The trumpets stress their increasing end-time focus through the declaration of a heavenly voice: “Woe! Woe! Woe to the inhabitants of the earth, because of the trumpet blasts about to be sounded by the other three angels” (Rev. 8:13). The last three trumpet-visions are thus intensified judgments or “woes” and form the transition from divine warnings to demonic woes. Paulien states with perception: “In these woes God, for His own purposes, permits the forces of evil to increase