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."
One author said,
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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 Ala Mawdudi, wrote a book to introduce the English-speaking world to Islam. His subtitle called Arabia, the center of Mohammeds 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 Mohammeds 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 doesnt 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 womens 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 Korans 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 couldnt 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 Gods seal of protection on them. The Muslims were not allowed to kill the church, only torture it. That is, they couldnt 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.
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and of jacinth, (dark red)...
From Vines....
Jacinth:
signifies "hyacinthine," perhaps primarily having the color of the
hyacinth. 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."
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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)."
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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.
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