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  "schemaVersion": 1,
  "kind": "event",
  "id": "revelation-seventh-trumpet",
  "era": "revelation",
  "order": 513,
  "title": "The seventh trumpet: God’s reign announced",
  "group": "rev-trumpets",
  "date": {
    "kind": "relative",
    "label": "Revelation 11 · reading sequence",
    "note": "This is the order of the book. It does not assign a calendar date to a vision or choose one scheme of fulfillment."
  },
  "summary": "Heaven announces the kingdom of God and his Christ. The elders worship, giving thanks for judgment, reward and the defeat of those who destroy the earth; the heavenly temple opens to reveal the covenant ark.",
  "context": "The trumpet brings an announcement of reign and judgment before the narrative presents further visions. Readers understand the relationship of these scenes in different ways, including recapitulation and a sequence of future events; their literary order does not establish a single chronological chart. The ark appears in the temple in heaven. The passage is not evidence of an archaeological discovery or the present earthly location of the ark.",
  "question": "What does the elders’ worship say about the purposes of God’s judgment?",
  "locationNote": "Visionary setting; no geographic pin or route. The background map shows the historical recipients in western Asia Minor, not the location of this vision.",
  "relatedNote": "These readings illuminate biblical language and themes. Connections do not by themselves settle the timing or every interpretation of the vision.",
  "passages": [
    {
      "reference": "Revelation 11:15–19",
      "range": [
        66011015,
        66011019
      ],
      "translation": "bsb",
      "url": "https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation%2011%3A15%E2%80%9319&version=BSB",
      "availability": "bundled",
      "verses": [
        {
          "book": "Revelation",
          "chapter": 11,
          "verse": 15,
          "text": "Then the seventh angel sounded his trumpet, and loud voices called out in heaven: “The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ, and He will reign forever and ever.”"
        },
        {
          "book": "Revelation",
          "chapter": 11,
          "verse": 16,
          "text": "And the twenty-four elders who sit on their thrones before God fell on their faces and worshiped God,"
        },
        {
          "book": "Revelation",
          "chapter": 11,
          "verse": 17,
          "text": "saying: “We give thanks to You, O Lord God Almighty, the One who is and who was, because You have taken Your great power and have begun to reign."
        },
        {
          "book": "Revelation",
          "chapter": 11,
          "verse": 18,
          "text": "The nations were enraged, and Your wrath has come. The time has come to judge the dead and to reward Your servants the prophets, as well as the saints and those who fear Your name, both small and great—and to destroy those who destroy the earth.”"
        },
        {
          "book": "Revelation",
          "chapter": 11,
          "verse": 19,
          "text": "Then the temple of God in heaven was opened, and the ark of His covenant appeared in His temple. And there were flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder, an earthquake, and a great hailstorm."
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "related": [
    {
      "range": [
        27007026,
        27007027
      ],
      "kind": "teaching",
      "note": "Daniel also joins the judgment of oppressive rule with an enduring kingdom shared with God’s holy people.",
      "reference": "Daniel 7:26–27",
      "translation": "bsb",
      "url": "https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Daniel%207%3A26%E2%80%9327&version=BSB"
    }
  ],
  "places": [],
  "mapPeriod": "revelation-asia",
  "further": [],
  "provenance": {
    "sources": [
      {
        "name": "editorial",
        "ref": "content/authored/revelation.json"
      }
    ],
    "review": "draft"
  },
  "eraName": "Revelation",
  "interactiveUrl": "https://wilderness-scripture-atlas.pages.dev/?event=revelation-seventh-trumpet",
  "attribution": [
    "Place coordinates from OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding Data, CC BY 4.0.",
    "Teaching stops, summaries and regional extents are original editorial content of this atlas.",
    "Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain. https://berean.bible/licensing.htm"
  ],
  "translation": "bsb",
  "url": "https://wilderness-scripture-atlas.pages.dev/reference/events/revelation-seventh-trumpet/",
  "markdownUrl": "https://wilderness-scripture-atlas.pages.dev/reference/events/revelation-seventh-trumpet/index.md",
  "jsonUrl": "https://wilderness-scripture-atlas.pages.dev/reference/events/revelation-seventh-trumpet/index.json",
  "cautions": "Narrative order is a reading arrangement, not a proven chronology. Dates retain their stated uncertainty. An identified locality does not establish the exact venue or prove an event. Region extents and routes are illustrative, not surveyed boundaries or ancient roads. Draft material has not completed editorial review.",
  "revision": "c4ad81e45d39fcef"
}