Revelation 9:1 … a star [fell] from the sky
[and] was given the key to the shaft of the Abyss.
Seven Seals[1]
Satan
Where is Satan now?[2]
How was Satan hurled down?[3]
The Great Tribulation![4]
Fire One![5]
Fire Two![6]
Fire Three![7]
Fire Four![8]
Revelation 9:1
root word: asthras-tare'[9]
Jesus tells us the meaning of asthras-tare'[10]
peptwkotapep-to-ko'-ta = perfect tense[11]
Are these actual locusts[12]
Proof they are NOT actual locusts[13]
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to the council and elders,
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[1]Revelation 5:1 Then I saw in the right hand of him who sat on the throne a scroll with writing on both sides and sealed with seven seals.
[2]Revelation 12:10 … The accuser of our brothers, who accuses them before our God day and night, has been hurled down.
[3]Revelation 12:7-9 And there was war in heaven. Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought back.
8 But he was not strong enough, and they lost their place in heaven.
9 The great dragon was hurled down--that ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan…. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him.
[4]Revelation 8:5-6 Then the angel took the censer, filled it with fire from the altar, and hurled it on the earth; and there came peals of thunder, rumblings, flashes of lightning and an earthquake. The seven angels who had the seven trumpets prepared to sound them.
[5]Revelation 8:7The first angel sounded his trumpet, and there came hail and fire mixed with blood, and it was hurleddown upon the earth. A third of the earth was burned up, a third of the trees were burned up, and all the green grass was burned up.
[6]Revelation 8:8 The second angel sounded his trumpet, and something like a huge mountain, all ablaze, was thrown into the sea. A third of the sea turned into blood,
9 a third of the living creatures in the sea died, and a third of the ships were destroyed.
[7]Revelation 8:10 The third angel sounded his trumpet, and a great star, blazing like a torch, fell from the sky on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water--
11 the name of the star is Wormwood. A third of the waters turned bitter, and many people died from the waters that had become bitter.
9 a third of the living creatures in the sea died, and a third of the ships were destroyed.
[8]Revelation 8:12 The fourth angel sounded his trumpet, and a third of the sun was struck, a third of the moon, and a third of the stars, so that a third of them turned dark. A third of the day was without light, and also a third of the night.
[9]Matthew Henry. An Exposition of the Old and New Testament by Matthew Henry. Some think this star represents some eminent bishop. Some understand it of Boniface the third bishop of Rome.
[10]Revelation 1:16 In his right hand, [Jesus] held seven starsasteravas-tar'-as....
(pleural for: asthras-tare'
17 ... [Jesus] placed his right hand on me and said...,
20 The mystery of the seven stars that you saw in my right hand... is this: The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches....
11 an action, having been completed in the past, once and for all, need never be repeated.
[12]Adam Clarke. Commentary on the Bible (the primary Methodist theological resource for two centuries). vast hordes of military troops: [probably] the Saracens…, but may also apply to the Romans.
John Wesley (Founder of the Methodists). Notes on the Old and New Testaments. The Persians
Others: Egyptians
Armstrong’s Worldwide Church of God. The locusts represents modern warfare, especial attack helicopters.
[13]Proverbs 30:27locusts have no king
Revelation 9:11 They had as king over them the angel of the Abyss….