Tribulation Terror Quotes

“Then the seventh angel blew his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven, saying, “The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ, and he shall reign forever and ever.” And the twenty-four elders who sit on their thrones before God fell on their faces and worshiped God, saying, “We give thanks to you, Lord God Almighty, who is and who was, for you have taken your great power and begun to reign. The nations raged, but your wrath came, and the time for the dead to be judged, and for rewarding your servants, the prophets and saints, and those who fear your name, both small and great, and for destroying the destroyers of the earth.” Then God's temple in heaven was opened, and the ark of his covenant was seen within his temple. There were flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder, an earthquake, and heavy hail.  (Revelation 11:15-19)”
― Gary W. Ritter, Tribulation Terror: Trumpet Judgments: A Novella of the Coming Apocalypse

“The second woe has passed; behold, the third woe is soon to come.  (Revelation 11:14)”
― Gary W. Ritter, Tribulation Terror: Trumpet Judgments: A Novella of the Coming Apocalypse

“Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?  The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord and against his Anointed, saying, “Let us burst their bonds apart and cast away their cords from us.” He who sits in the heavens laughs; the Lord holds them in derision.  Then he will speak to them in his wrath, and terrify them in his fury, saying, “As for me, I have set my King on Zion, my holy hill.” I will tell of the decree: The Lord said to me, “You are my Son; today I have begotten you.  Ask of me, and I will make the nations your heritage, and the ends of the earth your possession.  You shall break them with a rod of iron and dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.” Now therefore, O kings, be wise, be warned, O rulers of the earth.  Serve the Lord with fear, and rejoice with trembling.  Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and you perish in the way, for his wrath is quickly kindled.  Blessed are all who take refuge in him.”
― Gary W. Ritter, Tribulation Terror: Trumpet Judgments: A Novella of the Coming Apocalypse

“How the oppressor has ceased, the insolent fury ceased!  The Lord has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of rulers, that struck the peoples in wrath with unceasing blows, that ruled the nations in anger with unrelenting persecution.  The whole earth is at rest and quiet; they break forth into singing.  The cypresses rejoice at you, the cedars of Lebanon, saying, ‘Since you were laid low, no woodcutter comes up against us.’ Sheol beneath is stirred up to meet you when you come; it rouses the shades to greet you, all who were leaders of the earth; it raises from their thrones. all who were kings of the nations.  All of them will answer and say to you: You too have become as weak as we!  You have become like us!’  Your pomp is brought down to Sheol, the sound of your harps; maggots are laid as a bed beneath you, and worms are your covers.”
― Gary W. Ritter, Tribulation Terror: Trumpet Judgments: A Novella of the Coming Apocalypse

“These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth. And if anyone would harm them, fire pours from their mouth and consumes their foes. If anyone would harm them, this is how he is doomed to be killed. They have the power to shut the sky, that no rain may fall during the days of their prophesying, and they have power over the waters to turn them into blood and to strike the earth with every kind of plague, as often as they desire. And when they have finished their testimony, the beast that rises from the bottomless pit will make war on them and conquer them and kill them, and their dead bodies will lie in the street of the great city that symbolically is called Sodom and Egypt, where their Lord was crucified. For three and a half days some from the peoples and tribes and languages and nations will gaze at their dead bodies and refuse to let them be placed in a tomb, and those who dwell on the earth will rejoice over them and make merry and exchange presents, because these two prophets had been a torment to those who dwell on the earth. But after the three and a half days a breath of life from God entered them, and they stood up on their feet, and great fear fell on those who saw them. Then they heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them, “Come up here!” And they went up to heaven in a cloud, and their enemies watched them. And at that hour there was a great earthquake, and a tenth of the city fell. Seven thousand people were killed in the earthquake, and the rest were terrified and gave glory to the God of heaven.  (Revelation 11:4-13)”
― Gary W. Ritter, Tribulation Terror: Trumpet Judgments: A Novella of the Coming Apocalypse

“But the rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands, that they should not worship demons, and idols of gold, silver, brass, stone, and wood, which can neither see nor hear nor walk. And they did not repent of their murders or their sorceries or their sexual immorality or their thefts.  (Revelation 9:20-21)”
― Gary W. Ritter, Tribulation Terror: Trumpet Judgments: A Novella of the Coming Apocalypse

“And you, son of man, will you judge, will you judge the bloody city and even beyond – the entire world? Then declare all their abominations. You shall say, Thus says the Lord God: A city, a nation, a planet, that sheds blood in its midst, so that its time may come, and that makes idols to defile itself! You have become guilty by the blood that you have shed, and defiled by the idols that you have made, and you have brought your days near, the appointed time of your years has come. Therefore I have made you a reproach and a mockery. Those who are near and those who are far will mock you; your name is defiled; you are full of tumult. And the word of the Lord came to me: “Son of man, the entire world has become dross to me; all of them are bronze and tin and iron and lead in the furnace; they are dross of silver. Therefore thus says the Lord God: Because you have all become dross, therefore, behold, I will gather you as one gathers silver and bronze and iron and lead and tin into a furnace, to blow the fire on it in order to melt it, so I will gather you in my anger and in my wrath, and I will put you in and melt you. I will gather you and blow on you with the fire of my wrath, and you shall be melted in the midst of it. As silver is melted in a furnace, so you shall be melted in the midst of it, and you shall know that I am the Lord; I have poured out my wrath upon you.”
― Gary W. Ritter, Tribulation Terror: Trumpet Judgments: A Novella of the Coming Apocalypse

“Then the sixth angel sounded: And I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God, saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, “Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates.” So the four angels, who had been prepared for the hour and day and month and year, were released to kill a third of mankind. Now the number of the army of the horsemen was two hundred million; I heard the number of them. And thus I saw the horses in the vision: those who sat on them had breastplates of fiery red, hyacinth blue, and sulfur yellow; and the heads of the horses were like the heads of lions; and out of their mouths came fire, smoke, and brimstone. By these three plagues a third of mankind was killed—by the fire and the smoke and the brimstone which came out of their mouths. For their power is in their mouth and in their tails; for their tails are like serpents, having heads; and with them they do harm.  (Revelation 9:13-19)”
― Gary W. Ritter, Tribulation Terror: Trumpet Judgments: A Novella of the Coming Apocalypse

“The first woe has passed; behold, two woes are still to come.  (Revelation 9: 12)”
― Gary W. Ritter, Tribulation Terror: Trumpet Judgments: A Novella of the Coming Apocalypse

“A fire devours before them, and behind them a flame burns; the land is like the Garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; surely nothing shall escape them. Their appearance is like the appearance of horses; and like swift steeds, so they run. With a noise like chariots over mountaintops they leap, like the noise of a flaming fire that devours the stubble, like a strong people set in battle array. Before them the people writhe in pain; all faces are drained of color. They run like mighty men, they climb the wall like men of war; every one marches in formation, and they do not break ranks. They do not push one another; every one marches in his own column. Though they lunge between the weapons, they are not cut down. They run to and fro in the city, they run on the wall; they climb into the houses, they enter at the windows like a thief. The earth quakes before them, the heavens tremble; the sun and moon grow dark, and the stars diminish their brightness.  (Joel 2:3-10)”
― Gary W. Ritter, Tribulation Terror: Trumpet Judgments: A Novella of the Coming Apocalypse

“Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil For You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.”
― Gary W. Ritter, Tribulation Terror: Trumpet Judgments: A Novella of the Coming Apocalypse

“And the fifth angel blew his trumpet, and I saw a star fallen from heaven to earth, and he was given the key to the shaft of the bottomless pit. He opened the shaft of the bottomless pit, and from the shaft rose smoke like the smoke of a great furnace, and the sun and the air were darkened with the smoke from the shaft. Then from the smoke came locusts on the earth, and they were given power like the power of scorpions of the earth. They were told not to harm the grass of the earth or any green plant or any tree, but only those people who do not have the seal of God on their foreheads. They were allowed to torment them for five months, but not to kill them, and their torment was like the torment of a scorpion when it stings someone. And in those days people will seek death and will not find it. They will long to die, but death will flee from them. In appearance the locusts were like horses prepared for battle: on their heads were what looked like crowns of gold; their faces were like human faces, their hair like women's hair, and their teeth like lions' teeth; they had breastplates like breastplates of iron, and the noise of their wings was like the noise of many chariots with horses rushing into battle. They have tails and stings like scorpions, and their power to hurt people for five months is in their tails. They have as king over them the angel of the bottomless pit. His name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek he is called Apollyon.  (Revelation 9:1-11)”
― Gary W. Ritter, Tribulation Terror: Trumpet Judgments: A Novella of the Coming Apocalypse

“Then I looked, and I heard an eagle crying with a loud voice as it flew directly overhead, “Woe, woe, woe to those who dwell on the earth, at the blasts of the other trumpets that the three angels are about to blow!”  (Revelation 8:13)”
― Gary W. Ritter, Tribulation Terror: Trumpet Judgments: A Novella of the Coming Apocalypse

“This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Strike your hands together and stamp your feet and cry out “Alas!” because of all the wicked and detestable practices of the people of Israel, for they will fall by the sword, famine and plague. One who is far away will die of the plague, and one who is near will fall by the sword, and anyone who survives and is spared will die of famine. So will I pour out my wrath on them. And they will know that I am the Lord, when their people lie slain among their idols around their altars, on every high hill and on all the mountaintops, under every spreading tree and every leafy oak—places where they offered fragrant incense to all their idols. And I will stretch out my hand against them and make the land a desolate waste from the desert to Diblah—wherever they live. Then they will know that I am the Lord.’” “People of the world: Know now the wrath of Almighty God!”
― Gary W. Ritter, Tribulation Terror: Trumpet Judgments: A Novella of the Coming Apocalypse

“The fourth angel blew his trumpet, and a third of the sun was struck, and a third of the moon, and a third of the stars, so that a third of their light might be darkened, and a third of the day might be kept from shining, and likewise a third of the night. (Revelation 8:12)”
― Gary W. Ritter, Tribulation Terror: Trumpet Judgments: A Novella of the Coming Apocalypse

“Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil.”
― Gary W. Ritter, Tribulation Terror: Trumpet Judgments: A Novella of the Coming Apocalypse

“When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and when you pass through the rivers, they will not sweep over you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned; the flames will not set you ablaze. “He who has ears to hear let him understand what the God of all creation is saying.  Repent.  Trust in the Lord Jesus Christ and be saved.”
― Gary W. Ritter, Tribulation Terror: Trumpet Judgments: A Novella of the Coming Apocalypse

“Woe to the many nations that rage— they rage like the raging sea! Woe to the peoples who roar— they roar like the roaring of great waters!  The voice of the Lord is over the waters; the God of glory thunders, the Lord thunders over the mighty waters.  When they came to Marah, they could not drink its water because it was bitter. (That is why the place is called Marah.)”
― Gary W. Ritter, Tribulation Terror: Trumpet Judgments: A Novella of the Coming Apocalypse

“The third angel sounded his trumpet, and a great star, blazing like a torch, fell from the sky on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water—the name of the star is Wormwood. A third of the waters turned bitter, and many people died from the waters that had become bitter. (Revelation 8:10-11)”
― Gary W. Ritter, Tribulation Terror: Trumpet Judgments: A Novella of the Coming Apocalypse

“Truly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and thrown into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says will come to pass, it will be done for him.”
― Gary W. Ritter, Tribulation Terror: Trumpet Judgments: A Novella of the Coming Apocalypse

“You have the forehead of a whore; you refuse to be ashamed.  See if you can find a man, one who does justice and seeks truth. They refused to take correction. They have made their faces harder than rock; they have refused to repent.  Because their transgressions are many, their apostasies are great.  Shall I not punish them for these things? declares the Lord; and shall I not avenge myself?  Suddenly the destroyer will come.”
― Gary W. Ritter, Tribulation Terror: Trumpet Judgments: A Novella of the Coming Apocalypse

“For everyone is godless and an evildoer, and every mouth speaks folly. For all this his anger has not turned away, and his hand is stretched out still. For wickedness burns like a fire; it consumes briers and thorns; it kindles the thickets of the forest, and they roll upward in a column of smoke. Through the wrath of the Lord of hosts the land is scorched, and the people are like fuel for the fire; no one spares another. What will you do on the day of punishment, in the ruin that will come from afar? To whom will you flee for help, and where will you leave your wealth?”
― Gary W. Ritter, Tribulation Terror: Trumpet Judgments: A Novella of the Coming Apocalypse

“The second angel sounded his trumpet, and something like a huge mountain, all ablaze, was thrown into the sea. A third of the sea turned into blood, a third of the living creatures in the sea died, and a third of the ships were destroyed. (Revelation 8:8-9)”
― Gary W. Ritter, Tribulation Terror: Trumpet Judgments: A Novella of the Coming Apocalypse

“The first angel blew his trumpet, and there followed hail and fire, mixed with blood, and these were thrown upon the earth. And a third of the earth was burned up, and a third of the trees were burned up, and all green grass was burned up. (Revelation 8:7)”
― Gary W. Ritter, Tribulation Terror: Trumpet Judgments: A Novella of the Coming Apocalypse