Father Mike Schmitz

And another angel came and stood at the altar with a golden sensor.

And he was given much incense to mingle with the prayers of all the saints upon the golden altar before the throne.

And the smoke of the incense rose with the prayers of the saints from the hand of the angel before God.

Then the angel took the sensor and filled it with fire from the altar and threw it on the earth.

And there were peals of thunder, loud noises, flashes of lightning and an earthquake.

the seven angels and seven trumpets.

Now the seven angels who had the seven trumpets made ready to blow them.

The first angel blew his trumpet and there followed hail and fire mixed with blood, which fell on the earth.

And a third of the earth was burnt up and a third of the trees were burnt up and all the green grass was burnt up.

The second angel blew his trumpet and something like a great mountain burning with fire was thrown into the sea and a third of the sea became blood.

A third of the living creatures in the sea died and a third of the ships were destroyed.

The third angel blew his trumpet and a great star fell from heaven, blazing like a torch, and it fell on a third of the rivers and on the fountains of water.

The name of the star is Wormwood.

A third of the waters became Wormwood and many men died of the water because it was made bitter.

The fourth angel blew his trumpet and a third of the sun was struck and a third of the moon and a third of the stars so that a third of their light was darkened.

A third of the day was kept from shining and likewise a third of the night.

Then I looked, and I heard an eagle crying with a loud voice as it flew in midheaven, Woe, woe, woe to those who dwell on the earth at the blasts of the other trumpets which the three angels are about to blow.

Chapter 9

And the fifth angel blew his trumpet, and I saw a star fallen from heaven to earth, and he was given the key of the shaft of the bottomless pit.

He opened the shaft of the bottomless pit, and from the shaft rose smoke like the smoke of a great furnace.