Aug 8, 2016
Revelation 9:1-21
And the fifth angel blew his trumpet, and I saw a star fallen from
heaven to earth, and he was given the key to the
shaft of the bottomless pit. 2 He opened the shaft of the
bottomless pit, and from the shaft rose smoke like the smoke
of a great furnace, and the sun and the air were darkened with the
smoke from the shaft. 3 Then from the smoke came
locusts on the earth, and they were given power like the power of
scorpions of the earth. 4 They were told not to harm
the grass of the earth or any green plant or any tree, but only
those people who do not have the seal of God on their
foreheads. 5 They were allowed to torment them for five months, but
not to kill them, and their torment was like the
torment of a scorpion when it stings someone. 6 And in those days
people will seek death and will not find it. They
will long to die, but death will flee from them. 7 In appearance
the locusts were like horses prepared for battle: on their
heads were what looked like crowns of gold; their faces were like
human faces, 8 their hair like women's hair, and their
teeth like lions' teeth; 9 they had breastplates like breastplates
of iron, and the noise of their wings was like the noise of
many chariots with horses rushing into battle. 10 They have tails
and stings like scorpions, and their power to hurt
people for five months is in their tails. 11 They have as king over
them the angel of the bottomless pit. His name in
Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek he is called Apollyon. 12 The first
woe has passed; behold, two woes are still to
come.13 Then the sixth angel blew his trumpet, and I heard a voice
from the four horns of the golden altar before
God, 14 saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, “Release the
four angels who are bound at the great river
Euphrates.” 15 So the four angels, who had been prepared for the
hour, the day, the month, and the year, were
released to kill a third of mankind. 16 The number of mounted
troops was twice ten thousand times ten thousand; I
heard their number. 17 And this is how I saw the horses in my
vision and those who rode them: they wore breastplates
the color of fire and of sapphire and of sulfur, and the heads of
the horses were like lions' heads, and fire and smoke
and sulfur came out of their mouths.18 By these three plagues a
third of mankind was killed, by the fire and smoke and sulfur
coming out of their mouths.
19 For the power of the horses is in their mouths and in their
tails, for their tails are like serpents with heads, and by
means of them they wound. 20 The rest of mankind, who were not
killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works
of their hands nor give up worshiping demons and idols of gold and
silver and bronze and stone and wood, which
cannot see or hear or walk, 21 nor did they repent of their murders
or their sorceries or their sexual immorality or their
thefts.