Who are the two witnesses of Revelation 11? For 1,260 days, God’s two witnesses will prophesy clothed in sackcloth. Fire proceeds from their mouths to devour their enemies, and they have power to shut heaven so that no rain falls, to turn the waters to blood, and to strike the earth with plagues as often as they desire.
In this message from our series Revelation: Jesus Revealed – The View Behind The Veil, we walk through Revelation 11:3-13 in three movements: the rise and rule of the two witnesses; the response and removal of the two witnesses, when the beast from the bottomless pit makes war against them and the world celebrates over their dead bodies in the street for three and a half days; and the resurrection and rapture of the two witnesses.
After three and a half days the breath of life from God enters them, they stand on their feet, and a loud voice from heaven says, “Come up here.” It will be the only time in human history that human eyes watch a resurrection and a rapture take place at the same time – a reminder that God’s faithful witnesses always have the final word.
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Revelation 11:3 And I will give power to my two witnesses, and they will
prophesy one thousand two hundred and sixty days, clothed in sackcloth.”
Revelation 11:4 These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands standing
before the God of the earth.
Revelation 11:5 And if anyone wants to harm them, fire proceeds from their mouth
and devours their enemies. And if anyone wants to harm them, he must be killed
in this manner.
Revelation 11:6 These have power to shut heaven, so that no rain falls in the days
of their prophecy; and they have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to
strike the earth with all plagues, as often as they desire.
Revelation 11:7 When they finish their testimony, the beast that ascends out of
the bottomless pit will make war against them, overcome them, and kill them.
Revelation 11:8 And their dead bodies will lie in the street of the great city which
spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.
Revelation 11:9 Then those from the peoples, tribes, tongues, and nations
will see their dead bodies three-and-a-half days, and not allow their dead bodies
to be put into graves.
Revelation 11:10 And those who dwell on the earth will rejoice over them, make
merry, and send gifts to one another, because these two prophets tormented
those who dwell on the earth.
Revelation 11:11 Now after the three-and-a-half days the breath of life from God
entered them, and they stood on their feet, and great fear fell on those who
saw them.
Revelation 11:12 And they heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them,
“Come up here.” And they ascended to heaven in a cloud, and their enemies
saw them.
Revelation 11:13 In the same hour there was a great earthquake, and a tenth
of the city fell. In the earthquake seven thousand people were killed, and the
rest were afraid and gave glory to the God of heaven.
I. THE RISE AND RULE OF THE TWO WITNESSES.
Revelation 11:3 And I will give power to my two witnesses, and they will
prophesy one thousand two hundred and sixty days, clothed in sackcloth.”
Revelation Chapter 2 (Verse 13) mentions Antipas, who is explicitly named as
“my faithful martyr [witness]” who was killed in the city of Pergamum.
Revelation Chapter 6 (Verses 9-11): John sees the souls of those who had
been slain (martyred) for the word of God and their testimony resting under
the heavenly altar
Revelation Chapter 17 (Verse 6): John looks upon the woman (Babylon) described
as drunk with the blood of the saints and the “blood of the martyrs of Jesus”.
Revelation Chapter 20 (Verse 4): John sees the souls of those who had been
beheaded (martyred) for their testimony about Jesus and for refusing to worship
the beast or his image.
Polycarp in his final prayer, he prayed, “O Father, I thank you, that you have
called me to this day and hour and have counted me worthy to receive my
place among the number of the holy martyrs, Amen.”
Revelation 11:2 “… for it has been given to the Gentiles. And they will tread the
holy city underfoot for forty-two months.
Revelation 11:3 And I will give power to my two witnesses, and they will
prophesy one thousand two hundred and sixty days, clothed in sackcloth.”
Revelation 11:4 These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands standing
before the God of the earth.
1 Thessalonians 1:5 For our gospel did not come to you in word only, but also
in power, and in the Holy Spirit and in much assurance, as you know what kind
of men we were among you for your sake.
Revelation 11:5 And if anyone wants to harm them, fire proceeds from their mouth
and devours their enemies. And if anyone wants to harm them, he must be killed
in this manner.
Revelation 11:5 (MSG) If anyone tries to hurt them, a blast of fire from their mouths
will incinerate them–burn them to a crisp just like that.
Revelation 11:5 (EXB) “… Notice If anyone ·tries [wants] to harm them in whatever
way, in that same way that person ·will [or must] die in the same way.
Revelation 11:6 These have power to shut heaven, so that no rain falls in the
days of their prophecy; and they have power over waters to turn them to blood,
and to strike the earth with all plagues, as often as they desire.
II. THE RESPONSE AND REMOVAL OF THE TWO WITNESSES.
Revelation 11:7 When they finish their testimony, the beast that ascends out of
the bottomless pit will make war against them, overcome them, and kill them.
He is also called the Beast from the Sea in (Revelation 13:1):and the First
Beast in (Revelation 13:12) to distinguish him from the second beast
who is (the False Prophet) that rises from the earth.
He is also called a Scarlet Beast in Revelation 17:3
Genesis 3:1 Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field
which the Lord God had made.
Revelation 12:9 So the great dragon was cast out, that serpent of old, called
the Devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world;
Daniel 7:3 And four great beasts came up from the sea, each different from the other.
Isaiah 27:1 In that day the Lord with His severe sword, great and strong, will punish
Leviathan the fleeing serpent, Leviathan that twisted serpent; And He will slay the
reptile that is in the sea.
You are going to find that a great many of the saints are more interested in
Antichrist than they are in Christ.”
Revelation 11:8 And their dead bodies will lie in the street of the great city which
spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.
Revelation 11:9 Then those from the peoples, tribes, tongues, and nations
will see their dead bodies three-and-a-half days, and not allow their dead bodies
to be put into graves.
Pastor R.G. Lee famously stated, “If you preach at my funeral that I had no enemies,
I will raise up out of that casket!”
III. THE RESURRECTION AND RAPTURE OF THE TWO WITNESSES.
Revelation 11:11 Now after the three-and-a-half days the breath of life from God
entered them, and they stood on their feet, and great fear fell on those who
saw them.
Revelation 11:12 And they heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them,
“Come up here.” And they ascended to heaven in a cloud, and their enemies
saw them.
Now this is the only time in human history where human eyes will actually see
a resurrection and a rapture take place at the same time.
Revelation 11:13 In the same hour there was a great earthquake, and a tenth
of the city fell. In the earthquake seven thousand people were killed, and the
rest were afraid and gave glory to the God of heaven.
What lies behind the sins that are destroying our world? Revelation 9:20-21 tells us that even after the terrible plagues of the sixth trumpet, the rest of mankind still did not repent of worshipping demons and idols, or of their murders, sorceries, sexual immorality, and thefts.
In this message from our series Revelation: Jesus Revealed – The View Behind The Veil, we look at the unseen spiritual forces behind five sins: false worship, murder, sorcery (including drug abuse), sexual immorality, and theft. An idol is anything you love more, serve more, or value more than God – and we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, powers, and spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.
We also consider the difference between demonic oppression and demonic possession, and the weapons God gives us to pull down strongholds – His Word, which is profitable for doctrine, reproof, correction, and instruction in righteousness. The warning is plain: if people do not repent of sin, they perish.
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Revelation 9:20 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,
Revelation 9:21 And they did not repent of their murders or their sorceries or
their sexual immorality or their thefts.
1. THE SIN OF FALSE WORSHIP.
Revelation 9:20 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.
Matthew 4:8 Again, the devil took Him up on an exceedingly high mountain, and
showed Him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory.
Matthew 4:9 And he said to Him, “All these things I will give You if You will fall
down and worship me.”
An idol is anything you love more, serve more, or value more than God.
1 John 5:21 ‘”Little children, keep yourselves from idols.”
2. THE SIN OF MURDER.
Revelation 9: 21 And they did not repent of their murders
John 8:44 “… He [Satan] was a murderer from the beginning, and does not
stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie,
he ‘speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it.
1 John 3:12 “… Cain who was of the wicked one and murdered his brother. And
why did he murder him? Because his works were evil and his brother’s righteous.
Matthew 4:24 Then His fame went throughout all Syria; and they brought
to Him all sick people who were afflicted with various diseases and
torments, and those who were demon-possessed, epileptics, and paralytics;
and He healed them.
Matthew 17:14 And when they had come to the multitude, a man came to Him,
kneeling down to Him and saying,
Matthew 17:15 “Lord, have mercy on my son, for he is an epileptic and suffers
severely; for he often falls into the fire and often into the water.
Matthew 17:18 And Jesus rebuked the demon, and it came out of him; and the
child was cured from that very hour.
3. THE SIN OF SORCERY. (AKA DRUG ABUSE)
Revelation 9: 21 And they did not repent of … their sorceries
A former President who declared a war on drugs, said “This is a battle that must
be fought, but I must warn you it is a battle that will not be won until Jesus comes
again.”
4. THE SIN OF SEXUAL IMMORALITY.
Revelation 9:21 And they did not repent of … their sexual ‘immorality…”
5. THE SIN OF THEFTS.
Revelation 9:21 And they did not repent of … their thefts.
Proverbs 14:12 There is a way that seems right to a man, But its end is the way
of death.
2 Timothy 3:16 All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for
doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness,
2 Timothy 3:17 That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto
all good works.
Scripture is profitable for doctrine; it will tell you what is right.
Scripture is profitable for reproof; it will tell you what is not right.
Scripture is profitable for correction; it will tell how to get right.
Scripture is profitable for instruction; it will tell you how to stay right.
Ephesians 6:12 For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against
principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age,
against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.
Every person is in one of three spiritual conditions
Inhabited by demons, uninhabited, or inhabited by the Holy Spirit of God
Demonic oppression is an external spiritual attack that causes severe
pressure and temptation while the person keeps full self-control,
Demonic possession is an internal takeover where a spirit lives inside and
controls a person’s body and mind
Satan possessed Judas to betray Christ
Satan oppressed Peter to deny Christ
Acts 5:3 Why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit?
2 Corinthians 10:4 For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in
God for pulling down strongholds,
2 Corinthians 10:5 casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts
itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the
obedience of Christ,
Matthew 13:19 When anyone hears the word of the kingdom, and does not
understand it, then the wicked one comes and snatches away what was sown
in his heart.
Revelation 9:20 “… But the rest of mankind, … did not repent
Revelation 9:21 And they did not repent ….
If people don’t repent of sin, they perish.
When the sixth angel sounds his trumpet in Revelation 9, a voice from the four horns of the golden altar commands the release of the four angels bound at the great river Euphrates. An army of two hundred million horsemen follows – breastplates of fiery red, hyacinth blue, and sulfur yellow, horses with heads like lions, and fire, smoke, and brimstone pouring from their mouths – and a third of mankind is killed.
In this message from our series Revelation: Jesus Revealed – The View Behind The Veil, we study Revelation 9:12-21 under four headings: the release and region of satanic spirits, the realtime and return of satanic slaughter, the range and rampage of the satanic soldiers, and the reaction and refusal of real repentance.
Most sobering of all, even after these terrible plagues, the rest of mankind still did not repent of their murders, sorceries, sexual immorality, or thefts. The heart is deceitful above all things – but the Lord searches the heart, and He still calls sinners to turn to Him today.
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Revelation 9:12 One woe is past. Behold, still two more woes are coming after
these things.
Revelation 9:13 Then the sixth angel sounded: And I heard a voice from the
four horns of the golden altar which is before God,
Revelation 9:14 saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, “Release the
four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates.”
Revelation 9:15 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.
Revelation 9:16 Now the number of the army of the horsemen was two hundred
million; I heard the number of them.
Revelation 9:17 And thus I saw the horses in the vision: those who sat on them
had breastplates of fiery red, hyacinth blue, and sulfur yellow; and the heads
of the horses were like the heads of lions; and out of their mouths came fire,
smoke, and brimstone.
Revelation 9:18 By these three plagues a third of mankind was killed-by the
fire and the smoke and the brimstone which came out of their mouths.
Revelation 9:19 For their power is in their mouth and in their tails; for their tails
are like serpents, having heads; and with them they do harm.
Revelation 9:20 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,
Revelation 9:21 And they did not repent of their murders or their sorceries or
their sexual immorality or their thefts.
One Bible commentator (quote)
“This is the description of modern warfare and this is a human army of 200 million
with rocket launchers coming out of the backside of these guys with guns coming
out the front side of them.”
Revelation 9:12 One woe is past. Behold, still two more woes are coming after
these things.
Revelation 9:13 Then the sixth angel sounded: And I heard a voice from the four
horns of the golden altar which is before God,
Psalm 18:2 The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer; My God
my strength, in whom I will trust; My shield and the horn of my salvation, …
1 Samuel 2:10 “… He will give strength to His king, and exalt the horn of His anointed”
I. THE RELEASE AND THE REGION OF SATANIC SPIRITS
Revelation 9:14 saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, “Release the
four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates.”
Genesis 2:10 Now a river went out of Eden to water the garden, and from there
it parted and became four riverheads.
Genesis 2:14 “… The fourth river is the Euphrates.
II. THE REALTIME AND RETURN OF SATANIC SLAUGHTER
Revelation 9:15 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.
Exodus 12:23 For the Lord will pass through to strike the Egyptians; and when
He sees the blood on the lintel and on the two doorposts, the Lord will pass
over the door and not allow the destroyer to come into your houses to strike you.
III. THE RANGE AND RAMPAGE OF THE SATANIC SOLDIERS
Revelation 9:16 Now the number of the army of the horsemen was two hundred
million; I heard the number of them.
All angels are split into two categories or kind;
The holy, elect angels, and the fallen angels.
Of the fallen angels there are two kinds, loose and bound.
Of the bound there are two kinds, permanently bound, temporarily bound.
Revelation 9:17 And thus I saw the horses in the vision: those who sat on them
had breastplates of fiery red, hyacinth blue, and sulfur yellow; and the heads
of the horses were like the heads of lions; and out of their mouths came fire,
smoke, and brimstone.
Revelation 9:18 By these three plagues a third of mankind was killed-by the
fire and the smoke and the brimstone which came out of their mouths.
Revelation 9:19 For their power is in their mouth and in their tails; for their
tails are like serpents, having heads; and with them they do harm.
Revelation 9:10 They had tails like scorpions, and there were stings in their tails.
Luke 10:19 Behold, I give you the authority to trample on serpents and scorpions,
IV. THE REACTION AND REFUSAL OF REAL REPENTANCE
Revelation 9:20 But the rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues,
did not repent …”
Vincent Bugliosi in his 1974 book “Helter Skelter” writes:
Manson placed no special meaning on the last verse of Revelation 9. But I
found myself thinking of it often in the months ahead:
Revelation 9:21 Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries,
nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.
Jeremiah 17:9 “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked;
Who can know it?
Jeremiah 17:10 I, the Lord, search the heart, I test the mind, even to give every
man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.
What comes out of the bottomless pit? When the fifth trumpet sounds in Revelation 9, smoke rises from the abyss, and out of it swarm locusts unlike anything the world has ever seen – shaped like horses prepared for battle, with crowns like gold, faces like men, hair like women, teeth like lions, breastplates of iron, and tails that sting like scorpions.
In this message from our series Revelation: Jesus Revealed – The View Behind The Veil, we walk through Revelation 9:1-12 and see that these locusts are demonically driven under their king Abaddon (Apollyon), literally limited to five months and forbidden to harm anyone with the seal of God, supernaturally shaped, and as painful as a stinging scorpion. From the locust plague in Egypt to modern swarms in Africa, Scripture shows us this judgment will be far worse than anything the world has known.
But for those who belong to Christ, the sting has already been removed. “The Lord knows those who are His,” and because of Jesus we can say, “O Death, where is your sting? O Grave, where is your victory?”
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Revelation 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.
Revelation 9:2 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.
Revelation 9:3 Then out of the smoke locusts came upon the earth. And to them
was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power.
Revelation 9:4 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.
Revelation 9:5 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.
Revelation 9:6 In those days men will seek death and will not find it; they will
desire to die, and death will flee from them.
Revelation 9:7 The shape of the locusts was like horses prepared for battle.
On their heads were crowns of something like gold, and their faces were like
the faces of men.
Revelation 9:8 They had hair like women’s hair, and their teeth were like lions’
teeth.
Revelation 9:9 And they had breastplates like breastplates of iron, and the
sound of their wings was like the sound of chariots with many horses running
into battle.
Revelation 9:10 They had tails like scorpions, and there were stings in their tails.
Their power was to hurt men five months.
Revelation 9:11 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.
Revelation 9:12 One woe is past. Behold, still two more woes are coming after
these things.
Isaiah 54:17 No weapon formed against you shall prosper, …
I. THESE LOCUSTS ARE DEMONICALLY DRIVEN.
Revelation 9:2 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.
Revelation 9:3 Then out of the smoke locusts came upon the earth. And to them
was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power.
Hal Lindsey, Apocalypse Code:
“John’s ‘locusts’ are helicopters, horses prepared for battle’ are heavily armed
attack helicopters, crowns of gold’ are the helmets worn by pilots, and the
‘sound of their wings’ are the ‘thunderous sound of many attack helicopters
flying overhead. [Possibly … the means of torment will be a kind of nerve gas
sprayed from its tail.”
Exodus 10:14 And the locusts went up over all the land of Egypt and rested on
all the territory of Egypt. They were very severe; previously there had been no
such locusts as they, nor shall there be such after them.
Exodus 10:15 For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was
darkened; and they ate every herb of the land and all the fruit of the trees which
the hail had left. So there remained nothing green on the trees or on the plants
of the field throughout all the land of Egypt.
Deuteronomy 28:38 “You shall carry much seed out to the field but gather little in,
for the locust shall consume it.
Deuteronomy 28:42 Locusts shall consume all your trees and the produce of
your land.
In 2004, we had one of the worst locust swarms our world has ever seen in West
Africa. They estimated 65 billion locust were in the swarm.
Scientists say, “There is only one thing known to man that can stop a swarm
of locusts and it is a drought.
“On this planet, there is only one thing that is worse than getting invaded by
an army of locust and that is to get invaded by an army of people.”
Revelation 9:11 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.
Proverbs 30:27 The locusts have no king, yet they all advance in ranks;
II. THESE LOCUSTS ARE LITERALLY LIMITED.
Revelation 9:4 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.
Revelation 9:5 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.
Revelation 9:6 In those days men will seek death and will not find it; they will
desire to die, and death will flee from them.
Revelation 9:10 “….’Their power was to hurt men five months.
III. THESE LOCUSTS ARE SUPERNATURALLY SHAPED.
Revelation 9:7 The shape of the locusts was like horses prepared for battle.
On their heads were crowns of something like gold, and their faces were like
the faces of men.
Revelation 9:8 They had hair like women’s hair, and their teeth were like lions’
teeth.
Revelation 9:9 And they had breastplates like breastplates of iron, and the
sound of their wings was like the sound of chariots with many horses running
into battle.
People seated on the floor watching flat people move back and forth in brilliant
light on a flat surface — suddenly appearing and just as suddenly disappearing
into everlasting darkness.”
IV. THESE LOCUSTS ARE LIKE STINGING SCORPIONS
Revelation 9:3 “… And to them was given power as the scorpions of the earth
have power
Revelation 9:5 “… Their torment was like the torment of a scorpion when it
strikes a man
Revelation 9:10 They had tails like scorpions, and there were stings in their tails.
One guy who was stung by a death stalker scorpion described it this way.
“Imagine lying your thumb on two by four and someone holding a nail and
driving a nail through your thumb.”
Revelation 9:4 (CEB) “…They could only hurt the people who didn’t have the
seal of God on their foreheads.
2 Timothy 2:19 Nevertheless the solid foundation of God stands, having this seal:
“The Lord knows those who are His,”
1 Corinthians 15:54 So when this corruptible has put on incorruption, and this
mortal has put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is
written: “Death is swallowed up in victory.”
1 Corinthians 15:55 “O Death, where is your sting? O Grave, where is your victory?”
1 Corinthians 15:56 The sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is the law.
1 Corinthians 15:57 But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our
Lord Jesus Christ.
Is the sky really falling? In Revelation 8, the seven angels who stand before God prepare to sound their trumpets, and when the first four blasts ring out, judgment falls on every part of creation. Hail and fire mingled with blood burn up a third of the trees and all the green grass, a great mountain burning with fire turns a third of the sea to blood, a star called Wormwood makes a third of the rivers and springs bitter, and a third of the sun, moon, and stars are darkened.
In this message from our series Revelation: Jesus Revealed – The View Behind The Veil, we walk through Revelation 8:2-13 and see that these trumpets give no uncertain sound (1 Corinthians 14:8). Each one echoes the plagues God sent on Egypt in the days of Moses – the hail and fire, the waters turned to blood, and the darkness that covered the land for three days.
These judgments are not random. They fall on a world that has exchanged the truth of God for a lie and worshipped the creation rather than the Creator (Romans 1:25). And as an angel flies through the midst of heaven crying, “Woe, woe, woe to the inhabitants of the earth,” we are warned that even greater judgments are still to come – and that now is the time to be a friend of God rather than a friend of the world.
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Revelation 8:2 And I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and to them
were given seven trumpets.
Revelation 8:6 So the seven angels who had the seven trumpets prepared
themselves to sound.
Revelation 8:7 The first angel sounded: And hail and fire followed, mingled
with blood, and they were thrown to the earth. And a third of the trees were
burned up, and all green grass was burned up.
Revelation 8:8 Then the second angel sounded: And something like a great
mountain ‘burning with fire was thrown into the sea, and a third of the sea
became blood.
Revelation 8:9 And a third of the living creatures in the sea died, and a third
of the ships were destroyed.
Revelation 8:10 Then the third angel sounded: And a great star fell from heaven,
heaven, burning like a torch, and it fell on a third of the rivers and on the springs
of water.
Revelation 8:11 The name of the star is Wormwood. A third of the waters became
wormwood, and many men died from the water, because it was made bitter.
Revelation 8:12 Then the fourth angel sounded: And a third of the sun was struck,
a third of the moon, and a third of the stars, so that a third of them were darkened.
A third of the day did not shine, and likewise the night.
Revelation 8:13 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!”
I. THE SOUND OF TRUMPETS.
Revelation 8:2 And I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and to them
were given seven trumpets.
1 Corinthians 14:8 For if the trumpet makes an uncertain sound, who will prepare
for battle?
1. THE FIRST TRUMPET: A THIRD OF THE TREES AND ALL THE GRASS
Revelation 8:7 The first angel sounded: And hail and fire followed, mingled
with blood, and they were thrown to the earth. And a third of the trees were
burned up, and all green grass was burned up.
Exodus 9:23 And Moses stretched out his rod toward heaven; and the Lord sent
thunder and hail, and fire darted to the ground. And the Lord rained hail on the
land of Egypt.
Exodus 9:24 So there was hail, and fire mingled with the hail, so very heavy that
there was none like it in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation.
2. THE SECOND TRUMPET: A THIRD OF THE SEA CREATURES
AND A THIRD OF THE SHIPS.
Revelation 8:8 Then the second angel sounded: And something like a great
mountain ‘burning with fire was thrown into the sea, and a third of the sea
became blood.
Revelation 8:9 And a third of the living creatures in the sea died,
Exodus 7:20 And Moses and Aaron did so, just as the Lord commanded. So he
lifted up the rod and struck the waters that were in the river, in the sight of
Pharaoh and in the sight of his servants. And all the waters that were in the river
were turned to blood.
Revelation 8:9 “… and a third of the ships were destroyed.”
3. THE THIRD TRUMPET: A THIRD OF THE FIRST WATER SUPPLY POISONED
Revelation 8:10 Then the third angel sounded: And a great star fell from heaven,
burning like a torch, and it fell on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water.
Revelation 8:11 The name of the star is Wormwood. A third of the waters became
wormwood, and many men died from the water, because it was made bitter.
Psalm 147:4 He counts the number of the stars; He calls them all by name.
4. THE FOURTH TRUMPET: A THIRD OF THE SUN, MOON AND
STARS DARKENED
Revelation 8:12 Then the fourth angel sounded: And a third of the sun was struck,
a third of the moon, and a third of the stars, so that a third of them were darkened.
A third of the day did not shine, and likewise the night.
Exodus 10:23 They did not see one another; nor did anyone rise from his place
for three days.
II. THE SINNERS’ PUNISHMENT.
Revelation 8:13 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!”
Romans 1:25 (CSBA) They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshipped
and served what has been created instead of the Creator, who is praised for
ever. Amen.
James 4:4 Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with
the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the
world makes himself an enemy of God.
James 4:4 (CEB) You unfaithful people! Don’t you know that friendship with the
world means hostility toward God? So whoever wants to be the world’s friend
becomes God’s enemy.
Zephaniah 1:2 “I will utterly consume everything from the face of the land,” says
the Lord;
Zephaniah 1:3 I will consume man and beast; I will consume the birds of the
heavens, the fish of the sea, and the stumbling blocks along with the wicked.
I will cut off man from the face of the land,” Says the Lord.
