The seven trumpet judgments begin!
The Beloved Disciple recorded by The Holy Spirit in Revelation chapter 8:
1 When He (Jesus) opened the seventh seal, there was silence in Heaven for about half an hour.
2 And I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and to them were given seven trumpets.
3 Then another angel, having a golden censer, came and stood at the altar. He was given much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all the saints upon the golden altar which was before the Throne.
4 And the smoke of the incense, with the prayers of the saints, ascended before God from the angel’s hand.
5 Then the angel took the censer, filled it with fire from the altar, and threw it to the earth. And there were voices, thunderings, lightnings, and an earthquake.
FATHER responds to the prayers of the saints which begin the judgments of the trumpets:
Vegetation is struck.
The seas are struck.
The waters are struck.
The heavens are struck.
Thus, all aspects of the earth were affected by the first four trumpets. I see these as literal, physical events though some refer to these events as being allegorical. We must not limit ourselves to viewing events that we have not yet seen as being allegorical. In early history, mankind could not fathom cars, planes, the Internet, and cell phones, yet here we are!
And in verse 13:
And I looked, and I heard an angel flying through the midst of Heaven, saying with a loud voice, “Woe, woe, woe to the inhabitants of the earth, because of the remaining blasts of the trumpet of the three angels who are about to sound!”
The Beloved Disciple continued in Revelation chapter 9:
1 Then the fifth angel sounded: And I saw a star fallen from heaven to the earth. To him was given the key to the bottomless pit.
This “star” was a person whom I believe to be satan. He had no authority himself to open the pit but was given authorization.
2 And he opened the bottomless pit, and smoke arose out of the pit like the smoke of a great furnace. So the sun and the air were darkened because of the smoke of the pit.
3 Then out of the smoke locusts came upon the earth. And to them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power.
4 They were commanded not to harm the grass of the earth, or any green thing, or any tree, but only those men who do not have the seal of God on their foreheads.
5 And they were not given authority to kill them, but to torment them for five months. Their torment was like the torment of a scorpion when it strikes a man.
Why five months? Noah’s flood was 150 days as indicated in Genesis 7:24.
10 They had tails like scorpions, and there were stings in their tails. Their power was to hurt men five months.
11 And they had as king over them the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon, but in Greek he has the name Apollyon.
This last verse shows that these creatures were not locusts but were “as” locusts.
Wisdom provides us with clarification in Proverbs chapter 30:
27 The locusts have no king, Yet they all advance in ranks;
The names Abaddon and Apollyon mean “destroyer”. These locusts appear to be “demon” locusts which fit their intent. Actual locusts have no king.
Continuing in Revelation chapter 9:
13 Then the sixth angel sounded: And I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,
14 saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, “Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates.”
15 So the four angels, who had been prepared for the hour and day and month and year, were released to kill a third of mankind.
These angels are clearly territorial, and the timing represents 1,1,1,1. This shows the preciseness of the timing of FATHER’S plan.
Even with a third of mankind killed, the rest did not repent:
20 But the rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands, that they should not worship demons, and idols of gold, silver, brass, stone, and wood, which can neither see nor hear nor walk.
21 And they did not repent of their murders or their sorceries or their sexual immorality or their thefts.
One would think that with the removal of the church and all the resulting events afterward, that people would change. Sadly, they didn’t!