1 And the fifth angel blew his trumpet. I then saw a star fall from heaven to earth. The star was given the key to the depths of the abyss.
2 He opened the abyss, and a cloud of smoke rose as if from a great furnace which darkened the sun and the air.
3 Locusts came from this smoke and spread throughout the earth. They were given the same harmful power as the scorpions of the earth.
4 Then they were told not to harm the meadows, the green grass or the trees, but only the people who do not bear the seal of God upon their foreheads.
5 They were not to kill them, but only torture them for five months. This pain is like the sting of scorpions.
6 In those days, people will look for death but will not find it; they will long to die, but death will elude them.
7 These locusts look like horses equipped for battle; they wear golden crowns on their heads, and their faces are like those of human beings.
8 Their hair is like women's hair, and their teeth like lion's teeth;
9 their chests are like iron breastplates; and the noise of their wings like the roar of an army of chariots and horses rushing for battle.
10 Their tails are like those of scorpions and have stings; the power they have to torture people for five months is in their tails.
11 These locusts have a king, who is the angel of the abyss whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon or Apollyon in Greek (Destruction in English).
12 The first woe has passed. Two others are to come.
13 The sixth angel blew his trumpet. Then I heard a voice calling from the corners of the golden altar before God.
14 It said to the sixth angel who had just sounded the trumpet, "Release the four angels chained at the banks of the great river Euphrates."
15 And the four angels were released who had been waiting for this year, this month, this day and this hour, ready to utterly destroy a third of humankind.
16 The number of the soldiers on horses was two hundred million; this is the number I heard.
17 In my vision, I saw those horses and their riders: they wear breastplates the color of fire, hyacinth and sulfur. The heads of the horses look like lions' heads, and fire, smoke and sulfur come out of their mouths.
18 Then a third of humankind was killed by these three plagues: fire, smoke and sulfur which the horses released through their mouths,
19 for the power of the horses was both in their mouths and in their tails. Their tails, in fact, look like serpents, and their heads are able to inflict injury as well.
20 However, the rest of humankind who were not killed by these plagues did not renounce their way of life: they went on worshiping the demons, keeping those idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone and wood that cannot see, hear or walk.
21 No, they did not repent of their crimes, or their sorcery, or their sexual immorality or their theft.
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Revelation 9 describes the opening of the fifth and sixth seals, which results in the release of terrible pests on the earth. In the fifth seal, the persecution of the saints is revealed and, in the sixth seal, the devastation of earth and heaven. Here are five verses related to the topics covered in Revelation 9:
Matthew 24:21: "Then there will be great tribulation, as has never been from the beginning of the world so far, nor will there be." This verse describes the tribulation that will occur during the end of time, similar to what is described in the fifth seal of Revelation 9.
Luke 21:25:25-26: "There will be signs in the sun, moon, and stars; on the earth, anguish between nations in perplexity because of the bustle of the sea and the waves; men fainting from terror, expecting things that will survive to the world." This verse describes the chaos and destruction that will occur during the end of time, similar to what is described in the sixth seal of Revelation 9.
Joel 2:4-5: "Your appearance is like that of horses; and how knights like this. Like the sound of cars jumping over the hills of the hills, so they jump; like the sound of a flame of fire that consumes the Straw, so is the people who come in the crowd. " This verse describes an invasion of grasshoppers, similar to what is described in the fifth trumpet of Revelation 9.
Exodus 10:14: "Therefore the grasshops rose over the whole land of Egypt, and they landed on all their terms; they were very much; before these have never been so many, nor after them there will be." This verse describes a pest of grasshoppers that has hit Egypt, similar to what is described in the fifth trumpet of Revelation 9.
Isaiah 13:10: "For the stars of heaven and their constellations shall not give their light; the sun shall be dark at birth, and the moon will not shine with its light." This verse describes the darkness that will cover the earth during the end of time, similar to what is described in the sixth seal of Revelation 9.
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