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The Faith of Jesus,
Three Angels
and Seven Trumpets

Jerry Finneman

Three Angels and Seven Trumpets

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Foundation: Dan 9:24-27

The
Time
of the Three Angels
of Revelation 14:6-12

The Second Advent Gospel
Message is based on
a time prophecy
in the Book of Revelation

just as . . .

The First Advent Gospel
Message was based
on a time prophecy in
Daniel nine and a decree
found in the Book of Ezra
(chapters six and seven).

Decree
concerning “The time
the Messiah is fulfilled”

483 years

31
457 A D 27 34

BC
Jesus placed the First Advent
Movement in the context of a
time prophecy.

An 1st 2nd 3rd
Angel Angel Angel Angel
541 years

1299 AD 1840 1844 1844
(Fall)
(Spring)

The Second Advent Message is
also placed in a context of time--
the end time.

Third Angel: 1844 (Autumn)

Second Angel: 1844 (Spring)

First Angel: 1840 (August)

Revelation 14
Three Angels

• “a third angel” (Rev. 14:9)
• “another angel” (vs 8)
• “another angel” (vs 6)
• Search backwards until we find
“an” angel

Rev 8:13
And I looked, and I heard an
angel flying through the midst
of heaven, saying with a loud
voice, "WOE, WOE, WOE to the
inhabitants of the earth, because
of the remaining blasts of the
trumpet of the three angels
who are about to sound!"

Rev 8:13

Beginning here, there is a series
of angels connected by the word
“another” straight through to the
3rd angel of Rev 14 (with his gospel
message of the righteousness of
Christ in the setting of the end-
time).

Revelation 8 - 14
Angels

• “an angel” (8:13) 1299
• “another angel” 1840
• “another angel” spring, 1844
• “a third angel” autumn, 1844

The Seven Trumpets

Revelation 8 - 9; 10:7; 11:15

The Last Three of
the Seven Trumpets

1850 Chart

The 7 Trumpets are Judgments

• Depicting the ruin of the Roman
Empire
– Western Rome
– Eastern Rome
– Papal Rome
• Depicting the capitulation of the
Ottoman Empire
• Depicting the downfall of the world

AD 622 - Mohammed established
395 476 1299 1449 a theocratic state
at Medina, after fleeing
First Second Third Fourth Fifth
there from Mecca
Trumpet Trumpet Trumpet Trumpet Trumpet
in 622, and
began to convert Arabia
Alaric Genseric Attila Odoacer 1stto Islam.
Woe

Othman
Invasion Naval Last
from attacks Western Emperor
the on Empire de- Con-
north Italy invaded throned quests
by the by the by the by the of the
Goths Vandals Huns Heruli Saracen

Downfall
Downfall of Western Rome of
Eastern
Rome

AD The
395 476 1299 1449 1840 1844 End
First Second Third Fourth Fifth Sixth Seventh
Trumpet Trumpet Trumpet Trumpet Trumpet Trumpet Trumpet

Alaric Genseric Attila Odoacer 1st 2nd 3rd
Woe Woe Woe

Othman Nations
Invasion Naval Last angry
from attacks Western Emperor
the on Empire de- Con- Con-
north Italy invaded throned quests quests Mystery
by the by the by the by the of the of the of God
Goths Vandals Huns Heruli Saracen Turks finished

Downfall Downfall Downfall
Downfall of Western Rome of Ottoman of the
Eastern Empire World
Rome

Trumpets 1-4

• Judgments against the
Western Roman Empire
–Rome was divided into
10 nations (Dan 7)

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Trumpet 5 (1st woe): 1299-1449

• The destroyer of the Eastern
Roman Empire is introduced.

Trumpet 6 (2nd woe): 1499-1840

• Judgments on the Papacy.
• Introduces the message of the
everlasting gospel in the time
of the end.
• Introduces the judgment hour
message.

Trumpet 7 (3rd woe): 1844-End of time

• The judgment hour message of
the cleansing of the sanctuary
–began October 22, 1844.
–this judgment hour will finish
with the end of the world as
we know it today.

The Time Elements in the
Woe Trumpets
(Rev 9:10, 15)

• “Their power was to hurt men
five months”

• “The four angels were loosed,
which were prepared for an hour,
and a day, and a month, and a
year, for to slay the third part of
men.”

Woe Trumpets

• 5 months = 150 years
• 1 year = 360 years
•1 month = 30 years
•1 day = 1 year
•1 hour = 15 days
541 years, 15 days

• Josiah Litch was the first to join
sequentially, the time periods
of Rev 9—the 150 and the 391
years.
• (For over 1,000 years Bible
students generally agreed on the
interpretation of the trumpets
apart from the time elements,
which were not considered until
Litch did so.)

Woe Trumpets
July 27,
• 5 months =
150 years 1299
• 1 year 360 years
=

• 1 month 30 years
=

• 1 day 1 year
=

• 1 hour 15 days
=

541 years, 15 days

Woe Trumpets
(Rev 9:10, 15)

July 27, 1299
541 years , 15 days
July 27, 1840
15 days
August 11, 1840

Revelation 8 and 9

Comments by

Edward Gibbon
Alexander Keith
Josiah Litch

July 27, 1299
"It was on the twenty-seventh
of July, in the year twelve
hundred and ninety-nine of
the Christian era, that Othman
first invaded the territory of
Nicomaedia [an ancient city of
northwest Asia Minor near the

July 27, 1299

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Turkey]; and the singular
accuracy of the date
seems to disclose some
foresight of the rapid and des-
tructive growth of the monster."

Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of
The Roman Empire, Vol. VI, Chapter 64,
p. 26.

Mohammed the Saracen
In the Koran, Allah com-
mands Muslims, “Take not
the Jews and Christians as
friends. . . . Slay the idolaters
[non-Muslims] wherever you
find them. . . .

Fight against such . . . as
believe not in Allah . . .”
(Surah 5:51; 9:5,29,41,
etc.).

Upon Mohammed's death,
most Arabians abandoned
Islam, imagining that they
were free at last.

Swiftly, tens of thousands of
Arabs were slaughtered in the
Wars of Apostasy, which forced
Arabia back under Allah. From
that base Islam spread every-
where with the sword.

Freedom of speech, religion,
the press, and of vote and
conscience which we hold as
dear in America are suppress-
ed in every Muslim country.

A.D. 732
• Tours
• Constantinople

Saracens

Arabia
A.D. 622

• Constantinople
fell to the Turks
May 16, 1453

Arabia
A.D. 1299

Woes are Scourges

"The Roman empire declined,
as it arose, by conquest; but
the Saracens and the Turks
were the instruments by
which a false religion became
the scourge of an apostate
church; and hence, instead

Woes are Scourges

of the fifth and sixth trumpets,
like the former, being marked
by that name alone, they are
called woes . . .”
Alexander Keith, Signs of the Times, Vol I,
p. 289.

“In 1838 Dr. Josiah Litch, of Phila-
delphia, Pa, having embraced the
truth set forth by William Miller,
united in the work of giving great-
er publicity to the message. He
prepared articles for the public
print on the subject of the seven
trumpets of Revelation.

“He took the unqualified position
that the 6th trumpet would cease
to sound and the Ottoman power
fall on the 11th day of August
1840, and that would demonstrate
to the world that a day in symbolic
prophecy represents a year of
literal time.”
J.N. Loughborough, The Great
Second Advent Movement, p. 129.

Infidel’s Discuss

“Infidel’s discussed the ques-
tion in their meetings and
said, ‘Here is a man that
ventures something, and if
this matter comes out as he
says, it will establish his claim
without a doubt that a day in

Infidel’s Discuss

prophecy symbolizes a year,
and that 2300 days are so
many years, and that they
will terminate in 1844.’”

"And We Will Be Adventists"

The publication of Dr. Litch's
lecture made a general stir, and
many thousands were thus called
to watch for the termination of the
difficulties that had sprung up
between Mehemet Ali, the Pasha
of Egypt, and the Turkish sultan.
Hundreds said, . . .

“If this affair terminates as the
doctor has asserted, it will establish
the 'year-day' principle of interpret-
ing symbolic time, and we will be
Adventists.”

J.N. Loughborough, The Great Second
Advent Movement, p. 130.

Some of The Brethren

Some of the brethren, even
those who believed with Litch
on this point, trembled with
fear for the result “if it should
not come to pass” as he said.
This did not daunt him. He
went forward to do all in his

power to give publicity to his
views on the Turkish question.
Public journals spread abroad
the claim he made on the
subject.

See J.N. Loughborough, The Great

Litch On August 1, 1840
“Allowing the first period, 150
years, to have been exactly
fulfilled before Deacozes
ascended the throne by per-
mission of the Turks, and that
the 391 years, fifteen days,
commenced at the close of the

Litch On August 1, 1840
first period, it will end on the
11th of August, 1840, when
the Ottoman power in Con-
stantinople may be expected to
be broken. And this, I believe,
will be found to be the case.”
Josiah Litch, Signs of The Times,
and Expositor, August 1, 1840.

The Time Elements of the
first two Woe Trumpets
(Rev 9:10, 15)

July 27, 1299
(1st Woe) 150 years
1449
(2nd Woe) 391 years, 15 days
August 11, 1840

The Fulfillment

“. . . England, Russia, Austria,
and Prussia interposed, and
determined on a settlement of
the difficulty . . .” (between the
Pasha of Egypt, and the Turkish
Sultan).

Prediction Fulfilled

“At the very time specified,
Turkey, through her ambassa-
dors, accepted the protection
of the allied powers of Europe,
and thus placed herself under
the control of Christian nations.
The event exactly fulfilled the
prediction.”
GC 335

Infidels Converted

“This striking fulfillment of the
prophecy had a tremendous
effect upon the public mind. It
intensified the interest of the
people to hear upon the sub-
ject of fulfilled and fulfilling
prophecy. . . .

Infidels Converted
“Dr. Litch said that within a few
months after August 11, 1840,
he had received letters from
more than 1,000 prominent
infidels, some of them leaders

Infidels Converted
of infidel clubs, in which they
stated that they had given up
the battle against the Bible,
and had accepted it as God's
Revelation to man.”

J.N. Loughborough, The Great Second
Advent Movement, p. 132.

The Interpretation is Fulfilled

• The exact fulfillment of the
prediction seals the interpreta-
tion of this prophecy.
• “The event exactly fulfilled
the prediction.”
GC 335

Summary and Conclusion

• The three angels’ message
of Rev 14:6-12 is linked
especially to the time
elements of the Woe
trumpets of Rev 8 and 9:

Revelation 8 - 14

• “an angel” (8:13) 1299
• “another angel” 1840
• “another angel” spring, 1844
• “a third angel” autumn, 1844

Justification: The Spiritual DNA is the Same
2nd
A
1260 Years
“Holy” Roman Empire d
538 v
1798 1844
e
The Spiritual DNA is the Same
1st Woe 2nd Woe 3rd Woe n
t
5th Trumpet 6th Trumpet 7th Trumpet
622 1299 1449 1840
Judgment Judgment
against against
Eastern Western
Church Church

Rev 9-14
The Tree Woes and the Finishing
of the Mystery of God

The
Saracen Ottoman End-Time Second
Muslims Muslins Muslims Advent

1st 2nd 3rd
Woe Woe Woe

Rev 9-14
The Tree Woes and the Finishing
of the Mystery of God

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The Spiritual DNA is the Same

1st 2nd 3rd
Woe Woe Woe

Summary and Conclusion

• Time elements of the first and
second Advent Movements
• Third Angel of Rev 14 and the
Seven Trumpets of Rev 8 and 9 and
the time connection.
• Historical Sources: Gibbon, Litch,
Keith and Loughborough
• Mohammed and the spread of Islam

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