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Revelation 8:10-13

Wormwood and the Darkened Heavens

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Wormwood and the Darkened Heavens

Revelation 8:10-13

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Revelation 8:10-13

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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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The third trumpet calls a burning star from heaven into water. Wormwood is its name, and bitter rivers carry death. Fountains that once gave life become a cup of grief. Many fall because the water cannot heal the thirst. Wormwood and the Darkened Heavens The trumpet sounds and heaven answers earth. Prayer and fire rise together from the altar. Still the sovereign hand restrains the final night. The fourth trumpet strikes the sun, the moon, and stars. A third of day is darkened and a third of night grows dim. The warning moves through water, star, and sky. Every blast declares that mercy must be heard. Across the wounded sky a flying messenger cries three woes. The darker trumpets wait beyond the poisoned streams and light. Wormwood and the Darkened Heavens The trumpet sounds and heaven answers earth. Prayer and fire rise together from the altar. Still the sovereign hand restrains the final night. Wormwood and the Darkened Heavens

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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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