Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Revelation 9:5
Not to kill them — Very few of them were killed: in general, they were imprisoned and variously tormented.
Not to kill them — Very few of them were killed: in general, they were imprisoned and variously tormented.
Verse Revelation 9:5. _TO THEM IT WAS GIVEN_] That is, they were _permitted_. _THAT THEY SHOULD BE TORMENTED FIVE MONTHS_] Some take these months _literally_, and apply them to the conduct of the Ze...
AND TO THEM IT WAS GIVEN - There is here the same indefiniteness as in the former verse, the impersonal verb being here also used. The writer does not say by whom this power was given, whether by God,...
CHAPTER 9 Revelation 9:1 . The remaining three trumpets have a “woe” attached to each. This is announced in the last verse of the preceding chapter, where the word angel should be “eagle.” An eagle,...
THE FIFTH TRUMPET OR THE FIRST WOE. The seer sees a star fallen on the earth. The star seems to represent a person, possibly Satan (_cf._ Luke 10:18). ABYSS: the word properly means bottomless, and is...
THE FIFTH TRUMPET. We are now prepared to listen to the trumpet of the fifth angel, and to behold the symbolism described by the prophet.. quote: And the fifth angel sounded, and. saw. star fall from...
From the smoke locusts came forth upon the earth, and they were given power like the power of the scorpions of the earth. They were told not to harm the grass of the earth, nor any green thing, nor an...
THE UNLOCKING OF THE ABYSS (Revelation 9:1-2) 9:1,2 The fifth angel sounded a blast on his trumpet, and I saw a star failing from heaven on the earth, and to him there was given the key of the shaft...
THAT... NOT. As in Revelation 9:4. TORMENTED. Greek. _basanizo,_ literally to test (metals) by the touchstone, then to torture. Occurs: Revelation 11:10; Revelation 12:2 (pained);...
_five months_ It has been conjectured that this period is named, as being the time for which a plague of the literal locusts is liable to last. But more probably the period is to be reckoned on the sa...
ΒΑΣΑΝΙΣΘΉΣΟΝΤΑΙ; Erasmus altered this into βασανισθήσωνται; Text. Rec[319] reads βασανισθῶσι with B2. [319] Rec. Textus Receptus as printed by Scrivener. 5. ΜΗ͂ΝΑΣ ΠΈΝΤΕ. It has been conjectured tha...
Revelation 8:2; Revelation 8:6 to Revelation 11:19. THE SEVEN TRUMPETS...
Revelation 9:1-12. THE FIFTH TRUMPET. FIRST WOE...
_THE LOCUST AND THEIR WORK REVELATION 9:4-12:_ Locusts are a universal symbol of destruction. The locusts are not literal. We know this because these locusts would not touch the grass, nor any green t...
ΈΔΌΘΗ _aor. ind. pass. от_ ΔΊΔΩΜΙ (G1325) давать, ΆΠΟΚΤΕΊΝΩΣΙΝ _praes._/aor. _conj. act. от_ ΆΠΟΚΤΕΊΝΩ (G615) убивать. _Conj._ с ΪΝ (G253) выражает цель, ΒΑΣΑΝΙΣΘΉΣΟΝΤΑΙ _fut. ind. pass. от_ ΒΑΣΑΝΊΖ...
BUT THAT THEY SHOULD BE TORMENTED FIVE MONTHS, &C.— _But that they should torment,_ &c. one hundred and fifty years, from the year 612 to the year 762. See on Revelation 9:10. As the Saracens were to...
Strauss-' Comments SECTION 30 Text Revelation 9:1-12 And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star from heaven fallen unto the earth: and there was given to him the key of the pit of the abyss. 2 And...
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. THEY ... THEY. T...
__ Throne Section-The Locusts 8 The detailed description of these locusts forbids our taking them in any way but as literal creatures just as they are described, Their time limit is the same as natu...
THE FIFTH AND SIXTH TRUMPETS These herald woes upon the ungodly and idolatrous, inflicted both by demonic and by human agency. 1-12. The fifth trumpet initiates the first of the three woes. A star fa...
FROM NOW TO THE END OF TIME REVELATION _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 9 THE FIFTH (5TH) *TRUMPET - REVELATION 9:1-12 V1 The fifth (5th) *angel’s *trumpet sounded. And I saw a star that had fallen from...
AND TO THEM... — Better, _And it was given to them that they should not kill them (i.e.,_ those who had not the seal of God in their foreheads), _but that they should be tortured five months._ The gen...
παίσῃ here, like ἐπάταξεν James 4:7, represents LXX, tr. of נכה in sense of reptile's bite; the scorpion with its long-fanged tail stings the prey which it has already gripped with its claws (_cf._ Se...
Revelation 9:1-12 : _The fifth trumpet_....
“OUT OF THE SMOKE OF THE PIT” Revelation 9:1 This chapter reminds us of the prophet Joel who, under the imagery of a swarm of locusts, depicted the coming invasion of hostile nations. Whether these w...
At the sounding of the fifth trumpet the procedure of judgment takes a new form, passing from the material to the spiritual. The loosing of Satan is suggestive of the manifestation of satanic agency u...
Their victims suffer mental and spiritual pain because of the sting, but, though they desire it, they do not die. The word for torment is used of Lot and by the demon who possessed the man in the land...
(1) 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. (2) And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out...
We have already seen the bearing of the seven churches to which the Lord was pleased to send the letters contained in the second and third Chapter s. We have found, I trust, substantial reason and amp...
Hell on Earth Some minds are like finished concrete - thoroughly mixed and permanently set. I. INTRODUCTION A. By nature, we as human beings have an incredible gift for not dealing with things! 1....
The fifth angel sounds; and one who should have been by position the instrument of light and governmental order over the earth was seen as having lost his place; and the power to let loose the full da...
AND TO THEM IT WAS GIVEN THAT THEY SHOULD NOT KILL THEM,.... As the power of the locusts was limited with respect to the persons they should hurt, so with regard also to the mischief they should do; f...
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. Ver. 5. _And to t...
_And it was commanded that they should not hurt the grass,_ &c. This verse demonstrates that they were not natural, but symbolical locusts. The like injunctions were given to the Arabian officers and...
FIVE MONTHS; the period of the duration of natural locusts. It here denotes a time appointed and limited by God; according to some, 150 years-a day being taken for a year-which was about the period du...
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....
The plague of the locusts:...
THE FIFTH TRUMPET: A DEMON INFESTATION (vv. 1-12) The sounding of the fifth trumpet discloses "a star _fallen_ from heaven:" it is _already_ fallen (v. 1). This is the same star that fell under the...
_ 5 And they were not given authority to kill them, but to torment them for five months. Their torment was like the torment of a scorpion when it strikes a man._ A. The locusts were forbidden from ki...
1-12 Upon sounding the fifth trumpet, a star fell from heaven to the earth. Having ceased to be a minister of Christ, he who is represented by this star becomes the minister of the devil; and lets lo...
Supposing the Saracens and Turks here meant by the locusts, here arise two difficulties: 1. How it can be said of them, that they had no power to _kill, _ but only _torment_ men. 2. How their time is...
Revelation 9:5 And G2532 they G846 not G3363 given G1325 (G5681) kill G615 (G5725) them G846 but...
‘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 m...
The verses before as contain an account of the fifth trumpet....
Revelation 9:5. While ‘men' are thus the object of the locust plague, its violence is even AS to them restrained. AND IT WAS GIVEN THEM THAT THEY SHOULD NOT KILL THEM, BUT THAT THEY SHOULD BE TORMENTE...
THAT THEY SHOULD NOT KILL THEM (ινα μη αποκτεινωσιν αυτους). Sub-final object clause (subject of εδοθη) with ινα μη and the subjunctive of αποκτεινω either present (continued action) or aorist (con...
CONTENTS: Judgments of the fifth and sixth trumpets. CHARACTERS: God, angels, John, Abaddon. CONCLUSION: So fearful and unbearable will conditions be in the Great Tribulation days when Satanic powers...
Revelation 9:1. _The fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star,_ the vile impostor Mahomed, _fall from heaven unto the earth. And to him was given the key of the bottomless pit:_ it should read, the keys...
NOT ALLOWED TO KILL THESE MEN. God has placed a limitation on these evil spirits who operate in the hearts and lives of evil men and women. They are destructive, horribly so, yet they can torture, but...
REVELATION—NOTE ON REVELATION 9:1 The STAR FALLEN FROM HEAVEN TO EARTH (v. Revelation 9:1) when the FIFTH trumpet sounds is
REVELATION—NOTE ON REVELATION 9:4 These locusts are no threat to earth’s vegetation (GRASS, GREEN PLANT, or TREE), and they do not look like locusts (vv....
And this personage, whoever he was, opened the bottomless pit, and there came out dense smoke that darkened the sky, and locusts with the power of scorpions. And they were enjoined not to hurt grass o...
THE FIFTH AND SIXTH WOE-TRUMPETS _CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ Revelation 9:1. FALL.—Better, “fallen”; that had fallen. A star would seem to represent a false teacher. Some think Mahomet is referre...
EXPOSITION REVELATION 9:1 AND THE FIFTH ANGEL SOUNDED, AND I SAW A STAR FALL FROM HEAVEN UNTO THE EARTH; _a star from heaven fallen unto the earth _(Revised Version); not _saw a star fall. _(For the...
_3 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._ The bottomless pit is opened and tormentors come on the earth. Thei...
And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the eaRuth (Revelation 9:1): And it is interesting how that a great mountain of fire burning, a star falling, a star falling, these...
Daniel 5:18; Daniel 7:6; Job 2:6; John 19:11; Revelation 11:7;...
They should be tormented (basanisqwsin). See on torments, Matthew 4:24. Striketh [π α ι σ η]. Dr. Thomson says that the scorpion cannot strike sideways. All accounts agree as to the fearful pain from...
That is, God would bring such dreadful judgments and calamities upon the wicked world, that men should be an affliction beyond all other afflictions, that they could not die: to flee death is. great m...