What striking figure is used to describe the destruction wrought under the second trumpet?
Answer
"And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and
the third part of the sea became blood; and the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had
life, died; and the third part of the ships were destroyed." Verses 8, 9.
NOTE - This describes the invasions and conquests of the Vandals under the terrible Gensericfirst of Africa and later of Italy-from AD. 428 to 476. His conquests were largely by sea. In a single night,
near Carthage, he destroyed, by fire and sword, more than half of the Roman fleet, consisting of 1,113
ships and over 100,000 men. See Gibbon's "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire," chapter 36.
How thoroughly does the Spirit search out the hidden treasures of truth?
9. In what words to Peter did Jesus indicate the kind of service a converted person should render to his brethren?
What message announces the judgment hour come?
When Moses came down from Sinai, what did he see?
Do the dead know anything?
What will he reap who sows to the Spirit?
4. And when the new heavens and the new earth have appeared, and the holy city, New Jerusalem, then he made?
Questions & Answers are from the book Bible Readings for the Home Circle