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Previous Topics:
Rev P1: The Divisions of Revelation
Rev P2: The Locust Army (Fifth Trumpet)
Rev P3: The Two Myriads of Myriads Horsemen
Rev P4: Linkable Sections
Rev P5: The MAN of Rev 13:18 and His Number
If we’re going to compare the 7 Trumpets to the 7 Last Plagues (Bowls) and study them closely, we will see that there are two parallels between them:
1ST TRUMPET :: 1ST BOWL
1st Trumpet:
1st Bowl:
Parallel of Imagery: Earth
Explanation of Parallel of Symbolic Events between the 1st Trumpet and the 1st Bowl:
Their parallel here is not obvious. We have to examine them to find it. In the 1st Trumpet, we see the phrase “third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.” This phrase is similar to that of Joel 1:19-20. If we will study the context of that passage and the preceding ones, we will see that what it meant is food shortages (it may include other things of life). At least, that’s one of the possible meanings the phrase in the 1st Trumpet could have. Now, let’s examine the word “sore” in the 1st Bowl from Strong’s Greek Dictionary.
In the Aramaic, the word “sore(s)” has the meaning boil, ulcer.
Analysis Page of Rev 16:2
This word is in the singular form in Rev 16:2. In the account of The Richman and Lazarus the plural form of this word is used.
Here are what the commentators on the account of The Richman and Lazarus (Luke 16:19-31) have to say about about this word:
The parallel of the 1st Trumpet and the 1st Bowl is poverty or shortages of things of life.
2ND TRUMPET :: 2ND BOWL
2nd Trumpet:
2nd Bowl:
Parallel of Imagery: Sea
Parallel of Symbolic Events: The sea turned into blood but blood of a corpse in the 2nd Bowl.
Explanation of Parallel of Symbolic Events between the 2nd Trumpet and the 2nd Bowl: None yet.
3RD TRUMPET :: 3RD BOWL
3rd Trumpet:
3rd Bowl:
Parallel of Imagery: Rivers and Fountains of waters
Parallel of Symbolic Events: In the 3rd Trumpet the waters turned bitter and in the 3rd Bowl into blood.
Explanation of Parallel of Symbolic Events between the 3rd Trumpet and the 3rd Bowl:
3rd Trumpet:
It has already been explained above (Fourth Section or Hidden Seals Section=>The Messages of the Three Angels=>The Third Angel) that the great star that fell was the false prophet. The word “waters” here represent God’s Truths and His Gospel. These waters were made bitter. Sometimes, the word “bitter” means afflictions as in Ruth 1:20, but, it could also mean false doctrines or idolatrous persons that cause one to turn away from God and to be defiled according to Deu 29:18. The word “died” or “perished” in this Trumpet could mean the opposite of “spiritually saved” like what is meant in 1 Cor 1:18, 2 Cor 4:3, and in 2 Thess 2:9-11 which is exactly about the false prophet and his lying wonders. Many people died spiritually because of the “living” waters that were made bitter.
3rd Bowl:
Blood was given to be drunk by those who have shed the blood of the saints and prophets (Rev 16:6). What does that mean? There are many instances in the Bible where blood denotes guilt with the anticipation of judgment and vengeance (Mat 23:33-36, Rev 18:24). Here’s an important thing, the drinking of the blood does NOT imply that the judgment and vengeance occur AT THAT SAME TIME. In Rev 17:6, during the time of the 6th head of the beast, Babylon the Great was found to be drunk with the blood of the saints and martyrs of Lord Yeshua but it is written just a few verses away (v16-17) that she will be destroyed by the ten horns or kings and that will be during the time of the 7th head.
Rev P1: The Divisions of Revelation
Rev P2: The Locust Army (Fifth Trumpet)
Rev P3: The Two Myriads of Myriads Horsemen
Rev P4: Linkable Sections
Rev P5: The MAN of Rev 13:18 and His Number
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If we’re going to compare the 7 Trumpets to the 7 Last Plagues (Bowls) and study them closely, we will see that there are two parallels between them:
1) Parallels of Imagery – “earth,” “sea,” “rivers and the fountains of waters,” and “heaven.” These occur only from their 1st corresponding stages up to their 4ths. These are NOT time related.
2) Parallels of (Symbolic) Events. These are also NOT time related and they occur, as I understand it, from their 1st corresponding stages up to somewhere between the mid part and end part of their 6th stages.
2) Parallels of (Symbolic) Events. These are also NOT time related and they occur, as I understand it, from their 1st corresponding stages up to somewhere between the mid part and end part of their 6th stages.
1ST TRUMPET :: 1ST BOWL
1st Trumpet:
(Rev 8:7 KJV) The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.
1st Bowl:
(Rev 16:2 KJV) And the first went, and poured out his vial upon the earth; and there fell a noisome and grievous sore upon the men which had the mark of the beast, and upon them which worshipped his image.
Parallel of Imagery: Earth
Parallel of Events: Hail and fire mingled with blood were cast upon the earth in the 1st Trumpet whereas a vial which causes noisome and grievous sore was poured out upon the earth in the 1st Bowl.
Explanation of Parallel of Symbolic Events between the 1st Trumpet and the 1st Bowl:
Their parallel here is not obvious. We have to examine them to find it. In the 1st Trumpet, we see the phrase “third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.” This phrase is similar to that of Joel 1:19-20. If we will study the context of that passage and the preceding ones, we will see that what it meant is food shortages (it may include other things of life). At least, that’s one of the possible meanings the phrase in the 1st Trumpet could have. Now, let’s examine the word “sore” in the 1st Bowl from Strong’s Greek Dictionary.
G1668 hel’-kos
Probably from G1670; an ulcer (as if drawn together): – sore.
Probably from G1670; an ulcer (as if drawn together): – sore.
In the Aramaic, the word “sore(s)” has the meaning boil, ulcer.
Analysis Page of Rev 16:2
This word is in the singular form in Rev 16:2. In the account of The Richman and Lazarus the plural form of this word is used.
Here are what the commentators on the account of The Richman and Lazarus (Luke 16:19-31) have to say about about this word:
The People’s New Testament (1891) by B. W. Johnson:
Full of sores. Cutaneous sores are most common in connection with abject poverty.
Barnes:
Full of sores – Covered with ulcers; afflicted not only with poverty, but with loathsome and offensive ulcers, such as often are the accompaniments of poverty and want. These circumstances are designed to show how different was his condition from that of the rich man. “He” was clothed in purple; the poor man was covered with sores; “he” fared sumptuously; the poor man was dependent even for the crumbs that fell from the rich man’s table.
According to Wikipedia, the risk factors of Leishmaniasis, a kind of skin ulcer, are:
Risk factors include poverty, malnutrition, deforestation, and urbanization.
Leishmaniasis - Wikipedia
Full of sores. Cutaneous sores are most common in connection with abject poverty.
Barnes:
Full of sores – Covered with ulcers; afflicted not only with poverty, but with loathsome and offensive ulcers, such as often are the accompaniments of poverty and want. These circumstances are designed to show how different was his condition from that of the rich man. “He” was clothed in purple; the poor man was covered with sores; “he” fared sumptuously; the poor man was dependent even for the crumbs that fell from the rich man’s table.
According to Wikipedia, the risk factors of Leishmaniasis, a kind of skin ulcer, are:
Risk factors include poverty, malnutrition, deforestation, and urbanization.
Leishmaniasis - Wikipedia
The parallel of the 1st Trumpet and the 1st Bowl is poverty or shortages of things of life.
2ND TRUMPET :: 2ND BOWL
2nd Trumpet:
(Rev 8:8 KJV) And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood;
(Rev 8:9 KJV) And the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had life, died; and the third part of the ships were destroyed.
(Rev 8:9 KJV) And the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had life, died; and the third part of the ships were destroyed.
2nd Bowl:
(Rev 16:3 KJV) And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea; and it became as the blood of a dead man: and every living soul died in the sea.
Parallel of Imagery: Sea
Parallel of Symbolic Events: The sea turned into blood but blood of a corpse in the 2nd Bowl.
Explanation of Parallel of Symbolic Events between the 2nd Trumpet and the 2nd Bowl: None yet.
3RD TRUMPET :: 3RD BOWL
3rd Trumpet:
(Rev 8:10 KJV) And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters;
(Rev 8:11 KJV) And the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.
(Rev 8:11 KJV) And the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.
3rd Bowl:
(Rev 16:4 KJV) And the third angel poured out his vial upon the rivers and fountains of waters; and they became blood.
(Rev 16:5 KJV) And I heard the angel of the waters say, Thou art righteous, O Lord, which art, and wast, and shalt be, because thou hast judged thus.
(Rev 16:6 KJV) For they have shed the blood of, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy.
(Rev 16:7 KJV) And I heard another out of the altar say, Even so, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are thy judgments.
(Rev 16:5 KJV) And I heard the angel of the waters say, Thou art righteous, O Lord, which art, and wast, and shalt be, because thou hast judged thus.
(Rev 16:6 KJV) For they have shed the blood of, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy.
(Rev 16:7 KJV) And I heard another out of the altar say, Even so, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are thy judgments.
Parallel of Imagery: Rivers and Fountains of waters
Parallel of Symbolic Events: In the 3rd Trumpet the waters turned bitter and in the 3rd Bowl into blood.
Explanation of Parallel of Symbolic Events between the 3rd Trumpet and the 3rd Bowl:
3rd Trumpet:
It has already been explained above (Fourth Section or Hidden Seals Section=>The Messages of the Three Angels=>The Third Angel) that the great star that fell was the false prophet. The word “waters” here represent God’s Truths and His Gospel. These waters were made bitter. Sometimes, the word “bitter” means afflictions as in Ruth 1:20, but, it could also mean false doctrines or idolatrous persons that cause one to turn away from God and to be defiled according to Deu 29:18. The word “died” or “perished” in this Trumpet could mean the opposite of “spiritually saved” like what is meant in 1 Cor 1:18, 2 Cor 4:3, and in 2 Thess 2:9-11 which is exactly about the false prophet and his lying wonders. Many people died spiritually because of the “living” waters that were made bitter.
3rd Bowl:
Blood was given to be drunk by those who have shed the blood of the saints and prophets (Rev 16:6). What does that mean? There are many instances in the Bible where blood denotes guilt with the anticipation of judgment and vengeance (Mat 23:33-36, Rev 18:24). Here’s an important thing, the drinking of the blood does NOT imply that the judgment and vengeance occur AT THAT SAME TIME. In Rev 17:6, during the time of the 6th head of the beast, Babylon the Great was found to be drunk with the blood of the saints and martyrs of Lord Yeshua but it is written just a few verses away (v16-17) that she will be destroyed by the ten horns or kings and that will be during the time of the 7th head.