Seventh Trumpet
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In the final sermon on Christ's kingship in Revelation, Pastor Martin expounds 11:15-18, the sounding of the seventh trumpet and the great voices declaring, 'The kingdom of the world is become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ, and he shall reign forever and ever.' Using the illustration of a family's photo album arranged in thematic cycles rather than chronologically, he explains that Revelation brings us to the consummation six or seven times under different figures. The substance of the vision is the proclamation of an arrived universal and eternal kingdom, and the worship of the twenty-four elders over the events that usher it in. The significance is a pointed word of admonition to the impenitent, a powerful summons to adoration for the saints, and a precious salve of consolation for the suffering church — for the kingdom is as good as come.