NOTE: The preacher take 30 seconds to start the sermon –
Revelation 8 – It’s all about Prayer. As was the case with the breaking of the seven seals, the first four trumpets in the sequence are set apart from the last three. The four areas affected–earth, sea, fresh water and sky–made up the whole of the human environment as the ancients perceived it. Three of the four judgements echo the plagues of the Exodus, preceding the giving of the law at Mount Sinai: hail in connection with the first trumpet (v. 7; compare Ex 9:23-25),
