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Revelation 9
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| 9:1
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. |
 (9:1-3)
"I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth."
The fifth trumpet sounds and another star falls from heaven. The angel is given the key to a bottomless
pit, containing smoke and powerful locusts.
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| 9:2
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.
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| 9:3 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.
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| 9:4
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. |
 (9:4-6)
"They should not kill them [those without marks on their foreheads], but that they should be
tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion."
The angels are instructed not to "hurt
the grass [How could they? All the grass was killed in 8:7] ... but only those men which have not the seal of God
on their foreheads." God tells his angels not to kill them, but rather
torment them with scorpions for five months. Those tormented will want to die,
but God won't let them.
What the Bible says about torture and
suicide
The Bible's guide
to torture
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| 9:5
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.
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| 9:6
And in those days shall
men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death
shall flee from them.
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| 9:7
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. |
(9:7-10)
"Their power was to hurt men five months."
God makes some horse-like locusts with human
heads, women's hair, lion's teeth, and scorpion's tails. They sting people and
hurt them for five months.
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| 9:8
And they had hair as the
hair of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions. |
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| 9:9
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. |
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| 9:10
And they had tails like
unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails: and their power was to
hurt men five months. |
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| 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. |
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| 9:12
One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter. |
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| 9:13
And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of
the golden altar which is before God, |
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| 9:14
Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels
which are bound in the great river Euphrates. |
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| 9:15
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. |
(9:15-19)
"Their tails were like unto serpents, and had heads, and with them they do hurt."
Four angels, with an army of 200 million,
killed a third of the earth's population.
How many more
will God kill?
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| 9:16
And the number of the
army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand: and I heard the
number of them.
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| 9:17
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.
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| 9:18
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. |
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| 9:19
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. |
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| 9:20
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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| 9:21
Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of
their fornication, nor of their thefts.
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