‘And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star from heaven, fallen to the earth, and the key of the pit of the abyss was given to him. And he opened the pit of the abyss, and smoke from the pit went upwards like the smoke of a great furnace, and the sun and the air were darkened as a result of the s... [ Continue Reading ]
‘And from the smoke locusts came out on the earth, and power was given to them as the scorpions of the earth have power. And it was said to them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, nor any green thing, nor any tree but only such men who do not have the seal of God on their foreheads.'... [ Continue Reading ]
‘And it was given to them that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months; and their torment was like the torment of a scorpion when it strikes a man. And in those days men will seek death and will not in any circumstances find it, and they shall long to die and death f... [ Continue Reading ]
‘And the shapes of the locusts were like horses made ready for war, and on their heads were, as it were, crowns similar to gold, and their faces were like men's faces. They had hair like the hair of women, and their teeth were like the teeth of lions. And they had breastplates as it were breastplate... [ Continue Reading ]
‘They have over them as king the angel of the abyss. His name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek he has the name Apollyon (‘Destroyer').' ‘Abaddon, meaning ‘destruction', occurs six times in the Old Testament (Job 26:6; Job 28:22; Job 31:12; Psalms 88:11; Proverbs 15:11; Proverbs 27:20) as a synonym... [ Continue Reading ]
‘The first woe is past, behold there come two more woes hereafter.' As with the seals, while the first five are concurrent, the sixth leads up to the end of time. (The seventh _is_ the end of time, the last trump). Thus while the first woe is concurrent with what goes before, the second and third... [ Continue Reading ]
‘And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the horns of the golden altar which is before God, one saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, “loose the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates”.' The voice comes from the horns of the golden altar. This altar is the alt... [ Continue Reading ]
‘And the four angels were loosed who had been prepared for the hour and day and month and year, that they should kill the third part of men.' God's timing is always exact. Here it is fixed with computer like precision, to the very hour, with the aim of releasing on the earth at that point in time fo... [ Continue Reading ]
‘And the numbers of the armies of the horsemen was two hundred million, I heard the number of them. And this is how I saw the horse in the vision, and those who sat on them, they have breastplates as of fire and of hyacinth and of brimstone, and the heads of the horses are as the heads of lions, and... [ Continue Reading ]
‘And the rest of mankind who were not killed with these plagues did not repent of the works of their hands, that they should not worship demons, and the idols of gold, and of silver, and of brass, and of stone, and of wood, which can neither see, nor hear, nor walk, and they did not repent of their... [ Continue Reading ]
DAVID ARRIVES AT ZIKLAG TO FIND IT IN RUINS WITH ALL ITS INHABITANTS TAKEN TO BE SOLD INTO SLAVERY BY THE AMALEKITES (1 SAMUEL 30:1). David and his men arrived back in Ziklag after a two day march only to discover that it had been sacked in their absence. Taking advantage of the Philistine invasion... [ Continue Reading ]