Revelation 8:2

And I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and to them were given seven trumpets.

·        And to them were given seven trumpets: In the Old Testament, trumpets sounded the alarm for war, and threw the enemy into a panic, or they called an assembly of God’s people.  (DG)

·        These seven trumpets will sound as God’s battle-alarm during the great tribulation. (DG)

2 Chronicles 29:25-28  … So all the assembly worshiped, the singers sang, and the trumpeters sounded; all this continued until the burnt offering was finished.

Joshua 6:4  And seven priests shall bear seven trumpets of rams’ horns before the ark.  But the seventh day you shall march around the city seven times, and the priests shall blow the trumpets.

 

Revelation 8:1

When He opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour.

·        Silence in heaven: when the seven angels are given trumpets, there will be silence in heaven.  There will be a dreadful yet glorious silence in heaven coming from the awful anticipation of the release of God’s judgments due to seeing the seven angels. The certainty of the impending judgment causes all to be speechless. There is no adequate response for what will come.

·        As silence fills heaven, so it will cover the earth as Jesus begins to release His final judgments.

Jeremiah 8:14 Why do we sit still?  Assemble yourselves, and let us enter the fortified cities, and let us be silent there.  For the LORD our God has put us to silence and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD.

Psalm 31:18  Let the lying lips be put to silence, which speak insolent things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.

 

Revelation 7:16-17

“They shall neither hunger anymore nor thirst anymore; the sun shall not strike them, nor any heat; for the Lamb who is in the midst of the throne will shepherd them and lead them to living fountains of waters.  And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.”

·        All their wants are supplied (MH)

·        In this He deals with them as a tender father who finds his beloved child in tears, he comforts him, he wipes his eyes, and turns his sorrow into rejoicing.  (MH)

Psalm 23:1-2  The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.  He makes me to lie down in green pastures; He leads me beside the still waters.

Isaiah 49:10  They shall neither hunger nor thirst, neither heat nor sun shall strike them; for He who has mercy on them will lead