8:13 then warns that the next three trumpets will be very woeful to the inhabiters of the earth. Then we have the fifth trumpet where its a very different detailed depiction of the locusts with the power to hurt men and torment them for 5 months. The bottomless pit is opened and the sun and air are darkened because of the smoke from the pit, the locusts are told not to hurt those with the seal of God in their foreheads, and the angel who opens the pit is called the “destroying angel”, which is the meaning of the names “Abaddon” and “Apollyon”. The angel is mentioned again in Revelation 20:1-3. Notice that the angel is given the key to the bottomless pit in Revelation 9:1, opens the pit in 9:2, is named as the “king” over the locusts in 9:11, then comes down from heaven again to bind Satan in the bottomless pit for 1000 years in Revelation 20:1-3. In Revelation 11:7 we see that the beast comes out of the bottomless pit, becomes or possesses a man to become the Antichrist shown in Revelation 17:8-11, kills the two witnesses at the end of the final 3.5 years (Rev 11:7), and then in Revelation 20:1-3 we see that the “angel” who was given the key locks up the devil in the bottomless pit for 1000 years. Joel 2 also speaks of things described in the fifth trumpet! If you read the 2nd chapter of Joel verses 1-11, youll find very similar events described. In these days, men will seek death... Revelation 10:7 says that “in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound”. Revelation 9:6 says that “in those days shall men seek death”. In Joel, Revelation 6, 9, 11, 16, Matthew 24, Luke 21, and Ezekiel 38 we see that the people of earth will seek death, will be angry, have great fear, will mourn, shake at the presence of God and will blaspheme God. The timing of the events given us in prophecy overlap in many places and sometimes span a long period of time. The sixth trumpet sounds and a third part of men are killed, with the 4 angels released and the army of 200 million. Revelation 9:20-21 shows us that people will still not repent even after all these things have come to pass. This is also the same declaration we see during the Vials in Revelation 16:9 and 16:11.
Posted on: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 06:37:26 +0000
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