Historic Interpreters on the 5th and 6th Trumpets as Muslim Hordes

Historical Account★★★

The 5th and 6th trumpets of Revelation are seen as applying to the Saracens and Turks (Muslim hordes) by “Downham, Brightman, Mede, Parker, Durham, Goodwin, Increase Mather, Sherwin, Jerieu, Flemming, Cotton Mather, Daubuz, Sir Isaac Newton, Jonathan Edwards, Bishop Thomas Newton, John Gill, John Brown of Haddington, Winthrop, Thomas Scott, Fuller, James Angell Brown, Alexander Keith, Bickersteth, Louis Gaussen, Albert Barnes…”

— Francis Nigel Lee

Dr. Francis Nigel Lee, Islam in the Bible, 28.

The point

A list of historic Protestant interpreters who applied the fifth and sixth trumpets of Revelation to the Saracen and Turkish Muslim hordes, cited from Dr. Francis Nigel Lee's book.

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Revelation 9:1-11Revelation 9:13-21

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Revelation Islam Interpretation History Prophecy Book of Revelation Historicism

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