS OPENED WHICH IS THE BOOK OF LIFE: AND THE DEAD WERE JUDGED OUT OF THOSE THINGS WHICH WERE WRITTEN IN THE BOOKS, ACCORDING TO THEIR WORKS.

AND THE SEA GAVE UP THE DEAD WHICH WERE IN IT; AND DEATH AND HELL DELIVERED UP THE DEAD WHICH WERE IN THEM: AND THEY WERE JUDGED EVERY MAN ACCORDING TO HIS WORKS.

AND DEATH AND HELL WERE CAST INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE. THIS IS THE SECOND DEATH.

AND WHOSOEVER WAS NOT FOUND WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF LIFE WAS CAST INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE.