Obviously, you do lack spiritual discernment.
Sigh... since you do not bother to do your homework by comparing Scripture with Scripture which is NOT surprising with the majority of people here, I will show you some of my understanding on Revelation 9 so pay attention:
When the bottomless pit (
where Satan was bound) was opened, the sun and the air were darkened by
reason of the smoke of the pit. The sun being darkened is the portrait God was painting of the darkness of Revelation 16, where it says the kingdom of the beast became
full of darkness. The king of the symbolic locusts that came out of the pit had a king rule over them, whose name was the Destroyer which obviously is Satan. The locusts with power
as scorpions, represent the false prophets and teachers under the spirit of the Antichrist that has been loosed as a judgment upon the unfaithful church, and
their power was to
hurt all those who weren't sealed in their foreheads. This means they can only cause
this same spiritual torment,
pain or
anguish upon those who are are
not saved or sealed (Ephesians 1:13, Ephesians 4:30). Spiritually speaking they are hurt by this judgment of strong delusion that God has brought upon them so they will
BELIEVE a lie as judgment.
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."
This pain or torment is the power of the Scorpion, which is Satan. Satan is a spirit being causing spiritual hurt. God is not talking about Satan who will literally command grasshoppers or physical predatory arthropods to physically sting people who have no mark.
It's symbolism! God is speaking symbolically of the
power that
Satan has as an enemy of Christ. For example, when God uses the locusts devouring the fruitful field, or the power of the Scorpion's sting, or the bite of the serpent to hurt those who are not sealed, it's symbolic terminology
representing Satan's power. That's why Mark 16 says believers cannot be hurt by the serpent--because those who believe are sealed unto the day of redemption and cannot be spiritually hurt by serpents, Scorpions or locusts (Revelation 9:4). Even as Christ illustrated this "perfectly" in Luke 10 when He sent His witnesses out by two's and they came back saying the Devil as subject unto them. Or for example:
Luke 10:18-19
- "And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven.
- Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you."
What power did Christ talk about here? DDT spray cans? No! Seriously! Here Christ is equating the power of Satan to the power of Scorpions and of Serpents, which is not surprising because Satan is identified/symbolized by the Serpent and Scorpion. He is saying nothing can hurt those who are in Christ Jesus, not the physical sting of the scorpion nor the bite of the great serpent. In like manner, in Revelation chapter 9 when God speaks of those locusts with the power to hurt as scorpions (but only those
without the seal), it's referring to the power of the enemy, Satan. It's not literal vials sticking out of heaven, carried by angels, or physical sores, or literal scorpions, locusts, stars falling to earth (ridiculous) or a literal woman sitting in heaven waiting to give birth, it's all symbolism. Get it?! Here where the pit is opened and locusts with the power of the Scorpion is symbolism of God sending those without the seal of redemption strong delusion, that they speak evil or blasphemy and be damned who would not believe the truth.
Ephesians 1:13-14
- "In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,
- Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory."
The Elect can NOT be hurt BECAUSE they have this seal of promise in their foreheads. Obviously thus hurting is no more literal/physical than the sealing was. Selah! That's why God
insisted that none of this could happen until
ALL Israel was sealed (Revelation 7:3) or saved FIRST, only then could this judgment by God's messengers take place. Selah.
You have no clues to what you are blabbing about! God was not talking about terrible physical pain that one is having a death wish. That is NOT what God talked about! You have no common sense to begin with when you read Revelation 9.
Do you realize that those who are sealed by the Holy Spirit have EXPERIENCED DEATH which the others cannot? To seek death or to desire to die are the same thing as seeking salvation in Christ! It is about being born again and put old self to death! Think about it!
The language of "men seeking death, and can't find it, and desiring to die, and death shall flee from them," is symbolism for salvation not being available to them after all 144,000 has been sealed!
Rev 14:3
[3] And they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders: and no man could learn that song but the
hundred and forty and four thousand, which were
redeemed from the earth.
So Revelation 9 is talking about these men who have not sealed AFTER all Israel has been sealed, will not be able to find salvation in Christ anymore. They have waited too long and that time is past. That is why Elect is mourning over the church because they can "SEE" HER TORMENTS with locusts that no one will be able to buy their merchandise of salvation anymore. Consider verses wisely:
Rev 18:10-11
[10] Standing afar off for the
fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas, that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is
thy judgment come.
[11] And the
merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man buyeth their merchandise any more:
For the past 2,000 years, the merchants of the earth (Elect) has been busy selling Gospel so that people could get saved. But once God has sealed all of the spiritual tribes of Israel or in other words, the fulness of Gentiles be coming in, there will be no more sealing. Then God will allow the locusts to torments those in the church, but only those who have NOT YET SEALED so that they will not be able to find salvation (death in Christ). This is what the judgment of the unfaithful church looks like today.
Of course, you may not be buying this which is sad
because... guess what, people like you may already be been stung and not knowing about it. It is NOT a physical pain! It is spiritual pain or torments which is DECEPTION that you will think you are saved when you will realize you are not on the day of Judgment. See my point? The spiritual stings of the locusts are alot more dangerous than any physical pain of the sting because it determines destiny of your souls. So you need to pray carefully about it.
Whoever have the ears let him hear!