And the smoke of the odors with the prayers of the Saints, [a]went up before God, out of the Angel’s hand.

And the Angel took the censer, and filled it with fire of the Altar, and cast it into the earth, and there were voices, and thunderings, and lightnings, and earthquake.

[b]Then the seven Angels, which had the seven trumpets, prepared themselves to blow the trumpets.

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Footnotes

  1. Revelation 8:4 Our prayers are nothing worth, unless that true and sweet savor of that only oblation be especially and before all things with them, that is to say, unless we being first of all justified through faith in his Son, be acceptable unto him.
  2. Revelation 8:6 This is the work of the administers. The Angels the administers of Christ, only by sounding trumpet and voice (for they are only as Heralds) do effectual call forth the instruments of the wrath of God, through his power. Hitherto have been things general. Now followeth the narration of things particular, which the Angels fix in number wrought in their order set out in verse 19 of the next chap., and is concluded with the declaration of the event which followed upon these things done in the world, and in chapters 10 and 11.

The smoke of the incense, together with the prayers of God’s people, went up before God(A) from the angel’s hand. Then the angel took the censer, filled it with fire from the altar,(B) and hurled it on the earth; and there came peals of thunder,(C) rumblings, flashes of lightning and an earthquake.(D)

The Trumpets

Then the seven angels who had the seven trumpets(E) prepared to sound them.

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