€XpLoR!n9 ReVeLaTion 9 1-12

       WeeKly BooK oF Revelation

                paraphrased study                

Review - 8:13 Then I (John) saw an eagle, and it was flying overhead and cried out with a loud voice -  “Woe, woe, woe to those who dwell upon the earth, because of the soundings of the other trumpets that the three angels are about to blow!” (So - after the environmental effects and its smoke, 8:12.)

     1 - The fifth angel blew his trumpet, and I saw a star fall from heaven to earth, and he was given the key to the shaft of the bottomless pit. (The fall is an abyss of potential.) 2 And when he opened the shaft of the bottomless pit, from it rose smoke like the smoke of a great fiery furnace, and the sun, and the air, was darkened from the smoke.

     3 And out from the smoke came (loud) locusts. And they had power like the power of scorpions (able to sting). 4 They were told (the command was) not to harm the grass of the earth or any green plant or any tree, but only those people who do noT have the seal of God on their foreheads. 5 They were allowed to torment and buffet them for five months, but not to kill them, and the torment was like the sting of a scorpion. 6 And in those days people will seek death and not be able to find it. They will want to die, but death will flee from them. (Strange goings on.)

     7 The appearance  (of something modern described by John around 95 CE) of the locusts were like horses prepared for battle. On their heads was something that looked like shimmering crowns (totally paraphrased by me, verse says “something like gold crowns”). Their faces were like human faces, 8 their hair like a woman's hair, and their teeth like lions' teeth. 9 They had breastplates like iron, and the noise of their wings was like the noise of many chariots with horses rushing into battle. 10 They have tails that sting, and their power to hurt people for five months is in the tails. 11 They have as king over them the (fallen) angel of the abyss, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek is Apollyon. (Was a high angel!)

     12 The first woe has passed (vs.5 says it lasts five months. Martial law?) Behold, two woes are still to come.

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See Intro - This Year’s Revelation Study

               📜🍞+🍷🕊️(+Logic)

      The logic of things running their 

         course as opposed to some

                    sort of ant farm.

A Rugged Realist?

Don't you think the Father Most High is a rugged realist? It's like He is saying to mankind you can't do such and such.. For it leads to death. So why would you do it? In the day that you do it, it will lead to death.

Don't, do it.

Of course all of us humans have been born into it! We're just naturally born imperfect. God is both life and perfection. That makes imperfection the opposite of life. We're not all evil, but the potential's there.. It's a veritable bottomless pit. History my dear proves that, over, and, over. Once a creature walks out of God's will and presence, they become imperfect. An irreparable state.

Irreparable for us, imperfect cannot make itself perfect. But not for Him. Because, of course, He did it. "Reconciled us to Himself while we were still yet sinners!" In the cosmic bank of what we owe, a sort of karma if you will, or just natural consequences and results, Jesus paid it all, including our death. Jesus on the cross. [For "death could not hold Him".]

"If I be lifted up from the Earth" Jesus said, "I will draw all to me". .."The mystery that's been hid for ages, Christ in you." .."Born again.." .."Behold I will make all things new".. "The lion will eat straw like the ox, the bear will graze with the cow." .."Eye has not seen, nor the ear heard, or heart imagined, all that He has prepared.."