Revelation 9, The Fifth and Sixth Angel with Trumpet.

 

Revelation 9– The Fifth and Sixth Angel with Trumpet

The fifth trumpet, a single star fell from heaven. This star is an unusual person. He acts with intelligence and is given a key. The belief is that this is satan. (Isaiah 14:12). God gives satan a key to the bottomless pit. We all know that satan cannot do anything without God’s permission. Now God has given to satan permission to open the bottomless pit and when he does, smoke comes out like a volcano erupting and covers the whole earth. Out of the smoke will come locusts who are ordered not to harm anything except for those men who have rejected Christ. They do not have the seal of God in their forehead. These locusts were not to kill these men but to just torment. There will be so many people who reject Christ that they will be tormented so much that they will want to die. There will be people who might try suicide, but they won’t die. These locusts are not like the ones we saw in Exodus who plagued Egypt. These locusts were shaped like horses and will be equipped with armor. They will have faces as men wearing gold crowns. They will have women’s hair and teeth like a lion. Their tails were like scorpions. This will be five months of unspeakable agony for these people. Knowing that some of our children and friends love God yet are left behind will not suffer these things is a great relief to all of us. These locusts have a king whose name in Hebrews means destruction and in Greek means destroyer. This king is probably one of satan's main hench men. This first woe happens during the last half of the tribulation and it lasts five months. The next two woes happen after that and indicates it is just going to get worse. The 6th trumpet was commanded by Christ to release 4 angels that are bound in the Euphrates River. Evidently these angels are evil and were bound to be kept away from the others. Euphrates marks the division between the east and the West. It was near the garden of Eden where sin began. When the four angels are loosed 1/3 of the population will be removed. During the 4th seal, 1/4 of the population was removed. Now over half will be gone. There were 200 million horsemen of the demon world that starts the war. The people will be killed with fire, smoke and brimstone Mt. 24: 22. Even after 1/4 of the population is destroyed and plagues and other terrible events happen, there will still be people who worship idols, who murder, practices witchcraft, fornication and thievery. Fortunately for those who are sealed by God will not be touched by these events.

 

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