God is Specific with His Plan - Revelation 6-11

 Revelation 9:13-19 (ESV Strong's)

13 Then the sixth angel blew his trumpet, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar before God, 14 saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, “Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates.” 15 So the four angels, who had been prepared for the hour, the day, the month, and the year, were released to kill a third of mankind. 16 The number of mounted troops was twice ten thousand times ten thousand; I heard their number. 17 And this is how I saw the horses in my vision and those who rode them: they wore breastplates the color of fire and of sapphire and of sulfur, and the heads of the horses were like lions' heads, and fire and smoke and sulfur came out of their mouths. 18 By these three plagues a third of mankind was killed, by the fire and smoke and sulfur coming out of their mouths. 19 For the power of the horses is in their mouths and in their tails, for their tails are like serpents with heads, and by means of them they wound.

God is Specific with His Plan

In Revelation 8-11 the seven angels are opening the seven seals and announcing the events mentioned in the seals with seven trumpets.  The trumpets sound with the events that are sealed are released.   In the above passage the sixth seal is opened and the trumpet sounds.    In the above, sixth trumpet, the thousands of “troops” (angels) are released upon the earth.  They will release three plaques that will kill one-third of the earth’s population.    God is serious about sin in the world and judgment will come.  Those seal and trumpet is part of that judgment.  Note the specificities of the seal being broken and the disaster being released upon the earth.   God, from eternity past, planned for this seal to be broken and announced by the sixth trumpet at an EXACT hour, day, week, month and year.   God “determined” when this would happen.  Nothing in this world is happening that has not been designated by an hour, a day, a month and a year.   Through John’s writings, God is telling us something about the end times, and, more importantly, about Himself.  The events of the world do not unfold by chance.  The events that are happening at this very moment are being orchestrated by God, through His Holy angels, to prepare the end of the world for the entrance of His Son.  The Son will take ownership of God’s creation.  This will happen on a specific hour, day, month and year.   These are events in history.  Just like we memorialize our birth day by day, month and year, God is setting up His Kingdom with even more specificity.   As believers we should rejoice in this exactness of God’s plan.