In this week’s study, I go into Chapter 9, the 5th Trumpet.
In our last study we finished Chapter 8th with an angel/eagle crying with a loud voice Woe, Woe, Woe. In today’s study we begin with the 5th trumpet.
Woe, woe, woe = That is, there will be great woe. The repetition of the word is intensive, and the idea is, that the sounding of the three remaining trumpets would indicate great and fearful calamities. These three are grouped together as if they pertained to a similar series of events, as the first four had been.
We will see that the 1st woe would be this 5th trumpets, whereas the 2nd woe begins in Chapter 9 verse 13 with the 6th (note man’s number) trumpet and ends in Chapter 11verse 14 AFTER the resurrection of the 2 witnesses.
The 3rd woe perhaps we are to see the answer in Chapter 12 verse12, “Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.”
Or does the 3rd woe begin at the sounding of the 7th trumpet.
1. star = The star (or angel) had fallen from heaven before John saw it.
From = “ek” out from. So this “star” definitely fell from Heaven.
the bottomless pit = Greek, “the pit of the abyss”; the orifice of the hell where Satan and his demons dwell. "The pit of the abyss" appears to be the abode of demons. See Rev. 20:1-3; Luke 8:28, 31. Of the under-world, considered particularly of the abode of the wicked.
2. pit = this opens every evil spirit on earth.Could this be the pit/hell, the ‘geenna’ that Yahshua Messiah makes mention of in the Gospels?
Matthew 11:28, “And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.”
Mathew 11:23, “And thou, Capernaum, which art exalted unto heaven, shalt be brought down to hell: for if the mighty works, which have been done in thee, had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day.”
Matthew 23:33, “Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?”
smoke = associated with “judgment or the pit”. From that source came forth some influence, symbolized by smoke, which darkened the earth. Could the smoke be also the vehicle that the locusts ride on? We can compare this smoke, which is negative to the types of clouds, which are positive, that are used for Yahweh.
The sun was darkened = We can say spiritually the light of faith, which is the word of Yahweh, may well be represented by the sun, according to that of the Psalms 119: 105, "Thy word, O Yahweh, is a lamp to my feet, and a light to my paths."
3. out of smoke = remember that smoke is always symbolic of judgment. So we can see judgment upon the people of this earth from the wrath of Yahweh.
locusts = Satan’s army. Joel 2:25 “And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you.” The destroying locusts symbolize destroying armies.
power = “ex-oo-see'-ah” authority or delegated power;
4. And it was commanded them = John does not say by whom this command was given, but it is clearly by someone who had the direction of them.
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