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Revelation 9:1 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. 2 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. 3 And out of the smoke locusts came down on the earth and were given power like that of scorpions of the earth. 4 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. 5 They were not allowed 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. 6 During those days people will seek death but will not find it; they will long to die, but death will elude them.
7 The locusts looked like horses prepared for battle. On their heads they wore something like crowns of gold, and their faces resembled human faces. 8 Their hair was like women’s hair, and their teeth were like lions’ teeth. 9 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. 10 They had tails with stingers, like scorpions, and in their tails they had power to torment people for five months. 11 They had as king over them the angel of the Abyss, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon and in Greek is Apollyon (that is, Destroyer).
12 The first woe is past; two other woes are yet to come.
7 The locusts looked like horses prepared for battle. On their heads they wore something like crowns of gold, and their faces resembled human faces. 8 Their hair was like women’s hair, and their teeth were like lions’ teeth. 9 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. 10 They had tails with stingers, like scorpions, and in their tails they had power to torment people for five months. 11 They had as king over them the angel of the Abyss, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon and in Greek is Apollyon (that is, Destroyer).
12 The first woe is past; two other woes are yet to come.
The sting of these little creatures was so bad that people wish they could die. But they can't die. That has got to hurt!
The first commentary leads us back to Exodus 10.
Exodus 10:14 They invaded all Egypt and settled down in every area of the country in great numbers. Never before had there been such a plague of locusts, nor will there ever be again.
Here's a quote from one of the commentaries.
"They are not natural to this earth. Therefore, they come from the smoke."
Locusts eat everything green and don't bite people. They don't even have teeth. These critters bit only people and on top of that they only bit certain people.
Revelation 9:4 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.
Thankfully, for those who are bitten and crave death, the pain only lasted a little while.
Revelation 9:5 They were not allowed to kill them but only to torture them for five months
.It's Revelation 9 that leads me to believe that Christians will not be on earth when the trumpets sound.
Look.... let's be clear here. The ones who were sealed were numbered at 144,000. Everyone else is fair game. Nowhere in the verses so far does it say that recent converts got a seal. Nowhere in the verses so far does it say that anyone other than the 144,000 Jews, made up by the 12,000 from each of the 12 tribes, has a seal.
So if there is a meteor shower, followed by a meteor, followed by a comet, and the sun is struck and we loose half the light.... and you see a cloud.... you're doomed but you won't die.
Jesus wants you to see His return for yourself so there is no doubt who is King!
But then again, I'm not a preacher. I'm only a reader.
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