The Bible is loaded with visions about a perfect world in the future, when the Messiah (the ruler appointed by God) will rule with peace and justice. The last book in the Bible, Revelation, is an incredibly long detailed vision about the persecution of Jesus's followers and, at the end, Jesus's complete triumph over the persecutors.
Revelation 11.15-19 is one small section of that story that gives us a taste for the rest. It describes Jesus Christ taking power on earth when the seventh and last trumpet of judgment sounds. Then it is "Game over" for all his enemies.
God's campaign to connect, heal, and bless is over, too. All the changes he was campaigning to bring have been brought. There is no work left for the campaign team. They get to go to the victory party (the wedding feast of the Lamb) and enjoy the kingdom that Jesus has set up.
The Last Trumpet Sounds
Revelation 11:15-19, The Message
15-18 The seventh Angel trumpeted. A crescendo of voices in Heaven sang out,
The kingdom of the world is now
the Kingdom of our God and his Messiah!
He will rule forever and ever!
The Twenty-four Elders seated before God on their thrones fell to their knees, worshiped, and sang,
We thank you, O God, Sovereign-Strong,
Who Is and Who Was.
You took your great power
and took over—reigned!
The angry nations now
get a taste of your anger.
The time has come to judge the dead,
to reward your servants, all prophets and saints,
Reward small and great who fear your Name,
and destroy the destroyers of earth.
19 The doors of God’s Temple in Heaven flew open, and the Ark of his Covenant was clearly seen surrounded by flashes of lightning, loud shouts, peals of thunder, an earthquake, and a fierce hailstorm.
The Last Trumpet Sounds
Revelation 11:15-19, New English Translation
15 Then the seventh angel blew his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven saying:
“The kingdom of the world
has become the kingdom of our Lord
and of his Christ,
and he will reign for ever and ever.”
16 Then the twenty-four elders who are seated on their thrones before God threw themselves down with their faces to the ground and worshiped God
17 with these words:
“We give you thanks, Lord God, the All-Powerful,
the one who is and who was,
because you have taken your great power
and begun to reign.
18 The nations were enraged,
but your wrath has come,
and the time has come for the dead to be judged,
and the time has come to give to your servants,
the prophets, their reward,
as well as to the saints
and to those who revere your name, both small and great,
and the time has come to destroy those who destroy the earth.”
19 Then the temple of God in heaven was opened and the ark of his covenant was visible within his temple. And there were flashes of lightning, roaring, crashes of thunder, an earthquake, and a great hailstorm.