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Rev.8.5 "The elect" (3 of 3)

And the angel took the censer, and filled it with fire of the altar, and cast it into the earth: and there were voices, and thunderings, and lightnings, and an earthquake."

Here we have a sequence as to the word of God sent forth: voices and it is a warning. "While it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation."(Heb.3.15; Ps.95.7-8) The now is day of salvation and the gospel prached has their own period of time as in the case of the four angels that were prepared in Rev.9.15. In the will of God these seven anagel preparing to sound indicate the consequence of rejecting the Word become flesh. As with the year of the lord is in lockstep with the day decreed for the Lord the wrath of the Lord shall manifest itself with an earthquale. Yhis is mentioned from the three POV. Consider the verses,"And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake;"(6.12) second is in the key verse. Third instance is ,"And the same hour was there a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell, and in the earthquake were slain of men seven thousand." (11.13) and finally,"And there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake." (16.19) These earthquales are pendent to the death of his Son on the cross.'The earth did quake.' (Mt.27.51) Consequences of seven angels sounding the duration throughout the Acceptable year of the Lord.

An intimation of His displeasure we have at the thundering, "And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud." Compare the expression,in v.18)"And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the LORD descended upon it... and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly" Cf. Rev,9.2