6th Church, Seal & Trumpet and the beginning of the Investigative Judgment

A fiery stream issued and came forth from before Him: thousand thousands ministered unto Him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before Him: the judgment was set, and the books were opened. Daniel 7:10

"In the historical half of Revelation (Revelation 1-11), the sixth item in each series deals with the beginning of the investigative judgment in 1844. 

*The sixth church (the door to the most holy place opens before

Philadelphia) 

*The sixth seal (signs in the heavens announce the beginning of the judgment) 

*The sixth trumpet (the little book episode and the measuring of the temple). 

There is a very important link between Revelation 9:14, 16 (the sixth trumpet) and Revelation 7:1,2,3 (parenthesis in the sixth seal). 

In both, there is a binding and loosing relating to four angels and there is a numbering of people. 

Revelation 7:1-3 describes the numbering of God’s people while in Revelation 9:14, 16 describes the numbering of their evil counterparts. 

Revelation 9:16 and 7:4 are the only two places in Revelation where the expression ‘I heard their number’ appears. 

If the door of probation is open during the period of the sixth trumpet and closes when the seventh is about to sound, then the sixth trumpet is the exact historical counterpart of Revelation 7:1-8." 

Stephen Bohr