7 Trumpets of REVELATION SERIES: Intro

The introductory vision to the trumpets describes the starting and ending points. 

--The starting point is the Day of Pentecost when Jesus began His intercession at the golden altar of incense in the holy place. 

--The series ends when Jesus throws down the censer, ceases to intercede and takes over the kingdoms of the world.

Earlier in Revelation God described Himself as the one who was, and is and is to come (Revelation 1:8), but in Revelation 11:17 (when the seventh trumpet sounds) He is spoken of as the one who is and who was and has taken His great power and begun to reign. O Lord God Almighty, which art, and wast, and art to come;

*The literary structure divides the book of Revelation into two major sections: 

(1) a historical section (Rev. 1-14) that emphasizes the experience of the church and related events during the Christian era, and 

(2) an eschatological (end time) section (Rev. 15-22) that focuses particularly on end-time events and the end of the world.”
The series of the trumpets occur in the historical section of Revelation. Consequently, we should seek for their fulfillment in historical time, the Christian era.
The prophecies of the trumpets have only one prophetic fulfillment.

--Trumpets are used in many contexts in the Old and New Testaments—worship, sanctuary and judgment. 

In the case of Revelation’s seven trumpets it is clear that the trumpets bear a relationship with the idea of judgment. 

The purpose of the feast of trumpets was to announce the upcoming Day of Atonement (Leviticus 23:23, 24). 

The trumpets that the priests blew as they surrounded Jericho announced God’s upcoming judgment against the city (Joshua 6).

Drawn/taken from the book Daniel & Revelation by Uriah Smith---Study Guide by Stephen Bohr---Sermon by Walter Veith---Commentaries from Matthew Henry/Adam Clark---Revelation Made Clear