hi john and doves

why 7 trumpets?
why 7 bowls of wrath?

6 Pour out your wrath   on the nations     that do not acknowledge   you, on the kingdoms     that do not call on your name;    - Psalm 79:6 (NIV1984)


12 Pay back into the laps   of our neighbors seven times       the reproach they have hurled at you, O Lord.  - Psalm 79:12 (NIV1984)

15 But the Lord said to him, “Not so; if anyone kills Cain  , he will suffer vengeance   seven times over.  ” Then the Lord put a mark on Cain so that no one who found him would kill him.  - Genesis 4:15 (NIV1984)