Bird’s-Eye View of the Seven Seals, the Seven Trumpets, and the Seven Bowl Judgments.
(Chapter numbers in parentheses)
Seven Seals:
1 – Conqueror (6)
2 – Peace from the earth (6)
— slay one another (6)
3 – Famine (6)
4 – Death and hades (¼ part of earth) (6)
— sword, famine, wild beasts
5 – Christian persecution and death (6)
— souls of martyrs under altar
6 – Earthquake, sun, moon, stars, heavens (6)
removed, mountains and islands moved.
— Great day of God’s Wrath
- Sealing of 144,000 (7)
- Heavenly vision of tribulation Saints – Tears wiped away (7)
7 – Silence in Heaven (8)
- prayers of the Saints
- Seven Trumpets
Seven Trumpets:
1 – ⅓ of earth, trees, grass burned up (blood) (8)
2 – Burning mountain in the sea (8)
— ⅓ of sea blood
— ⅓ of creatures died
— ⅓ ships destroyed
3 – Burning star to rivers and streams (8)
— ⅓ rivers made bitter
— many men died
4 – ⅓ of sun, moon, stars darkened (8)
5 – Locusts upon those without seal of God (9)
— tormented five months
6 – River Euphrates (9)
— ⅓ of men killed by fire, smoke, brimstone
- Rainbow (10)
- Delay no longer (10)
- Mystery of God finished in the days of the 7th trumpet (10)
- Measuring of temple of God (11)
- Holy City tread upon for 42 months (11)
- Two Witnesses (11):
— prophesy for 1260 days
— beast kills them after they finish their testimony
— they lay in the street of the great city where Christ was crucified
— they come to life and ascend to Heaven
— great earthquake
— tenth of the city falls and 7000 killed
7 – Kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ. (11)
— time to judge the dead and reward God’s people
Seven Bowls:
[Seven last plagues (bowls) finishes the wrath of God (15)]
1 – Sores upon those who have the mark of the beast (16)
2 – Sea became blood – all living things died (16)
3 – Rivers became blood (16)
4 – Men scorched with heat of the sun (16)
5 – Kingdom of the beast darkened – pain and sores (16)
6 – River Euphrates – water dried up (16)
— Gathering of all the kings of the world to the war of the great day of God, the Almighty (Armageddon). (16)
— Jesus comes as a thief – blessed is he who watches and keep his garments. (16)
7 – “It is done!” (16)
— great earthquake
— Babylon destroyed
— mountains and islands completely gone
— great hail stones