Revelation 8:6-13

6 Then the seven angels who had the seven trumpets prepared to sound them.
Many commentaries go to great lengths to validate how each apocalyptic event described could realistically happen or in the view of some, has already happened. I’m not going to go to through any elaborate effort to describe them except as is obvious. It is gruesome in its own wording.

7 The first angel sounded his trumpet, and there came hail and fire mixed with blood, and it was hurled down on the earth. A third of the earth was burned up, a third of the trees were burned up, and all the green grass was burned up.

In Matthew 6:10 Jesus was teaching us how to pray saying, “Your kingdom come. Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.” That prayer is once more being answered in these judgments. In the first six seals we saw a fourth of the world being destroyed. Now we’ll see a third of what’s left being destroyed. The word third occurs 13 times in this chapter.

8 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, 9 a third of the living creatures in the sea died, and a third of the ships were destroyed.

The obvious conclusion is a large meteor or something like that falling into the sea. It is unclear if the term “sea” means all the oceans or a particular sea such as the Mediterranean.  The most common interpretation is that all of these relate globally.  All man is affected.

10 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— 11 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.

Oddly enough, there are sources that report that the literal translation of the word “chernobyl” is “wormwood”. This would seem to give some credence to the idea that these are already happening, or maybe it’s coincidence. However, my investigation indicates that if a Ukrainian speaker wants to refer to mugwort, he’ll say "chornobyl" but if he wants to refer to wormwood, he’ll say "polyn." Maybe it’s close enough, that is a question for each of us to interpret.

12 The fourth angel sounded his trumpet, and a third of the sun was struck, a third of the moon, and a third of the stars, so that a third of them turned dark. A third of the day was without light, and also a third of the night.

The judgments not only are disasters here on the earth, but affect the sun, moon, and stars as well. Unless it is a result of extreme cloud cover over the earth. Either way, the earth would undoubtedly get a lot colder.

13 As I watched, I heard an eagle that was flying in midair call out in a loud voice: “Woe! Woe! Woe to the inhabitants of the earth, because of the trumpet blasts about to be sounded by the other three angels!”

As if the preceding trumpets weren’t disastrous enough, an eagle flies declaring the peril that is to come. And yet, through all of that, there are still those who will not believe in Jesus as the Christ, the Son of the one true living God.