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An Intertextuality Pair — one connection between two passages, shown as linked verse cards: the Later text and the Earlier text it quotes, alludes to or echoes. The Significance essay explains why the link matters and where it points in Christ.

Reference Type— how explicit the link is: Quotation, Allusion, or Echo
Connection Method(s)— how it carries meaning: e.g. Typology, Promise-Fulfillment, Analogy, Longitudinal Theme
Found via— where the connection was identified, e.g. the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge or an Anchor-Text Network

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Intertextuality Pair

Revelation 8:7 → Exodus 9:23-25

Allusion

Later text

Revelation 8:7BSB

Then the first angel sounded his trumpet, and hail and fire mixed with blood were hurled down upon the earth. A third of the earth was burned up, along with a third of the trees and all the green grass.

Earlier text

Exodus 9:23-25BSB

So Moses stretched out his staff toward heaven, and the LORD sent thunder and hail, and lightning struck the earth. So the LORD rained down hail upon the land of Egypt. The hail fell and the lightning continued flashing through it. The hail was so severe that nothing like it had ever been seen in all the land of Egypt from the time it became a nation. Throughout the land of Egypt, the hail struck down everything in the field, both man and beast; it beat down every plant of the field and stripped every tree.

Significance

The first trumpet judgment — "hail and fire mixed with blood were hurled down upon the earth" — directly recalls the seventh plague on Egypt, where "the LORD sent thunder and hail, and lightning struck the earth" (Exod 9:23). The verbal parallels of hail (chalaza) and fire (pyr) are unmistakable. John adds "blood" (haima) to the combination, intensifying the Exodus imagery and perhaps evoking the first plague (water to blood). The partial scale — "a third" rather than total — indicates a warning judgment that calls for repentance rather than complete annihilation. The New Exodus typological framework is clear: just as God judged Egypt to liberate His people, the trumpet judgments are the eschatological plagues that will culminate in the final liberation of God's people from the "Egypt" of a rebellious world. The pattern of escalation from Egyptian plague to cosmic judgment reflects the movement from type to antitype.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Typology (Providential Type, Forward-Looking) + Longitudinal Theme

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