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.

"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.

And he opened the bottomless pit; and

there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the

smoke of a 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."

Revelation 9:1-4

"The Three Woes" Revelation 8:13, 9:12
and 11:14 shows they are the 5th, 6th and
7th Trumpets.

These judgments are much more severe
than the first four.

Darknes is settling over the earth. When
Christ was on the cross, there was dark-
ness from the sixth hour to the ninth hour,
one quarter of the day. [Matthew 27:45]

Now darkness covers one-third of the day.
The same is with the night.

Some do not believe in Divine intervention
in the natural world. But they will learn
that they are mistaken.

God is intervening. Strange things are
happening in the heavenlies.

There has been hail; lightning and thunder;
fires have broken out in hundred of places;
meteorites have fallen from heaven.

Natural attempts to explain them have been
seen as foolish. Now the light of day is cut
to one-third.

The wise and great men are speechless.
At the same time, the Antichrist rages
against forces he has no power to control.

This Fourth Trumpet lets us know that
the light of both the sun and moon, and
the stars will change.

Maybe it will be a phenomenon that even
the astronomers can't explain.

The Fourth Trumpet affects the heavens,
the sun and moon, and the stars.

This shows that John, even though he
didn't know of the modern astronomy
discoveries that claims stars to be great
flaming suns in space. That fixed stars
would fall from heaven under the judg-
ment of the Fourth Trumpet.

"And the fourth
angel sounded,
and the third
part of the sun
was smitten,
and the third
part of the moon,
and the third part of the stars;
so as the third part of them was darkened,
and the day shone not for a third part of it,
and the night likewise."
Revelation 8:12

There is a prophecy in Jeremiah, because
of Israel's wickedness, and their refusal
to obey His voice, that the Lord speaks
this to the people:

"Behold I will feed them with wormwood,
and given them water of gall to drink."
Jeremiah 9:15

The Third Trumpet is similar to the Second.

A great star falls to earth burning as a lamp
and it strikes the rivers.

A falling or fallen star, can literally be a falling
meteor or meteorite. The object is spoken of
as "it" meaning something impersonal. It
and its vapor puts something poisonous in
the waters killing those who drink it. This
one is called "Wormwood", named after a
bitter poisonous herb.

"And the third angel

sounded, and there

fell a great star

from heaven,

burning as

it were a lamp,

and it fell upon

the third part of

the rivers, and upon the

fountains of waters;
And the name of the star is called

Wormwood: and the third part of the

waters became wormwood; and many

men died of the waters, because they

were made bitter." Revelation 8:10-11

The Second Trumpet in Isaiah 2:12-16,
the prophet is speaking of the Great Day
of the Lord. "The day of the Lord shall
be upon everyone that is high and lofty. .
. . .And upon all the ships of Tarshish. . ."

Besides the effects of this falling object
will be that the sea will turn to blood.
Whatever causes it, dead animals, or
other causes, we don't know.

Under the judgments upon Egypt, the
waters turned to blood, Exodus 7:20.
We can expect a literal fulfillment also
from this Second Trumpet.