What was to occur under the fourth trumpet?
Answer
"And the fourth angel sounded, and the third part of the sun was smitten, and a 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 f or a third part
of it, and the night likewise." Verse 12.
NOTE - This trumpet brings us to the fall of Western Rome, in AD. 476, when the Herulian
barbarians, under the leadership of Odoacer, took possession of the city and sceptre of Rome; and the great
empire which had hitherto been the empress of the world was reduced to a poor dukedom, tributary to the
exarch of Ravenna. Its luminaries, or civil rulers, were smitten, and ceased to shine. "Italy now became in
effect a province of the empire of the East. The Roman Empire in the West had come to an end, after an
existence from the founding of Rome Of 1,229 years."- "General History" (Myers) ' page 348.
14. What beings of a higher order than man desire to study the truths revealed in the gospel of Christ?
In what words had the prophet Daniel foretold this?
With what question did Christ meet their false ideas and reasoning regarding Sabbath-keeping?
How is this expressed by Mark?
When was there a wonderful darkening of the sun?
7. What, according to Matthew's account, did Christ say were to he the signs in the sun, moon, and stars?
To what place were the angels that sinned cast?
Questions & Answers are from the book Bible Readings for the Home Circle