The seven trumpets in the book of Revelation are details of what happens in the seventh seal.  The trumpets show that Satan will be allowed to perform counterfeit miracles, signs and wonders in the last days. God will not cause these things to happen but He will allow them to happen. Satan will be able to accomplish many of these counterfeit miracles, signs and wonders through the False Prophet first and then later through the Antichrist. Some of these signs and wonders will be from the realm of nature.

Satan has been allowed to control nature before, such as described in the book of Job. Satan used raiding parties to take Job’s livestock and kill his servants. Satan used fire from the sky to destroy servants and sheep. He used a mighty wind to kill Job’s children. God has allowed Satan, in the past, to cause natural disasters. In the last days Satan will be allowed to control nature again.

God will allow some true believers to feel the wrath of Satan. Believers in Jesus are however always protected from the wrath of God.

Some of these trumpet events appear to have already happened. However, they may be a foreshadowing of things yet to come. For example, in the third trumpet a star is named wormwood. The word wormwood in the Ukrainian language is Chernobyl. They both mean bitter water, each in a different language.  At Chernobyl many people died because of bitter (radioactive) water.

Antiochus Epiphanes' desecration of the temple during the Greek occupation of Israel (which took place less than 200 years before the birth of Jesus) is a foreshadowing of the abomination of desolation which is yet to come in our future as per the prophecies of Daniel.

The atrocities committed against the Jews during the Holocaust and the persecution of the Christians during Nero’s time are foreshadows of atrocities happening now and which will be committed by Satan through the Antichrist during the covenant period of the last days.

When the seventh angel is about to sound the seventh trumpet, the mystery of God will be accomplished.  The mystery is "Christ in you, the hope of glory", according to Colossians 1:27.  So, this mystery will be accomplished when the last soul is saved.

There is much imagery and layered meanings found in Revelation 12 concerning the woman and the birth of the child, and the dragon. Some meanings are literal and some are obviously figurative.

Satan is known by many names, among them “dragon” found in Revelation 12 and 13.

For more details see the book These Last Days - Second Edition by Phil and Patti Moore.  Available at Amazon.