Both prophecies of Revelation and Joel were
fulfilled during the Day of the Lord. The time
for the appearance of this judgment mention-
ed in Joel is right.

The Fifth Trumpet come shortly after the
beginning of the Day of the Lord. Revelation
6:16-17 The second chapter of Joel starts
with the statement, "the day of the Lord
cometh, for it is nigh at hand."

There appears to be a prophecy in the Book
of Joel that goes along remarkably with
the Locusts Judgment that its almost
certain that it represents the events of
the Fifth Trumpet.

"Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound
an alarm in my holy mountain: let all the
inhabitants of the land tremble: for the
day of the LORD cometh, for it is nigh at
hand;
A day of darkness and of gloominess, a
day of clouds and of thick darkness, as
the morning spread upon the mountains:
a great people and a strong; there hath
not been ever the like, neither shall be any
more after it, even to the years of many
generations.
A fire devoureth before them; and behind
them a flame burneth: the land is as the
garden of Eden before them, and behind
them a desolate wilderness; yea, and
nothing shall escape them.
The appearance of them is as the appear-
ance of horses; and as horsemen, so shall
they run.
Like the noise of chariots on the tops of
mountains shall they leap, like the noise
of a flame of fire that devoureth the stubble,
as a strong people set in battle array.
Before their face the people shall be much
pained: all faces shall gather blackness.
They shall run like mighty men; they shall
climb the wall like men of war; and they
shall march every one on his ways, and
they shall not break their ranks:
Neither shall one thrust another; they shall
walk every one in his path: and when they
fall upon the sword, they shall not be
wounded.
They shall run to and fro in the city; they
shall run upon the wall, they shall climb
up upon the houses; they shall enter in at
the windows like a thief.
The earth shall quake before them; the
heavens shall tremble: the sun and the
moon shall be dark, and the stars shall
withdraw their shining:
And the LORD shall utter his voice before
his army: for his camp is very great: for
he is strong that executeth his word: for
the day of the LORD is great and very
terrible; and who can abide it?"
Joel:1-11

Abaddon, is Satan's special angel who holds
dominion over the demons of the pit.

Satan is the one that had the key of the Pit,
but the immediate king of the demons is
Abaddon.

Eventually, Satan himself will be cast into
the Bottomless Pit and the key taken from
him.

" And they had a king over them, which is
the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name
in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in
the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon."
Revelation 9:11

Abaddon or Apollyon is a subordinate
prince under the rule of Satan. Satan has
many demon angels under him [Matthew
25:41].

Satan has princes who have power to resist
the missions of the righteous angels.
[Daniel 10:13].

This judgment of the locusts is to continue
for five months. Revelation 9:10 " And they
had tails like unto scorpions, and there were
stings in their tails: and their power was to
hurt men five months."

It is the same length of time that the flood
lasted [Genesis 7:24]. And about the length
of time natural locusts appear - May thru
September.

This Judgment is the first of three "woes".

Thanksgiving

People who ignore the awful fact of demon
power will when unpotected by the Spirit
of God, have a horrible awakening in this
time that is coming.

When that evil trial strikes the earth, men
will in desparation seek death to get rid of
the pain. Since the sting is not usually fatal
it will be said, "In these days men shall seek
death and shall not find it, and shall desire
to die, and death shall flee from them."
Revelation 9:6.

The demon-locusts have power to torment
men, and their sting is as that of a scorpion.

A scorpion's sting is known to be one of the
most painful that can be experience but not
necessarially fatal.

It seems foolish that a demon can sting,
but it is recorded of people being bitten by
demons that even attracted world-wide
attention. It shows the amazing powers of
evil spirits under certain conditions.

The Bottomless Pit or Abyss is not the
same as the Lake of Fire.

The Bottomless Pit is a prison. Demons
plead with Jesus not to send them to that
place [Luke 8:31]. The Beast of Revlelation
17, comes up out of the Bottomless Pit.

And now these demon-locusts arise from
the opened Pit as a swarm of evil creatures
from hell. Evil creatures are held there for
a particular period of time and are released
when that time is up, to do some particular
reason or purpose.

Satan is bound in the Bottomless Pit dur-
ing the Millennium [1000 years], but
will be let out at the end for a little while
longer to test the nations. Revelation 20:7-9

So these locusts are not ordinary. They are
supernatural creatures that have been let
loose from the Bottomless Pit and have the
power to torment men, but not kill them.

These locusts were commanded not to
touch any green things. Ordinary locusts
have power to destroy one thing, the green
vegetation.

These demon-locusts have power to sting
like a scorpion. Ordinary locusts don't.

These locusts' description, "like unto
horses prepared for battle; and on their
heads crowns like gold, and their faces
were as the faces of men, and they had
hair as the hair of women; and their
teeth as the teeth of lions. . ."

Again not that of ordinary locusts.

When a plague of locusts swarm, they are
able to darken the sky.

So when these locusts come out the Pit, in
their swarming, they will darken the sun.

But by their coming out of the Pit, they are
not like ordinary locusts.

These locusts came out of the Bottomless
Pit or Abyss.

Ordinary locusts don't come from the Bot-
tomless Pit.

The Pit is a place for confined demons,
[Luke 8:27-31];
the Beast [Revelation 17:8];
fallen angels [Revelation 9:11;
and Satan himself during the Millennium
[Revelation 20:1-3].

The locusts in Revelation 9:3 are not the
ordinary kind of locust. They are demon
locusts.

They have a
king over
them called
Abaddon
or Apollyon,
the angel
of the
bottomless
pit. [vs 11].

Ordinary locusts do not have a king
over them.

In the case of the Fifth Trumpet, it seems
evident that the 'star' represents a person-
ality, an evil one.

For it is a "star fallen from heaven". He has
the key of the bottomless pit, so he can let
lose a multitude of demon locusts.

A true angel may descend from heaven but
never 'falls from heaven'. Such a term refers
to one cast out of heaven. Satan's fall from
heaven in Luke 10:18, "And he said unto
them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from
heaven."

'Stars' in the Book of Revelation mean
various things.

They may represent human beings, as in
Revelation 1:16,20 where they are guard-
ians, or pastors, of the Seven Churches.
[also see Daniel 12:3]

They can be good angels or bad angels as
in both the Old and New Testaments.
[Judges 5:20 and Revelation 12:4]

They are seen as meteorites as in the
Sixth Seal. [Revelation 6:13]

This star that fell

onto the earth

under the
Fifth Trumpet is

Satan, the fallen

archangel.

The Greek rendering is: "I saw a star fallen
upon earth." He had fallen from the heaven
at the beginning of the Great Tribulation.