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Revelation Study

By Rev. Richard Puckett

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Chapter 9

(Rev 9:1 KJV) And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit.

(Rev 9:2 KJV) And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.

(Rev 9:3 KJV) And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power.

(Rev 9:4 KJV) And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads.

(Rev 9:5 KJV) And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man. (Rev 9:6 KJV) And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them. Rev 9:6: 9:6 HUMANITY, Death-- God's judgment on the world will be so severe people will desire death over life. Death is not the worst experience humans face. At times life can be worse. God's people know He has sealed us from His final judgment. The experiences of life can become so unbearable that people will long for death. Death, however, does not come just because people want it. Obviously, suicide can be seen as a way out, but this passage does not refer to that.

(Rev 9:7 KJV) And the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared unto battle; and on their heads were as it were crowns like gold, and their faces were as the faces of men.

(Rev 9:8 KJV) And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions. (Rev 9:9 KJV) And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle.

(Rev 9:10 KJV) And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails: and their power was to hurt men five months.

(Rev 9:11 KJV) And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon. The "king" or angel who rules over these dissident spirits is also assigned a name which is characteristic of his work. The Hebrew word abaddon and the Greek term apollyon both signify "destruction." However, this should not be understood as annihilation. The word apollyon arises from luo (Gk.), meaning "to loose," and apo, a preposition indicating movement away. The idea is that the destruction caused by Satan and sin is, in effect, the loss of all meaningful existence and is due to being loosed forever from God.

(Rev 9:12 KJV) One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.

(Rev 9:13 KJV) And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,

(Rev 9:14 KJV) Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.

(Rev 9:15 KJV) And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.

(Rev 9:16 KJV) And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand: and I heard the number of them.

(Rev 9:17 KJV) And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.

(Rev 9:18 KJV) By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.

(Rev 9:19 KJV) For their power is in their mouth, and in their tails: for their tails were like unto serpents, and had heads, and with them they do hurt.

(Rev 9:20 KJV) And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk:

Nothing more astonishing could be concluded about the two woes thus far revealed than John's observation that the remainder of the earth's inhabitants are not drawn to repentance by these cataclysmic trumpet judgments. There are two specific categories of unrepentance mentioned: heretical worship (v. 20) and the immorality of men (v. 21). This failure of men to respond appropriately to the judgments of the Tribulation introduces the reader to a crucial aspect of theology. The purpose of the Great Tribulation is to demonstrate, over a seven-year period, the consequences of living under the judgment of God. The goal of such an appeal is to encourage men to repent in light of the certainty of God's eternal retribution, foreshadowed by the seven tragic years of terrestrial wrath. The result of this last appeal in terms of judgment demonstrates the essential depravity of man. With full cognizance of the judgment of God, men still do not repent.

(Rev 9:21 KJV) Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.