Symbol key · Forces
Trumpet
A warning message, or the sounding of judgment
Where Scripture defines it
“If when he seeth the sword come upon the land, he blow the trumpet, and warn the people...” (Ezekiel 33:3-6)
Confirmed at Isaiah 58:1
Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression.
Confirmed at Revelation 8:2
And I saw the seven angels which stood before God; and to them were given seven trumpets.
Confirmed at Joel 2:1
Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble.
Confirmed at 1 Corinthians 14:8
For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle?
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Where this leads next
Symbol key · Persons
Souls under the altar
The lives (the poured-out life-blood) of the slain martyrs crying for justice — living beings, not conscious spirits in heaven
Symbol key · Forces
Oil
The Holy Spirit
Revelation 17–18 · the older story returning
Mystery Babylon
Revelation names a religious system with an ancient city's name, and every detail sends the reader back into earlier Scripture.