If I were John Bunyan, author of the famous Pilgrim’s Progress, I might write an allegory about Mr. Inmillennialist traveling through the book of Revelation with four companions, Misters Premillennialist, Dispensationalist, Postmillennialist, and Amillennialist. At the end of the third vision, they would say to him, The first six trumpets…
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Trumpet vision
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One proof of a good theory is its ability to suggest answers to difficult problems. We have seen how our prophetic model—inmillennialism—does this in Hebrews. We are now applying this framework to John’s visions in Revelation. The complications increase here due to the many prophetic images in this book, but,…
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In our last post, we began showing how Inmillennialism can account for the signs in Revelation’s third vision (i.e., of the seven trumpets). Some of them have kernels of physical reality inside John’s figurative language. Others continue long-standing prophetic traditions where the figures portray God’s judgments against Israel. Let’s resume…
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Trumpets of tribulation appear often in the Scriptures. In John’s third vision of the Revelation, seven trumpets announce the “great tribulation” in the land of Israel (Rev. 1:9; 7:14; cp. Matt. 24:21). In AD 30, Jesus said this time of tribulation would come in his generation (Matt. 24:34). John, writing…