When the Angels of the Seven Trumpets
have sounded, "cities of the nations fall"
and the kingdoms of this world become
the kingdoms of the Lord Jesus Christ.

"And the seventh angel sounded; 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."
Revelation 11:15

The silence before the sounding of the
Trumpets undoubtedly represents the
time of the final preparation for the
judgments.

It's the calm before the storm. . . .

SEVEN TRUMPETS

The sounding of these Trumpets set forth

the judgments of the Great Day of the Lord.

There must be a time for judgment to begin,

and the sounding of the Trumpets marks

this time.

This silence is apparently a memorial to
the saints who have lived their lives for
God while on this earth.

Revelation 8:3-6
"And another angel came and stood at the
altar, having a golden censer; and there
was given unto him much incense, that
he should offer it with the prayers of all
saints upon the golden altar which was
before the throne.
And the smoke of the incense, which came
with the prayers of the saints, ascended up
before God out of the angel's hand.
And the angel took the censer, and filled it
with fire of the altar, and cast it into the
earth: and there were voices, and thunder-
ings, and lightnings, and an earthquake.
And the seven angels which had the seven
trumpets prepared themselves to sound."

In heaven there has been a joyous reunion.

The righteous has been resurrected. Never
again will they experience sorrow, sickness,
heartache or death.

There will be the praise and worship to the
Redeemer by the multitude no man can
number.

Then is the solemn moment when the just
judgments of God must be upon the wicked
and rebellious which will cause the silence
in heaven.

It isn't hard to understand why there
should be this silence.

With the breaking of the Seventh Seal,
the great judgments of God are about to
take place, judgments like that of the
Flood.

It will be a solemn moment when judg-
ment falls on all nations. A judgment
that has been long put off by God's mercy.

"And when he had opened the seventh seal,

there was silence in heaven about the space

of half an hour. And I saw the seven angels

which

stood

before

God;

and to

them

were

given seven trumpet." Revelation 8:1-2

Since nearly as many people live in the
Twenty-First Century as were in all the
previous centures, the number of the
Tribulation saints could be a hugh fraction
of all that are saved during the New Testa-
ment Age.

They are "a great multitude which no man
could number"!

The palm-bearers do no represent the
Church. The Twenty-Four Elders and
John who are redeemed men, are not
included in this number. (Revelation 7:13)

This multitude (without number) repre-
sents the kindness of God, who during the
Tribulation, extended mercy to all who
will refuse to serve the Antichrist and who
will worship and serve Him.

They are not the highest order of the
redeemed. They are given palms and white
robes, but they are not called the "first
fruits unto God".

They are not given thrones or crowns, like
the Twenty-Four Elders. The Elders were
in heaven before the Tribulation.

These palm-bearer went through the
Tribulation, and many of them gave their
lives as martyrs.

They are not kings and priests, but servants,
"before the throne of God", and serve Him
day and night "in His temple". In the Fifth
Seal, they are called "fellowservants" with
those yet to be martyred.

These are not the 144,000 Israelites who
have been sealed to be protected from the
plagues on earth.

They are a great "multitude whom no man
can number".

They are evidently the same group of saints
seen under the altar, who cry to God just
before He sends His wrath upon the earth.














"And they cried with a loud voice, saying,
How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou
not judge and avenge our blood on them
that dwell on the earth?"
Revelation 6:10

Jesus speaks of the Tribulation saints as
His elect. "They shall gather together His
elect."

They are gathered together at the end of
the Tribulation, just before God's wrath is
poured out.

In Luke 18:7-8 He refers to His elect at
His coming.
"And shall not God avenge his own elect,
which cry day and night unto him, though
he bear long with them?
I tell you that he will avenge them speedily.
Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh,
shall he find faith on the earth?"

In Matthew 24:29-31
"Immediately after the tribulation of those
days shall the sun be darkened, and the
moon shall not give her light, and the stars
shall fall from heaven, and the powers of
the heavens shall be shaken:
And then shall appear the sign of the Son
of man in heaven: and then shall all the
tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall
see the Son of man coming in the clouds






of heaven with power and great glory.
And he shall send his angels with a great
sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather
together his elect from the four winds,
from one end of heaven to the other."

Jesus speaks of the Great Tribulation
closing, and that He comes in the clouds
of heaven and sends His angels to gather
the elect who are the Tribulation saints.

These saints had been told that they would
"rest yet for a little season until their fellow-
servants also and their brethren, that should
be killed as they were, should be fulfilled".
Revelation 6:11

The time is now fulfilled. When the Sixth
Seal is opened, the day of God's wrath begins.

Before judgment begins to fall, the Tribula-
tion saints are either raptured if they are still
alive, or resurrected, if they were martyred.

Read Revelation 7:9-17

Verse 14 "These are they that have come
out of great tribulation, and they have
washed their robes and made them white
in the blood of the Lamb."

Since they are Tribulation saints, they
include the ones under the Fifth Seal
that had been martyred during the Trib-
ulation, but now they have been
resurrected.

It would appear that the tribes of Dan and
Ephraim may pass through the Day of the
Lord, unprotected by the sealing.

This mistake will not affect the tribes during
the Millennium. They will occupy their
territory at that time as spoken by Exekiel.
(Exekiel 48:1,5)

"Lest there should be among you man, or
woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart
turneth away this day from the LORD
our God, to go and serve the gods of these
nations;. . . . . and all the curses that are
written in this book shall lie upon him,
and the LORD shall blot out his name
from under heaven."
Deuteronomy 29:18-20

That is exactly what the tribes of Ephraim
and Dan were guilty of when they let
Jeroboam set up golden calves in Bethel
and at Dan.