What are the seven trumpets of the seven seals?

Answer 1

The seventh seal is the only one that isn't opened by the end of chapter six of Revelation.

That means 16 more chapters of Revelation's 22 chapters are left to describe seal seven.

But God protects His elect on earth in chapter seven by sealing them with His Holy Spirit, before the seventh seal is opened in chapter 8.

The "seven trumpets" compose the seventh seal... and are "plagues" of God:

"...the rest of the men which were not killed by these PLAGUES yet repented not of the works of their hands..." (Rev.9:20).

The seventh seal is the "Day of the Lord"... the events that lead up to Jesus Christ's return to the earth.

Trumpets are played by "blowing into them"... so the indication is that these plagues shall be "wind-borne."

"...I saw four angels standing on the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, nor the sea, nor any tree." (Rev.7:1)

But, following the sealing of the 144,000 and a multitude of Gentiles [chapter 7] who shall have survived the Great Tribulation [verse 14]... the angels are handed the "seven trumpets" [chapter 8].

The seventh and last Trumpet isn't blown until chapter 11 -- which is an inset chapter summarizing the 3 1/2 year testimony of the Two Witnesses during the Great Tribulation.

"...I will give power unto My Two Witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days [3 1/2 years], clothed in sackcloth." (Rev.11:3)

In prophecy... the return of Jesus Christ is said to occur "...at the last trump..." [I Cor.15:52]. That is... when seal 7's seventh trumpet sounds.

The "seven trumpet plagues" of seal seven of Revelation will be "wind-borne plagues of God" called down by the Two Witnesses during the Great Tribulation, that will precede Jesus' return to earth with the Kingdom of God.

"These [Two Witnesses] have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of their prophecy: and have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the earth with all plagues, as often as they will." (Rev.11:6)

As chapter 11 concludes -- after the allotted 3 1/2 years, the Two Witnesses are "allowed to be killed" by the "Beast" [to whom men today refer as "the Antichrist"]:

"...when they [the Two Witnesses] shall have finished their testimony, the Beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them." (verse 7)

The Two Witnesses will lie dead in the streets of Jerusalem for 3 1/2 DAYS, before the seventh and last trumpet sounds [verses 8-10].

Prophecy tells us that "the dead in Christ shall rise first" when He returns, before those who are Christ's and alive on earth are gathered by the angels to meet Him in the clouds "at the sound of the trump of God."

"...He shall send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together His elect from the four winds..." (Matt.24:31).

"...we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent [precede; go before] them which are asleep [dead]. For the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air..." (I Thess.4:15-17).

The Two Witnesses shall be last of God's saints to be killed before He returns. And they shall be the first to rise from the dead:

"...many that are first shall be last; and the last shall be first." (Matt.19:30)

"...after three days and an half the Spirit of Life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet; and great fear fell upon them which saw them. And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, Come up hither. And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud; and their enemies beheld them." (Rev.11:11-12)

And then the "last trumpet" of seal seven is blown: "...and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of His Christ; and He shall reign for ever and ever." (verse 15)

The "seven trumpets" shall be "plagues of God," wielded by the Two Witnesses, that shall precede the return of Jesus Christ to earth.

The last trumpet, then, initiates the last "seven vial plagues" [chapter 16] that shall be "poured out" on the earth after God's elect are gathered into the clouds, which complete the seventh seal before Christ, His saints, and His angelic army descend onto the earth to end man's rule on earth and establish the Kingdom of God.

"...We give thanks, O Lord God Almighty, which art, and wast, and art to come; because thou hast taken to thee thy great power, and hast reigned." (verse 17)

The seven trumpet plagues of the Day of the Lord, count down the days to the return of Jesus Christ. And the Two Witnesses, who prophesy during the 3 1/2 year Great Tribulation, will be killed "3 1/2 days" before the "last trump"... and Jesus returns.