The Angels and the Trumpets
"And the seven angels who had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound them." Revelation 8:6

Reference:

Revelation 8:12 - And the fourth angel sounded, and a third of the sun and a third of the moon and a third of the stars were smitten, so that a third of them might be darkened and the day might not shine for a third of it, and the night in the same way. (NAS)

In Revelation 8:13, the angel warns of the
three woes.

The First Woe: Torment
(to those who are not the bond-servants of God)

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The 5th Angel Sounds His Trumpet

The star and the pit (Revelation 9:1-2):

And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star from heaven which had fallen to the earth; and the key of the bottomless pit was given to him. ² And he opened the bottomless pit; and smoke went up out of the pit, like the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by the smoke of the pit. (NAS)

The locusts (Revelation 9:3-10):

³And out of the smoke came forth locusts upon the earth; and power was given them, as the scorpions of the earth have power. ⁴And they were told that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, nor any green thing, nor any tree, but only the men who do not have the seal of God on their foreheads.

• Power to torment:

⁶And they were not permitted to kill anyone, but to torment for five months; and their torment was like the torment of a scorpion when it stings a man. ⁶And in those days men will seek death and will not find it; and they will long to die and death flees from them. (NAS)

• Physical appearance in vision:

⁷And the appearance of the locusts was like horses prepared for battle; and on their heads, as it were, crowns like gold, and their faces were like the faces of men. ⁸And they had hair like the hair of women, and their teeth were like the teeth of lions. ⁹And they had breastplates like breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings was like the sound of chariots, of many horses rushing to battle. ¹⁰And they have tails like scorpions, and stings; and in their tails is their power to hurt men for five months. (NAS)

The king of the locusts (Revelation 9:11):

¹¹They have as king over them, the angel of the abyss; his name in Hebrew is Abaddon*, and in the Greek he has the name Apollyon.

* Abaddon is the Hebrew word for "the place of death".  Apollyon in the Greek means "destroyer."

The First Woe is Past (Revelation 9:12):

¹²The first woe is past; behold, two woes are still coming after these things. (NAS)

The Second Woe: Death to 1/3, and
God's vengeance on those who kill His witnesses.
(to those who are not the bond-servants of God)

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The 6th Angel Sounds His Trumpet.

John hears a voice (9:13-15):

¹³And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God, ¹⁴one saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, "Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates."  (NAS)

The four angels and their armies are released (Revelation 9:15-18):

¹⁵And the four angels, who had been prepared for the hour and day and month and year, were released, so that they might kill a third of mankind. ¹⁶And the number of the armies of the horsemen was two hundred million; I heard the number of them. (NAS)

Riders and horses in the angel's armies (Revelation 9:17-19):

And this is how I saw in the vision the horses and those who sat on them:

• ¹⁷the riders had breastplates the color of fire and of hyacinth and of brimstone; and

• the heads of the horses are like the heads of lions; and out of their mouths proceed fire and smoke and brimstone. ¹⁸A third of mankind was killed by these three plagues, by the fire and the smoke and the brimstone, which proceeded out of their mouths. ¹⁹For the power of the horses is in their mouths and in their tails; for their tails are like serpents and have heads; and with them they do harm. (NAS)

Those that were not killed by the angels and their armies (Revelation 9:20-21):

John then describes the remaining 2/3 of mankind (those that were not the bond-servants of God):

²⁰And the rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands, so as not to worship demons, and the idols of gold and of silver and of brass and of stone and of wood, which can neither see nor hear nor walk; ²¹ and they did not repent of their murders nor of their sorceries nor of their immorality nor of their thefts. (NAS)

The small scroll (Revelation 10:1-11)

John received a small scroll or book from another powerful angel coming down from heaven.  John is told to eat the scroll and then that he must prophesy again about many races of people, nation, languages and rulers.

John told to measure and count (Revelation 11:1-3)

John was given a measuring rod and was told to measure the temple of God and the altar and to count the people worshiping there.

The two witnesses are killed (Revelation 11:1-10)

Power was given to the two witnesses standing before the Lord of the earth...power to stop the rain, to turn the waters into blood, and to smite the earth with every plague or trouble.  If a person tried to hurt them, fire would come from their mouths to kill their enemy.  When the two witnesses had finished telling their message, a beast or animal coming up from the bottomless pit killed them.  Their bodies lay in the street of the city where the Lord was killed.  People from the earth were happy that these two were killed, and they refused to bury them.

God lets life enter the two witnesses and they are called to heaven (Revelation 11:11-12)

After three and a half days God let life enter the two prophets again.  They stood on their feet.  All the people who saw them were filled with fear.  Then the two prophets heard a loud voice from heaven say, "Come up here!" And the two prophets went up into heaven in a cloud. Their enemies watched them go.

The Great Earthquake and the End of the 2nd Woe (Revelation 11:13-14)

At that same time there was a great earthquake. One tenth of the city was destroyed. And 7,000 people were killed in the earthquake. The people that did not die were very afraid. They gave glory to the God of heaven.

Revelation 11:14 - The second woe is past; behold, the third woe is coming quickly. (NAS)

The Third Woe:
(to those who are not the bond-servants of God)

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The 7th Angel Sounds His Trumpet.

The Kingdom of the World Becomes the Kingdom of God and His Christ (Rev. 11:15)

And the seventh angel sounded; and there arose loud voices in heaven, saying, "The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord, and of His Christ; and He will reign forever and ever." (NAS)

The 24 Elders Bow, Worship and Say What Will Happen Next (Revelation 11:16-18)

And the twenty-four elders, who sit on their thrones before God, fell on their faces and worshiped God, ¹⁷ saying,

"We give Thee thanks, O Lord God, the Almighty, who art and who wast, because Thou hast taken Thy great power and hast begun to reign.

• ¹⁸"And the nations were enraged, and

• Thy wrath came, and

• the time came for the dead to be judged, and

• the time to give their reward to Thy bond-servants the prophets and to the saints and to those who fear Thy name, the small and the great, and

• to destroy those who destroy the earth."
                                                   (NAS)

The Temple in Heaven is Opened (Revelation 11:19)

Then God's temple in heaven was opened. The holy box that holds the agreement that God gave to His people (the ark of the covenant) could be seen in his temple. Then there were flashes of lightning, noises, thunder, an earthquake, and a great hailstorm.