,, The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up. And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood; And the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had life, died; and the third part of the ships were destroyed. And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters; And the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter. And the fourth angel sounded, and the third part of the sun was smitten, and the third part of the moon, and the third part of the stars; so as the third part of them was darkened, and the day shone not for a third part of it, and the night likewise. And I beheld, and heard an angel flying through the midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice, Woe, woe, woe, to the inhabiters of the earth by reason of the other voices of the trumpet of the three angels, which are yet to sound!“
Rev. 8: 7-13
Last time we saw that the angels were ready to blow the trumpet, "And the seven angels which had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound," and now we read:
,, Behold, to morrow about this time I will cause it to rain a very grievous hail, such as hath not been in Egypt since the foundation thereof even until now. Send therefore now, [and] gather thy cattle, and all that thou hast in the field; [for upon] every man and beast which shall be found in the field, and shall not be brought home, the hail shall come down upon them, and they shall die. He that feared the word of the Lord among the servants of Pharaoh made his servants and his cattle flee into the houses: And he that regarded not the word of the Lord left his servants and his cattle in the field. And the Lord said unto Moses, Stretch forth thine hand toward heaven, that there may be hail in all the land of Egypt, upon man, and upon beast, and upon every herb of the field, throughout the land of Egypt. And Moses stretched forth his rod toward heaven: and the Lord sent thunder and hail, and the fire ran along upon the ground; and the Lord rained hail upon the land of Egypt.So there was hail, and fire mingled with the hail, very grievous, such as there was none like it in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation. And the hail smote throughout all the land of Egypt all that [was] in the field, both man and beast; and the hail smote every herb of the field, and brake every tree of the field.
Only in the land of Goshen, where the children of Israel [were], was there no hail.”
Exodus 9: 18-26
If we go back to the beginning of the Bible and look at the order of creation, we will see that the plant world was first created because the conditions were created before that plants could sprout and progress in growth.
,, And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, [and] the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed [is] in itself, upon the earth: and it was so. And the earth brought forth grass, [and] herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed [was] in itself, after his kind: and God saw that [it was] good.”
Genesis 1: 11-12
And now in the text we can see that God, after the trumpet of the first angel, destroys a third of the plant world or a third of what was first created on earth, and that is the plant world.
With the advancement of technology, we have so far had the opportunity to see on television or computers what it looks like when hailstorms hit certain parts of the world and what are the consequences. And what we have seen so far were local disasters destroyed.
Also, lately, catastrophic fires can be followed in the media and see the consequences that remain for them, and of course it is of a local character, and now when we apply that to our text we will see a cataclysm because the country will look like after the worst war or bombing. will be burned, smoke will be on all sides, darkness and gloom due to these burns will "bind the earth", the stench and fumes will rise on all sides because the buildings near the forest will burn, then the city will break the roofs of houses ,, windows and buildings that are mostly made of glass, cars and vehicles, small livestock and animals and even people who find themselves outside will be killed because the city can be very dangerous for people if they are outdoors. began to melt the ensuing soil erosion, floods and torrents that will do additional damage carrying everything in front of them.And of course that's not all people will have a big problem with the lack of oxygen that will follow and will also Another problem will be the lack of food that will follow, because the fields with cereals and plants that people use for food will also burn. And this is only a part of what will happen on earth, and it may be easiest for us to understand what it will look like if we remember scenes from various science fiction movies dealing with these topics but we now have practically many movies in one that is catastrophic in every way.
If we add to all this what follows as people's panic, blocked roads, lack of electricity, robberies, robberies, murders that will follow due to lack of food and energy, we will get something that is, to put it mildly, a cataclysm.
And another angel sounded; and like a great mountain burning with fire he fell into the sea; and a third of the sea became blood. And a third of the creature that dwelt in the sea died, and a third of the ship perished.
Here we see that an object as big as a mountain falls into the sea and the effect of this is that a third of the sea and a third of the creatures living in the seas will die and it also says that a third of the ships will be destroyed. If we compare this and the cataclysms we studied before this, we can say that this is nothing less than a cataclysm because today a large number of people live by the sea and the sea and the jobs they do on it provide them with income from which they live.
And now if we imagine the consequences of this "blow to the sea" we can see corpses on the seas in all directions because sea animals will float on the surface of the sea, there will also be corpses of people floating and the remains of sunken ships, yachts, submarines and other vehicles the means used at sea will also float to the surface and together with the corpses of humans and animals with a horrible stench that will spread will float on the surface of the sea which are turned into blood.Due to the sinking of ships there will be spills of various toxins or oil derivatives It will also further pollute the sea so that it will be practically impossible to use the benefits of the sea anymore. let's see when it hits Japan, and it will certainly be even bigger here, because when it hits the sea "like a mountain", big waves will rise, which will be many o bigger than the ones we saw in Japan. And after all this, the survivors will probably run away from the sea because there will be no people or equipment to clean up the consequences and the stench and infections will spread, so it is only logical for such parts of the country to leave.
So far we have seen that probably due to the fire, human migration will be directed towards the seas, then it will have to be hit, so the survivors migrate to the land again in the hope that they will find salvation and safety on land, but we read further:
"And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as a candle, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters. And the name of the star was Diaper; and a third part of the waters became swaddling clothes, and many men died of the waters, because they were bitter.
So people are returning to the mainland, which is already "like a battlefield", and we see that in addition to all the hardships they have had so far, they probably now have a big problem called lack of food and water.
And the next thing he writes is that a third of the rivers and sources of drinking water will be poisoned because a star called Diaper will poison the water. it does not say but it clearly says that they will be poisoned. And we can read something else:
"And many people died of water, because they were bitter." Due to the lack of drinking water, many will drink that poisoned water and the consequence is death. we know it will wrap itself in pain and agony while the poison is working.
And in those moments, some may remember that the Jews did something similar to the Lord Jesus when they gave him vinegar mixed with bile on the cross instead of water:
,, They gave him vinegar to drink mingled with gall: and when he had tasted [thereof], he would not drink.”
Mt.27:34
From all this we can say that there is chaos and cataclysmic state on earth, but that is not all because we read further, And the fourth angel blew his trumpet, and a third of the sun, and a third of the moon, and a third of the stars would be struck, it does not shine, nor do the nights. "
When God created the sun, the moon and the stars created the
,, And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:”
Genesis 1:14
and it has been working for thousands of years, but the time will come when it will
,, …for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.”
Luke 21:26
and we have just reached the time when it will happen. Here is what the Lord Jesus said about this;
,, And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;”
Lk.21: 25
and in the Epistle to the Hebrews it says:
,, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.”
Heb.12: 26
So these are the promises of God, and they will surely be fulfilled, "and a third of the sun, and a third of the moon, and a third of the stars would be struck, so that a third of them would be darkened, and a third of the day would not shine, nor the night."
We don't know exactly what this means because we only have these records:
,, For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.”
Isa.13: 10
,, And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord God, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day:”
Amos 8: 9
We read that the sun will set at noon which may mean that God will change the current regime of day and night shifts so that most of the day will be night and the shorter day. This is an assumption but it is possible and if so this will cause major climate change because there will be frosts and cold (maybe like the mini ice age they are talking about today) due to less sunlight and that will be another problem for the rest of the earth's inhabitants. drinking water and now even cold, and who knows, except God, what that "controlled chaos" that the inhabitants of the earth who will not believe in the Lord Jesus Christ will look like.
And to the great sorrow of the rest, John saw an angel who hinted at more trouble:
"And I saw, and I heard an angel flying in the midst of heaven, and saying with a loud voice, Woe, woe, woe unto them that dwell on the earth, from the rest of the trumpets of the three angels which shall blow;