As far as I remember from my own religious upbringing, I thought the Trumpets weren't supposed to happen until the actual end started? Like, you'd have the Rapture or whatever and then God would wreck havoc on the earth or whatnot.
That's one position, and probably the most common amongst conservative evangelicals. Bushie's position about "interpreting" Revelation and assigning these Trumpets to historical events is common more amongst televangelist types and hucksters who many othe conservative evangelicals warn about. And of course it doesn't fit with a literal interpretation of the Bible...at all. The amillenialist view (of DC, Madeline and me) is generally that the book is written about the Roman Empire and is mostly an allegory about persecution of Christians at the time, Nero is the Antichrist, and that it's kind of a revenge fantasy or simply a prediction of the fall of the Roman Empire loaded with allegories and metaphors.
However the Fifth Trumpet is by far the coolest in description, even if the event Bushie and that huckster he follows assigns to it is relatively bland and boring.
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