Interpreting the seven trumpets of Revelation

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The Seven Trumpets

The Creation Concept

Charles D. Alexander
Herbert W. Armstrong
William Barclay
Gregory K. Beale
James B. Coffman
John Darby
A. C. Gaebelein
George Gifford
David Guzik
E. W. Hengstenberg
H. A. Ironside
B. W. Johnson
Alonso T. Jones
Jack Kelley
William Kelly
Don Koenig
Gordon E. Ladd
Clarence Larkin
Francis Nigel Lee
David B. Loughran
John MacArthur
Henry Madison Morris
Robert H. Mounce
John H. Ogwyn
David C. Pack
Jon Paulien
J. Dwight Pentecost
Peter Pett
Bob Pickle
Vern S. Poythress
John H. Pratt & Edward B. Elliott
Ken Raggio
James Stuart Russell
Tyconius
John Walvoord
Ronald Weinland
James White

William Kelly

1st trumpet

man, like the flower of grass, is destroyed. The trees represent "such as are high and exalted among men."

2nd trumpet

Babylon, which becomes "a burnt mountain," is hurled down from its place of eminence. (Jer 11:25)

3rd trumpet

a dignitary fallen from his place of authority, poisons all that ought to be the means of blessing to man

4th trumpet

a judgment of God on the supreme as well as the inferior authorities of the world

5th trumpet

The locusts naturally point to countless swarms, devouring in specified limits, but more distinguished by the tormenting sting of false doctrine. The unsealed, the men of the earth, were the victims of the scourge, but the object was a conquering propagandism: not the extinction of prosperity, but rather the maintenance of it at the expense of the truth, and this for a limited period.

6th trumpet

we must look for another and final answer to the imagery, in the last scourge for the corrupt and idolatrous East

7th trumpet

the seventh angel gives the signal that the mysterious form of the kingdom is at an end ... The Lord will have a kingdom suited to the earth; but the Jews are not destined to be kings. They will have on earth a very honoured place; but even when the nation is converted to Him, they will never have the nearness that belongs to every soul, Jew or Gentile, who believes in Christ now.

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