Revelation 9:1

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. The last three trumpets of the seven are called, from , the woe-trumpets. FALL - `fallen.' When John saw it, it was not falling, but had fallen already. This is a link joining this fifth trumpet with Revelation 12:8; , 'Woe to the inhabiters of the earth ... for the devil is come down,' etc. Compare . THE BOTTOMLESS PIT - `the pit of the abyss:' the mouth of the hell to which Satan and his demons are doomed....

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 loose the powers of hell against the churches of Christ. On the opening of the bottomless pit, there arose a great smoke. The devil carries on his designs by blinding the eyes of men, by putting out light and knowledge, and promoting ignorance and error. Out of this smoke there came a swarm of locusts, emblems of the devil's agents, who promote superstition, idolatry, error, and cruelty. The trees and the grass, the true believers, whether young or more advanced, should be untouched. But a secret poison and infection in the soul, should rob many others of purity, and afterwards of peace. The locusts had no power to hurt those who had the seal of God. God's all-powerful, distinguishing grace wi...

CHAPTER IX. _The fifth angel sounds, and a star falls from heaven to _ _earth_, 1. _The bottomless pit is opened, and locusts come out upon_ _the earth_, 2, 3. _Their commission_, 4-6. _Their form_, 7-10. _Their government_, 11, 12. _The sixth angel sounds, and the four angels bound in the_ _Euphrates are loosed_, 13-15. _The army of horsemen, and their description_, 16-19. _Though much evil is inflicted upon men for their idolatry,_ c., they

AND THE FIFTH ANGEL SOUNDED - See the notes on Revelation 8:6. AND I SAW A STAR FALL FROM HEAVEN UNTO THE EARTH - This denotes, as was shown in the notes on Revelation 8:10, a leader, a military chieftain, a warrior. In the fulfillment of this, as in the former case, we look for the appearance of some mighty prince and warrior, to whom is given power, as it were, to open the bottomless pit, and to summon forth its legions. That some such agent is denoted by the star is further apparent from the fact that it is immediately added, that “to him (the star) was given the key of the bottomless pit.” It could not be meant that a key would be given to a literal star, and we naturally suppose, therefore, that some intelligent being of

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 distinctive character of the last three judgments, see on Revelation 8:2.) "A star" sometimes signifies one high in position. Thus Numbers 24:17, "There shall come a star out of Jacob;" Daniel 8:10, "And it cast down some of the host and of the stars to the ground." In Revelation 1:20

AND THE FIFTH ANGEL SOUNDED,.... His trumpet: AND I SAW A STAR FALL FROM HEAVEN UNTO THE EARTH: some take this star to be Jesus Christ, the bright and morning star; and understand by falling, no other than his descending from heaven to earth, in which sense the word is used in Genesis 14:10; and that because he is not only said to have the keys of hell and death, Revelation 1:18; but particularly the key of the bottomless pit, Revelation 20:1; but then there is a wide difference in the use of the key by the star here, and the angel there, or between the opening of the pit, and letting out smoke and locusts, and the shutting it up, and Satan in it; the one well suits with Christ, the other not

ANGEL (_ See Scofield) - (Hebrews 1:4). _...

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 bird of prey, proclaims the threefold woe. He acts thus as a herald of great judgments (Matthew 24:28, Revelation 19:17). The fifth trumpet is a special judgment upon apostate Israel: because those who suffer are they “which have not the seal of God on their foreheads” (Revelation 9:4). The great tribulation in the second half of the week, comes now into prominence. If we turn to...

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 used in OT of the abode of the dead, _e.g._ Psalms 71:20. The abyss is approached by a shaft or well, here translated pit, which is closed and kept under lock and key. Revelation 9:3. out of the smoke came. locusts: _cf._ Exodus 10:13 and Driver's quotation of the observations of a modern traveller: we observed large dark clouds resembling smoke moving to and fro. One morning these clouds came down and proved

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 heaven unto the earth; and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit. And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose. smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of. great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit. 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. 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. 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...