God's Alarms to a Guilty World

What should we take away from the blasting of the trumpets? Revelation 8:7–13 looks forward to the hearing of God's Word, publicly read, in the holy assembly on the coming Lord's Day. In these seven verses of Holy Scripture, the Holy Spirit teaches us that the trumpets sound the alarm for the coming judgment of God, and against reliance upon prosperity and power that must surely be destroyed.