Revelation 9:1-4
THE SOUNDING OF THE FIFTH AND SIXTH TRUMPETS. The falling of the star:... [ Continue Reading ]
THE SOUNDING OF THE FIFTH AND SIXTH TRUMPETS. The falling of the star:... [ Continue Reading ]
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.... [ Continue Reading ]
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.... [ Continue Reading ]
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.... [ Continue Reading ]
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. Here is a picture which presents extraordinary convulsions in nature in order to teach the coming of great uph... [ Continue Reading ]
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.... [ Continue Reading ]
The plague of the locusts:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND IN THOSE DAYS SHALL MEN SEEK DEATH, AND SHALL NOT FIND IT; AND SHALL DESIRE TO DIE, AND DEATH SHALL FLEE FROM THEM.... [ Continue Reading ]
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.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THEY HAD HAIR AS THE HAIR OF WOMEN, AND THEIR TEETH WERE AS THE TEETH OF LIONS.... [ Continue Reading ]
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.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THEY HAD TAILS LIKE UNTO SCORPIONS, AND THERE WERE STINGS IN THEIR TAILS; AND THEIR POWER WAS TO HURT MEN FIVE MONTHS.... [ Continue Reading ]
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. Here the devastating spirits are described in detail. It is said of them, first of all: And it was granted to them that they should not... [ Continue Reading ]
ONE WOE IS PAST; AND, BEHOLD, THERE COME TWO WOES MORE HEREAFTER.... [ Continue Reading ]
The sounding of the sixth trumpet:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE SIXTH ANGEL SOUNDED, AND I HEARD A VOICE FROM THE FOUR HORNS OF THE GOLDEN ALTAR WHICH IS BEFORE GOD,... [ Continue Reading ]
SAYING TO THE SIXTH ANGEL WHICH HAD THE TRUMPET, LOOSE THE FOUR ANGELS WHICH ARE BOUND IN THE GREAT RIVER EUPHRATES.... [ Continue Reading ]
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 ART OF MEN.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE NUMBER OF THE ARMY OF THE HORSEMEN WERE TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND THOUSAND; AND I HEARD THE NUMBER OF THEM. The apostle here inserts a remark which has a deep significance: The first woe has passed; behold, there come still two woes after this. There will never be a time of complete peace and re... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THUS I SAW THE HORSES IN THE VISION, AND THEM THAT SAT ON THEM, HAVING BREASTPLATES OF FIRE AND OF JACINTH AND OF BRIMSTONE; AND THE HEADS OF THE HORSES WERE AS THE HEADS OF LIONS; AND OUT OF THEIR MOUTH ISSUED FIRE AND SMOKE AND BRIMSTONE.... [ Continue Reading ]
The further description of the seer confirms this interpretation:... [ Continue Reading ]
BY THESE THREE WAS THE THIRD ART OF MEN KILLED, BY THE FIRE AND BY THE SMOKE AND BY THE BRIMSTONE WHICH ISSUED OUT OF THEIR MOUTHS.... [ Continue Reading ]
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.... [ Continue Reading ]
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;... [ Continue Reading ]
NEITHER REPENTED THEY OF THEIR MURDERS NOR OF THEIR SORCERIES NOR OF THEIR FORNICATION NOR OF THEIR THEFTS. The description of the great masses of horsemen enhances the general effect of the passage, to emphasize the terror and destruction of this great plague: And thus I saw the horses in the visio... [ Continue Reading ]