8:12 And the fourth angel
sounded, and the third part of the sun was smitten, and the third part of the
moon, and the third part of the stars; so as the third part of them was
darkened, and the day shone not for a third part of it, and the night likewise.
13 And I beheld, and heard an angel
flying through the midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice, Woe, woe, woe, to
the inhabiters of the earth by reason of the other voices of the trumpet of the
three angels, which are yet to sound!
The fourth angel heralded a third
part of the sun and the moon neither giving a third part of their light. The
day and night are affected by this. But, an angel says that the remaining three
trumpets are going to herald in even worse things.
Hail and fire mingled with blood
kills a third part of the trees and all of the green grass. A mountain on fire
is cast into the sea turning it into blood with a third part of creatures dying
and a third part of ships destroyed. Wormwood makes fresh water poisonous. A
third part of the light from the sun, moon, and stars is prevented from
reaching earth and the day and night are affected.
It is interesting to note that
commentators from a few hundred years ago like John Gill would present these
happenings as metaphors and symbolic of issues within Christianity relating
them to historical events like the decline and fall of the western Roman Empire
and doctrinal disputes. I am taking these as literal physical events in
space-time, however.
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