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What are the trumpet judgments?
Hendriksen explains them this way:
These trumpets of judgment (chapters 8-11) indicate a series of happenings, that is, calamities that will occur again and again throughout this dispensation. They do not symbolize single and separate events, but they refer to woes that may be seen any day of the year in any part of the globe. Therefore, the trumpets are synchronous with the seals.
Again, these trumpets of judgments are clearly retributive in character. Terrible calamities befall the wicked in order to punish them for their opposition to the cause of Christ and for their persecution of the saints. Yet, even by means of these judgments, God is constantly calling the ungodly to repentance.
These woes do not symbolize God's final and complete displeasure. On the contrary, they, indicate His initial judgments. They are charged with serious warnings, not with final doom.
Remember, that trumpets warn and that bowls are poured out.
It is for this reason that trumpets affect a third part - not the whole - of the earth, sea, waters, sun, moon, and stars. The very function of the trumpets is to warn,
and if he sees the sword coming upon the land and blows the trumpet and warns the people, Eze 33:3.
Hendriksen explains them this way:
These trumpets of judgment (chapters 8-11) indicate a series of happenings, that is, calamities that will occur again and again throughout this dispensation. They do not symbolize single and separate events, but they refer to woes that may be seen any day of the year in any part of the globe. Therefore, the trumpets are synchronous with the seals.
Again, these trumpets of judgments are clearly retributive in character. Terrible calamities befall the wicked in order to punish them for their opposition to the cause of Christ and for their persecution of the saints. Yet, even by means of these judgments, God is constantly calling the ungodly to repentance.
These woes do not symbolize God's final and complete displeasure. On the contrary, they, indicate His initial judgments. They are charged with serious warnings, not with final doom.
Remember, that trumpets warn and that bowls are poured out.
It is for this reason that trumpets affect a third part - not the whole - of the earth, sea, waters, sun, moon, and stars. The very function of the trumpets is to warn,
and if he sees the sword coming upon the land and blows the trumpet and warns the people, Eze 33:3.