SEQUENCE OF EVENTS... Trumpet 5

TRUMPET 5… (Revelation 9:1-12) “The fifth angel sounded his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from the sky to the earth. The star was given the key to the shaft of the Abyss. When he opened the Abyss, smoke rose from it like the smoke from a gigantic furnace. The sun and sky were darkened by the smoke from the Abyss. And out of the smoke locusts came down upon the earth and were given power like that of scorpions of the earth. They were told not to harm the grass of the earth or any plant or tree, but only those people who did not have the seal of God on their foreheads. They were not given power to kill them, but only to torture them for five months. And the agony they suffered was like that of the sting of a scorpion when it strikes a man. During those days men will seek death, but will not find it. They will long to die, but death will elude them.

The locusts looked like horses prepared for battle. On their heads they wore something like crowns of gold, and their faces resembled human faces. Their hair was like women’s hair, and their teeth were like lions’ teeth. They had breastplates like breastplates of iron, and the sound of their wings was like the thundering of many horses and chariots rushing into battle. They had tails and stings like scorpions, and in their tails they had power to torment people for five months. They had as king over them the angel of the Abyss, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek, Apollyon.

The first woe is past, two other woes are yet to come.”

Trumpet 5, the first “Woe”, begins to focus our attention on the Middle East and Israel. The description of the “Locusts” in the second part of this passage clearly equates to Moslem armies that rampaged through the Holy Land and Europe during their eighth and fifteenth century Jihads. Even the reference to not harming any green grass, plant, or tree, is consistent with the teachings of Mohammed and the beliefs of Islam. For those living in the wastes of the Arabian deserts, trees and vegetation were blessings.

The demonic fallen angels of Genesis chapter six, that God had confined to the bottomless pit, have been released to emotionally inflame and inspire Moslems for the final invasion of Israel and the conquest of Jerusalem (Jude 1:6) “And I remind you of the angels who did not stay within the limits of authority God gave them but left the place where they belonged. God has kept them securely chained in prisons of darkness, waiting for the great day of judgment.”

The final invasion of Israel is coming. God have mercy on those in Israel who have not turned to their Savior Christ Jesus.