The Seven Last Trumpets

the Lord will execute the great punitive judgmentsOriginal: "Strafgerichte." Divine legal sentences carried out as punishment for sin. over all lands, Ezekiel Chapter 7, verses 27 and 3. This entire chapter belongs here.

Now, for the certainty of this matter, I wish to bring forth just a little more in this small book for Christendom, specifically as I have received it from God, and as the Holy Revelation of Jesus Christ also places before our eyes through images and metaphorical expressionsOriginal: "verblümte Redensarten." Literally "flowery speech," referring to the symbolic or allegorical language used in biblical prophecy.; but especially through the seven trumpets of God, which currently call out to the whole world: "Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven, or the Kingdom of God, has come very near." Therefore, only a little of it will be reported, so that one knows how to conduct oneself accordingly.

And indeed, Firstly:

We read in Chapter 8, in the first verse: And when the Lamb of God opened the seventh seal, there was a silence in heaven for about half an hour, and John saw seven angels who stood before God, and to them were given seven trumpets. original: "Johannes." The author refers to the Apostle John, the traditional author of the Book of Revelation.

Regarding this half hour, and regarding this silence in heaven, many different opinions have already been published; some believe it to be a prophetic half hourOriginal: "prophetische [halbe Stunde]." In historicist biblical interpretation, a "prophetic day" equals a year; a half hour would represent a very specific, short duration of time—roughly one week—of peace or waiting., others [believe] it to be an ordinary half hour.