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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. 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. 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.”
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. 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. And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand: and I heard the number of them.”
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: Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.”
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