The Final Trumpet

Tune: St Edmund

('Songs of thankfulness and praise')

Revelation 11 v.15-19

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Seventh angel's trumpet sound

Great voices in heaven redound

Saying, Kingdoms of this world

Proclamation now unfurled

They are become the kingdoms

Of our Lord, makes there His home

And too of our Christ, and He

Shall reign for ever, so be

And the twenty four elders

Which sat before God, each stirs

From their thrones and fall upon

Their faces, worship as one

God, Saying, We thanks you give

You who were, are, ever live

Because you have taken to

Your great power and reigned true

And the nations were angry

And the time of your wrath be

Come, and time of dead's judgement

Yet mercy to penitent

And time you should give reward

To your servant, they you heard

Prophets, saints, and all that fear

You, comforts to them appear

Though you shall destroy those who

Destroy the earth, who so do

Then temple of God in heaven

Opened and His ark* seen then

The ark of His testament

Then there lightnings, thunderings sent

Voices, earthquake, hail, great things

All with God's victory rings

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* ark - a trunk-sized box, not meaning Noah's Ark