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Revelation 9 – The Fifth and Sixth Trumpets. Audio for Revelation 9: Revelation 8-9 – Trumpeting the Judgment of God. A. The fifth trumpet brings demonic locusts from the bottomless pit. 1. (1) A star fallen from heaven. Then the fifth angel sounded: And I saw a star fallen from heaven to the earth. To him was given the key to the bottomless pit.
Bible study on Revelation 9 covers the 5th and 6th trumpet juddgmetns. These horrible judgments are a taste of hell on earth, warning people to repent.
Revelation 9:1 is a good example of how the Book of Revelation is sometimes wrongly spiritualized in its interpretation. Some commentators say that the star is the word of God, the pit is human nature, and the lesson is that if the gospel is rejected, horrors are unleashed.
What does Revelation chapter 9 mean? John's Revelation from Jesus has shown God's judgment on the earth, first symbolized as the opening of seven seals, and now as the blowing of seven trumpets. Chapter 8 described the last seal, which inaugurated the trumpets.
The verse in Revelation 9:12-15 can be broken down into a few significant sections. Firstly, it mentions the sixth angel who sounded his trumpet, leading to the release of the four angels who were bound at the great river Euphrates.
Revelation 9 has revealed destroying locusts, an image used of a world power. Since the locusts represent the Roman Empire because the locusts and the beast are synonymous images (Revelation 11:7), then the object of God’s wrath is the nation of Israel.
1. A star falling from heaven to the earth. Some think this star represents some eminent bishop in the Christian church, some angel of the church; for, in the same way of speaking by which pastors are called stars, the church is called heaven; but who this is expositors do not agree.
Revelation 9. In this chapter we have an account of the sounding of the fifth and sixth trumpets, the appearances that attended them, and the events that were to follow; the fifth trumpet , the sixth, ver 13, etc.. The Seven Trumpets. (A.D. 95.)
The verse before us suggests the picture of a vast depth approached by a pit or shaft, whose top, or mouth, is covered. Dante’s Inferno, with its narrowing circles winding down to the central shaft, is somewhat similar. The abyss is the lowest spring of evil, whence the worst dangers arise. (Comp.
Verse 9. - And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron. Again, a natural feature of the locust is specifically alluded to, in order to portray the terrible nature of their appearance.