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Revelation 9

The Fifth Trumpet: Shaft of the Abyss

Revelation 9:1

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.

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fifth angel The first of the last three woes. The bottomless-pit is Europe because there is a lack of natural resources there. The beast (originally the Roman Empire, now NATO, The EU and US, i.e. the neo-Roman Empire) came out of Europe further proving that the bottomless pit is referring to Europe.

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Revelation 9:2

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.

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Referring to World War 1.

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Revelation 9:3

And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power.

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locusts WW1 Fighter Jets. Scorpions Tail gun. John likened the jets to locusts because he did not know what he was seeing, but it looked like locusts.

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Revelation 9:4

And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads.

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not hurt the grass John noticed that the "locusts" were not eating the grass, because they were not real locusts. Rather, the "locusts" were the fighter jets and they were shooting at men. those men which have not the seal of God The men of the elect would not die in WW1.

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Revelation 9:5

And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man.

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five months Five years: 28 July 1914 - 11 November 1918 (Armistice) - 28 June 1919 (Treaty of Versailles). 1914-1919. torment of a scorpion Referring to the tail gun.

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Revelation 9:6

And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.

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Some men were greatly wounded in the war and preferred to die than to live physically and mentally wounded.

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Revelation 9:7

And the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared unto battle; and on their heads were as it were crowns like gold, and their faces were as the faces of men.

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crowns like gold A helmet, more specifically, the Pickelhaube. faces of men Men operated the planes.

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Revelation 9:8

And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions.

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hair as the hair of women The Pickelhaube once again, this time with plumes. teeth represents the bullets coming out of the machine gun.

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Revelation 9:9

And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle.

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The sound of the planes.

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Revelation 9:10

And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails: and their power was to hurt men five months.

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Revelation 9:11

And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his his name Apollyon.

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king / angel of the bottomless pit Kaiser Wilhelm II. Abaddon and Apollyon mean destruction.

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Revelation 9:12

One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.

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Woe means destruction. There have been two major destructions and a third is prophesied. At this point in the vision, however, only one world war had been fought.

Destruction

Isaiah 13:19 Isaiah 24:6 Isaiah 26:20 Isaiah 34:2 Isaiah 66:15 Jeremiah 15:2-3 Jeremiah 49:17 Jeremiah 50:39 Ezekiel 21:9 Joel 2:1 Joel 2:3 Amos 5:18 Zephaniah 1:14-18 2 Esdras 15:11 Matthew 10:34 Matthew 24:37 2 Peter 3:10

World War Three

Joel 3:2 Joel 3:9 Revelation 11:14

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The Sixth Trumpet: Army from the East

Revelation 9:13

And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,

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Same event as in Revelation 16:12.

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Revelation 9:14

Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.

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World War Three will be focused in the middle east, the valley of Jehoshaphat (יהושפט (Yahawashapat)).

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Revelation 9:15

And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.

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the third part of men Esau. Man was grouped into three categories: The Sons of God (the Israelites), The Sons of Men (the heathens excluding Edom), and The Sons of the Wicked (the Edomites).

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Revelation 9:16

And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand: and I heard the number of them.

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New time period, future prophecy. horsemen ICBM missiles. two hundred thousand thousand 200 million warheads.

ICBMs

Job 20:24 Psalms 7:13 Psalms 21:9 Isaiah 9:5 Isaiah 13:13 Isaiah 34:4 Isaiah 54:16 Jeremiah 4:7 Jeremiah 50:14 Nahum 3:3 Zechariah 14:12 Malachi 4:1 2 Esdras 16:13 2 Peter 3:10 Revelation 6:13-14 Revelation 11:13

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Revelation 9:17

And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.

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having breastplates of fire The encasing of the ICBM. mouths Nuclear warhead.

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Revelation 9:18

By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.

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Revelation 9:19

For their power is in their mouth, and in their tails: for their tails were like unto serpents, and had heads, and with them they do hurt.

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Revelation 9:20

And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk:

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2 Esdras 16:20

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Revelation 9:21

Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.

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