Revelation 09
Understand the
order of events: first of all, the first seal is opened and the antichrist is
manifested, establishing a covenant with Israel for seven years (Dan 9.27). What no other ruler succeeded, the antichrist
will (bring "peace" for Israel).
Hence say he went out conquering and to conquer (Rev 6.2).
A
little while after the second seal is opened. This time, the 144,000 are
sealed (Rev 7.2,3). After this, the third seal is opened and the first
two trumpets are played. There are, then, war in heaven and Ha-Satan with his
demons are thrown to the earth (Rev 12.7-12). After this, are played the third, fourth and fifth trumpets.
When
the fifth trumpet is played, Ha-Satan opens the pit and loose the angel of
the abyss. This, then, leads the grasshoppers that came out of the smoke. When
the "woe" of the fifth trumpet ends, the fourth seal is opened, the
antichrist is beaten to death and the angel of the abyss possesses, then, the
body of the antichrist, simulating a false resurrection.
This time,
the fourth part of the earth is destroyed (Rev 6.8), come to be followed by the touch of the sixth
trumpet, when the third part of men is killed by 20,000 cavalry of 10,000
soldiers each. It is worth remembering that one of the actions of the antichrist
is:
·
"Thus shall he
do in the most strong holds with a strange god, whom he shall acknowledge and
increase with glory: and he shall cause them to rule over many, and shall
divide the land for gain." (Dan 11.39).
And,
then, to such slaughter, the fifth seal is opened and the martyrs cry out. A
little after that, in half of the seventieth week, the two witnesses die. After
three and a half days, the sixth and seventh seal is opened, the two witnesses
raised, are raptured. Ends the second "woe” and, without delay, the
seventh trumpet is played, all those who died in Christ are resurrected, the
Church is caught up and, finally, the seven bowls are poured out.
·
"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." (Rev 9.1).
Fallen star from
heaven is different from stars that comes from heaven. She fell from there, but
this does not mean that belonged to this place. Note that the stars is already
fall.
Stars
symbolizes angel (messenger),
this being of great influence. see:
·
"I shall see him, but not now: I shall behold him, but not nigh: there
shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a Sceptre shall rise out of Israel, and
shall smite the corners of Moab, and destroy all the children of Sheth." (Num 24.17).
·
"And it waxed great, even to the host of heaven; and it cast down
some of the host and of the stars to the ground, and stamped upon them." (Dan 8.10).
·
"When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God
shouted for joy?" (Job 38.7).
·
"How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how
art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!" (Isaiah 14.12).
·
"The mystery of
the seven stars which thou sawest in my right hand, and the seven golden
candlesticks. The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches: and
the seven candlesticks which thou sawest are the seven churches." (Rev 1.20).
In Revelation,
stars refers to angel (Rev 1.20)
(can be very well an evil angel). Therefore, this stars that fell
from the sky with certainty refers to Ha-Satan, since he was the leader of a
rebellion
Detail: once the
angels sinned, some things may be completed:
1. Earthly
circumstances are not the cause of the rebellion;
2. Our
flesh is not the only thing to give occasion to sin;
3. Closeness
of God does not guarantee sufficient security to the point of being immune
to sin (there is also the example of
Judas).
And since the Eternal
spared not the angels that sinned, we can see that:
·
Righteousness is not a negotiable parameter, as
if the practice of some acts of justice could serve to offset some of
our sins and ensure for us blessings, as well as the salvation;
·
Law is not partially administered, i.e., even if we
obey all the principles, but trip at a single point, yet we become guilty of
all (James 2.10).
After all, the obedience cannot be mere convenience, but the desire
to please Jesus in everything.
·
Suffering can never be separated from sin.
Ha-Satan is
seen fallen when the third trumpet plays (Rev 8.10). Soon, the
fight between Miguel And Ha-Satan occurs before the third trumpet playing.
The first time
that is prophesied the fall of Ha-Satan was in (Isaiah 14.12) along
with the fall of Babylon. The second time is when Jesus said He saw Satan fall
from heaven like lightning when his disciples reported Him that, in
his name, even the demons are subjected them (Lk 10.17,18).
However, in
Isaiah 14 their fall is partial, namely, with the failure of the Babylonian
system. In Luke 10.17,18, Jesus saw Ha-Satan falling to earth (losing their effectiveness) whenever
the disciples subjected themselves to Him through the gospel (it was something effective
prophetic confirming the fall of Ha-Satan when all the Holy Scripture had
been confirmed). Therefore, the definitive fall of Ha-Satan will
finally happen in Rev 12.7-12, when there will be no more space to
Ha-Satan accuse those who are of the Eternal.
However, after
the fall, he receives from Christ (Rev 1.17.18), the key,
i.e., the authority to open the bottomless pit, namely, the place where unclean
spirits, the principle, are imprisoned (2Pet 2.7). A place so terrible that demons
did not want to go there (Lk 8.31). It
is from there that will come the angel of the abyss that will
hold the body of the beast from the sea after being wounded to death (Rev 11.7; 17.8). It
is there that Ha-Satan will be imprisoned for a thousand years (Rev 20.1,3).
At first, Jesus
has the keys of death and hell (Rev 1.18), but at this moment He (either personally or through an angel) delivers
the key of the bottomless pit to Ha-Satan.
Need to
emphasize that, at least two times we see Ha-Satan contributing with the
plans of the Eternal:
Ü It was
he (or one of
his angels) who smote the firstborn in Egypt (Exodus 12.23), so
that Israel could be free from the bondage;
Ü It
was he who entered into Judas Iscariot to enable him to betray
Jesus (Jn 13.25-27),
which should die to free us from the bondage of sin.
It is not
surprising that Jesus use again the Ha-Satan, as it happened in His first
coming, to defeat Him.
·
"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.” (Rev 9.2).
When Ha-Satan
open the bottomless pit, smoke of a great furnace will darken the sun
and the air, as occurs with a volcano when threatening to erupt. This smoke
contrasts with the smoke of the incense (Rev 8.4), which purified
the prayers of the saints, making them acceptable to the Eternal.
All the times
that Scripture is to describe a severe trial, this day is referred to as a day
of darkness:
·
"Woe unto you that desire the day
of the LORD! to what end is it for you? the day of the LORD is darkness, and
not light. As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went
into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit
him. Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light? even very
dark, and no brightness in it? " (Amos 5.18-20).
And it is
usually accompanied by the darkening of the sun and the moon:
·
"For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give
their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall
not cause her light to shine.” (Isaiah 13.10)
·
"A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick
darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great people and a
strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, even
to the years of many generations." (Joel 2.2).
·
"The earth shall quake before them; the heavens shall tremble: the sun
and the moon shall be dark, and the stars shall withdraw their shining:" (Joel 2.10).
·
"Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of the
LORD is near in the valley of decision. The sun and the moon shall
be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining.” (Joel 3.14,15).
·
"And when I shall put thee out, I
will cover the heaven, and make the stars thereof dark; I will cover the sun
with a cloud, and the moon shall not give her light." (Ezekiel 32.7).
·
"And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a
great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon
became as blood;" (Revelation
6.12).
In particular,
Joel's prophecy about the end of the times prophesies about columns of smoke:
·
"And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and
fire, and pillars of smoke." (Jl 2.30,31).
·
"And I will shew wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth
beneath; blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke: the sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before
that great and notable day of the Lord come:" (Acts 2.19,20).
Detail: whereas
the 70th week of Daniel is related with Daniel's people (Israel - Dan 9.24) and
his city (Jerusalem) and
that the 144,000 are of Israel, surely the land that shall be darkened by
smoke and locusts will be Israel. It is to there that, firstly, the
grasshoppers will go (even because
everything begins by Jew, then moving to other peoples (represented
by the Greeks in Rom 1.16; 2.9)). After they reach the other
nations.
Not be attacked
only the land of Israel. Even because there are Israelites scattered
throughout the world.
·
"And there came out
of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the
scorpions of the earth have power.” (Rev 9.3).
These locusts
resemble the 6th, 8th, 9th and 10th plagues sent against Egypt through Moses:
·
"Then the LORD said to Moses and to
Aaron, Take your hands full of ashes of the furnace, and let Moses sprinkle it
toward the heaven in the sight of Pharaoh; and shall become small dust over all
the land of Egypt, and shall be a boil breaking forth with blains ulcers in men
and upon beast, throughout all the land of Egypt. And they took ashes of the
furnace, and stood before Pharaoh; and Moses sprinkled to heaven; and it became
a scab, which arrebentava in ulcers in men and cattle; so that the magicians
could not stand before Moses because of scabies; because he had scabies in the
scribes, and on all the Egyptians." (Exodus 9.8-11).
·
the ashes became a boil breaking forth with
blains upon man, and upon beast (Exodus 9.8-11). As well as
from the ashes emerged scabies, the smoke (which is composed of micro-ashes) will
emerge grasshoppers. It takes the following lesson: how many times pests or
curses have reached us because we failed to remove the garbage of our
lives (Exodus 9.8-10);
·
Plague of grasshoppers tormented devouring all
green (Exodus 10.12-15);
·
Darkness covered the land of Egypt (Exodus 10.21-23);
·
The destroying angel came on the scene to harass
each family of Egypt with the death of the firstborn (Exodus 12.23).
Note how these grasshoppers
had no power of scorpion. They were given. Or, they began to have this power
because someone gave them such power.
The fact of
being quoted grasshoppers really wants to say that this is literal. After
All:
·
Grasshopper plague was a very well known at the
time (Joel 1.4;
2.25).
·
Grasshopper was one of the plagues that fell on
Egypt (Exodus 10.4).
·
When the enemies were numerous, they were compared to grasshoppers
(Jz 7.12).
·
When the enemies were giants, on the other hand, the
people of Israel felt like grasshopper (Numbers 13.33) in the eyes of
them and of the enemy.
·
The grasshoppers are camped in the hedge in cold
weather, but in rising sun fly and no longer knows the place where they
are (Nahum 3.17), as
well as it happens with international companies that install in the countries
to suck them the richness and, when there is nothing more for sugar, return to
their countries of origin and leave everything a desolate wilderness (the same that also make the foreign
armies - Joel 2.3).
The proof that
these animals were really grasshoppers is that John does not say that they were
similar to grasshoppers (as it does
to compare their attributes), but they were grasshoppers.
It is clear
that it was grasshoppers genetically modified. Note
that these locusts had no power to harass anyone directly (which was given them). At
first they were like any other grasshopper which causes damage only to plants.
However, they suffered such genetic manipulation that, besides not feeding of
herbs, they began to have power to harass people directly, such as
scorpions (Rev 9.3).
They should be
being created in ultra-secret military bases under the earth (note how many there be who have been
hiding in caves and in the rocks of the mountains and even constructing
underground cities - Rev 6.15).
When
Ha-Satan falls on the ground and gets the key to the bottomless pit,
big smoke comes out from thence (once that in hell there is much fire burning, it is expected that all
the smoke that go out of it go to the abyss which separates it from the "Bosom
of Abraham).
In the midst of
this smoke, demons come out led by the angel of the abyss, who are in charge of
possessing the grasshoppers that the militaries of DARPA (as well as other governmental organizations) have
been producing secretly in their underground bases. That is to say, even before
these soldiers can use these cyborgs, the demons lead them through smoke to
tantalize all those who do not have the seal of the Eternal.
The smoke serves
to bring darkness upon the earth so that nobody notice the approximation of mutant grasshoppers
(after all, sun and air are
darkened - Rev 9.2).
That is to say, Ha-Satan will reduce
the light from the sun and let the dark air in order to become more
difficult for the Israelites realize the invading army of
locusts (with certainty is from
thence they depart).
The action of grasshoppers was limited. They couldn't do damage:
·
The grass of the
earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree;
·
To 144,000 individuals who
had the seal of the Eternal;
·
To the point of killing
whoever;
They will only may torment those who won’t have the seal of the
Eternal for five months with a super-poison that will be the
genetic combination of the most terrible poisons produced by animals. It
is similar to the torment of a scorpion, so intense that many will want to die,
but will not be able (Rev 9.6).
Then comes two
issues:
1 - This fifth
trumpet is restricted to Israel or is it something that will reach all the people?
After all, we must not forget that the seventieth week is intimately connected
with the people of Daniel and his holy city. Furthermore, only the sealed
144,000 are exempt from the consequences of this trumpet (nothing is said about the Church). The
most likely it is that this should serve to harass the Israelites in order that
they might repent of their evil deeds and convert themselves truly to the Eternal.
However, this must also reach many who believe in Jesus in order to rouse them
for the coming of Christ (note how signals are data to warn the faithful in
Christ that are vacillating about the closeness of his coming (Matt 24.33).
2 - What
will the locusts fed of (since it’ll not
be to damage vegetation) (damage similar to the first three Trumpets)?
·
"And it was
commanded them that 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 9.4).
Note the strange
behavior of these locusts: they were able to understand the human language (they
received orders). In addition, the locusts would not do damage to
plants (unlike what
happened in Rev 6.6.7; 8.7-11), something
unusual, since that is what they feed:
·
"And the locusts went up over all the land of Egypt, and rested in all
the coasts of Egypt: very grievous were they; before them there were no
such locusts as they, neither after them shall be such. For they covered
the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened; and they did eat
every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left:
and there remained not any green thing in the trees, or in the herbs of the
field, through all the land of Egypt." (Exodus 10.14,15).
In the land of
Egypt, the presence of grasshoppers darkened (a factor more to leave the dark land, in addition to
the smoke in Rev 9.2).
Another curious
thing is: how that these grasshoppers will know who has the seal of the Eternal
on their foreheads, since the mark is spiritual? And why is it that these
locusts, as instruments of Ha-Satan, would attack those who worship the beast?
Or will they attack only those who seek and serve Jesus, but so wrong? Remember
that only 144,000 are sealed is that certainly will not be attacked by
locusts?
I believe that
they will attack mostly the foolish virgins and lukewarm believers in order to
arouse them to repentance and conversion in the second half of the 70th week. After
all, remember that this is a trumpet, whose purpose is to warn those who follow
Jesus.
This reminds
when the Eternal would attack the firstborn in the land of Egypt. There the
destroying angel was forced to move on top of the houses whose door post were
marked by the blood of the Lamb:
·
"For the LORD will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when he
seeth the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side posts, the LORD will pass
over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in unto your houses to
smite you." (Exodus 12.23).
There was also a
similar occasion in the time of Ezekiel:
·
"And the LORD said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through
the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh
and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof." (Ezek 9.4).
Based on all
this, which seems more reasonable is that these locusts have been genetically
manipulated, transformed into cyborg and possessed by demons led by the
angel of the abyss. They cannot be DRONIs because they would be
controlled by computer, and not directly by the angel of the abyss. Besides, they
wouldn’t know to discern between those who have the seal of the Eternal (Rev 7.2.3; 14.1) and
who does not. Also they could not be flying machines drived by a human being
because, also, they would not have such discernment. Furthermore, they do not
fulfill some of the other requirements listed in the following verses (e.g., do not kill anyone, but only
hurt).
As the seal of
the Eternal, an observation is valid:
·
"Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The
Lord knoweth them that are his. And, Let every one that nameth the name of
Christ depart from iniquity." (2Tim 2:19).
That is to say,
the grasshoppers will know who are the 144,000 because they are eternal
dwelling of the Eternal.
·
"And to them it 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. And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find
it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.” (Rev 9.5,6).
About grasshoppers,
some things may be observed:
1º - When
there was a plague of Egypt, it was the east wind that brought the locusts:
·
"And Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt, and the LORD
brought an east wind upon the land all that day, and all that night; and
when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts." (Exodus 10.13).
2º - The
enemies of Israel, when large in number, were compared to grasshoppers:
·
"And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east
lay along in the valley like grasshoppers for multitude; and their
camels were without number, as the sand by the sea side for multitude." (Judges 7.12).
·
"And your spoil shall be gathered like the gathering of the
caterpiller: as the running to and fro of locusts shall he run upon them." (Isaiah 33.4).
·
“They shall cut down her forest, saith the LORD, though it cannot be
searched; because they are more than the grasshoppers, and are
innumerable." (Jer 46.23).
·
"There shall the fire devour thee; the sword shall cut thee off, it
shall eat thee up like the cankerworm: make thyself many as the cankerworm,
make thyself many as the locusts. Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above
the stars of heaven: the cankerworm spoileth, and flieth away. Thy crowned
are as the locusts, and thy captains as the great grasshoppers, which
camp in the hedges in the cold day, but when the sun ariseth they flee
away, and their place is not known where they are." (Nahum
3.15-17).
·
"And so it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites came
up, and the Amalekites, and the children of the east, even they came up against
them; and they encamped against them, and destroyed the increase of the earth,
till thou come unto Gaza, and left no sustenance for Israel, neither sheep, nor
ox, nor ass. For they came up with their cattle and their tents, and they
came as grasshoppers for multitude; for both they and their camels were
without number: and they entered into the land to destroy it. And Israel was greatly impoverished
because of the Midianites; and the children of Israel cried unto the LORD." (Judges 6.3-6).
3º - grasshopper
represents the destruction of the entire harvest:
·
"Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather but
little in; for the locust shall consume it. All thy trees and fruit
of thy land shall the locust consume." (Deut 28.38,42).
·
"He gave also their increase unto the caterpiller, and their
labour unto the locust." (Psalm 78.46).
·
"Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me; and, behold, he formed grasshoppers
in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and, lo, it was
the latter growth after the king's mowings." (Amos 7.1).
·
"That which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust eaten; and
that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten; and that which the
cankerworm hath left hath the caterpiller eaten." (Joel 1.4).
One thing is
certain: grasshopper is a devourer.
These locusts will
inject a poison so painful that those who receive it desire
to die (as can also
be seen in Job 3.21; Isaiah 2.19; Jer 8.3; Rev 6.16), but
will not be able to suicide, which proves that nobody has the capacity to take
the life of anyone. Only Jesus can give life (John 11.25) and take
it (John 10.17,18). He
alone has the key of death and hell (Rev 1.18).
And the proof
that they were grasshoppers is that they would harass individuals for five
months: the length of a plague of locusts is five months, usually between the
months of April and September. They would not be dead; before, they would die
naturally after their time of life be exhausted. These locusts
couldn't symbolize an army (as in the Old Testament) because an army comes not
only to torment, but to kill.
An important
detail is that the so wished desire to die only will be granted under
the touch of the sixth trumpet. It is curious how, instead of the individuals affected
by the plague thinking to seek in Jesus the cure for their ills, they prefer to
seek relief in death. Contrast with in Revelation 6.16, in
which men prefer to die, not because they wanted to be free of suffering,
but because they’ll have to contemplate the face of the Lamb.
As the
scorpions, they are known for bringing great torment to those who are minced by
them (which make
them a symbol of torment):
·
"And thou, son of man, be not afraid of them, neither be afraid of their
words, though briers and thorns be with thee, and thou dost dwell among scorpions:
be not afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their looks, though they be
a rebellious house." (Ezekiel 2.6).
·
"Who led thee through that great and terrible wilderness, wherein
were fiery serpents, and scorpions, and drought, where there was
no water; who brought thee forth water out of the rock of flint;" (Deut 8.15).
Let us now to the
characteristics of grasshoppers:
·
"And the 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. And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth
were as the teeth of lions. And they 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. And they had tails like unto
scorpions, and there were stings in their tails: and their power was to
hurt men five months. And they 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 9.7-11).
There are those
who interpret the seven attributes of locusts like this:
·
In the crowd as grasshoppers;
·
As malicious and malignant as scorpions;
·
Reign
as kings;
·
Intelligent and good for expressing their emotions as
men;
·
Alluring
as women;
·
Fierce and devouring as lions;
·
Extremely resistant as someone in armor of iron.
They are partly
human, but partially diabolical; partially civilized, but partially
barbarians.
See the
resemblance of them:
·
The appearance of grasshoppers was similar to that of horses prepared for
war (Rev 9.7;
see Joel 2.4) -> The grasshopper, usually, it is a
fragile, easy to scare (Job 5.95).
Equip you as a horse means to give you the strength and courage of a
horse that does not fear the battle. Before,
runs toward it (Job 39.19-25).
It is very likely that, for this,
the antichrist will think to use a microchip that give him the emotional
control over the grasshopper through the issuance of waves that interfere with
their emotions. Don't be so because the demons have assumed
control of them;
·
The
head had:
o
Something like crowns similar to
gold (Rev 9.7) -> It
is a metallic part to be incorporated at the head of these
animals to protect them, in case someone tries to kill them by
stepping on them.
The format of the target
probably will be the most suitable to hamper the impact upon the head
of the bug if someone were to attack. After all, with the end of the crowns linked
to the breastplate of iron, the impact is hardly felt in the head. The
person will get something that would reach exactly the space between the
tips of the crown. As everything will be small, it will be very
difficult this happens.
Regarding the material similar to
gold, it is a metal alloy that remembers this color, as well as its
ability to reflect light, making it even more firm the view on
grasshopper for trying to kill him or defend oneself from the sting;
o
His face was like the face
of a man (Rev 9.7) -> which
is excellent for expressing emotions. Probably the demons will use this to
arouse the hatred in the hearts of individuals to harass them even
more. After all, nobody is with hatred of a plague, since it doensn’t acts by
wickedness, but by instinct;
o
Hair as the hair
of women (Rev 9.8) -> the
woman is characterized by the big hair (Ezek 16.7). Aiming to
hinder the people see the sting tormentor and, thus, to defend themselves,
combining the genes of the hair of the most varied species of animals in order
to produce a hair similar to the woman. As the sensuality of women often hinder
the men to see the true bitter character which can poison the soul even the
most sincere man in Christ (see Prov 2.16,17), so the hair on the paws of these
animals can give them a seductive look, that hides the true identity of
them, as well as its sting.
Obs.: Another possible hypothesis
is: the face of a man (bearded), but haired woman (long): i.e., bearded face and long hair.
o
Teeth were like lions (Rev 9.8) ->
probably a combination of the gene of animals of stronger teeth in
order to produce a super-tooth to devour everything with
ferocity. When an army was fierce, he used the metaphor of the teeth of a
lion (see Joel 1.6).
Probably they will feed on material goods of many
people, increasing even more the torment;
·
They had breastplates like breastplates
of iron (Rev 9.9) ->
It is the cyborg technology, with metal parts in the body, lest to be
killed easily (remember
that were similar to horses prepared for war) if someone
tried to kill them by hitting them with something;
·
The noise of their wings was like the sound of chariots of many horses
running to battle (Rev 9.9) ->
the wings will be modified through genetic engineering, in order to fly
faster and farther away and, with this, not giving time for people to defend
themselves. Not to mention that the deafening noise will intimidate, as happens
with the advance of a powerful army (Joel 2.5);
·
They had tails like scorpions,
and stings in their tails (Rev 9.10) ->
received the gene that matched the tail and the sting of the main poisonous
animals, so as to obtain a super-poison (more painful and lasting), as well as a
stinger able to better penetrate the individual and infect them. And
as the tail was similar to scorpion (and not only the tail of it), this
means that it had the autonomy to act in such a way as treacherous as a
scorpion, giving them a precision even more accurate.
Detail: The only thing that
the cankerworm has remembering a stinger is a hard osseous substance as a
needle, with which the female pierces the bark of the wood from the trees to
lay their eggs.
All these
locusts were possessed by demons who were at the service of the
angel of the abyss (Ha-Satan), whose
name meant, both for Israelites and for gentiles, destruction (Rev 9.11), perdition:
·
Abaddon to warn the Israelites
without the mark and without Jesus, so that realize the destruction that
was about to be promoted in Jerusalem by the Antichrist and thus solve exit out
of the camp of religious Israel (Heb 13.14) to expect the true Messiah;
·
Apollyon to warn the gentiles lukewarm
in faith (without the
mark of the beast and without Jesus), in order to realize
the destruction that the antichrist would promote worldwide and, thus, deciding
to leave the world and prepare for the coming of Jesus.
Abadon often
refers to the world of the dead:
·
"Hell is naked before him, and destruction hath no covering." (Job 26.6)
·
"Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame thereof with our ears." (Job
28.22).
·
"Hell and destruction are before the LORD: how much more then the hearts of the
children of men?" (Prov 15.11).
·
"Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness in the land
of forgetfulness” (Psalm 88.12).
The detail is
that the grasshoppers are known to go forth and march in bands without having about themselves
a leader (Prov 30.27). But
how? For sure, in the plague of Egypt, is the Eternal One who led them (Exodus 10.13,19).
Here, however, they shall be governed as men without Jesus: by
Ha-Satan and his demons (Ephesians 2.1,2; John 14.30; 1 John 5.19).
An important
consideration is important to be made: the stars that fell from heaven (Ha-Satan) is
different from the angel who came up out of the abyss. Just think that
Ha-Satan and his demons are seen as falling from the sky (see Isaiah 14.12-14; Luke 10.17,18),
while this caste of demons is seen rising from the abyss. Those who
defeat, for example, the two witnesses is the beast that rises from
the abyss (it isn’t of
the sea or something that falls from the sky - Rev 11.7).
Obs.: The
abyss is different from hell (see Job 26.6; Prov 15.11). Remember that
separating the bosom of Abraham from hell, there was a great abyss (Lk 16.26).
·
"One woe is past; and,
behold, there come two woes more hereafter. " (Rev 9.12).
The basic
characteristics of the three woes are:
·
Direct attack to individuals (while in the first four trumpets, the
attack was against the environment);
·
The three woes has to do with three
"armies": the army of locusts (5th trumpet), the army of men who are
sent against the people (6th trumpet), and
the army of Christ (which comes
snatch His sons of the earthy men in the 7th trumpet).
Remember that
the first half of the 70th week is also called for 42 months (Rev 13.5), 1,260
days (Rev 12.6) and
time, times and half a time (Dan 12.7), where the time is equivalent to one year. This means
that the first year will be characterized by something, the following two years
by another thing and half a year, by another:
·
First Year: it is
when the beast that comes from the sea reigns;
·
Following two years: it is
when the beast that arises from the abyss begins to reign;
·
Half a year: The
greatest genocide happens, resulting in the death of half the world's
population.
The first four trumpets
play one after the other. The past few days, the fifth trumpet sounds
and lasts for five months (Rev 9.10)
(bringing pain to the Flesh). After the sixth trumpet sounds, which is performed
in a very short period of time, (bringing the pain of death). Then the two witnesses are
killed, and after three days and an half, the seventh trumpet is played (bringing the pain of loss of loved ones
and the regret for having been left behind). However,
individuals become more angry with Jesus for having brought their relatives to
heaven than with the Antichrist who killed billions of individuals.
·
"And the sixth
angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar
which is before God," (Rev 9.13).
When the sixth
angel touches his trumpet, a single voice came at the same time the four horns
of the altar of incense. Four is a number used to represent the entire length
of the world, which is covered by the four faces of Christ described in all
four gospels.
The horns
represent the idea of the altar at its highest potential.
Two
questions to ask:
·
Whose
was this voice?
·
How many voices were heard: four voices in unison or a
single voice coming from four places at the same time.
Whereas the
voice came from the altar of gold, it is very likely that this is a
response to the cry of the martyrs (Rev 6.9.11).
This voice came
from the four horns of the altar of incense (Rev 6.13).
Whenever a sacrifice was made, a bit of blood was placed on the horns of the
altar of burned offering (Lev 4.7,18,25,30,34).
And, in particular, on the day of atonement, a bit of blood was also placed on
the horns of the golden altar (Lev 16.18).
That is to say, was
the altar of prayer, from where a portion of the blood of atonement was poured
out, that the voice echoed. Not only one of the tips, but the four tips.
Whereas it is said that this altar of gold is where the prayers of the saints
are offered (Rev 8.3-5), so it
is intercessory prayer (made with the
intention of seeing the Eternal atone for their sins through the
manifestation of His love in the hearts of the people - James 5.20;
1Peter 4.8) that uttereth the voice that will afflict the
wicked.
Note that there isn’t
someone good that comes to execute the judgment against the wicked. Instead, it
is the four angels (winds) of
Ha-Satan that will lead the army of 20,000 x 10,000 horsemen. That is to
say, it is the bad guys destroying each other.
Comes the question:
if Satan cast Satan, then his kingdom does not persist (Matt 12.25,26). How, then, it is possible
that Ha-Satan and his angels to help the people elected from the Eternal,
destroying the wicked?
It is clear that
kingdom is composed of concepts and values. What makes Ha-Satan to be evil
is the pleasure of him in "do justice" in a legalistic way (the same pattern of justice of the Babylonian System
- Matt 5.20). Many people interpret the Ha-Satan evil (Rev 12.9). He is bad, not simply because he
does bad things, but mainly by wanting to do good things without Christ, within
the standards of this world (see Matt 16.23):
·
As the devil, Ha-Satan is accusing the servants
of eternal when sin;
·
As an adversary, Ha-Satan offers himself to take
the person to seek in Christ based only on the things of this world (Matt 16.23; 1 Corinthians 15.19);
·
As a serpent, he attempts to induce individuals
to be as good as the Eternal;
·
As the father of the lie, Ha-Satan fills the hearts of
men with mondaine cunning (wisdom) ,
to the point that they feel able to arbitrate between good and evil (as God - Gen 3.5,6)
·
As the dragon he induces individuals to
do justice with his own hands based on the concepts, values and powers
of this world:
o
Kills with the excuse that, when the wicked ones die,
the peace so much desired will be achieved;
o
Robs what the person has, alleging that, in order to
ensure that justice is satisfied, a person must pay for their crimes;
o
Destroy what the wicked built by stating that, so
he cannot use it again for evil.
Lastly,
Ha-Satan punishes the wicked with the excuse that, therefore, it is
possible to make this a perfect and fair world. After all, if he could make the
world work without need of Eternal or of His Word, it will be proved that the
Eternal is not the only solution.
It is good to
remember that Ha-Satan is the "father of the lie" (and not the lies - plural). And what is a lie?
This world, namely, to covet the things that belong to it, i.e., we base our
relationships on the basis of what we can do or give materially in return for
these same things.
It is good to
remember that Ha-Satan, his angels and followers were created for this, such as
the four angels mentioned here (Rev 9.15).
Not that the Eternal designed them this way. He designed all for the good
works (so much so that the body of each points
to what is good and right to the Eternal). But many fail to make good
use of their attributes. The Eternal, knowing beforehand that, puts them into His
project in place in that they will fulfill thier bad role in order to make
known the riches of His glory on the vessels of mercy.
The Eternal uses
the powers of hell to grant salvation to which He sealed (as He used the angel of death to kill
the firstborn of the Egyptians - Exodus 12.23). As
the Eternal, from the 4th plague in Egypt, made a distinction between
Hebrews and Egyptians (Exodus 8.22), now
this distinction is felt between who belongs to Jesus and who is not (as promised in Mal 3.16-18 in response
to Israelite provocation against the Eternal - Mal 3.13-15).
Note how the
144,000 who are sealed with the name of the Eternal and His Son (Rev 7.2.3; 14.1) are
free of the last three plagues:
·
The locusts do not sting (Rev 9.4);
·
Are free from the hour of trial which shall come upon
the whole world (Rev 3.10);
·
They are raptured along with the Church in the seventh
trumpet.
It is very
likely that the Church, for having been sealed with the Holy Spirit (Eph 1.3; 4.30), is
also exempt these torments, as well as the name of the Father and of the Son point
to whom the Eternal is, the presence of the Holy Spirit in the life of who
belongs to Jesus also promotes the same thing. The fact that the 144,000 did
not receive the Holy Spirit, but "only" the name of the Father and of
the Son implies that they will be the instrument of the Eternal to end this
confusion in the middle of the Church (namely, the theological war regarding the
correct name of the Eternal and His Son, as well as the identity of both).
The voice of
Jesus and His gospel, in response to the prayers of the saints (in particular of the martyrs),
frees up more a terrible torment, only that now, for the worshipers of the
beast. Those who follow Jesus in a lukewarm way or the foolish virgins will not
be achieved. This is because, according to Rev 9.20, those that were not
affected by these plagues will not repent of their murders, nor of their
sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts. Whereas these two
previous groups will repent during the great tribulation, therefore concludes
that only the men with the mark of the beast will be achieved.
It is clear
that, indirectly, we all suffer, since, even the Church or the 144,000 sealed
have relatives or friends who are afflicted. Indeed, one of the reasons for the
144,000 not be defiled with women (Rev 14.4) is so that
they could join the Eternal without distraction some (1 Corinthians 7.35).
·
"Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from
a wife? seek not a wife. But and if thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and
if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned. Nevertheless such shall have trouble in
the flesh: but I spare you. But this I say, brethren, the time is
short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had
none; and they that weep, as though they wept not; and they that rejoice, as
though they rejoiced not; and they that buy, as though they possessed
not; and they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion
of this world passeth away. But I would have you without carefulness. He that
is unmarried careth for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please
the Lord: but he that is married careth for the things that are of the world, how
he may please his wife. There is difference also between a
wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman careth for the things of the Lord, that
she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is married careth for
the things of the world, how she may please her husband. And this I
speak for your own profit; not that I may cast a snare upon you, but for that
which is comely, and that ye may attend upon the Lord without distraction." (1
Cor 7.27-35).
After all, do
you know pain greater than see wife or children being attacked by the
Antichrist or being afflicted by three woes? This, besides the concern with the
physical well-being of them. I believe that this is why the Church is not
mentioned explicitly as being free from the torment of the fifth and sixth
trumpets, since many will be married.
Note how these
angels were already prepared for this moment in which they would be loose. Here
we learn that the Eternal creates each one with a purpose, but this will only
be manifested at the exact moment (as this,
the Eternal will improve the creature in their mission for which, at the right
time, the same can fulfill it with total effectiveness). Until then,
there is always someone or something to prevent this purpose come to the
public.
The four angels of
Ha-Satan had been prepared especially to convince 20,000 x 10,000 people
around the world to join with the intention of killing a third of male
individuals (Rev 9.15), so that they
would be more rare than gold of Ophir (Isaiah 13.12).
They will mobilize every
national army against its own population (is
the state against the population through the martial law), 20,000 troops
of 10,000 soldiers, each one against those whom they should protect (see Psalms 68.17).
There is a
similarity between the grasshoppers, the fifth trumpet and the horses of the
sixth trumpet:
·
·
In both cases there is power in the
tail of these beings.
·
They are compared with lions (Rev 9.8,17) and horses of battle (Rev 9.7,16).
·
In both cases there is a terrible smoke (Rev 9.2.17.18).
·
The difference is that, while the fifth trumpet there
are "only" torment (Rev 9.5),
in the sixth one there is death (Rev 9.15,18,20).
After the death of
so many people, the idea is that Israel, more than ever, realized the
importance of leaving Jerusalem and Judaism and the Church, the world.
·
"Saying to the
sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the
great river Euphrates." (Rev 9.14).
The voice that
came from the four horns of the altar ordered the sixth angel to release the
four evil angels (winds
- Rev 7.1; Hebrews 1.7) who were
being held by four good angels, so the winds of war could return to blow on
earth. These angels with certainty were bad. Otherwise, they will not need to
be tied. Comes the question: how, why and for how long these angels remained
tied up?
The fact that
they are loose along the "great" River Euphrates to emerge throughout
the world has a special reason. Think: why not in another place?
The river Euphrates
was very closely connected with the Assyrians (Gen 15:18; 1 Kings 4:21; Isa 8:5-8).
·
"Forasmuch as this people refuseth the waters of Shiloah that go softly,
and rejoice in Rezin and Remaliah's son; now therefore, behold, the Lord bringeth
up upon them the waters of the river, strong and many, even the king of
Assyria, and all his glory: and he shall come up over all his channels, and go
over all his banks: and he shall pass through Judah; he shall overflow and go over, he shall
reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of his wings shall fill
the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel." (Isaiah 8.6-8).
·
"Let not the
swift flee away, nor the mighty man escape; they shall stumble, and fall toward
the north by the river Euphrates." (Jeremiah 46.6).
·
"For this is
the day of the Lord GOD of hosts, a day of vengeance, that he may avenge him of
his adversaries: and the sword shall devour, and it shall be satiate and made
drunk with their blood: for the Lord GOD of hosts hath a sacrifice in the north
country by the river Euphrates." (Jeremiah 46.10).
Assyria
was also north of Israel:
·
"And he will
stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria; and will make
Nineveh a desolation, and dry like a wilderness." (Zephaniah 2.13).
Detail:
and Persia (who conquered Babylon) lies to the north of Babylon:
·
"Behold, a
people shall come from the north, and a great nation, and many kings shall be
raised up from the coasts of the earth." (Jeremiah 50.41).
·
"Then the heaven
and the earth, and all that is therein, shall sing for Babylon: for the
spoilers shall come unto her from the north, saith the LORD." (Jeremiah 51.48).
The River Euphrates
is one of the frontiers established by the Eternal for Israel (Genesis 15.17-21; Exodus 23.31; Deut 1.7;
11.24; Joshua 1.4; 2Sam 8.3; 1Chr 5.9). Note as
the River Euphrates is called "great river", or by his great
emphasis, "The River" (as in Exodus 23.31).
·
"In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy
seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the
river Euphrates:" (Genesis 15.18).
·
"Every place whereon the soles of your feet shall tread shall be yours:
from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even unto
the uttermost sea shall your coast be." (Deuteronomy 11.24).
·
"From the wilderness and this Lebanon even unto the great river, the
river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and unto the great sea toward
the going down of the sun, shall be your coast." (Joshua
1.4).
Here are more
reasons other whereby the River Euphrates is portrayed here as a great river (Rev 9.14) (see its importance in the history of
Sacred Scripture):
1º - It is
the fourth arm on which divided the river which the Eternal created for
watering the garden of Eden (Gen 2.10,14);
2º - He
played an important role in three of the seven most prominent empires of
humanity (Assyria, Babylon, Media-Persia);
3º - It was
from the tower of Babel, where this river was, that humanity was scattered upon
all the face of the earth" (Gen 11.9);
4º - This
river is used as a threshold to portray the great distance that exists between
Israel and the place where they were in captivity because of the sins
of Jeroboam the son of Nebat (1Kings
14.15);
5º - The
Euphrates is mentioned as one of the rivers bordering on that the Eternal
would "thresh his cereals" (Isaiah 27.12);
6º - The
Eternal will dry the Nile River (called the
Egyptian sea) and the Euphrates, being that this will be divided into
seven channels, so that there is a flat path for the remnant of Israel which
shall be left from Assyria, as it happened when Israel went out of Egypt (Isaiah 10.15,16; Rev 16.12).
7º - The
Euphrates river is also related with:
a. The first sin (Gen 2.10-14) ;
b. The
first dictatorial government (Gen 10.8-10);
c. The
first revolt against the Eternal (Gen 11.1-9).
This river is
seen by the Israelites as natural source from where raise their
enemies (namely, the judgment
of the Eternal for their disobedience):
·
"In the same day shall the Lord shave with a razor that is hired, namely,
by them beyond the river, by the king of Assyria, the head, and the hair of the
feet: and it shall also consume the beard." (Isaiah 7.20).
·
"Now therefore, behold, the Lord bringeth up upon them the waters of the
river, strong and many, even the king of Assyria, and all his glory: and
he shall come up over all his channels, and go over all his banks:" (Isaiah 8.7).
·
"For this is the day of the Lord GOD of hosts, a day of
vengeance, that he may avenge him of his adversaries: and the sword shall
devour, and it shall be satiate and made drunk with their blood: for the Lord
GOD of hosts hath a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates." (Jer
46.10).
The wind
has to do with army and war. Just think what happened when Hezekiah
prophesied, as well as in the following sections:
·
"Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son of man, and
say to the wind, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Come from the four winds, O breath,
and breathe upon these slain, that they may live. So I prophesied as he
commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up upon
their feet, an exceeding great army." (Ezek 37.9,10).
·
"Behold, he shall come up as clouds, and his chariots shall be as
a whirlwind: his horses are swifter than eagles. Woe unto us! for we are
spoiled. O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest
be saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee? For a voice
declareth from Dan, and publisheth affliction from mount Ephraim." (Jeremiah 4.11-13).
·
"And upon Elam will I bring the four winds from the four quarters of
heaven, and will scatter them toward all those winds; and there shall be no
nation whither the outcasts of Elam shall not come. For I will cause Elam
to be dismayed before their enemies, and before them that seek their life: and
I will bring evil upon them, even my fierce anger, saith the LORD; and I
will send the sword after them, till I have consumed them:" (Jeremiah
49.36-37).
Although the
first country to be attacked is Israel, not only that they will be attacked.
Since there would be no sense in an army so great to destroy only the third
part of the Jews.
Comes the
question: why Ha-Satan wishes to destroy those who are on your side? After
all, as it happened in Egypt, only those who had no firm commitment
with Jesus is that were affected. This, however, is to show that
no gift good can come from someone outside of Christ (James 1.16,17). What
such individual will be offering, in essence, is the dissatisfaction that
exists in their heart and the desire to remedy this through the neighbor. Such
an individual cannot be faithful to anyone, but only to their needs. Just
someone remedy this lack more intensely to the individual to favour this at the
expense of others. Everything because there is not a common goal, something
bigger than the individual oneself which this can deliver in order to
grow.
We must
also ask ourselves: why, after all, the beast will kill as many of its subjects?
First, to promote population reduction, since, with a lot of people on earth,
there isn’t resource enough for everyone. Second, to eliminate the dissidents. Not
to mention the fact that it is much easier to control five hundred millions of
individuals (the goal of the New World Order writing on the guides stones of
Georgia establishes this ceiling) than seven billion.
And the idea of
the beast is manipulating people, so that they consider just the elimination of
so many people. In other words, they will revolt against the beast because
they are going to find that it really made what should be done. Hence the
reason to be promoted so much immorality, murder, theft and idolatry: so that
only it remains alive those who, besides they are wiser (those who resist
all this), they consider noble the elimination of those who adopt such
practices.
·
"And out of his
mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he
shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the
fierceness and wrath of Almighty God." (Rev 9.15).
After the voice
issued from the four horns of the altar of incense to order to the sixth angel,
they transmit the order to four good angels who, promptly obey loosening in the
River Euphrates the four evil angels that were being prepared just for that
moment. As saith the Hole Scripture, until the wicked is created for the day of
calamity (Prov 16.4).
That is to say, these four angels had been created specifically for that task.
It comes the
question: why the separation "hour, day, month and year"? To teach us
that Eternal’s things are very precise and well designed: nothing happens
before or after the time.
Note how the
trumpets, with the exception of the fifth and seventh, work with the third
part:
·
In the first, the third part of the land and the
trees was burned;
·
In the second, the third part of the sea turns blood;
·
In the third, the third part of the waters becomes
into wormwood;
·
In the forth, the third part of the sun, moon, and stars
is wound;
·
In the sixth, the third part of the world's population
is dead.
·
"And he hath on his
vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS." (Rev 9.16).
The expression
"millions of millions" and "thousands of thousands" is
commonly used to designate the crowd at the service of the Eternal (Ps 68.17; Dan 7.10):
·
"The chariots of God are twenty thousand, even thousands
of angels: the Lord is among them, as in Sinai, in the holy place." (Psalm 68.17).
·
"A fiery stream issued and came forth from before him: thousand
thousands ministered unto him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before
him: the judgment was set, and the books were opened." (Dan 7.10).
Note that it
isn’t one commanding two hundred million, but twenty thousand commanding, each
one, a group of ten thousand. Everyone, of course, under the command of the
four evil angels.
Although the
four angels are loose in the Euphrates, this does not mean that they will be
just there. All grasshoppers begin together attacking Israel in bands, but
later spread to the four corners of the earth (remembering what happens with the locusts - Prov 30.27).
The difference
from the fifth to the sixth trumpet is that, in the fifth, the army is composed
of small creatures to torment internally with pain; in the sixth, the
army is composed of creatures bigger and more robust to kill out.
The fact that
John had heard the number of the cavalry means that he does not counted or
estimated the number of riders. Rather, this is a precise amount, which does
not happen in the case of grasshoppers, where the amount is not mentioned.
Comes the
question: why does the global elite would prefer to create bizarre creatures
to DRONIs? Physically, I cannot understand why, since it seems much easier
to fabricate DRONIs. However, there are two things in favor of genetically
modified cyborg:
·
The animals have a higher precision movements. For
example, in the case of grasshoppers, they can fly more versatile than any
machine invented by man. In the case of horses, their flexibility to move with
the paws is far more sophisticated;
·
The animals may be possessed by demons.
·
"And I saw an angel
standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls
that fly in the midst of heaven, Come and gather yourselves together unto the
supper of the great God; That ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the
flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of
them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond,
both small and great." (Rev 9.17.18).
Whenever the Eternal
wanted to show that an army was terrible, their heads were portrayed as lions,
both by his power devourer (Ezek 19.1-6; Joel 1.6) as well as
by its roar (1Chr 12.8; Isaiah 5.28,29) that
arouses fear by supposed strength and wrath of the adversary.
Those who rode
on these horses (not
necessarily were horsemen, i.e., experienced in mount horse to go to war) had
breastplates whose color was what came out of the mouth of horses: fire,
smoke (the color of
the jacinth remembers the smoke) and brimstone. This reminds
the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, destroyed with fire and brimstone (Gen 19.24), resulting in a
very large smoke as of a great furnace (Gen 19.28). Also reminds
the lake of fire and brimstone in which shall be casted all that were not found
in the book of life (Rev 19.20,
20.10, 14.15), whose torment remembers a smoke rising (Rev 14.10,11).
If the
individual does not die incinerated by fire that burns with sulfur, he will die
choked by smoke. What is interesting is that, while their heads are similar to
lions, it is said that individuals are killed by the teeth of the heads of the
horses, but by fire, smoke and brimstone. Therefore, the head similar
to that of the lion implies be frightening by the ferocity that appeared.
·
Fire = represents the Law (Deut 33.2);
·
Sulfur = represents the Word of the Eternal that
exudes bad smell (smell of
death) for unbelievers (2Cor 2.14-16), since the disobedient stumble on what comes out of
the mouth of the Eternal (1Peter 2.8);
·
Smoke = represents the glory of the
Eternal (Isaiah 6.4; Rev
15.8) which is an inner torment to all those who try to
justify themselves in the law instead of grace (the grace in their life is stifled - Gal 5.4),
instead of letting exhale the smoke of the incense that rises from
the altar of intercession (Rev 8.4).
Still with
relation to smoke, it is important to look for smoke that went
up the nostrils of the Eternal and the fire that came out of his mouth:
·
"There went up a smoke out of his
nostrils, And fire came out from his mouth which consumed; coals were kindled
him." (Psalm 18.8).
·
"There went up a smoke out of his
nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured; Coals were incenderam him." (2Sam 22.9).
In addition,
when the Eternal manifested Himself on Mount Sinai, He descended upon it in
fire and the smoke rose (Exodus 19.18). Also
when Abraham offered sacrifice, a fumy fire and a burning torch passed in the
middle of the sacrifice (Gen 15.17).
Whereas all the
manifestation on Mount Sinai was to prove Israel (Exodus 20.18) and
that the sacrifice of Abraham was for him a proof that the Eternal was with him
and fulfill His promise to Him, we can see that:
·
Fire and smoke are the proof of the Eternal to burn
all unbelief in our lives;
·
Fire, smoke and brimstone symbolize judgment.
And the fact
that they have been punished in a similar way to what occurred with Sodom and
Gomorrah, points to the fact that humanity be behaving in exactly the same way
that they (as can be
seen in Luke 17.28,29; Rev 11.8).
Joel prophesied
that wonders would be shown in heaven and on earth, among them, blood, and
fire, and pillars of smoke (Joel 2.30). After all, these individuals are punished
according to the feeling that they arouse in the "nose" of the Eternal:
·
"Which say, Stand by thyself, come not near to me; for I am holier than
thou. These are a smoke in my nose, a fire that burneth all the day." (Isaiah 65.5).
Be fire and
smoke in the nostrils of the Eternal is to be His instrument of trial or
discipline, i.e., a vessel of wrath (see Rom 9.22,23).
The fact of
coming out fire and smoke from the mouth of the horses also reminds the
Leviathan (Job 41.19,20).
Probably they will deploy the gene of this animal (although extinguished, maybe they might be able to
find the its DNA), which will give the horses a look even
more terrible (Job 41.14).
From this we can
draw the following lesson: we must take care not to become thorns and thistles:
·
"For the earth which drinketh in the rain that cometh oft upon it, and
bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed, receiveth blessing
from God: but that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is
nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned." (Heb 6.7,8).
Nor
to become straw:
·
"And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: therefore
every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the
fire. I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh
after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall
baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire: whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor,
and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with
unquenchable fire." (Matthew 3.10-12).
After all, the
wickedness is like a plow made of fire:
·
"For wickedness burneth as the fire: it shall devour the briers and
thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall mount up
like the lifting up of smoke. Through the wrath of the LORD of
hosts is the land darkened, and the people shall be as the fuel of the fire: no
man shall spare his brother." (Isaiah 9.18,19).
The wickedness
consumes thorny people, as if they were fuel to the fire of judgment that
derives from the Eternal’s law (Deut 33.2; Jer 5.14; 23.29). When the
wickedness consumes the wicked, the land was dark with the smoke
that rises from the torment that derives from the interior of
these souls. While the righteous rises the smoke of the incense of
intercession (combustion
of everything bad that there is within them), the wicked
rises the smoke of the vices (combustion of everything that is good inside them).
That is, when it
comes the Eternal’s wrath, because of His rebuke the wicked consume themselves
of fury and darkens everything around them with their bitterness, corruption,
desires, etc. (for example:
many, in an attempt to get rid of the problem, try to induce others
to act in his favor).
An important
detail to be observed is that, in the fourth seal, is dead, the fourth
part of the earth, while , here, is dead the third part
of men. This
means that:
·
In the fourth seal the fourth part of the earth will
be destroyed (people,
animals, plants and even inanimate things). This leads to Revelation 11.18:
o "And the nations were angry, and thy
wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that
thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints,
and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them
which
destroy the earth." (Rev 11.18).
·
Here in the sixth trumpet, men is referring to
male individuals, to fulfill what was predicted:
o "I will make a man more precious than
fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir." (Isaiah
13.12).
This
fits in well with what is preached in the media and fulfilled in the policy,
namely, the empowerment of women (as quoted in "Agenda 2030 of the UNO"), as
well as their godliness.
Behold, the
characteristics of horses:
·
The heads of the horses were like the heads of
lions -> combination of the gene of animals with stronger bones (in addition to the tooth, the jawbone of the lion also
deserves to be highlighted - Joel 1.6). After all, how much harder
is the horse's head, the more difficult it is for him to be dead. Not to
mention that the face of the lion is frightening;
·
Their mouths came fire, smoke and brimstone. By these
three plagues: by fire, the smoke and the brimstone which came out of their
mouths, was dead the third part of men -> Here is the reason for this:
o
The fire destroys through the burning;
o
The smoke destroys taking the visibility and
choking;
o
The sulfur destroys through pollution and bad
smell.
These three plagues resemble the
destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah (Gen 19.24,28).
They were destroyed because:
o
Published their sins, as if it was an honor to display
them (Isaiah 3.9);
Ü
"Behold, this was the iniquity of thy
sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and
her daughters; but never has strengthened the hand of the poor and the
needy." (Ezek
16.49);
o
They worship the Eternal so wrong (Isaiah 1.10,11), namely: the prophets
committing adulteries, walked with falsehood, strengthened the hands of
evildoers and the people ended up getting used and taking advantage of
this (as they did in Israel - Jr 23.14. Hence Sodom be called sister
of Israel - Ezek 16.56);
o
They went after strange flesh (adultery, homosexuality, bestiality, which should be
blessing their spouses - Jude 7);
Who worships the Eternal in the
wrong way, is subject to be the victim of these horses. Probably will be
introduced in these horses a grenade flames or the gene of the former
Leviathan (see Job 41.18-21);
·
The power of horses is in their mouths, and in
their tails; for their tails are like serpents, and have heads; and with
them cause damage -> while the mouth kills, the tail, as the tail
of the grasshopper in the fifth trumpet, cause torment (note how the third part of men was killed by what came
out of the mouth of horses). The difference here is that the tail is the
combination of genes which gives the appearance of a serpent and have more than
one head to poison people;
·
Those who were mounted on them had breastplates of
fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone -> The Breastplates of horses had
the same colors of what came out of the
mouth of horses. Jacinth, in this case, is the color of the smoke. The
purpose of this will be to give, to enemies, the impression that the
scourge will be much greater than it actually is. In other words, in the midst
of the fire, smoke and brimstone which came out of the mouth, the horsemen,
seemed to be more fire, smoke and brimstone, giving the impression, far, from
being as a huge fire. Not to mention that this also served as a camouflage for
them.
·
"For their power is
in their mouth, and in their tails: for their tails were like unto
serpents, and had heads, and with them they do hurt." (Rev 9.19).
The tail of the
horses are similar to snakes of several heads that have the power to cause
damage to individuals, such as the prophets who teach falsehood do (Isaiah 10.6).
·
"And the rest of
the men which were not killed by these plagues yet 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: neither repented they of their murders, nor
of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts." (Rev 9.20.21).
Many, claiming
that they are capable of granting indulgences, pardons, as well as prayers for
the souls of Purgatory (in addition
to other forms of deception) spend their lives to withdraw money
from men. Eventually commercializing the faith, the souls of men, as well as
devouring the house of widows and making it even more miserable the lives of
the poor.
Note how the
worshipers of the beast that were not killed, not repented of their
sins, namely:
·
The works of your hands. But, that
works are these? Inasmuch as the Antichrist will rise against all that is
called God or is the object of worship (2Thes
2.4), therefore the idols are the image that each one makes of the
beast (Rev 13.14,15),
independently of the material used (gold, silver, copper, stone or wood). Although,
in principle, they cannot see, hear or hiking, the spirit of lust (demons - 1 Corinthians 10.20) will tricks
them (Hos 4.11,12), so that they have
the impression that these idols are answering their prayers, since many of
their desires are met (Hos 4.11).
The
truth, however, is that, when a person experiences everything going right in their
life, they starts to believe that his idol is alive. Something similar will
happen at the time of the antichrist (Rev 13.15):
both will be the signs, wonders, etc., that people will see the image of
the beast that had come to life.
Who
does not repent of the works of your hands inevitably will worship the
demons and the images of the beast (something that is condemned in (Lev 17.7;
Deut 31.29; 32.17; Psalms 106.36; 115.4; 135.15; 1 Corinthians 10.20; Dan 5.23)). Let’s
clear: it is the work of our hands that leads us to make idols and worship
devils:
o
Idols - i.e., what can be
manipulated. This individual does not want others to think, but just do what
they want. Don't want that each one has its own identity, is what the Eternal
designed for them. They
love the image of those that suits them.
o
Demons - those that can bring harm
to all who oppose them.
·
Of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their
fornication, nor of their thefts.
o
Murders - there are several ways to
kill someone: through words, hatred, fear, pruning opportunities,
initiatives and, particularly, away from the true faith;
o
Sorceries - Witchcraft is any method
used to control a higher entity, so that the same will meet the desires of
those who invokes. Drugs, seduction, eroticism are also forms of
witchcraft. But especially the campaigns and fasts of many religious
institutions, which aim to bargain with Jesus in order to be able to continue
in its mean life, but still receive blessings and be saved.
o
Theft - There are several ways to
steal. For example: not paying taxes, gaining exaggeratedly (Ezek 18.13),
taking advantage of the misfortune of brother to take advantage of the evil
that engulfed him (Obadiah 11-14; Isaiah 33.14,15), serve
oneself of the neighbor's service without pay them (Jer 22.13), explore
employees (James 5.2-4), defraud (Ml 3.5), but especially
not giving from grace the grace, gifts and talents that the Eternal gave them
for mercy (Matt 10.8).
o
Prostitution - of the
four, is the one who is in the singular. This is because only this sin is
against our own body (1
Corinthians 6.18). That is, while the other sins are punctual (are run from time to time), the
prostitution is a sin continuous, being seen directly or indirectly in
everything that the individual does. There is no way to separate this
individual of prostitution.
All of this
serves to teach us that without Christ, by more than the individual suffers,
yet they do not change its conduct.
Even the harsh
judgments of the bowls is to show that, even in the face of the greatest
punishment, yet the hard ones of heart refuse to repent. This shows that the
intimidation does not mend anyone (1John
4.18). Remember the case of Pharaoh of Egypt.
On
Ha-Satan falls on the ground and gets the key to the Bottomless Pit (Receiving, among other things, the
power to control volcanoes), he passes this knowledge for the beast (see Ap 13.2),
which uses this to put in activity the greatest of all volcanoes. Do not leave
lava, but only great smoke. And the angel of the abyss, seizing the
opportunity, will open the bottomless pit, making out demons who will possess
these locusts even before the military can use them as their weapons. They will
get out of control in the midst of smoke that comes out of the center of the
earth.
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