Verses 1-6
- Review Chapter 6. When does this chapter seem to occur?
- What does it mean that there was silence in heaven for ½ an hour?
- What was happening with the angels, the incense, the censer and the alter? Lev 16:3-13
- What significance is there to the angel casting the censer filled with fire from the alter upon the earth?
Verses 7-13
- Why do you think God orchestrated the events with the 7 angels to unfold the way they did?
- Compare the Egyptian plagues with the 4 angels’ trumpets:
- Hail storm mixed with blood upon the earth killing 1/3 of the trees and all the grass.. Egypt hail storm destroyed crops but not all – wheat and rye were not destroyed (Exo_9:23-25)
- Mountain cast into the sea turning it into blood 1/3 of the creatures and 1/3 of the ships were destroyed
- 1/3 of the sun and moon and stars were darkened – Egypt a darkness came over Egypt but not over the Jews ( Exo_10:21-23)
- Note – Egyptian judgments applied so that they would do God\’s will with a chance to repent and change their ways at each plague.
- Do you think there is a relationship between the Egyptian plagues and the consequences of the angel trumpets?
- What do the results of the angel’s trumpets reveal about God?
- Egyptian Plagues:
- Rivers to blood, fish die, rivers undrinkable
- Frogs infested everything
- The land becomes infested with lice – but this is the first time that magicians could not duplicate
- Swarms of flies upon Egypt, but not upon the Jews.
- Plague on the livestock of Egyptians, but not upon the Jews.
- Ashes from the furnace becomes boils upon the Egyptians
- Hail – worst ever seen with fire running around the ground – but protected the cattle of the Jews – it broke every tree and destroyed every cattle. But no hail on the Jews. Only some of the crops destroyed.
- Locusts – to eat the residue of the crops that have survived and every tree.
- Darkness over all the earth except for the place of the Jews
- Death angel to kill the firstborn of every Egyptian.