An angel comes down from heaven with a key to unlock the pit in
Revelation 9:1-2, which would not be needed unless the pit had been locked previously.
I have shown you on several occasions that
Revelation 16:15-16 proves the Book of Revelation is not in chronological order.
Satan is allowed to unlock his angels from the pit in the 5th Trumpet. By the 7th Trumpet the whole assembly had to be kicked out of heaven the second time. They wore out their welcome very quickly. Satan 1000 years later trys to turn folks minds and they are destroyed. Those who follow Satan now, are sure ignoring the last 7000 years. Revelation 16:14-16
14 They are miracle-working demonic spirits which go out to the kings of the whole inhabited world to assemble them for the War of the Great Day of
Adonai-Tzva’ot.
15 (“Look! I am coming like a thief! How blessed are those who stay alert and keep their clothes clean, so that they won’t be walking naked and be publicly put to shame!”)
16 And they gathered the kings to the place which in Hebrew is called Har Megiddo.
People who follow Satan do not heed this warning either: (“Look! I am coming like a thief! How blessed are those who stay alert and keep their clothes clean, so that they won’t be walking naked and be publicly put to shame!”). We know Christ is coming to judge the living and the dead. Obviously those at Armageddon could not bother avoiding the event.
“Come, gather together for the great feast God is giving, to eat the flesh of kings, the flesh of generals, the flesh of important men, the flesh of horses and their riders and the flesh of all kinds of people, free and slave, small and great!”
Then the earth’s kings, the rulers, the generals, the rich and the mighty — indeed, everyone, slave and free — hid himself in caves and among the rocks in the mountains,
and said to the mountains and rocks, “
Fall on us, and hide us from the face of the One sitting on the throne and from the fury of the Lamb!
There is a reason Revelation 16:15 is in parentheses, but perhaps it messes with some interpretations. IT IS A WARNING THAT INTERRUPTS THE NARRATIVE!!
"They are miracle-working demonic spirits which go out to the kings of the whole inhabited world to assemble them for the War of the Great Day of
Adonai-Tzva’ot.
And they gathered the kings to the place which in Hebrew is called Har Megiddo."
Christ does not come in the middle of these spirits gathering them to the battle. Christ comes after the battle is in array at Megiddo.
The 7th vial has not been poured out:
17 The seventh one poured out his bowl on the air, and a loud voice came out of the Temple from the throne, saying, “It is done!”
18 There were flashes of lightning, voices and peals of thunder; and there was a massive earthquake, such as has never occurred since mankind has been on earth, so violent was the earthquake.
19 The great city was split into three parts, the cities of the nations fell, and God remembered Bavel the Great and made her drink the wine from the cup of his raging fury.
20 Every island fled, and no mountains were to be found.
21 And huge seventy-pound hailstones fell on people from the sky. But the people cursed God for the plague of hail, that it was such a terrible plague.
This all happens prior to the battle of Armageddon. Note the earthquake in Revelation 11:12-13
12 Then the two heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them, “Come up here!” And they went up into heaven in a cloud, while their enemies watched them.
13 In that hour there was a great earthquake, and a tenth of the city collapsed. Seven thousand people were killed in the earthquake, and the rest were awestruck and gave glory to the God of heaven.
The people are so fickle, their emotions are based on events. They celebrate the death of these 2, then when the city is destroyed in the 7th vial, they give glory to God. Within hours they are standing at the battle of Armageddon in defiance and 60 minutes later, the birds of the air are eating their own flesh. So the warning in Revelation 16:15 sits in the middle of this emotional turmoil.
There is a striking difference between Revelation 6 and the 6th Seal and Revelation 16 and 19 on the battlefield of Armageddon. One is of fear and asking the rocks and mountains to fall on them. The other is one of defiance thinking they will win a battle. The warning of verse 15 is to warn us living today to avoid BOTH events. If you are in the first one you die in the last one. If you are in the last one, you will be separated from God's glory in the Lake of Fire for eternity. What is chronologically off about a warning. There is only one Second Coming event. Do you really think Satan is granted 42 months for no reason at all. (“Look! I am coming like a thief! How blessed are those who stay alert and keep their clothes clean, so that they won’t be walking naked and be publicly put to shame!”) is the vary reason this verse is more than an event. It is a warning that many do not take this warning seriously. If they did, there would not be 42 months nor chapter's 16 and 19 and the battle of Armageddon. If you plan on being at the battle of Armageddon, and standing on the earth, you have interpreted much of Revelation incorrectly. All humanity has been gathered: “Come, gather together for the great feast God is giving, to eat the flesh of kings, the flesh of generals, the flesh of important men, the flesh of horses and their riders and the flesh of all kinds of people, free and slave, small and great!” Either you are eating or being eaten as dead rotting naked flesh.
The 7th Trumpet is sounding through Satan's 42 months while the 2 witnesses are tormenting these people gathered by the 6th vial, but the vials are poured out while they lay dead, and their bodies getting up and going to heaven proceeds the earthquake. There is no return in the 6th vial and the warning is in parentheses while evil spirits are gathering the whole of humanity to the battle of Armageddon. It is a contrast warning to avoid being gathered by demonic spirits instead of Paul's glorification of the church at the 6th Seal. The fact that Christ comes at the battle after humanity arrives, after the earthquake, after the 2 witnesses go to heaven, after the 6th vial that sends out these demonic messangers, shows verse 15 is a warning not an event. The Second Coming is not during the 6th vial. It is not at the battle of Armageddon. It is at the 6th Seal where these same humans are hiding in the rocks and mountains. Notice again the 7th vial before the battle of Armageddon: "and there was a massive earthquake, such as has never occurred since mankind has been on earth, so violent was the earthquake. The great city was split into three parts, the cities of the nations fell, and God remembered Bavel the Great and made her drink the wine from the cup of his raging fury. Every island fled, and no mountains were to be found.
NO mountains to be found. John declares in the 6th Seal, they wanted the mountains to hide them. At the battle of Armageddon, John declares no mountains were to be found.
Yet this thief in the night moment is still ignored as a warning, and contradicts John's written account by many interpretations. There are mountains at the Second Coming. There are no mountains at the battle of Armageddon. And those same people at either event did not prepare themselves very well for both events.
