Learn the Revelation

In this chapter, demons invade the planet at the sounding of the fifth and sixth trumpets.

v.1 “And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fallen from heaven to the earth. And to him was given the key to the bottomless pit.”

As the fifth trumpet sounds, John sees “a star” fall from heaven and given “the key to the bottomless pit.”

The “bottomless pit,” or more literally, “the pit of the abyss,” speaks of that place located inside the earth (Eph.4:9) now serving as the holding cell for all unsaved disembodied spirits (Rev.20:13-15). The “key” signifies the power and authority over the bottomless pit. In other words, what John

1. True or False. When Jesus removed the seventh and final seal from the scroll, John in effect said: “All of heaven, the four living creatures surrounding the throne, all the hosts of angels, and everyone else became absolutely quiet for about thirty minutes.” (v.1)

2. John witnessed seven angels receive one trumpet each after Jesus removed the final seal. Who are they? (v.2)

• a. The ones who “stand before God”
• b. The arch angels
• c. Michael, Gabriel, and five unnamed angels
• d. All of the above

3. Which of the following best explains why John witnessed another angel moving about the temple in heaven offering up to God “the prayers of the Tribulation saints”? (vs. 3-5)

• a. God
  
  

As Jesus removes the seventh and final seal from the scroll, another wave of more intense judgments devastate the earth in response to a series of trumpet blasts made in heaven by a select group of archangels.

v.1 “When He opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour.”

This period of absolute heavenly silence is one of the most intriguing moments recorded in Revelation. It’s not explained why heaven, which to this point had resounded with voices, all at once becomes decidedly quiet within the space of “about half an hour”, so we dare not comment. But we may have an anti-type in the Old Testament. According to Joshua’s record, when the

1. True or False. This chapter might be best classified as a “pause in the sequence of judgments.”

2. John saw four angels hold back the “four winds” of the earth. What were they holding back? (v.1)

• a. Literal winds
• b. The armies of Antichrist
• c. The army of Jesus Christ
• d. The next wave of more intense judgments

3. Then John saw another angel ascending from the east carrying “the seal of the living God”. What was that seal going to be used for? (vs. 2-3)

• a. A “seal of protection”
• b. A “seal of approval”
• c. A “seal of identification”
• d. A “seal of death”

4. True or False. Exactly 144,000 Jews

v.9-17 “After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude which no one could number, of all nations, tribes, peoples, and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, with palm branches in their hands, and crying out with a loud voice, saying, ‘Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!’ And all the angels stood around the throne and the elders and the four living creatures, and fell on their faces before the throne and worshipped God, saying, ‘Amen! Blessing and glory and wisdom, thanksgiving and honor and power and might, be to our God forever and ever. Amen.’ Then one of the elders answered, saying to me, ‘Who are these arrayed in white robes,