Interpreting the seven trumpets of Revelation

John Darby

1st trumpet

the destruction of the great ones in the Roman earth, and of all general prosperity

2nd trumpet

a great power ... was cast into the mass of peoples in the Roman earth

3rd trumpet

one that should have been a special source of light and order in government fell from his place and corrupted the moral sources of popular motives and feelings

4th trumpet

governing powers put out, producing disaster and confusion in the Roman earth

5th trumpet

crowds of moral locusts with the sting of false doctrine in their tail. But it was not to destroy temporal prosperity on the earth, but to torment the ungodly Jews; not to kill, but to harass and vex them

6th trumpet

a countless crowd of horsemen from the east (beyond Euphrates) who invade the Latin Empire

7th trumpet

the worldly kingdom of  Christ ...  the greatest woe and terror of all to the inhabitants of the earth