In uncertain days, it is important to remember that our world is getting ready to meet God.

We are all getting ready to meet Him.

The King is coming.

Today, we join Scott Pauli in walking through the final book of the Bible, the revelation of Jesus Christ.

I absolutely love to hear the sound of a trumpet. I love it. There is something so regal, so royal about the sound of a trumpet. It gets your attention. It wakes you up. And all through scripture, the sound of a trumpet was always significant. It was reserved in Israel's history

for particular things, oftentimes very joyous occasions and oftentimes very sobering occasions.

For example, did you know that trumpets were the sound of war? When you come to Revelation

chapter number eight, we're beginning another round of judgment on the earth.

We've walked through the seven seal judgments, and you remember that seventh seal set in motion another wave of judgment that is called the trumpet judgments.

Revelation chapter 8 in verse 6 says,

And the seven angels, which had the seven trumpets, prepared themselves to sound.

Would you get the mental picture? Use a little sanctified imagination. See these seven angels

holding seven trumpets. They're holding them literally up to their mouths. They're ready to

blow the trumpet. What are these seven trumpet judgments? You remember back in the book of

Joshua that when the children of Israel went in to take Jericho, they were commanded to take

seven trumpets of rams horns. Do you remember that? They had seven priests with seven trumpets of rams horns,

and for seven days they marched around that city, and they made no sound. They just blew the horns. They blew the trumpets. I think there's an interesting parallel here in the book of Revelation, because here again in Revelation we see silence, and we also see the blowing of the trumpets.

You see, this trumpet sound was a mark that God was conquering, that God was overcoming, that God was the victor.

This was a picture of overthrow.

Well, I want you to know in Revelation chapter 8, what we have is a picture of this world being

overthrown, not the overthrow of a city, but the overthrow of an entire world.

And I can't help but see the irony in the contrast between the joy of the trumpet that we are going to hear someday

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