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• Seven Trumpets

  The seven trumpets are the trumpets blown in succession by seven angels in Revelation 8–11, together with the plagues and events that follow each one. They form the second set of seven judgments, placed between the seven seals and the seven bowls.

• Feast of Trumpets

  The Feast of Trumpets was an Old Testament festival observed on the first day of the seventh month of Israel's religious calendar. It was marked by the blowing of trumpets and a holy convocation, as prescribed in Leviticus 23 and Numbers 29.

• Seven Seals, Trumpets, and Bowls

  The seven seals, seven trumpets, and seven bowls are visions in Revelation 6–16 in which God's judgments unfold in three successive series of seven. Interpreters differ on how the three series relate to one another and when they occur.

• Ram's Horn Trumpet

  The ram's horn trumpet, called the shofar in Hebrew, is a trumpet made from the horn of a ram. It is best known from the account of the fall of Jericho in Joshua 6, in which priests blew it before the Ark of the Covenant.

• Revelation 9

  Revelation 9 records the fifth and sixth trumpet judgments. Locusts from the bottomless pit torment people, and four angels released from the Euphrates, together with an army of horsemen, kill a third of humanity, yet the survivors do not repent.

• Revelation 8

  Revelation 8 is the chapter in which the Lamb opens the seventh seal and heaven falls silent. Seven angels receive trumpets, and four of them sound in turn, bringing plagues upon a third of the earth, the sea, the rivers, and the heavens.

• Numbers 10

  Numbers 10 records the ordinance of the silver trumpets, used to assemble the congregation and signal the march, and then describes Israel's departure from the Wilderness of Sinai as the tribes set out on their first march in their appointed order.

• Revelation 10

  Revelation 10 is the chapter set between the sixth and seventh trumpets. A mighty angel comes down holding an open little book, and John, after taking and eating the book, is commanded to prophesy again.

• New Moon

  The new moon (Korean *wolsak*, 月朔) was an ancient Israelite observance held on the first day of each month, when sacrifices were offered and trumpets were blown. The New Korean Revised Version renders it as *wolsak* or *choharu* ("first day of the month").

• Numbers 29

  Numbers 29 is a legal text that prescribes the kinds and numbers of offerings for the feasts of the seventh month: the day of blowing the trumpets (the first day), the Day of Atonement (the tenth day), the Feast of Tabernacles (seven days beginning on the fifteenth), and the solemn assembly on the eighth day.

• Judges 7

  Judges 7 recounts how Gideon, following God's instructions, reduces his army to three hundred men and defeats the vast Midianite host with trumpets, pitchers, and torches.

• Leviticus 23

  Leviticus 23 sets out Israel's appointed feasts in order: the Sabbath, Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the day of the firstfruits sheaf, the feast held fifty days later, and the seventh-month observances of the blowing of trumpets, the Day of Atonement, and the Feast of Tabernacles.

• Revelation 11

  Revelation 11 records the measuring of the temple; the two witnesses who prophesy for 1,260 days, are killed, and rise again; the sounding of the seventh trumpet; and the opening of the temple in heaven.

• Methods of Interpreting the Book of Revelation

  Methods of interpreting the Book of Revelation are approaches to understanding which events, and in which era, the visions and symbols of Revelation refer to. The principal approaches are preterism, historicism, futurism, and idealism.

• Revelation 16

  Revelation 16 is the chapter in which seven angels pour out, one after another, the seven bowls of God's wrath. The plagues follow in succession, kings gather at Armageddon, and the great city Babylon comes under judgment.

• Jericho

  An oasis city in the Jordan Valley west of the Jordan River. It was the first city Israel captured after entering Canaan, as recounted in Joshua 6. In the New Testament it is the setting of the stories of Bartimaeus and Zacchaeus.

• Four Horsemen

  The Four Horsemen are the four figures, riding a white horse, a red horse, a black horse, and a pale horse, who appear in succession in Revelation 6 as the Lamb opens the first four of the seven seals.

• Nehemiah 8:10

  Nehemiah 8:10 is an exhortation to the people, who had returned from exile and were weeping as they heard the Law read, not to grieve on the holy day but to eat together and share with others. It is widely quoted for the phrase "the joy of the LORD is your strength."

• Revelation 5

  Revelation 5 is the chapter in which the slain Lamb takes the book sealed with seven seals from the hand of the One seated on the heavenly throne, and all beings in heaven and on earth praise Him.

• Revelation 7

  Revelation 7 is the chapter that stands between the sixth and seventh seals. It contains the scene in which the servants of God are sealed on their foreheads (the 144,000 from the tribes of Israel) and the scene in which a great multitude clothed in white, which no one can number, praises God before the throne.