These parts are known as the .
seal, trumpet, and bowl judgments with seven specific judgments each.
The first series is the seal judgments. Christ will open each of the seven scrolls .
and chaos will unleash from within each one. The opening of the first four seals will .
"affect society and is when the four horsemen appear."2 The first seal will bring out the .
rider on the white horse and symbolizes the Antichrist's oppresion. The second seal will .
bring out the rider of the red horse and symbolizes widespread war. The third seal will .
bring out the rider on the black horse and symbolizes famine. The fourth seal will bring .
out the rider on the pale horse and symbolizes different kinds of death. This seal will .
perish one-fourth of the world's population. With the current world population, this .
would mean a billion and a half people. The fifth seal will make the martyrs appear and .
the Lord will later avenge their deaths. The sixth seal will cause a worldwide earthquake. .
The seventh seal bring a thirty-minute silence in heaven as an introduction to the trumpet .
judgments.
The second series of the tribulation is the trumpet judgments, a direct result of the .
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seventh seal judgment. An angel will blow a trumpet before each judgment begins. .
Before John saw any of the seven angels blow its trumpets, he saw another angel before .
God with a golden censer, an appearance symbolizing the prayers of the saints that .
started the trumpet judgments. The first four trumpets will physically destruct the earth. .
After the first trumpet is blown, one-third of the earth will be destroyed. After the second .
trumpet is blown, one-third of the ocean (including living creatures and ships) will be .
destroyed. After the third trumpet is blown, a star (wormwood) will fall and "pollute the .
water supply of one-third of the world's rivers."3 After the fourth trumpet is blown, the .
light will be limited to one-third of the day and one-third of the night.