The seventh seal opened, 1. Seven angels receive seven trumpets, 2. An angel presenteth the prayers of the saints with incense on the golden altar before the throne, 3-5. Four of the angels sound their trumpets, and great plagues severally follow, 6-13.
Jonathan Edwards' An Humble Attempt: 'God has respect to the prayers of his saints in all his government of the world; as we may observe by the representation made Revelation 8 at the beginning. There we read of seven angels standing before the throne of God, and receiving of him seven trumpets, at the sounding of which, great and mighty changes were to be brought to pass in the world, through many successive ages. But when these angels had received their trumpets, they must stand still, and all must be in silence, not one of them must be allowed to sound, till the prayers of the saints are attended to. The angel of the covenant, as a glorious high priest…
Jonathan Edwards' History of Redemption: 'Another way that Satan attempted to restore paganism in the Roman empire, was by the invasions and conquest of heathen nations. For in this space of time, the Goths and Vandals, and other barbarous nations from the north, invaded the empire, and obtained great conquests. They even overran the empire, and in the fifth century took the city of Rome, and finally conquered and took possession of the western half of the empire, and divided it amongst them. It was divided into ten kingdoms, with which began the ten horns of the beast; for we are told, that the ten horns are ten kings, who should rise in the latter part of the Roman empire…
William Tong (for Matthew Henry): 'We have already seen what occurred upon opening six of the seals; we now come to the opening of the seventh, which introduced the sounding of the seven trumpets; and a direful scene now opens. Most expositors agree that the seven seals represent the interval between the apostle's time and the reign of Constantine, but that the seven trumpets are designed to represent the rise of antichrist, some time after the empire became Christian. In this chapter we have, I. The preface, or prelude, to the sounding of the trumpets, verses 1-6. II. The sounding of four of the trumpets, verse 7, etc..'
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