WRATH UPON ISRAEL

In all this there is a strong suggestion that the trumpet visions, soon to follow, have to
do with divine retribution and chastisement of Israel in the First Century and in the
Last Days.

A further argument strengthens this conclusion.

The sealing of the servants of God (Revelation 7:3) was seen to be an idea drawn
from Ezekiel. It is actually only one of a series of allusions, which can be traced:

Ezekiel Revelation
(a) 7:2. “The end is come upon the four corners of the land.” 7:1. “Four angels standing on t
(Land).”
(b) 9:2. Seven men to smite Israel. 7:2. “Four angels (the first four
whom it is given to hurt the ear
(c) 9: 4. The faithful sealed in their foreheads 7:3, 4. The faithful sealed in th
(d) 9:8. “They went forth ... and I was left.” 8:1. “The seventh seal ... silenc
of half an hour.”
(e) 9:8. Ezekiel’s prayer for mercy. 8:3. “the prayers of the saints o
(f) 9:9. The prayer rejected. The judgement goes forward u
(g) 10:2. Fire scattered over the city. 8:5. Fire scattered on the earth
(h) 10:4,18,19. The “glory” departs from Israel (accompanied 8:5,6. “voices, thunderings, lig
by“voices, thunderings, lightnings”; 1:13, 14, 24). the sounding of the trumpet - th
at Sinai (Exodus 19:18, 19).

A correspondence such as this is no accident, and can point to only one conclusion:
the Trumpets represent divine judgements on Israel, just as did the prophecies of
Ezekiel.