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The angel releases a censer of burning coals toward the earth as lightning flashes below.
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Revelation 8:5-6

Censer cast and trumpets prepared

Silence and the first four trumpets · Revelation 8

Story guide: The censer’s fire is cast toward the earth; thunder, lightning and an earthquake follow. The next verse announces the trumpet angels’ preparation.

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5And the angel took the censer, and filled it with fire from the altar, and threw it onto the earth; and there came peals of thunder and sounds and flashes of lightning and an earthquake.

6And the seven angels who had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound them.

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