When the seventh angel sounds his TRUMPET, voices in heaven and the twenty-four elders praise God for His eternal kingdom. In their prophetic perspective they see Him exercising his great power, and beginning to reign. The time has come for the dead to be judged. The saints will be rewarded, but destroyers will be destroyed.
John sees the ark of God's covenant in the opened sanctuary in heaven. The setting includes lightning, thunder, an earthquake, and a hailstorm.