As the first six trumpets blow, a torrent of destruction is unleashed on the earth. This is Revelation in full apocalyptic mode. But what does it all mean? In this episode, we follow the trumpets and their plagues one by one, tracing their connections to the Hebrew Bible and 1st-century Greco-Roman culture. These aren’t random disasters—they’re wake-up calls. God allows evil to run its course—not to destroy hope, but to summon repentance. Could it be that judgment is God’s strange form of mercy?