Chapter Twenty-One - Jehovah's Plagues on Christendom

A Flying Eagle

These first four trumpet blasts truly resulted in uncovering the desolate and death-dealing condition of Christendom. Her part of "the earth" was exposed as deserving of Jehovah's judgment.  Revolutionary governments spring up in her lands and elsewhere were show to be inimical to spiritual life. The fallen condition of her clergy was laid bare, and the general darkness of her spiritual condition  was exposed for all to see. Christendom is truly the most reprehensible part of Satan's system of things. 

What more is there to reveal?  Before we find the answer to this questions, there is a brief pause in the series of trumpet blasts.  John describes what he sees next:  "And I saw, and I heard an  eagle flying in midheaven say with a loud voice:  "Woe, woe, woe to those dwelling on the earth because of the rest of the trumpet blasts of the three angels who are about to blow their trumpets!" -Revelation 8:13.  

An eagle flies high in the sky, so that people in a wide area can see it. It has exceptional keen sight and can see a long way ahead of itself.  (Job 39:29)  One of the four cherubic living creatures around God's throne was pictured as a flying eagle.  (Revelation 4:6, 7) Whether it is this cherubic or another farsighted servant of god, it loudly proclaims a dynamic message:  "Woe, woe, woe"! Let earth's inhabitant take note, as the three remaining trumpet blasts are heard, each of them linked  to one of these woes.  

Next time: Chapter Twenty-Two -The First Woe -Locusts

From the book of Revelation