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Fire, Blood, and a Burning Sea
Revelation 8:7-9
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This song belongs to the Revelation collection. One recording is available to play here, with the complete lyrics below.
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Revelation 8: Silence, prayer, and the first four trumpets
The seventh seal opens not with immediate noise but with about half an hour of silence in heaven. That quiet is followed by seven trumpets and by the prayers of the saints rising with incense from the golden altar. Fire from the same altar is cast to earth, linking the heavenly worship scene with the judgments that follow. The first four trumpets strike vegetation, sea, fresh water, and the lights of heaven. Their repeated thirds show severe but bounded devastation, while individual details resist careless generalization: all green grass burns even though only a third of trees do. The Book of Revelation uses plague imagery familiar from Exodus without reducing it to a coded list of modern disasters. At the end, a flying herald cries three woes for the remaining trumpets, signaling a shift from damaged conditions of life toward direct torment and death among the earth's inhabitants.
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