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Trumpet No. 1-4  

Thoughts on the Passage

These are the first four trumpets. They release the power of God – which is in response to the prayers of God’s people.

Trumpet #1 – 1/3 of the land is burned up.

Trumpet #2 – 1/3 of the sea dies and the ships destroyed.

Trumpet #3 – 1/3 of the fresh water is made unusable.

Trumpet #4 – 1/3 of the heavens are removed.

This sounds like drastic action! What would cause God to respond this way? 

When we talk kingdom transfer, there are two things that we need to remember. First, this world has been badly corrupted by satan when it came under his control. When we see the destruction of part of the creation, it is really a cleansing that God is doing – like a forest fire does. It destroys – yes that is true – but it allows for a fresh regeneration to happen. God is cleaning up the garbage that has built up in His creation.

Second, if you look closely at the description, there is both a physical aspect and a spiritual aspect to each of these areas. The spiritual component is a demonic corruption that must be removed. For example.

Physically, all four are deeply polluted (land, sea, fresh water and the air).

Spiritually, God addresses the pollution in the spiritual realm:

The land– there are people who worship the land (mother earth), and the physical creation.

The sea– the mountains are spiritual religious systems (Isaiah 2) – God will destroy them.

The fresh water– star falling from heaven – this is the destruction of the demonic structures (healing of that which releases and sustains life).

The heavens– removal of spiritual darkness and spiritual pollution of the spiritual realm.

Kingdom transfer needs to remove spiritual strongholds that defile our world. They touch all aspects of our world. The spiritual corruption has resulted in physical pollution of this world – and that will require cleansing as well. However, we need to deal with the spiritual first, or we do not address the underlying problem causing everything. That is why the spiritual must be dealt with – or cleansing of the earth is an ongoing and frustrating activity.

When we talk and pray for God’s kingdom to touch our world, we need to start with the spiritual. So pray for God to break spiritual blindness, spiritual bondage, spiritual polluting of truth, and shine light into spiritual darkness.

Prayer

Father, this is the first prayers that You call us to make. You call us to release the stranglehold that satan has over this creation. It touches every aspect of our world and where we live. There is worship of this creation – rather than the Creator. There are demonic structures, religious systems and blindness that must be broken if Your Kingdom is to come and release life. Father, that is the task that You have given to us – that is what we are to pray about. So today, I ask that You open my eyes to see where I need to pray to see breakthrough in these areas in my world. People around me are blinded by satan – Father, I pray for light to shine through and heal their blindness. Father, there are people worshipping this world – money, power, creation itself; Father, I ask that You shake their worlds with Your thunder, lightning and earthquakes so that they recognize that their worship is in the wrong place. Cleanse this world I pray. In Jesus Name. Amen.