Bible Discussion Thread

Rev.9.1-2 "The fifth Angel" (1 of 2)

"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./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."

The first four angels sound the trumpets and consequences are felt in the unbelieving world. we shall quickly recap them from Ch.8. 'Silence in heaven about the space of half an hour'refer to the earthly ministry of Jesus Christ done in the face of the hour of the darkness. Jesus refers,'your hour, the power of darkness.' (Rev.8.1;Lk.22.53) These consequences therefore must be addressed as the wrath of the Lamb and directed from heaven upon the children of disobedience. By the same token these shall have no effect upon 'my sanctified ones'. They are preserved and 144,000 refers to the divine Will, the world unseen. Thus one third of trees being burnt up the word may dismiss as some ecological disaster as we read in news media. "and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up."(8.7). Second angel sounds and the result? 'and the third part of the sea became blood.' Think of all those disasters from Deepwater Horizon oil well: on April 20, 2010, a sudden explosion and fire occurred on the oil rig. The accident resulted in the deaths of 11 workers and caused a massive, ongoing oil spill into the Gulf of Mexico. All these make up one third of the sea is tainted with blood.(v.8)and the third part of the ships were destroyed.

Now for the third angel we have the wormwood. Having seen the fiasco of spacejunk we have Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster launched in 2018, a forerunner of "And the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood"(v.11) Fourth disaster is "And the fourth angel sounded, and the third part of the sun was smitten, and the third part of the moon,..