Revelation 8:6

⁵Then the angel took the censer, filled it with fire from the altar, and hurled it to the earth; and there were peals of thunder, and rumblings, and flashes of lightning, and an earthquake.⁶And the seven angels with the seven trumpets prepared to sound them.

Summary

In Revelation 8:6, the opening of the seventh seal initiates a series of seven trumpet judgments, signaling the beginning of God's divine wrath being poured out on the earth. This verse marks a significant shift in the book of Revelation, intensifying the apocalyptic events that will unfold. The trumpet judgments serve as a warning to humanity of the impending judgment and call for repentance. The imagery of the trumpets echoes the plagues of the Old Testament, emphasizing God's sovereignty and justice in executing judgment on a sinful world. Ultimately, Revelation 8:6 underscores the importance of being spiritually prepared and turning to God in the face of impending judgment.

Commentary

Adam Clarke
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
John Gill
Tyndale

Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

Prepared themselves to sound - Each took up his trumpet, and stood prepared to blow his blast. Wars are here indicated; the trumpet was the emblem of war.

John Gill Bible Commentary

And the seven angels which had the seven trumpets,.... Given them, Rev 8:2; prepared themselves to sound; they stood up, took their trumpets in their hands, and put them to their mouths; this was giving notice of what was coming upon the earth, and a kind of warning to men, and a call upon them to repentance, and to prepare to meet God in the way of his judgments. The time when these trumpets began to blow was after the opening of the seventh seal, and so after the destruction of the empire as Pagan, which was under the sixth seal; and after that peace and rest from persecution in Constantine's time, signified by the half hour's silence in heaven; and after the prayers of the saints for vengeance, because of their blood shed in the time of Rome Pagan, were offered up, heard, taken notice of, and accepted; and therefore cannot regard, nor have any concern with the state of the church before Constantine's time, as some have thought the three first trumpets had; the first introducing the contradictions and blasphemies of the Jews, and their persecutions of the Christians, and the effusion of their blood by them; the second the ten persecutions under the Heathen emperors; and the third, the errors and heresies which pestered the churches of those times: nor indeed do they concern the state of the church at all; though it seems much more likely that the first four trumpets should bring in; as others have thought, the several heresies of Arius, Macedonius, Pelagius, and Eutyches, which sprung up before the rise of Mahomet, who appears under the fifth trumpet. But all the six trumpets have to do with the empire as Christian; for as the six seals are so many steps towards the destruction of the empire as Pagan, and the vials bring on the ruin of Rome Papal; so the six trumpets are so many gradual advances to the ruin of the empire, now Christian: and it must be observed, that the Emperor Theodosius, at his death, left the empire divided between his two sons, Arcadius and Honorius, the eastern part of it, which had Constantinople for its seat, to the former, and the western part of it, which had Rome for its seat, to the latter; now the first four trumpets bring in a barbarous people out of the north, the Goths, Huns, and Vandals, into the western part, who, by various incursions and wars, at last utterly destroy it; and the fifth and sixth trumpets bring in the Saracens under Mahomet, and the Turks into the eastern part, who took possession of that, and have kept it unto this day. (This was published in 1747, Ed.) A preparation being made, the angels begin to sound their trumpets.

Revelation 8:6

The First Four Trumpets

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Berean Standard Bible

And the seven angels with the seven trumpets prepared to sound them.

American Standard Version (1901)

And the seven angels that had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound.

Bible in Basic English

And the seven angels who had the seven horns made ready for sounding them.

Douay-Rheims 1899

And the seven angels, who had the seven trumpets, prepared themselves to sound the trumpet.

Free Bible Version

Then the seven angels holding the seven trumpets prepared to blow them.

Geneva Bible 1599

Then the seuen Angels, which had the seuen trumpets, prepared themselues to blow the trumpets.

King James (Authorized) Version

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

Translation for Translators

The seven angels, each of which had one of the seven trumpets, prepared to blow them.

Unlocked Literal Bible

The seven angels who had the seven trumpets prepared to sound them.

Noah Webster Bible

And the seven angels who had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound.

World English Bible

The seven angels who had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound.

Young's Literal Translation

And the seven messengers who are having the seven trumpets did prepare themselves that they may sound;

Adam Clarke
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
John Gill
Tyndale

Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

Prepared themselves to sound - Each took up his trumpet, and stood prepared to blow his blast. Wars are here indicated; the trumpet was the emblem of war.

John Gill Bible Commentary

Revelation 8:6

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The First Four Trumpets

Summary

Commentary

Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

John Gill Bible Commentary

Tyndale Open Study Notes

Revelation 8:6

The First Four Trumpets

Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

John Gill Bible Commentary

Tyndale Open Study Notes