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Revelation 8:2-5

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2 I saw the Seven Angels who are always in readiness before God handed seven trumpets.
2 And I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and seven trumpets were given to them.
3 Then another Angel, carrying a gold censer, came and stood at the Altar. He was given a great quantity of incense so that he could offer up the prayers of all the holy people of God on the Golden Altar before the Throne.
3 Another angel, who had a golden censer, came and stood at the altar. He was given much incense to offer, with the prayers of all God’s people, on the golden altar in front of the throne.
4 Smoke billowed up from the incense-laced prayers of the holy ones, rose before God from the hand of the Angel.
4 The smoke of the incense, together with the prayers of God’s people, went up before God from the angel’s hand.
5 Then the Angel filled the censer with fire from the Altar and heaved it to earth. It set off thunders, voices, lightnings, and an earthquake.
5 Then the angel took the censer, filled it with fire from the altar, and hurled it on the earth; and there came peals of thunder, rumblings, flashes of lightning and an earthquake.
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