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Revelation 9 Summary
Locusts and the Army from Euphrates
The fifth angel sounds, and a star falls, opening the bottomless pit from which smoke and locusts emerge. These locusts, with scorpion power, torment men without God's seal for five months, forcing them to seek death which flees from them. Their king is Abaddon in Hebrew and Apollyon in Greek. The sixth angel sounds, loosing four angels bound at the Euphrates who command an army of 200 million horsemen breathing fire, smoke, and brimstone, killing a third of mankind. The survivors do not repent of idolatry, sorceries, fornication, or murders.
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Revelation 9:1-3
“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.”
Revelation 9:11
“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.”
Revelation 9:14-16
“Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.”
Revelation 9:20-21
“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:”
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