“Like it or not, the prayers of God’s people are involved in the judgments that He sends.8:5 The angel throws fire to the earth, which immediately feels the effects.8:4 The smoke of the incense rises before God as sweet-smelling prayer.8:2-6 To help us understand the context of the incense, we can look back at:.This silence can be viewed as the “calm before the storm.” The judgments upon the earth are about to intensify.8:1 The seventh seal was not opened directly after the first six.The Trumpets Begin to Sound 8:7 – 9:19.Here in Chapters 8 & 9, further judgments will be released, more serious than those previously seen.In Chapter 7, we see that despite the horrible judgments on a rebellious world, God has a people reserved for Himself.With the opening of each of seven seals on the scroll, various judgments are unleashed upon the earth.In Chapter 6, Jesus begins to open the scroll He received from God the Father.In Chapters 4 & 5, John gets a glimpse of the throne room of heaven.In Chapters 2 & 3, John recorded Jesus’s messages to seven different churches.In Chapter 1, the glorified Christ appears to His servant John.This book was given to John the Apostle as a series of visions he received while imprisoned on the island of Patmos.
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