Latest / Scripture Unscripted / Revelation chapter 9
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- 0:01Revelation Chapter 9. Let us pray.
- 0:06Our Father who's in heaven, holy is your name, Lord, May we keep
- 0:13your name holy and set apart your Kingdom.
- 0:18Come God. Let us focus upon your Kingdom,
- 0:22God, not upon earthly treasures and materialism.
- 0:28Your will be done, God. Help us to fall in line with
- 0:32Your will and not to seek our own.
- 0:35Give us this day Our Daily Bread.
- 0:37Help us to search the Scriptures, to know them and to
- 0:40memorize them and to hide them in our hearts.
- 0:45That I pray that you will forgive us for all the many
- 0:51shortcomings and transgressions and sins, Lord.
- 0:55That we have committed all the trespasses.
- 0:58God, I pray that we'll be covered in Jesus's blood.
- 1:01Lord, help us to extend forgiveness out to those who
- 1:06wronged us. Lord, don't let us be LED off
- 1:09into temptation. God, keep us from the evil one.
- 1:13Keep us from the accuser of the brother, and God keep us from
- 1:18our enemy. Lord, form a hedge of protection
- 1:23around us. God, for yours is the Kingdom.
- 1:28God, you have all power and all knowledge.
- 1:36God, you are our everything. Yours is the glory.
- 1:41God shining all around us. Yours is the power forever and
- 1:48ever. And it's in Jesus Christ, holy
- 1:51and precious name that I pray, Amen.
- 1:54Let's start in verse one and the fifth Angel sounded and I saw a
- 1:59star fall from heaven to the earth, and to him was given the
- 2:04key of the bottomless pit. So here we can see that this key
- 2:11has been given to an Angel to go and to unlock this bottomless
- 2:16pit. Verse 2 And he opened the
- 2:18bottomless pit, and there arose the smoke out of the pit, and
- 2:22the smoke of a great furnace, and the sun and the air were
- 2:26darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.
- 2:29So here we can see that there is this place that God has put all
- 2:38of the demons for such a time as this, and he's going to release
- 2:46them upon the earth. 3 And there came out of the smoke locusts
- 2:53upon the earth, and to them was given power.
- 2:55And as the scorpions of the earth have power, so here these
- 3:01demons are able to go out, and they have power to harm, but not
- 3:05to kill. Four.
- 3:09And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass
- 3:11of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree, but
- 3:15only those men which have not the seal of God in their
- 3:19foreheads. So all those that have not
- 3:23received the mark of salvation will be tormented five.
- 3:30And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but
- 3:33they that they should be tormented 5 months.
- 3:36And their torment was as the torment of a scorpion when he
- 3:40strikes a man. So they will want to die, but
- 3:43they can't die and they will be so eat up with pain and they
- 3:48will have to suffer. And this is right in line with
- 3:54the time frame of how locusts devour crops.
- 3:58This is right in line with how the scorpion sting is very
- 4:03painful, but people usually do not die from it. 6 And in those
- 4:11days shall men seek death, and shall not find it, and shall
- 4:15desire to die, and death shall flee from them.
- 4:19Here they are in torment, and they refuse to repent.
- 4:23They refuse to turn to a loving God.
- 4:27Seven in the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses
- 4:31prepared for battle, and on their heads were, as it were,
- 4:35crowns, like gold in their faces, whereas the faces of men.
- 4:39So you can see that these demons have the crown that the
- 4:43Antichrist has given them, as if they have power.
- 4:47They have the faces like a man, and they are able to harm, but
- 4:53not to kill. A and they had hair as the hair
- 4:57of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions.
- 5:01So you can see here these demons, they use lust, and they
- 5:05have power with the teeth, the iron teeth. 9 And they had
- 5:11breastplates, as it were, breastplates of iron, and the
- 5:14sound of their wings as the sound of Chariots of many horses
- 5:18running to battle. Perhaps this is military
- 5:21strength coming in and these demonic forces have taken over
- 5:26principalities and nations and are using the military to go out
- 5:31and wage war against the people of the earth.
- 5:37Tannin. They had tails like under
- 5:40scorpions, and there were stings in their tails and power was to
- 5:44hurt men. Five months.
- 5:46So imagine how this bottomless pit gets opened up, and the
- 5:50demons come in the smoke, and they go out into all the earth
- 5:55to torture mankind. 11 And they had a king over them, which is
- 6:02the Angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue
- 6:05is Abadan, and in the Greek tongue has his name Apollyon.
- 6:11So we do not need to hyper fixate upon the demonic or any
- 6:15of the leaders. We do not need to try to figure
- 6:18it all out, friends. We fix our eyes upon Christ
- 6:21Jesus, the Author, the Perfector, the finisher of our
- 6:25faith. He, His name, is the name that
- 6:27is above all names, and all of darkness flees at that name.
- 6:32But if you go up against any of the demonic, any of the fallen
- 6:37angels on your own and in your own power, without the covering
- 6:41and protection of Jesus Christ, you will be overtaken 10 times
- 6:45out of 10. We only fight on our knees.
- 6:48We fight in the name of Jesus Christ, and all of darkness runs
- 6:53and flees and hides. He overtakes them, friends, and
- 6:56some things only go out by prayer and fasting. 12/1 Woe is
- 7:05past, and behold, there come two woes more hereafter. 13 And the
- 7:116th Angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the
- 7:15golden altar, which is before God.
- 7:19So we can see this army coming from the east, friends. 14
- 7:24Saying to the 6th Angel, which had the trumpet loose, the four
- 7:28angels that are, which are bound in the great river Euphrates.
- 7:33So we know that the four corners of the earth were held back, and
- 7:36now they're given a chance to go out and to take over with this
- 7:42war and this famine and the death and hell. 15 And the four
- 7:48angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour and a day
- 7:52and a month and a year for to slay the third part of men.
- 7:56You see this escalation of calamity befallen the earth,
- 8:01with mankind increasingly getting taken out.
- 8:07And the call is to repent. The call is to turn away.
- 8:11The call is to place their faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. 16 And
- 8:16the number of the army of the horsemen were 200,000 thousand,
- 8:22and I heard the number of them. So you can see this massive army
- 8:27coming from the E. 17 And thus I saw the horses and the vision,
- 8:33and then this sat on them, having breastplates of fire and
- 8:36adjacent and the brimstone, and the heads of the horses were the
- 8:41heads of lions, and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and
- 8:45brimstone. So this army is very powerful.
- 8:4918 And these 3 was the third part of men killed by the fire
- 8:55and the smoke and by the brimstone, which issued out of
- 8:59their mouths. So this is warfare that is
- 9:02taking massive casualties 19. For their power is in their
- 9:08mouth and in their tails, for their tails were like unto
- 9:11serpents in their had heads, and with them they do hurt.
- 9:16So you can see this is the military equipment that is
- 9:21getting described here in the best way that John knew how to.
- 9:2920 And the rest of the men which were not killed by these
- 9:33plagues, yet repented not of the works of their hands.
- 9:37And they should not, that they should not worship devils and
- 9:41idols of gold and silver and brass and stone, and of wood,
- 9:45which neither can see nor hear nor walk.
- 9:47So verse 20 is a very important verse, friends, and this is the
- 9:53reason that all the judgment has come.
- 9:55You can see that the people cared nothing for a loving and
- 9:58holy God, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
- 10:02They cared nothing for Yeshua and for the Word of God and they
- 10:06are still stuck in all of their idolatrous, demonic, satanic
- 10:11worship. During this time, they refused
- 10:14to turn towards a loving God. We'll end on 21 neither repented
- 10:20day of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their
- 10:24fornication, nor of their thefts.
- 10:26They do not care anything for God.
- 10:30They don't care that He is holding out His hand.
- 10:33He's still giving them time. Every single day that you wake
- 10:37up is another chance. His mercies are new every day,
- 10:40but if you were to breathe your last breath without receiving
- 10:44Him, your fate is sealed. And you can see here that they
- 10:50are hostile towards God. And you could explain God to
- 10:55somebody who is disillusioned reprobate and that is delusional
- 11:06and they care nothing. They are hostile towards Him and
- 11:12that is the saddest tragedy of mankind.
- 11:15And for those of us who have placed our faith in the Lord
- 11:18Jesus Christ, we cannot even begin to understand.
- 11:21But we must go back to the time whenever we were once like that,
- 11:27and we should have great compassion upon those who are
- 11:31still alive because there's still chance for them.
- 11:34And that's why we put our life on the line.
- 11:37We care nothing about the cost of it all, because Jesus Christ
- 11:43is worthy and He is the only way unto the Father.
- 11:49So if you have that knowledge, you have the greatest gift you
- 11:54could ever offer somebody. You have the answer to every
- 11:57question that could ever be asked.
- 11:59Far be it from us to hold it back from sharing it with every
- 12:04single person that we meet. Share your testimony with
- 12:07somebody today. I pray that you've been blessed
- 12:10by this chapter in God's Word. I know I sure have.
- 12:13I'm praying for every single one of you.
- 12:16I love you. We'll see you back here
- 12:18tomorrow. God bless you.