Rev 8:6-7 The First Trumpet/The Earth, Trees and Green Grass, Part 2

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Rev 8:6-7 Part 2 – The First Trumpet/The Earth, Trees and Green Grass

[Study Aired July 7, 2024]

Rev 8:6  And the seven angels which had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound.
Rev 8:7  The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.

Notice how this first trump parallels the first plague:

Rev 16:1  And I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels, Go your ways, and pour out the vials of the wrath of God upon the earth.
Rev 16:2  And the first went, and poured out his vial upon the earth; and there fell a noisome and grievous sore upon the men which had the mark of the beast, and upon them which worshipped his image.

Take note that both the first trumpet and the first plague deal with the Lord’s wrath “upon the earth” (Rev 6:17). Both are part of the opening of the seventh seal (Rev 6:12).

We concluded our last study of the spiritual significance of the “fire mingled with blood” which was cast upon the earth by recounting the story of the Lord’s merciful gaze catching Peter’s eye as Peter was in the very process of cursing and denying His Lord, and doing exactly what he had just affirmed he would never do:

Mar 14:27  And Jesus saith unto them, All ye shall be offended because of me this night: for it is written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered.
Mar 14:28  But after that I am risen, I will go before you into Galilee.
Mar 14:29  But Peter said unto him, Although all shall be offended, yet will not I.
Mar 14:30  And Jesus saith unto him, Verily I say unto thee, That this day, [even] in this night, before the cock crow twice, thou shalt deny me thrice.
Mar 14:31  But he spake the more vehemently, If I should die with thee, I will not deny thee in any wise. Likewise also said they all.

We all know that Christ was right, and Peter was wrong, and that before the cock crowed Peter was looking Christ in the eye, cursing the air blue, and denying that He had ever known Christ.

Luk 22:60  And Peter said, Man, I know not what thou sayest. And immediately, while he yet spake, the cock crew.
Luk 22:61  And the Lord turned, and looked upon Peter. And Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how he had said unto him, Before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice.
Luk 22:62  And Peter went out, and wept bitterly.

“And Peter went out, and wept bitterly.” That is what “fire mingled with blood” signifies. You and I are all Peter, and we all have denied our Lord after thinking that, with our own strength, we can overcome any such temptation.

We can delude ourselves that “we will not drink” of such a cup as that cup, but through bitter “fire mingled with blood” we will “drink of that [very] cup.”

Jer 25:28  And it shall be, if they refuse to take the cup at thine hand to drink, then shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Ye shall certainly drink.

Mat 20:22  But Jesus answered and said [to James and John], Ye know not what ye ask. Are ye able to drink of the cup that I shall drink of, and to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with? They say unto him, We are able.
Mat 20:23  And he saith unto them, Ye shall drink indeed of my cup, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with: but to sit on my right hand, and on my left, is not mine to give, but it shall be given to them for whom it is prepared of my Father.

1Co 3:13  Every man’s work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man’s work of what sort it is. [We will all drink of the cup]
1Co 3:14  If any man’s work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward.
1Co 3:15  If any man’s work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire. [“mingled with blood”]

“Every man” means there are no exceptions to this “hail and fire mingled with blood” which is “cast into the earth.” Christ Himself drank of this cup. Who then are we to think that “Yet will not I” as Peter told our Lord? No, Christ did not deny His calling to die on the cross, but His flesh “sweat as it were… blood” resisting being murdered at the early age of thirty three, and He told His disciples that He would drink of this cup of the wrath of God upon His own “body… made sin (2Co 5:21) made of a woman, made under the law.” (Gal 4:4)

Mat 26:38  Then saith he unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me.
Mat 26:39  And he went a little further, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt.

Luk 22:43  And there appeared an angel unto him from heaven, strengthening him.
Luk 22:44  And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.

2Co 5:21  For the man who knew no sin was made sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in him.

Gal 4:4  But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, [“made sin”]

1Pe 3:18  For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:

What cup did Christ drink? His Father forsook His body which was “made of a woman, made under the law… in the flesh.” He drank of the same cup that He commanded His disciples to all drink. It was “the cup of His blood”, and He wants us all to know that it was for our sins against Him and His Father, that He died for us.

Mat 26:26 And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body.
Mat 26:27  And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, Drink ye all of it;
Mat 26:28  For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.

So, too, will we all “drink indeed of Christ’s cup” and be required to relinquish these temporal, corruptible bodies of flesh and blood.

1Co 15:50  Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.

Whose flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God? It is the same people who drink of this cup of the Lord’s wrath, against our own denying of Him and His words. Who is that? It begins with His own disciples and His own people.

Jer 25:15  For thus saith the LORD God of Israel unto me; Take the wine cup of this fury at my hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send thee, to drink it.
Jer 25:16  And they shall drink, and be moved, and be mad, because of the sword that I will send among them.
Jer 25:17  Then took I the cup at the LORD’S hand, and made all the nations to drink, unto whom the LORD had sent me:

It is you and I who are “mad because of the sword that God will send among us.” It is all the nations within us which the kingdom of God within us will overcome, that are mad at the work which the Lord is doing in our lives. The beast within and the man of sin within do not relinquish the throne of God within without a mighty fight and a great earthquake and a great “war in the heavens.” (Rev 12)

Jeremiah is a type of Christ. To whom was Christ sent?

Joh 3:17  For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.

1Jn 2:2  And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.

To which nations was Jeremiah sent?

Jer 25:15  For thus saith the LORD God of Israel unto me; Take the wine cup of this fury at my hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send thee, to drink it.
Jer 25:16  And they shall drink, and be moved, and be mad, because of the sword that I will send among them.
Jer 25:17  Then took I the cup at the LORD’S hand, and made all the nations to drink, unto whom the LORD had sent me:

Jer 25:28  And it shall be, if they refuse to take the cup at thine hand to drink, then shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Ye shall certainly drink.
Jer 25:29  For, lo, I begin to bring evil on the city which is called by my name [My own disciples, My own elect], and should ye be utterly unpunished? Ye shall not be unpunished: for I will call for a sword upon all the inhabitants of the earth, saith the LORD of hosts.

That is right. Both Jeremiah and Christ, were sent to “all the inhabitants of the earth”, and we must all drink of the wine of the wrath of this cup. While Jeremiah 25 says “Take this cup of My hand”, this same cup is later revealed to be in the hand of Babylon the great. It is the same cup which deals with our denying of our Lord, and of His words, and our selling out to the doctrines of Babylon, and of Babylon’s shepherds.

Jer 50:6  My people hath been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused them to go astray, they have turned them away on the mountains: they have gone from mountain to hill, they have forgotten their restingplace.
Jer 50:7  All that found them have devoured them: and their adversaries said, We offend not, because they have sinned against the LORD, the habitation of justice, even the LORD, the hope of their fathers.
Jer 50:8  Remove out of the midst of Babylon, and go forth out of the land of the Chaldeans, and be as the he goats before the flocks.
Jer 50:9  For, lo, I will raise and cause to come up against Babylon an assembly of great nations from the north country: and they shall set themselves in array against her; from thence she shall be taken: their arrows shall be as of a mighty expert man; none shall return in vain.

“He goats before the flock” are leaders who lead. We are called to lead other “lost sheep… out of the midst of Babylon.”

Who is it that comes from the north?

Eze 1:4  And I looked, and, behold, a whirlwind came out of the north, a great cloud, and a fire infolding itself, and a brightness was about it, and out of the midst thereof as the colour of amber, out of the midst of the fire.

Eze 1:27  And I saw as the colour of amber, as the appearance of fire round about within it, from the appearance of his loins even upward, and from the appearance of his loins even downward, I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and it had brightness round about.
Eze 1:28  As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so [was] the appearance of the brightness round about. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the LORD. And when I saw it, I fell upon my face, and I heard a voice of one that spake.

These verses are another prophecy of the seven trumpet judgments we are now considering. “Out of the north” is Bible-speak for the judgment of God, and ‘a whirlwind’ speaks of God’s wrath upon our sinful flesh. Here, once again, it is God Himself who comes “out of the north”. Later we will be told that the Lord sends evil “out of the north”.

Jer 1:14  Then the LORD said unto me, Out of the north an evil shall break forth upon all the inhabitants of the land.

Those who have been given to receive it, know that even the evil that is in this world, is a part of what God is working after the counsel of His own will.

Isa 45:7  I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.

Eph 1:11  In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:

Flesh is corruption. Even the flesh of Christ is still corrupt flesh. As such it “cannot inherit the kingdom of God”, and so all men must “drink of that cup” and must relinquish these temporal bodies of sinful flesh and blood.” We will all do so in the end, but God’s elect must do so now in down payment form and in a spiritual sense, while still in these “vessels of clay.”

1Pe 4:1  Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin;
1Pe 4:2  That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.

Christ drank of the same cup from which we must all drink, and we drink of the same cup which He drank. “He was in all ways tempted as we are yet without sin.”

Mat 26:27  And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, Drink ye all of it;
Mat 26:28  For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.

Christ’s words are “the New Testament.” If those words are within us, then that is what will come out of our mouths.

Jer 5:14  Wherefore thus saith the LORD God of hosts, Because ye speak this word, behold, I will make my words in thy mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them.

It was Christ’s words that made the leaders and people of Israel hate him. It was His words that got Him killed, and His Truths are no more popular today than they were in His day. “My words are in your mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them.” These words are not for this world to hear and understand. His words are the ‘fire that is mingled with Christ’s blood’ that is intended to devour the flesh of God’s own elect, to whom “it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God… within us” (Mat 13:10-17, Luk 17:20-21).

What is the earth?

Rev 8:7  The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earthand the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.

Do we dare to think that the flesh of others is wood and ours is not? No, this is the revelation of Jesus Christ that you and I are to “read, hear and keep” (Rev 1:3). We have seen in depth that “the earth” is the flesh and blood bodies of God’s own people while they are yet in Babylon.

Jer 22:1  Thus saith the LORD; Go down to the house of the king of Judah, and speak there this word,
Jer 22:2  And say, Hear the word of the LORD, O king of Judah, that sittest upon the throne of David, thou, and thy servants, and thy people that enter in by these gates:
Jer 22:29  earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the LORD.

It is upon our own “earth” that this “hail and fire mingled with blood” is cast to burn up a third part of our trees and all of our grass. Why only a third of the trees but all of the grass? In order to answer this question we must first find out what the scriptures reveal is trees and what is grass?

What are ‘trees’ in scripture?

Here is the first mention of trees in scripture.

Gen 1:11  And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
Gen 1:12  And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
Gen 1:13  And the evening and the morning were the third day.

Notice that it is “the earth” that brings forth the grass, the herbs, and the trees… whose seed is in itself upon the earth.” So all of this is within our earth, and is brought forth by our earth. All trees have “seed in itself”, but not all trees are fruit trees.

Gen 2:9  And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

This verse is actually a prophecy of the coming of Christ into this earth in a body that is of this earth. “Out of the ground… the Tree of Life also…” Christ is that tree of life.

In scripture the holy spirit reveals that there are only two kinds of trees. There are trees that bear fruit and trees that are not fruit bearing trees. Israel, God’s people, are likened to an olive tree.

This verse is a very general prophecy of the seven trumpet judgments we are now discussing. As God’s olive tree, we bear “goodly fruit”, but we all “leave our first love… and provoke our Lord to anger.” Through the chastening grace of our Lord we repent and overcome these sins, but even then we continue to be purged by the judgments of God in our lives.

Here is another example of how the spirit uses this word ‘tree.’

Luk 3:9  And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: every tree therefore which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.

Luk 6:44  For every tree is known by his own fruit. For of thorns men do not gather figs, nor of a bramble bush gather they grapes.

Joh 15:2  Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.

Not every tree is a fruit tree. Some are very tall and proud trees that can be used by God only if they are cut down and cut up into beams and boards to build and to furnish the house of God.

Rev 8:7  The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.

That is why all of our trees are not, at first, burned up. Any fire that is burning the grass of a field that borders a forest, will burn up all the grass and will burn up all the dead trees, and depending on how close a healthy tree is to a dead tree, and depending upon how long the forest has gone without rain, a fire will generally burn some, but not all of the trees of a forest.

What then, is a tree in scripture? Here is what they are, and this is how we all see the great men of Babylon and of this world, to whom we all first look for direction in this life.

Dan 4:20  The tree that thou sawest, which grew, and was strong, whose height reached unto the heaven, and the sight thereof to all the earth;
Dan 4:21  Whose leaves were fair, and the fruit thereof much, and in it was meat for all; under which the beasts of the field dwelt, and upon whose branches the fowls of the heaven had their habitation:
Dan 4:22  It is thou, O king [Nebuchadnezzar], that art grown and become strong: for thy greatness is grown, and reacheth unto heaven, and thy dominion to the end of the earth.

As we have shown in depth, so many times, these are words which we each individually live (Mat 4:4). All of God’s Word is about only two men and only those two men. You and I live the lives of both of those men. We are all first the first Adam, and then we will all, in our own time, become the second man Adam.

1Co 15:45  And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.

1Co 15:47  The first man is of the earth, earthythe second man is the Lord from heaven.

We are all “the first man Adam”, before we are made to be “the Lord from heaven.” As the first Adam, we are all King Nebuchadnezzar, “a tree whose height reaches to heaven, under which the beasts of the earth dwell and upon whose branches the fowls of the heaven have their habitations.” That is why the grass all burns up while only a third of our trees burn up. We all have kingdoms and nations within us, and they are all filled with the “fowls of the heavens.” It is these “fowls of the heavens” which require six more trumpets to complete their judgment within us.

Mat 13:4  And when he sowed, some seeds fell by the way side, and the fowls came and devoured them up:

Mat 13:19  When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, then cometh the wicked one, and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart. This is he which received seed by the way side.

The fowls of the heavens take the death of Christ and cause us to “understand it not” and teach us the false and lying doctrine of a substitutionary death and atonement which makes this verse of scripture of no effect:

Col 1:24  Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body’s sake, which is the church:

Substitutionary death teaches us that Christ did everything for us on His cross and there is no need for us to be “crucified with Him” (Gal 2:20), nor to “die daily” (1Co 15:31), nor to “offer [our] bodies as a living sacrifice” (Rom 12:1). The false, damnable doctrine of ‘substitutionary atonement’ leads us to believe there is nothing “behind of His afflictions”, because they do not understand the true gospel which teaches:

1Jn 4:17  Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.

It is the fowls of the air making their habitations in the branches of our trees, that teach us that grace is a noun only, with no use ever as an active verb, to chasten us to deny ungodliness and worldly lusts.

Tit 2:11  For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men,
Tit 2:12  Teaching [Greek: paideuo, chastening] us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;

Heb 12:6  For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth [paideuo], and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.

Those are just two examples of what is in the branches of our trees, and why we are being told that all of our grass is burned up while two thirds of our trees with their branches filled with the fowls of the heavens, remain within us for the moment. In the end this is what will happen to us all:

Dan 4:23  And whereas the king saw a watcher and an holy one coming down from heaven, and saying, Hew the tree down, and destroy it; yet leave the stump of the roots thereof in the earth, even with a band of iron and brass, in the tender grass of the field; and let it be wet with the dew of heaven, and [let] his portion [be] with the beasts of the field, till seven times pass over him;
Dan 4:24  This [is] the interpretation, O king, and this [is] the decree of the most High, which is come upon my lord the king:
Dan 4:25  That they shall drive thee from men, and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field, and they shall make thee to eat grass as oxen, and they shall wet thee with the dew of heaven, and seven times shall pass over thee, till thou know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.

Here we are in Daniel, right back to the meaning of the number seven. Here again it is telling us that our submission to the sovereignty of God must be made complete, before we will ever be of any use to our heavenly Father.

What is the grass that our earth brings forth?

What do the scriptures reveal grass to symbolize? Grass is what we are when the Word of God first comes to us.

Deu 32:2  My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass:

As we have seen in 1 Corinthians 3, we as grass are still very carnal babes in Christ at this early stage in the revelation of Jesus Christ.

1Co 3:1  And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ.
1Co 3:2  I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able.
1Co 3:3  For ye are yet carnal: for whereas [there is] among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?
1Co 3:4  For while one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are ye not carnal?

Yes, as “babes in Christ” we “are yet carnal.” So what is the grass upon which “the doctrine of Christ drops as rain” in scripture?

Psa 103:15  As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.

Isa 40:6  The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field:

Isa 51:12  I, even I, am he that comforteth you: who art thou, that thou shouldest be afraid of a man that shall die, and of the son of man which shall be made as grass;

1Pe 1:24  For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth [aorist tense], and the flower thereof falleth away [aorist tense]:

“All flesh is grass,” and all of our fleshly desires are being burned up by the hail and fire mingled with blood which the Lord casts into our earth. Great strides against the flesh, are immediately evident, even as babes in Christ. We overcome bad habits and addictions, and we are willing to lay our lives down for our brothers, and to fight to the death for our Lord, long before we grow to the point of being willing to go to the cross with our Lord.

What is this “burning up of all the grass,” telling us about the revelation of Jesus Christ in our lives? It is telling us that the first thing that we all come to see is that the desires of our flesh must be subdued, and we actually get this done long before our much taller trees, with all the doctrines of Babylon making their habitations in our branches, are burned up. These are “two edged words” which “shall never pass away.” This has been the negative application of the words ‘trees and grass,” as symbols of that which comes out of the earth, and symbolizes the things of “the first man Adam,” who is to be replaced by “the second man which is the Lord from heaven.”

Later in this same prophecy we will see the positive application of these symbols as those who have the seal of God.

Rev 9:4 And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads.

Summary

We have covered in this study these six symbols, 1) hail, 2) fire, 3) blood, 4) the earth, 5) the third part of the trees burned up, and 6) all green grass, was burnt up.

We saw that the hail in particular, symbolizes that part of God’s Word which destroys the doctrinal lies which are all the doctrines of Babylon.

Isa 3:1  For, behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water,

When “the whole stay of bread and the whole stay of water [is] taken away from Jerusalem and Judah,” all that is left is “the refuge of lies” of which we are told:

Isa 28:17  Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.

We saw that ‘fire symbolizes the Word of God, and that if we speak the Words of God, then that Word becomes fire in our mouths to judge the world within, in which we live.

Jer 5:14  Wherefore thus saith the LORD God of hosts, Because ye speak this word, behold, I will make my words in thy mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them.

Rev 11:5  And if any man will hurt them, fire proceedeth out of their mouth, and devoureth their enemies: and if any man will hurt them, he must in this manner be killed.

It is for the express purpose of blinding the eyes of those who are not “given to understand”, that the symbols of water and fire are both used to accomplish the same purpose of “sweep[ing] away the refuge of lies by “devour[ing] their enemies” with “words in your mouth fire… devour[ing] them”.

We saw that blood is the blood of Christ, of which we are all guilty, and that “fire mingled with blood” is God’s fiery Word which proclaims us all as those who have denied our Lord after affirming that we would never ever commit such a dastardly act. The only man that will hurt any of God’s elect is the man of sin, sitting within us all, upon the throne of God within us all. This is the enemy that would hurt us and this is also the enemy that is destroyed by the fire that proceeds out of our mouths.

We have seen again that we ourselves are the earth into which the hail and fire mingled with blood, is cast, to cleanse us of that with which we have been defiled.

Finally, we saw that the grass of the earth represents our flesh and all of its sinful lusts, while the trees of the earth in this chapter symbolize the great men within us whose branches are full of the false doctrines which are symbolized by the fowls of the air which have taken up their habitations in the branches of our trees.

It is the fact that these things are above the grass of our fields, that cause all the grass to be burned up, while only a third of our fowl filled trees are, at this point burned up.

Next week, Lord willing, we will continue to watch the process of our judgment, as we see a huge burning mountain of which we are to “read, hear, and keep” within ourselves. What we will learn is that this mountain is burning up and in doing so helps to purify another third within us.

Rev 8:8  And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood;
Rev 8:9  And the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had life, died; and the third part of the ships were destroyed.

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