Revelation 9
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1When the fifth angel blew his trumpet, I saw a star#9.1 star: In the ancient world, stars were often thought of as living beings, such as angels. fall from the sky to earth. It was given the key to the tunnel that leads down to the deep pit. 2As it opened the tunnel, smoke poured out like the smoke of a great furnace. The sun and the air turned dark because of the smoke.#Gn 19.28. 3Locusts#9.3 Locusts: A type of grasshopper that comes in swarms and causes great damage to crops. came out of the smoke and covered the earth. They were given the same power that scorpions have.#Ex 10.12-15.
4The locusts were told not to harm the grass on the earth or any plant or any tree. They were to punish only those people who did not have God's mark on their foreheads.#Ez 9.4. 5The locusts were allowed to make them suffer for five months, but not to kill them. The suffering they caused was like the sting of a scorpion. 6In those days people will want to die, but they will not be able to. They will hope for death, but it will escape from them.#Job 3.21; Jr 8.3.
7These locusts looked like horses ready for battle. On their heads they wore something like gold crowns, and they had human faces.#Jl 2.4. 8Their hair was like a woman's long hair, and their teeth were like those of a lion.#Jl 1.6. 9On their chests they wore armour made of iron. Their wings roared like an army of horse-drawn chariots rushing into battle.#Jl 2.5. 10Their tails were like a scorpion's tail with a sting that had the power to hurt someone for five months. 11Their king was the angel in charge of the deep pit. In Hebrew his name was Abaddon, and in Greek it was Apollyon.#9.11 Abaddon…Apollyon: The Hebrew word “Abaddon” and the Greek word “Apollyon” each mean “destruction”.
12The first horrible thing has now happened! But wait. Two more horrible things will happen soon.
13Then the sixth angel blew his trumpet. I heard a voice speak from the four corners of the gold altar that stands in the presence of God.#Ex 30.1-3. 14The voice spoke to this angel and said, “Release the four angels who are tied up beside the great River Euphrates.” 15The four angels had been prepared for this very hour and day and month and year. Now they were set free to kill a third of all people.
16By listening, I could tell there were more than two hundred million of these war horses. 17In my vision their riders wore fiery red, dark blue, and yellow armour on their chests. The heads of the horses looked like lions, with fire and smoke and sulphur coming out of their mouths. 18One third of all people were killed by the three terrible troubles caused by the fire, the smoke, and the sulphur. 19The horses had powerful mouths, and their tails were like poisonous snakes that bite and hurt.
20The people who lived through these terrible troubles did not turn away from the idols they had made, and they did not stop worshipping demons. They kept on worshipping idols that were made of gold, silver, bronze, stone, and wood. Not one of these idols could see, hear, or walk.#Ps 115.4-7; 135.15-17; Dn 5.23. 21No one stopped murdering or practising witchcraft or being immoral or stealing.
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Revelation 9
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1The fifth angel blew his trumpet. I watched a star fall from heaven to earth. The star was given the key to the opening of the Abyss.#9:1. Sometimes translated “bottomless pit.” 2He opened the entrance to the Abyss, and smoke came up out of the Abyss like the smoke of a huge furnace. The sun and the atmosphere became dark because of the smoke from the Abyss. 3Locusts came out of the smoke onto the earth, and they were given power like that possessed by scorpions. 4They were told not to harm the grass or any vegetation or any trees, only those who did not have the seal of God on their foreheads. 5They were not allowed to kill, but they could torture these people for five months. The torture was like that of a scorpion when it stings someone.
6During that time people will look for death, but won't find it; they will want to die, but death will run away from them! 7The locusts looked like war-horses. They wore what seemed to be golden crowns on their heads, and their faces looked human. 8They had long hair like women and had teeth like lions. 9Their breastplates looked like they were made of iron, and the noise made by their wings sounded like many horses and chariots racing into battle. 10They had tails like scorpions, complete with stingers. They had the power to hurt people for five months with their tails. 11Ruling over them as their king was the angel of the Abyss who is called Abaddon in Hebrew and Apollyon in Greek.#9:11. Abaddon in Hebrew means “destruction” while Apollyon in Greek means “destroyer.” 12The first Disaster is over, but there are still two more to come.
13The sixth angel blew his trumpet. I heard a voice come from the horns of the golden altar that stands in front of God 14speaking to the sixth angel that had the trumpet: “Release the four angels that are tied up beside the great River Euphrates.”
15The four angels who had been kept ready for this particular hour, day, month and year were released to kill one third of humanity. 16I was told the number of the army of soldiers on horseback: it was 200 million.
17In my vision I saw the horses and their riders who wore breastplates as red as fire, and dark blue and yellow.#9:17. Literally, “hyacinth and sulfur.” The heads of the horses looked like lions, and fire and smoke and sulfur streamed out of their mouths.
18One third of humanity was killed by these three plagues, by the fire and smoke and sulfur streaming out of their mouths. 19The horses' power was in their tails as well as their mouths, for their tails were like serpents' heads that they used to hurt people.
20But the rest of humanity who were not killed by these plagues did not repent of what they were doing. They did not stop worshiping demons and idols of gold, silver, bronze, and stone—which can't see or hear or walk! 21They did not repent of their murders, their witchcraft, their sexual sins, or their thefts.
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