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The Trumpets of Revelation and the

Scourge of Islam!

The hour has come to expose the growing worldwide threat of Islam.
The earnest goal of Islam, set forth in the Koran, remains as always to
bring all mankind into submission and to kill or enslave all "infidels."
Unknown to most, the Book of Revelation in the New Testament traces
the origins and course of this satanic and fast growing deception.
Scripture shows that this curse will be with us until the return of Ye-
shua the Messiah to usher in the kingdom of his father YEHOVAH
God. We therefore need to draw close to YEHOVAH to avoid the
mind-numbing events about to crash down around us.

John D. Keyser

In the Book of Revelation there is a pause after the sounding of the fourth trumpet, and the
action is interrupted at that point by the vision of an angel (or, as the best manuscripts have it, an
EAGLE) flying through the midst of heaven. With a loud voice this eagle says, "Woe! Woe! Woe
to the people living on earth, because of the remaining blasts from the three angels who have yet to
sound their shofars!" (Revelation 8:13).

This vision of the flying eagle serves not only to prepare us for events of a yet more ca-
lamitous nature than those previously revealed, but also to set off the first four trumpets (shofars)
as a distinct group from the rest. This tends to further confirm the view that the events pictured in
that group are both closely related to each other, and are also separated by a substantial interval
of time (possibly quite a long one) from the events now to be pictured at "the remaining blasts
from the three angels who have yet to sound their shofars."

The Sounding of the 5th Trumpet

Notice, now, Revelation 9:1-11:

The fifth angel sounded his shofar; and I saw a star that had fallen out of heaven onto the
earth, and he was given the key to the shaft leading down to the Abyss. He opened the
shaft of the Abyss, and there went up smoke from the shaft like the smoke of a huge fur-
nace; the sun was darkened, and the sky too, by the smoke from the shaft. Then out of the
smoke onto the earth came LOCUSTS, and they were given power like the power SCOR-
PIONS have on earth. They were instructed not to harm the grass on the earth, any green
plant or any tree, but only the people who did not have the seal of God on their foreheads.
The LOCUSTS were not allowed to kill them, only to inflict pain on them for five

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