Chapter Twenty-One/Jehovah's Plagues on Christendom - Preparing for the Blasts of the Trumpets

 John goes on to say: "And the seven angels with the seven Trumpets prepared to blow them." (Revelation 8:6) What does the blowing of those Trumpets mean? In the days of Israel, trumpet blasts were used to signal important day's or newsworthy events. (Leviticus 23:24; 2 Kings 11:14) Similarly, the blasts of the Trumpets that John is to hear will call attention to matters of life-and-death inportance.

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