Aug 20, 2026 · 1 hr 2 min · 19 segments
# **How Will Christians Experience the 7 Trumpets of Revelation? LIVE Q&A for August 20, 2026**…
Michael sent this question in via email.
He says, I know you know the book of Revelation and the seven trumpets that are written about there.
Have you physically heard any of them? Though David's not here, I think that I can answer in a way that he'd agree with.
So we're familiar with the book.
We might phrase things a little differently, but as for the way that we interpret Revelation as a whole, we line up perfectly.
So, Michael, the short answer is, if Christians experience the seven trumpets at all, it's going to be from heaven, not from earth.
Let me explain.
Here's the key issue that's underneath your question.
Where is the church when the seven trumpet judgments of Revelation chapters 8 and 9 happen? Michael's premise assumes that Christians are on earth living through that time, but that assumes a particular view of the end times, and it's not the one that we hold here at Enduring Word.
We hold to a pre-millennial, pre-tribulational view of eschatology.
And that means that we believe that Jesus returns to reign on earth for a literal thousand years.
That's the premillennial part.
And that before the seven-year tribulation begins, the church is caught up to meet the Lord in the air.
That's called the rapture.
It's described in 1 Thessalonians chapter 4.
It's hinted at in other passages like...
Revelation 3, verse 10, where Jesus promises to keep the church from the hour of trial that's coming on the whole earth.
Now, note that Jesus said that he would keep them not in or through the trial, but from the very hour, the time of the trial.
So, in the trumpet sound, we believe that the church isn't hiding out on earth and during them.
No, we're already home.
We're in heaven.
But, and please hear this because it's something I think that we can lose track of when we're studying Revelation.
Michael sent this question in via email.
He says, I know you know the book of Revelation and the seven trumpets that are written about there.
Have you physically heard any of them? Though David's not here, I think that I can answer in a way that he'd agree with.
So we're familiar with the book.
We might phrase things a little differently, but as for the way that we interpret Revelation as a whole, we line up perfectly.
So, Michael, the short answer is, if Christians experience the seven trumpets at all, it's going to be from heaven, not from earth.
Let me explain.
Here's the key issue that's underneath your question.
Where is the church when the seven trumpet judgments of Revelation chapters 8 and 9 happen? Michael's premise assumes that Christians are on earth living through that time, but that assumes a particular view of the end times, and it's not the one that we hold here at Enduring Word.
We hold to a pre-millennial, pre-tribulational view of eschatology.
And that means that we believe that Jesus returns to reign on earth for a literal thousand years.
That's the premillennial part.
And that before the seven-year tribulation begins, the church is caught up to meet the Lord in the air.
That's called the rapture.
It's described in 1 Thessalonians chapter 4.
It's hinted at in other passages like...
Revelation 3, verse 10, where Jesus promises to keep the church from the hour of trial that's coming on the whole earth.
Now, note that Jesus said that he would keep them not in or through the trial, but from the very hour, the time of the trial.
So, in the trumpet sound, we believe that the church isn't hiding out on earth and during them.
No, we're already home.
We're in heaven.
But, and please hear this because it's something I think that we can lose track of when we're studying Revelation.
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