Revelation 8 WBT
Summary: The Lamb opens the seventh seal, bringing silence in heaven for about half an hour, after which seven angels are given seven trumpets, and another angel offers incense with the prayers of the saints at the golden altar before throwing fire from the altar to the earth, producing thunder, lightning, and an earthquake. The first four trumpets bring devastating plagues on creation: hail and fire mixed with blood burn a third of the earth and trees, a burning mountain thrown into the sea turns a third of it to blood and kills a third of sea creatures and ships, a great star named Wormwood poisons a third of the rivers and springs, and a third of the sun, moon, and stars are struck, darkening a third of the day and night. The chapter closes with an eagle crying "Woe, woe, woe" to warn of three further trumpet judgments still to come.
1And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour.
2And I saw the seven angels who stood before God; and to them were given seven trumpets.
3And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer; and there was given to him much incense, that he should offer [it] with the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne.
4And the smoke of the incense, [which came] with the prayers of the saints, ascended before God out of the angel's hand.
5And the angel took the censer, and filled it with fire of the altar, and cast [it] upon the earth: and there were voices, and thunderings, and lightnings, and an earthquake.
6And the seven angels who had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound.
7The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.
8And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood;
9And the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had life, died; and the third part of the ships were destroyed.
10And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters;
11And the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died by the waters, because they were made bitter.
12And the fourth angel sounded, and the third part of the sun was smitten, and the third part of the moon, and the third part of the stars; so that the third part of them was darkened, and the day shone not for a third part of it, and the night likewise.
13And I beheld, and heard an angel flying through the midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice, Woe, woe, woe, to the inhabiters of the earth, by reason of the other voices of the trumpet of the three angels, which are yet to sound!
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