‘And the seven angels which had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound.’ Winfield Bible School 2012

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

Winfield Bible School 2012


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‘And the seven angels…… prepared
themselves to sound.’

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Seals
Trumpets
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Judgement Pagan Rome
Rev.6

Judgement Christian Rome
Rev.8 & 9

AD 96 – AD 324
AD 395 – AD 1685

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1453 AD

Western Empire ended 476 AD


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“there was silence
in heaven about
the space of half
an hour”. Rev 8:1
John listens

Chapter 8 opens

Hears nothing

Silence for about ½ hour

Day for a Year. Gen.47:9, Num.14:34, Ezek. 4:4-6, Luke13:32
•12hrs in a Jewish day

•1 hour = 1/12 of a day
•½ hour = 1/24 of a day

John
•12 months
in a 11:9
year
“Jesus answered, are there not twelve
•1 month = 1/12 of a year or 30days
hours in the day?”
•½ month = 1/24 of a year or 15days

Luke 23:44
“And it=was
about the sixth hour, and
15 days = 15yrs
14yrs

there was darkness over the earth until
ninth hour.” victory over paganism
AD 324 - 337 Peace as a result ofthe
Constantine’s


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“..there was silence in heaven
about the space of half an hour.” Rev.8:1

312 313

Ruler
in
Rome
Edict
of
Milan

324

Rev.12:12

330

337

Constantinople
Ruler of
whole
Empire

Constantine
dies

8:5


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Revelation 8:7-12 “The third part”
9:1-19
7
Trumpets

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Judgement
Judgement on
on
Christian
ChristianRome
Rome
Rev.8 & 9
AD 395 – AD 1685

In AD330 Constantine
moved the seat of his
empire to Byzantium.
From this time the Empire
was divided into 3 parts.
Prophecies of the Last Days


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And the seven angels which had the seven
trumpets prepared themselves to sound. Rev.8:6
Huns

“A wild Mongolian people riding on stout ponies out of central Asia in
the latter part of the Fourth Century made its way over the steppes
into south-eastern Europe. Slaying and plundering as they rode,
these ugly merciless creatures, known as Huns, swept every obstacle
before them like chaff before an eastern gale. Alans, Ostrogoths, and
Visigoths felt successively the force of a thrust spreading tremors
through the whole German world, and leading to those great, but
obscurely chronicled movements of the German peoples, which for a
time submerged Gaul and Britain, Spain, Africa and Italy.”
Fisher, A History of Europe, p. 111


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AD.395

Isaiah 28:2
Isaiah 28:17
Isaiah 30:30

Judges 9:8
Isaiah 61:3


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‘All the nations which are governed by our clemency and moderation should
steadfastly adhere to the religion which was taught by St. Peter to the Romans
406 hath preserved; let us believe the sole deity of the
which faithful tradition
Father, the Son and Holy Ghost under equal majesty and pious trinity. We
authorise the followers of this doctrine to assume the title of Catholic
Christians, and as we judge that all others are extravagant madmen we
brand that their conventicles (places of worship) should know longer usurp the
respectable appellation of churches. Besides the condemnation of the divine
402to suffer the severe penalties which our authority,
justice, they must expect
guided by heavenly wisdom, shall think proper to inflict upon them’

Honorius
Theodosius
409

408

Arcadius
395

410
He was the first Emperor
to be baptised into the
name of the Trinity. He made his intention very
clear in an edict proclaimed soon after:


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410 AD
“The bare fact that Rome itself, the
Roma Eterna, the Roma Invicta of a
thousand coins of a hundred
emperors, Rome whose name for
centuries on the shores of the
Mediterranean had been synonymous
with world wide dominion, should
herself be taken,
sacked,
dishonoured
And the
first angel
sounded, and there followed hail and fire
by the presence
flaxen-haired
mingled of
in ablood,
and they were cast upon the earth: and the third
barbarian conqueror from the north,
part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.
was one of those events apparently
so contrary to the very course of
nature itself, that the nations which
heard
the tidings,
many
of gates
them of
old
“Alaric…
marched
to the
and
bitterAt
enemies
of of
Rome,
now the
her
Rome…
the hour
midnight
subjects
held their
breath
“It is not of my own will that I do
Salarian and
gatefriends,
was silently
opened,
and
with
awe at the were
terrible
recital.” by the
this; there is One who forces me
the inhabitants
awakened

tremendous sound of the Gothic
Hodgkin, Theodoric the Goth, pp 16-17
trumpet.”
– Gibbon’s Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire.

on and will not let me rest,
bidding me spoil Rome.”


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AD476

Next session
God willing
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