Little Lamb,
I see that you are trying to link the numbers found in Revelation with a physical event in Jerusalem 70AD to fit your doctrine which I, with due respect, is not biblically accurate. Here is my position on this:
Nothing in the book of Revelation is just a
normal number or time without any symbolic, representational or spiritual meaning to it.
The entire book of Revelation is a collage of cryptic numbers, figures, imagery, enigmatic representations, symbolism, analogies and metaphors. For me to agree with that would be like saying the one thousand year reign was just a normal one thousand years (
as some Theologians often did before 1000 years had passed). Or that the seven churches simply spoke concerning those literal seven churches in Turkey. No, I can't agree with this. As the seven, as God defined it, is a "representation" a symbol of
some deeper spiritual truth. For example, seven being the number of completeness or the totality. There's not a single number in the book of Revelation that doesn't carry some symbolic spiritual significance. These numbers, like the imagery of the pit, dragon, smoke, locusts, stings, woman, bottomless pit, two witnesses, etc., aren't literal/physical, and so how can we think that we can take the 5 months out of this "symbolic context" and make it literally 5 months like you are attempting to. No more than saying the Two Witnesses are literally two men. It's contrary to the whole of Scripture. Especially from a book where numbers are so
obviously used symbolically. For example the 42 months, the 144,000 sealed of Israel, the 24 elders before the throne, the 1000 year reign, the 10 horns of the Dragon, the 7 Spirits of God, the 2 witnesses, the 4 horsemen, the 12 stars in heaven, seven eyes of the lamb, 12 candlesticks and so on and so on.
Now, the 5 months of Revelation 9 "represents" the time period between when God gives authority for His unfaithful congregation (falling star) to open the bottomless bit or abyss and loose the spirit of Antichrist against her, and the time when her house is left in ruins or desolated because of rise of false prophets and christs therein. This as judgment for their rebellion in serving lawless men like Joel Osteen, Joyce Meyers, etc . rather than God. As in Revelation 20 where Satan and his minions come against
the camp of the saints, not against the world, which he already has enslaved. He gathers the nations against the camp of believers. He wants to extend his rule into the kingdom of God on earth which is the CHURCH, not some physical city of Jerusalem. Revelation 9:1-2 correlates to Revelation chapter 20 when Satan is loosed from
this same bottomless pit to assault the camp of the saints.
Revelation 9:1-2
- "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.
- 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."
The star signifies messenger. It is God's messenger that John saw
had fallen was
given the key to the bottomless pit by the Lord in order to use Satan and his men with spirit of antichrist to render judgment upon the unfaithful and unrepenting church. This is just as God promised
the fallen star, the messenger of the church, what would happen if he didn't repent from his evil, didn't He? God promised that his (the star's)
church would be removed out of its place, didn't He? The same rule always applies,
that Scripture interprets Scripture,
God's word explains God's word, not man. And God interprets HIS prophecies, that both the star that had fallen and the result of it if he didn't repent.
Revelation 1:20
- "The mystery of the seven stars which thou sawest in my right hand, and the seven golden candlesticks. The seven stars are the messengers of the seven churches: and the seven candlesticks which thou sawest are the seven churches."
The Lord Himself decyphers the mystery of the symbol of the star and the Candlestick (lampstand) in His word so that there can be no misunderstanding in this uncovering. The stars He reveals are actually the
messengers of the churches, both the believers and professed believers, and the
candlesticks He assures us are actually the churches. This is according to God's revelation of the mystery of this symbolism. Now we read further and discern the warning that God Himself specifically gives to
the star that had fallen.
The number five in Scripture simply signify "T
Revelation 2:5
- "Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent."
So then we have
God's interpretation of the heaven from which the star fell, exactly what the star that had fallen represented!! And that God would indeed bring judgment upon that stars church by removing it out of its place "
if" the messenger didn't remember from where he had fallen and repent. Allowing the Relevator to reveal this truth we see that God illustrates that it is because of this fallen star that the church is judged, and God removes it out of its place.
Indeed, only Christ has the key to the bottomless pit and at the appointed time of judgment upon the fallen star will He loosen the spirit of Satan from the pit SO THAT his church be removed out of its place in God's Kingdom! This is the falling of the New Testament congregation for being unfaithful for a short time prior to Second Coming!
Nothing to do with Physical Jerusalem in 70AD nor the modern city of Jerusalem today!
This removal of the candlestick (the church) is what darkens the world (Luke 8:16-17). For example, the l
ight of Gospel Truth that was once there is put out or become dim when it is removed. These are spiritual truths concerning God's judgment upon lawless man, the fallen messenger that is ruling in His holy Temple "
as if" he were God. Therefore the 5 months of this anguish or torment upon the church for the messengers rebellion is the length of time of the great tribulation there. This great tribulation of the church is the
same torment of those who are hurt by the locust-like deceivers who devour the greenery and fruitful fields of Gospel that is representative of God's house. In other words, according to Revelation 9:4,
ALL of those there within the congregation of God that are without the seal of God. They are the professed Christian WITHOUT the true security of the Spirit. They are being inflicted or torment
by the DOCTRINES of men that God allowed to come into the church "as a plague" upon the unfaithful congregation. Actually, it is the plague
sent by God likened unto locusts upon the grass like the days of Moses, as an EXAMPLE for our spiritual understanding, which is devastation and ruins New Testament congregation's representation of God's Kingdom. This will take place right before Christ's return, which I believe is right now.
The signs are that the star that is fallen and will not repent, the end being their church will be removed out of its place can only be discerned by God's people. It is the signs of the times. The SPIRITUAL APOSTASY and DARKNESS. The SAME BLINDNESS that has been happened to Israel is repeated in the spiritual blindness of the New Testament Congregation.
You are looking in the wrong place and wrong time, Little Lamb.