Feb,28, 2026 Sabbath-School Review
Derek West
Source material, Seven Trumpet Luminescence, Book, 5.2, 2019
This Sabbath we ventured from page 91 to 105. Completing our study of the Seventh Seal we ended with the opening of the first of the Seven Trumpets. It was a topic not fully uncovered this week. Not to worry, deeper depth and expanded meaning will continue in our next class.
Having already covered much of the opening of the Seventh Seal and the accompanying half-hour silence, we learned even more pertaining to that event. One point to enhance the array and complexity of the symbolism is that of the Seven Trumpets. What is often ignored is that the Seven Trumpets, as with the seals, have their own order of narrative chronology, one through seven. These events were only to be fully unveiled after the Seventh Seal was opened.
Significantly, the number seven has unique and special meaning. Of this we have an added example that accompanies the opening of the last seal: It discloses that each one of the Seven Trumpets was given to Seven distinct angels so that they may blast their sound in chronological order, first to the last. More than that, the obvious question, who are they, was answered: Missed by all historic theologians, missed because the seven angels are defined synonymously as the Seven Spirits, the lesson proves that they represent the same seven as defined earlier in Revelation that surround the throne of God. Angels can also be described as spirits. They are recorded to us in Chapter one, verse four and Chapter four verse five. But the mystique deepens in the expansive concept of polynomial theology: Though defined for us as seven, they represent one Power, the Holy Ghost, He who, at Father’s behest, delivers seven chronological messages in the gentile epoch. This point is affirmed by the Testimony of Jesus since He promised to send only one Spirit to guide into all (emphasis on “all”) truth. With the opening of the Seven Trumpets, each of the Gospel messages projected via the seven Churches or candlesticks are re-broadcasted with more intense amplification and deeper meaning; after all, the blast of a trumpet conveys a message that comes with much more bellicosity than does the faint flicker of a candle: hence the Seven Trumpets amplify the Seven Candlesticks.
What about Jesus’ participation: He is called, quote, “Another Angel who stood by the golden Altar having a golden censer.” This is symbolic of the divine mission of the High Priest, and His officiation before the altar and with the censer as depicted in the Levitical sacrament of the Atonement. It represents Jesus’ intercession for the deceased of humanity. It says that He stands before God showing that He too officiates before God. His work is comparable to that of Aaron. In His censer are the prayers of the saints or the petitions to God for His help, His love, and His provisions regardless of their theological background.
Most remarkable is that which comes next after He finishes his priestly officiation. He cast the golden censer to the earth indicating the finishment of the Judgment of the Dead and the beginning of the Judgment of the Living. Also, it indicates that a new priesthood is initiated on earth to officiate for the church in Jesus’ stead. That ministration, as shall be shown and as has been shown before, represents the work of Joshua under the leadership of the son of David.
With that episode, the Seven Trumpets begin to become disclosed by symbolic explication. Please join us two weeks from now, March 14th, 2026, that we may continue in this study.
Derek
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