Chapter 8 starts with the opening of the 7th and final seal "and there was silence in heaven for half an hour... and the 7 angels who stand before God were given trumpets... and a further angel came and stood at the altar with a golden censer with much incense... and the incense went up with the prayers of the saints... but then the angel filled the censer with fire and hurled it on the earth bringing thunder, lightning and an earthquake... then the first angel sounded his trumpet and there came hail and fire mixed with blood... and it too was hurled down on the earth causing a third of the earth and trees to be burnt up and all the green grass was burnt... then came the second angel blowing his trumpet and a blazing mountain was thrown into the sea turning a third of the sea into blood and killing a third of sea creatures and destroying a third of all ships... now the third angel sounded his trumpet and a great blazing star fell from the sky on rivers and springs and a third of the water turned bitter killing many people... then the 4th angel sounded his trumpet and a third of the sun, moon and stars turned dark... and I heard an eagle flying in mid-air call out woe! woe! Woe to the inhabitants of the earth because of the trumpet blasts yet to be sounded by the other 3 angels".
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