Revelation — Chapter 9

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Revelation 9:1 And ^Rthe 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.

Rev 9:12-13; Rev 8:6-8,10,12

Revelation 9:2 And he opened the bottomless pit; and ^Rthere 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.

Rev 9:17; Rev 14:11

Revelation 9:3 And there came out of the smoke ^Rlocusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power.

Exod 10:4-15; Judg 7:12

Revelation 9:4 And it was commanded them ^Rthat they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads.

Rev 6:6; Rev 7:3

Revelation 9:5 And to them ^Rit was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man.

Rev 13:5,7; Dan 5:18-22

Revelation 9:6 And in those days ^Rshall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.

Rev 6:16; 2 Sam 1:9

Revelation 9:7 And ^Rthe shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared unto battle; and on their heads were as it were crowns like gold, and their faces were as the faces of men.

Joel 2:4-5; Nah 3:17

Revelation 9:8 And they had hair as the hair of women, ^Rand their teeth were as the teeth of lions.

Ps 57:4; Joel 1:6

Revelation 9:9 And ^Rthey had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle.

Rev 9:17; Job 40:18

Revelation 9:10 And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails: and their power was to hurt men five months.

Revelation 9:11 And ^Rthey had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon.

Rev 12:9; John 12:31

Revelation 9:12 One ^Rwoe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.

Rev 9:1-2

Revelation 9:13 And ^Rthe sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,

Rev 9:1

Revelation 9:14 Saying ^Rto the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.

Rev 8:2,6

Revelation 9:15 And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for ^Ran hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.

Rev 9:5,10

Revelation 9:16 And the number of the army of the ^Rhorsemen were two hundred thousand thousand: and I heard the number of them.

Ezek 23:6; Ezek 38:4

Revelation 9:17 And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, ^Rhaving breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.

Rev 9:9

Revelation 9:18 By these three was ^Rthe third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.

Rev 9:15,17

Revelation 9:19 For their power is in their mouth, and ^Rin their tails: for their tails were like unto serpents, and had heads, and with them they do hurt.

Rev 9:10; Isa 9:15

Revelation 9:20 And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues ^Ryet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk:

Rev 9:21; Rev 2:21-22

Revelation 9:21 Neither repented they of ^Rtheir murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.

Rev 11:7-9; Rev 13:7,15

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📖 What We’re Reading

Revelation 9:1–6 — The abyss and its tormenting locusts

🌱 What These Verses Teach Us

The fifth trumpet opens an abyss from which destructive locust imagery brings torment under stated limits, sparing the sealed servants.

Key Truth: Notice both judgment and the limits stated in the text.

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📖 What We’re Reading

Revelation 9:7–12 — The locust army and first woe

🌱 What These Verses Teach Us

John describes the terrifying creatures and their king, then announces that the first woe has passed.

Key Truth: Read symbolic detail without inventing identities beyond the passage.

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📖 What We’re Reading

Revelation 9:13–21 — The sixth trumpet and refused repentance

🌱 What These Verses Teach Us

An immense cavalry brings further death, yet survivors refuse to repent of idolatry and other destructive works.

Key Truth: Let warning produce repentance rather than hardened resistance.

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Related Scripture (KJV)

Joel 2:4 — Joel's army imagery offers prophetic background for the vision.

This related passage is selected for its connection with this chapter. It is separate from the chapter text.

Reflect and Apply

Which destructive practice requires repentance rather than continued defense?

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