What are the trumpets - the seventh trumpet

For four hundred years the Hebrews lived as slaves in Egypt. During that time they took on the Egyptian culture, including its pagan religion. When God freed them He used a series of plagues. Each one of these plagues was aimed at one of the Egyptian religion's major deities. So when God turned the Nile river red it was as if He was saying, "Your god of the Nile, Hopi, has no power. I have power. There is no God but me."

The last of these plagues was special. You see, Pharaohs claimed the kind of divinity we talked about with the Nephilim (see: What does Babylon mean). Pharaohs claimed to be the incarnate son of the high sun god, Ra. When God struck down the firstborn not only was He displaying His power over Pharaoh, He was also prefiguring the death of His own incarnate son, Jesus.

With the first five trumpet calls we saw challenges that serve as warnings, "Your modern 'gods' have no power," says the Lord. "They are figments, just like the Egyptian gods." But the final two trumpets are different. These are events that are going to be described elsewhere in scripture. The sixth trumpet announces a war that inevitably leads to mankind's destruction. The seventh trumpet is the cataclysmic event itself. And the challenge requires little description, because it's answer is actually written out in the text.

The seventh challenge -- mankind can change. No matter what we've done so far, if circumstances required it, we could adapt, we could overcome.

That's the figment of our collective imaginations. Here's the reality:

The rest of mankind that were not killed by these plagues still did not repent of the work of their hands; they did not stop worshiping demons, and idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone and wood—idols that cannot see or hear or walk. Nor did they repent of their murders, their magic arts, their sexual immorality or their thefts. -- Revelation 9:20-21

The answer to the seventh challenge -- Individuals change, but mankind as a whole will never change. The majority of people will always choose to try and fashion themselves into gods, then deny that that's what they are doing. This path leads to death -- always.

The seventh trumpet is an event that burns our planet to a cinder, and is also the moment of the so-called 'rapture', as we will see in other passages.

But for now I'm going to go in a different direction. I want to talk about the end times prophecies in the book of Daniel; one in particular.

Next up: History isn't what you think it is.