For if the trumpet gives an indistinct sound, who will get ready for a battle?

When the supper was about ready, he sent his slave out to tell those who were invited, 'Come, for everything is [now] ready.'

And the four angels who had been ready for this hour and day and month and year were [now] released to kill one third of mankind.

But in the days when the seventh angel is ready to sound his trumpet, then the secret plan of God will be accomplished, just as He [had] announced to His servants the prophets."

By [having] faith, when Abraham was tested [by God], he offered Isaac [as a sacrifice]. [Even though] he had received the promises [of having many descendants], he was ready to offer his only conceived [and eventually born] son,