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.
What is one purpose for which the Holy Spirit was sent?
22. After being united with Christ in the likeness of His death and resurrection, what should the believer do?
Why. should fathers not provoke their children to anger?
13. After the accumulation of the sins of the year in this way, what service took place on the tenth day of the seventh month of each year?
19. Just before the pouring out of the plagues, what call does God send to His people still in Babylon?
7. What description does Paul give of the sufferings endured by some of God's people in former ages?
Does He afflict to leave the one chastened in despair?
Questions & Answers are from the book Bible Readings for the Home Circle