The locust plague of Revelation 9

Read joel 1 & 2.

There a actual physical locust plague is characterized as an invading army.

In rev 9, the invasion of the romans are characterized as a locust plague.

You have to get into the frame of mind that a first century jew or reader of only the OT would have.

Notrash said:

Read joel 1 & 2.

There a actual physical locust plague is characterized as an invading army.

In rev 9, the invasion of the romans are characterized as a locust plague.

You have to get into the frame of mind that a first century jew or reader of only the OT would have.

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Examine the armies described in the prophets...they are likened to locusts:

Isaiah 33:4, Jeremiah 46:23, and Jeremiah 51:14.

Excellent study on the 5th trumpet. And to the person who mentioned Joel you should go read it again because he is talking about the same kind of army. The army in chapter 2 is angelic not earthly.

Revelation 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 [pit of the abyss]."

The "star" that falls to the earth is the star of Isaiah 14. The star is "Lucifer", who will be the Antichrist once he arrives on earth. Satan is given the key, or authority to the bottomless pit, for this is where Satan's fallen angels are held.
Satan is to be God's executioner of God's divine wrath that is to be poured out upon the earth. God is going to give Satan the right to have his way with all who are blind to God's Word.

Remember, God removed the wall of protection around Job; for Satan. The only stipulation God gave Satan was that he was not allowed to take Job's life. Job had the will; Satan did the testing, and God allowed it. This is an example of what is to happen in these end times; and that is why we must be ready, and with our spiritual armor on.
Right now, today, Satan is not in that bottomless pit, but in heaven. He is the accuser of the saints before the throne of God. The fallen angels are in the pit, or the abyss. The pit is not a place, or location, but a point of degradation. It's a similar statement to Satan being told he would always crawl on his belly, as the serpent. No Satan never became a snake, but he was a deceiver and his actions were as that of a snake.

Revelation 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."

This is the pit that holds every evil spirit that is on the earth and in God's confinement. This smoke comes from the pit, and it darkens, not eliminates the sun and air. When Jesus Christ returns the sun, moon and stars are eliminated. This darkening is talked about in Revelation 8:12, where one third of visibility is gone, at the sounding of the fourth trumpet.

This smoke is setting up the people of the earth for the supernatural things about to happen. Just like in Job's case, God will set limits how far Satan can go. What is important to us, as Christians; is that we be able to identify Satan, and his works, by what ever roll he plays, or name he choses for himself.

Revelation 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."

This locust army that comes upon the earth is Satan's army of demonic forces. They are the fallen angels, and demons, both coming with Satan, and those that are already here upon the earth.

The "power" in the Greek, is "exousia"; it means "authority", or delegated power by God to them. It is the right to carry out the wrath of God, in His [God's] behalf. When they strike, or exert their power on the deceived, it is a spiritual power, as we see in Ephesians 6:10-20. This is because we are in a spiritual battle against Satan and His forces.
If you are looking for bombs to fall, fire from heaven, or as such, you will be misled. In a spiritual sense, their striking will be deadly; spiritual deadly, for they will exert their authority in the same manner as a scorpion renders it's prey harmless and defenseless.

Revelation 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."

God will not allow any physical damage to any part of the earth. Not the grass, trees, or any physical matter you can think of. This is a spiritual warfare, and it is a battle for the minds of men and the commitment of their souls to him. God is very specific as to what they can do. Their targets are only the people; The "Anthropos" in the Greek, the individuals of man, not any animal, and only those "that have not the seal of God in their foreheads".

Revelation 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."

God has given us a good clue as to how long Satan will rule as Antichrist. That time is five months. The book of Joel describes in detail how this method of the locust works. The result of that torment is exactly as the torment of the scorpion that "striketh a man". So lets try to understand more of both the locust, and the scorpion.
This is that locust army of Satan that will deliver up the sons and daughters to prophecy against the Antichrist, as spoken of in Joel 2, and also by Peter in Acts 2. What these sons and daughters say will only be those words that the Holy Spirit speaks through them.

Joel said this locust army would march forward, and not miss a stride. Remember, it's not "locust" but men, and the battle which this army enters is a spiritual battle, where the victory is in their deception. Their battle cry is with words like love, joy, peace, brotherhood, equality, and a mixture of words promising peace and prosperity. In the Antichrist rule [the five months] everyone will be satisfied, as long as they continue to yield to this Antichrist.

The time "locust" has four stages, as stated in Joel 1. The part of the locust that exists in the swarming stage is five months. That five months staging period is always between May and September; so God is even giving us the season, or time frame when Antichrist will appear. And by that season, we have an hint of when the seventh trumpet will sound, and Jesus Christ will appear. However that instant is known only to the Father.

Why then the torment as that of a scorpion? This locust army will use the same methods a scorpion uses to attack it's prey and render it's prey harmless, during this five months period. Satan and his locust army will not be in any special form, but will appear exactly as a man, as we do. Satan was in the form of a man in the Garden of Eden when he tempted Eve, and his fallen angels appeared as men in Genesis 6:1-8, when they married the daughters of men and had "children" [Nephelim] by them.

The scorpion has a tail with a stinger in the tail. When they strike their prey, he sneaks up to it's prey and infects it's poison into the victim. Near it's mouth, it has a set of pinchers where it latches on to it's victim and pulls it to it's mouth. This is important, because the scorpion has no stomach, so it cannot digest it's own food within itself. Therefore the scorpion stings with the poison of it's tail to paralyze the victim, and then it vomits it's digestive juices [acids] into the body of the victim, then the victim's skin and body actually become the scorpion's stomach.

The acids turn everything it touches into mush. Then the scorpion inhales the mush from the victim's body and is gone. The victim is left defenseless from the beginning of the scorpion's strike, because the poison from the tail rendered the circulatory system and nervous system totally paralyzed, while the digestive acids turned the body to mush. Once stung by a scorpion, instantly you have no defense. You can't fight, run, or even think. You lay helpless to the devouring process of the scorpion.

Now that we see how the scorpion attacks, and the methods used by them; let's apply their methods, to Satan and that of this locust army. Satan and his army of fallen angels will take the lies [traditions] within your religion, and the false teaching that you believe to be true; and use it against you. All religions, Christian and otherwise, will be approached on the level and beliefs of their own understanding. They will use the doctrines of their choosing, and through that, the spiritual darts of lies and deception will come.

Like the scorpion uses your body for it's battle, and attack, so the angels of the locust army [not human] will use your mind as it's battleground. That is why you must be sealed in your mind [see verse 4] and with the proper armor on, which again is in Ephesians 6:10-20. Your battle is a spiritual one with the king of all demons, Satan, and he is ready for you.

The Antichrist has the authority from God, and the right to do business on earth, from the giver of all authority. He knows all your weaknesses, and he knows the Word as well as any theologian. Satan is set to do battle in your mind; and if your relying on false doctrine; like the rapture theory, your gone before the battle starts. If Revelation is still a mystery to you, you don't have a prayer of a chance.
You are about to go against the master of all deception, and the truth of God's word is the only thing Satan can't fight against. That is because the truth written in God's Word sets the limits God placed upon him as the Antichrist. How are you doing, friend?

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Alfred Persson said:

Are there two Satans, one with the key, the other being bound by the angel having the key?

1 Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, having the key to the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand.
2 He laid hold of the dragon, that serpent of old, who is the Devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years; (Rev 20:1-2 NKJ)

Right about now, your thinking "oops!!"

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Actually,not understanding why you're referencing Rev 20 with what I posted,soooo,no oops here....

Rev 20 is after satan's reign....The key in Rev 9 was given to the star that fell who is satan as Ive stated

Revelation 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

Who is the (him)?

Luke 10:18 "And He said unto them, "I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven."

@ Alfred Persson

Who was given the key in chapter 9?

The way I read it,satan was........

Revelation 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 [pit of the abyss]."

Who is the him ? Is he not the star that's fallling?

In this chapter,satan is about to set his cronnies free,in chapter 20 he gets bound...

Revelation 20:1 "And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand."

"Revelation 20:2 "And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years,"

Two totally different things are happening in chapter 9 and 20

Dunbar said:

Excellent study on the 5th trumpet. And to the person who mentioned Joel you should go read it again because he is talking about the same kind of army. The army in chapter 2 is angelic not earthly.

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Indeed YOU should...Dunbar.

This is NOT the 5th trumpet! Anyway you read it the majority of Joel 1 & 2 is God's judgment of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar. This is no angelic army! It's the Babylonians come to conquer Judah and take them away captive. You have taken a prophecy to Judah and pushed it into the future Dunbar. How can you miss what's going on here with Peter quoting Joel 2:28-32 in Acts 2???

To be exact, it is the connective "And afterward..." of Joel 2:28

ebedmelech said:

Indeed YOU should...Dunbar.

This is NOT the 5th trumpet! Anyway you read it the majority of Joel 1 & 2 is God's judgment of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar. This is no angelic army! It's the Babylonians come to conquer Judah and take them away captive. You have taken a prophecy to Judah and pushed it into the future Dunbar. How can you miss what's going on here with Peter quoting Joel 2:28-32 in Acts 2???

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OK, I will summarize Joel 2 for all the soundbite Christians!!

- Blow the trumpet in Zion - reference to the 7 trumpets
- the day of the Lord is coming **end-times**
- a strong army is coming and nothing like it has ever been seen before
- a fire before them and a fire behind
- horseman and chariots are mentioned similar to when Elijah was taken to heaven
- when they fall on the sword they are not wounded **not an earthly army**
- the earth shakes and the heaven trembles **revelation language**
- the LORD utters his voice before his army **6th trumpet - LORD's army**
- final reference to the early and latter rains **early rain - Pentecost** **latter rain in last days to ripen harvest Rev. 14:15**

the early and latter rain more likely refer to the beginning and end of the generation from 33-70 AD. At the end, the brilliance of the words of Christ about Israel's destruction would be recalled and made clear, and many people would finally believe.

That sticks closer to the apostle's times.

Dunbar said:

OK, I will summarize Joel 2 for all the soundbite Christians!!

- Blow the trumpet in Zion - reference to the 7 trumpets
- the day of the Lord is coming **end-times**
- a strong army is coming and nothing like it has ever been seen before
- a fire before them and a fire behind
- horseman and chariots are mentioned similar to when Elijah was taken to heaven
- when they fall on the sword they are not wounded **not an earthly army**
- the earth shakes and the heaven trembles **revelation language**
- the LORD utters his voice before his army **6th trumpet - LORD's army**
- final reference to the early and latter rains **early rain - Pentecost** **latter rain in last days to ripen harvest Rev. 14:15**

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The summary is in error. Blowing the trumpet has NOTHING to do with Revelation trumpets. Always remember Israel blew trumpets to assemble all the time...so that won't fly. They blew trumpets for war, to prepare to move out or set camp (when they had the tabernacle), to assemble for feasts, and so on. The idea of blowing the trumpet is because there's about to be judgment of Judah is about to happen at the hands of Nebuchadnezzar. God used him to judge the entire region. The trumpet blowing opens the eyes of those Amos was prophesying to because they were so familiar with the blowing of trumpets. This trumpet is an alarm to Judah.

Try reading and correlating Jeremiah 20 and 21 with Joel.

Alfred Persson said:

so, how is that relevant? The question is: the identity of the angel with the key to the bottomless pit.

It is elementary deduction: If he binds satan, he is not satan.

To illustrate, if you drive the car, you are not the car.

Now you do not remind me of me. It is required of the exegete he think critically.

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He dosn't get binded in chapter 9,that's the point you're missing,that's why you can't put 9 and 20 together,totally different happenings....He get's binded in 20,in 9 he's like just getting here......

The jihadist and the demons that inspire and torment them.​

The purpose of this page is to show that Revelation 9 is about Islam and suicide bombers are mentioned in the bible. It's not a study of the entire text.

For ages, many believed that the locust of Revelation 9 are Islamic. Revelation 9 actually says that the same demons that inspire the jihadist to commit the abominations of the earth, are actually attacking Muslims like scorpions to torment them for 5 months. Most people believe that the 200 million are an army from China. That's not so. They are very likely demons AND/OR "jihadist."

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Protestant scholars of the nineteenth century saw with amazing unanimity the rise and spread of Islam in this passage. Why? First consider where the locusts came from. They came from the “Abyss.” One of the finest Islamic scholars of the twentieth century, Abul A’la Mawdudi, wrote a book to introduce the English-speaking world to Islam. His subtitle called Arabia, the center of Mohammed’s activities, the “Abyss of Darkness.” The phrase “bottomless pit” in the above passage is actually the word for “abyss” in Greek. This prominent scholar used the exact words of the Bible when describing the center of Mohammed’s activity.

Why locusts? Because of the Arabs’ connection to the locust. The Ismaelites, forerunners of the modern Muslim, have as their national insignia a locust in the Bedoween romance “Antwar.” There is also a story of Mohammed that has locusts falling into his hands bearing the inscription “We are the Army of the Great God.” So here are two connections, but it doesn’t stop there.

Consider the appearance of the locusts:

The locusts looked like horses prepared for battle. On their heads they wore something like crowns of gold, and their faces resembled human faces. Their hair was like women’s hair, and their teeth were like lions’ teeth. They had breastplates like breastplates of iron, and the sound of their wings was like the thundering of many horses and chariots rushing into battle. They had tails and stings like scorpions, and in their tails they had power to torment people for five months. They had as king over them the angel of the Abyss, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek, Apollyon. (Rev 9:7-11)

The Arabs were widely renown for their skill with a horse; according to Adam Clarke it was as if the horse and the rider were one. The Muslim wore a yellow turban as a crown, according to the poem “Antwar.” As for the face and the hair, according to Scripture a man is not to shave his beard (Lev 19:27), and the long hair of a woman is her glory (1 Cor 11:15). Arabs of the day were described as having shoulder-length hair and beards. The teeth of the lion probably represented their ferocity in battle. The breastplate reminds us of the Koran’s statement that “God hath given you coats of mail.”

The tails and the stings of the scorpion were likely references to the Muslims’ ability to shoot backwards accurately while in full retreat. The power of their tails probably represented the poisonous doctrines of Islam that they were spreading to the world.

What of the other limitations placed on the army? They couldn’t harm vegetation. The Koran commands the Muslims to leave the vegetation in invaded territories alone. Muslim armies were also commanded to leave the monks in the monestaries alone and monestaries were not to be burned. These people, the Muslims thought, had God’s seal of protection on them. The Muslims were not allowed to kill the church, only torture it. That is, they couldn’t destroy the church, but they did set a series of calamities on it for five prophetic months.
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My comments....

"And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, (suicide vest)

The word for breastplates is the word 'thorax" and it means,

Breastplate:

primarily, "the breast," denotes "a breastplate or corselet," consisting of two parts and protecting the body on both sides, from the neck to the middle. It is used metaphorically of righteousness, Eph 6:14; of faith and love, 1Th 5:8, with perhaps a suggestion of the two parts, front and back, which formed the coat of mail (an alternative term for the word in the NT sense); elsewhere in Rev 9:9, 17.

Breastplates were held by straps that went over the shoulders or around the neck.

...and of jacinth, (dark red)...

From Vines....
Jacinth:
signifies "hyacinthine," perhaps primarily having the color of thehyacinth. Some regard its color as that of the martagon lily, a dusky red. According to Swete, the word in Rev 9:17 is "doubtless meant to describe the blue smoke of a sulphurous flame."

...and brimstone:.... (explosion) This is the only place the word 'brimstone' or Strongs #2306 is used in the NT. The word is Strong's # 2303 is used 7 times. #2306 comes from 2303 and is said, "(in its original sense of "flashing)."

...and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; (Babylonians) and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone."

John even tells us how many jihadist there are in the world when this happens.

In 2006-7 Daniel Pipes said there were 300 million jihadist and 400 million radicals in the world. I thought that number to be a bit high on the jihadist but close on the radicals.

"And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand: and I heard the number of them."

That would be 200 million.

For their power is in their mouth, and in their tails:

The only two places tails are mentioned are here and on the dragon of Rev. 12. Their mouth is probably the holy war teachings of the Koran, praying to Allah, and the Imams promoting terrorism aka Satan's will of destruction.

"for their tails were like unto serpents,"

Tails and serpents are icons of the dragon and Lucifer. Lucifer and the dragon make up Islam's morning star and crescent moon!

"and had heads, and with them they do hurt."

Heads could be symbolic of people or Islamic clerics and leaders who encourage them to commit jihad. Look at the word "hurt" and apply it to a suicide bombing.

I consider Revelation 9 to be the strangest and most demonic of all chapters in the New Testament.

http://www.blacksheepprophecies.com/index.html

Alfred Persson said:

That is irrelevant to the identity of the angel with the key to the abyss.

The jailor who locks the door on a prisoner is NOT the prisoner.

The angel with the key binds satan, therefore he is not satan.

I'm done explaining this. Its time for me to move on.

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Not irrelevent at all...You can be done that's all good,however as Ive said,9 is different from 20