Father Mike Schmitz

He's given much incense to mingle with the prayers of the saints upon the golden altar before the throne.

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

Remember this, remember that these are the prayers of the saints, the holy ones on earth.

going up before God, who presented before God by those saints, the holy ones in heaven.

And this is so important because we have the intercession of the angels.

We have intercession of saints.

Here we have this worship in heaven happening.

And this is very important because we're going to get in a second, we're going to get the image of the temple in heaven, but

Stay tuned.

We next have the seven trumpets.

So the seven angels, the seven trumpets.

We first have the seven seals.

Then we have the seven trumpets.

This is hopefully you've noticed that from the scrolls, yep, there were some pretty big destruction came upon the earth.

And those correlated with the destruction that Jesus Christ himself had prophesied would happen.

Like every one of those seven images of destruction

Correspond directly with what Jesus had said.

Now we have the seven trumpets and you can notice this is that there's even more destruction.

There's also going to be seven bowls and the seven bowls are going to be even more destruction.

So just keep that in mind.