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Some Comments on Prophetic Scriptures Yet to Be Fulfilled by Bill Hamon and Acts 3 verses 19 to 21, Part 2
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We continue with the discussion of Rev. 11:15 here in Part 2 of the paper titled, "Some Comments on 'Prophetic Scriptures Yet to Be Fulfilled' by Bill Hamon and Acts 3:19-21 with Mal. 4:5, 6; Matt. 17:11; Rev. 10:7; and 11:15."
I'll quote Rev. 11:15 (NASB), "Then the seventh angel sounded; and there were loud voices in heaven, saying, 'The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord [God the Father] and of His Christ; and He will reign forever and forever.' " The problem (for Hamon's viewpoint) is that Rev. 11:15 is speaking of the reign that BEGINS at the sounding of the seventh and last trumpet, right in the middle of Daniel's 70th week, the reign of the Lord Jesus (and the glorified raptured saints with Him) that will subdue the enemies of God AFTER the Lord Jesus returns.
I briefly discussed Rev. 11:15 above, when discussing part of a sentence I quoted from Hamon's page 26. (Revelation chapters 11-13, which are some of the most important chapters in the Bible on the end-times, are discussed verse-by-verse in my book, "The Mid-Week Rapture." They are also discussed, with less detail, in my paper, "Twenty-Four Articles on the Mid-Week Rapture," which serves as a good introduction for the book.)
We also need to discuss Rev. 10:7, which has a lot in common with Rev. 11:15. Bill Hamon discusses Rev. 10:7 and Rev. 11:15 on pages 160-165, for one place. I'll quote three sentences from what he says there, "I believe Revelation 10:7 is symbolic of the beginning of the Third Reformation, and Revelation 11:15 is symbolic of the finishing of the Third Reformation" (page 161). And, "The trumpet sound of the seventh angel is not one short blast, but the Scripture says, 'in the DAYS [Hamon's emphasis] of the sounding of the seventh angel.' Revelation 10:7 reveals what happens when the first sound begins, and Revelation 11:15 reveals what happens when the final sound is made" (page 164). The only thing I agree with here is that the events of the seventh trumpet will cover a period of time.
That trumpet (the seventh trumpet) will sound right in the middle of Daniel's 70th week, and the Lord Jesus will return and the resurrection and rapture will take place (significantly, it is the same trumpet as the trumpets of Matt. 24:30, 31; 1 Cor. 15:52; and 1 Thess. 4:16, 17), but the events associated with the seventh trumpet will continue until God's work of saving and judging has been completed that is spoken of as the book of Revelation continues. It would be reasonable to say that the events of the seventh trumpet continue to the end of Daniel's 70th week, and that probably is the best way to understand the duration of the events of the seventh trumpet. However, the book of Revelation enables us to see that God's work of saving and judging will not be completed in the full and final sense until we are in the eternal state of Revelation chapters 21 and 22 (after the millennial kingdom, the Gog and Magog rebellion, and the great-white-throne judgment of Revelation chapter 20).
I assume that the sounding of the seventh and last trumpet will literally be heard by the people living on the earth in the middle of Daniel's 70th week, but I don't believe that trumpet will literally continue to sound for the next three and one-half years.
There are at least two reasons why we need to discuss Rev. 10:7 in this paper. (For more details see pages 167-172, 186, 290, 300 in my book, "The Mid-Week Rapture," and see my verse-by-verse study of Revelation chapters 1-10.) For one thing, the Greek verb "mello," which is translated "he is about [to sound]" in this verse, confuses the issue in that it can be, and often is, translated two different ways, including in this verse, ways that substantially change the meaning of this verse.
I'll quote the verse from the NASB, "but in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he is about to sound [the trumpet], then the mystery of God is finished, as He preached to His servants the prophets." The NIV; NKJV and other translations are similar, having the words "about to sound." That is one legitimate way to translate the Greek verb, but it is equally legitimate to translate the way the New Living Bible translates it (The NASB, for example, often translates "mello" with no idea of "about to
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