Revelation 9
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The Fifth Trumpet
1The fifth angel blew his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from heaven to earth. # Is 14:12; Lk 10:18; Rv 8:10 The key to the shaft of the abyss # Lk 8:31; Rm 10:7; Rv 9:11; 11:7; 17:8; 20:1-3 was given to him. 2He opened the shaft of the abyss, and smoke came up out of the shaft like smoke from a great # Other mss omit great furnace # Gn 19:28; Ex 19:18 so that the sun and the air were darkened by the smoke from the shaft. # Jl 2:2,10 3Then locusts came out of the smoke on to the earth, # Ex 10:1-20; Dt 28:42; 1Kg 8:37; Ps 78:46 and power # Or authority was given to them # Mt 10:1; 28:18; Rv 6:8 like the power that scorpions have on the earth. # Dt 8:15; Ezk 2:6; Lk 10:19 4They were told not to harm the grass of the earth, or any green plant, or any tree, # Rv 6:6; 7:3 but only people who do not have God’s seal on their foreheads. # Rv 7:3 5They were not permitted to kill them but were to torment them for five months; their torment is like the torment caused by a scorpion when it strikes a man. 6In those days people will seek death and will not find it; they will long to die, but death will flee from them. # Jb 3:20-22; Rv 6:16
7The appearance of the locusts was like horses equipped for battle. # Jl 2:4-5 Something like gold crowns was on their heads; their faces were like men’s faces; 8they had hair like women’s hair; their teeth were like lions’ teeth; # Jl 1:6 9they had chests like iron breastplates; the sound of their wings was like the sound of chariots with many horses rushing into battle; 10and they had tails with stingers like scorpions, so that with their tails they had the power # Or authority to harm people for five months. 11They had as their king # Or as king over them the angel of the abyss; his name in Hebrew is Abaddon, # Or destruction # Jb 26:6; 28:22; 31:12; Ps 88:11; Pr 15:11; 27:20 and in Greek he has the name Apollyon. # Or destroyer 12The first woe has passed. There are still two more woes to come after this. # Rv 8:13; 11:14
The Sixth Trumpet
13The sixth angel blew his trumpet. From the four # Other mss omit four horns of the gold altar # Ex 39:38; 40:5 that is before God, I heard a voice 14say to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, “Release the four angels # Rv 7:1-2 bound at the great river Euphrates.” # Rv 16:12 15So the four angels who were prepared for the hour, day, month, and year # Gn 7:11; 2Kg 25:1; Jr 39:2; 52:4,12,31 were released to kill a third # Rv 8:7-12 of the human race. 16The number of mounted troops was 200 million; # Other mss read 100 million I heard their number. 17This is how I saw the horses in my vision: The horsemen had breastplates that were fiery red, hyacinth blue, and sulfur yellow. The heads of the horses were like lions’ heads, and from their mouths came fire, smoke, and sulfur. # Gn 19:24; Dt 29:23; Jb 18:15; Ps 11:6; Is 34:9; Lk 17:29; Rv 14:10; 19:20; 20:10; 21:8 18A third of the human race was killed by these three plagues — by the fire, the smoke, and the sulfur that came from their mouths. 19For the power of the horses is in their mouths and in their tails, for their tails, which resemble snakes, have heads, and they inflict injury with them.
20The rest of the people, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands # 1Kg 13:33; 2Ch 34:25; Ps 7:12; Jr 1:16; Rv 16:9,11 to stop worshiping demons # 1Co 10:20 and idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone, and wood, # Dt 29:17; Dn 2:32,35,45; Hab 2:19; Ac 17:29 which are not able to see, hear, or walk. # Dt 4:28; Ps 115:4-7; 135:15-17; Dn 5:23 21And they did not repent of their murders, their sorceries, # Or magic potions, or drugs ; Gk pharmakon their sexual immorality, or their thefts.
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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. 2#Gn 19.28; 2 Esd 7.36. As 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. 3#Ex 10.12-15; Ws 16.9. Locusts#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.
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Ez 9.4. The 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. 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. 6#Job 3.21; Jr 8.3. In 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.
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Jl 2.4. These locusts looked like horses ready for battle. On their heads they wore something like gold crowns, and they had human faces. 8#Jl 1.6. Their hair was like a woman's long hair, and their teeth were like those of a lion. 9#Jl 2.5. On their chests they wore armor made of iron. Their wings roared like an army of horse-drawn chariots rushing into battle. 10Their tails were like a scorpion's tail with a stinger 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.
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Ex 30.1-3. Then 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. 14The voice spoke to this angel and said, “Release the four angels who are tied up beside the great Euphrates River.” 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 200,000,000 war horses. 17#Ws 11.17,18. In my vision their riders wore fiery-red, dark-blue, and yellow armor on their chests. The heads of the horses looked like lions, with fire and smoke and sulfur 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 sulfur. 19The horses had powerful mouths, and their tails were like poisonous snakes that bite and hurt.
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Ps 115.4-7; 135.15-17; Dn 5.23. The people who lived through these terrible troubles did not turn away from the idols they had made, and they did not stop worshiping demons. They kept on worshiping idols that were made of gold, silver, bronze, stone, and wood. Not one of these idols could see, hear, or walk. 21No one stopped murdering or practicing witchcraft or being immoral or stealing.
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