Friday, February 1, 2019

Revelation 9:3-6

 "And behold, I am coming quickly. 
Blessed is he who heeds the words of the prophecy of this book."     
Revelation 22:7  NASB

And out of the smoke locusts came down on the earth and were given power like that of scorpions of the earth. They were told not to harm the grass of the earth or any plant or tree, but only those people who did not have the seal of God on their foreheads. They were not allowed to kill them but only to torture them for five months. And the agony they suffered was like that of the sting of a scorpion when it strikes. During those days people will seek death but will not find it; they will long to die, but death will elude them. 

And out of the smoke locusts came down on the earth 
Exodus 10:12  And the Lord said to Moses, "Stretch out you hand over Egypt so that locusts swarm over the land and devour everything growing in the fields, everything left by the hail."
Joel 1:4  What the locust swarm has left the great locusts have eaten; what the great locusts have left the young locusts have eaten; what the young locusts have left the other locusts have eaten.

and were given power like that of scorpions of the earth 
Revelation 9:5  They were not allowed to kill them but only to torture them for five months. And the agony they suffered was like that of the sting of a scorpion when it strikes.

They were told not to harm 
Revelation 6:6  Then I heard what sounded like a voice among the four living creatures, saying, "Two pounds of wheat for a day's wages, and six pounds of barley for a day's wages, and do not damage the oil and the wine!"

the grass of the earth or any tree 
Revelation 8:7  The first angel sounded his trumpet, and there came hail and fire mixed with blood, and it was hurled down on the earth. A third of the earth was burned up, a third of the trees were burned up, and all the green grass was burned up.

but only those people who did not have the seal of God on their foreheads 
Revelation 7:2-3  Then I saw another angel coming up from the east, having the seal of the living God. He called out in a loud voice to the four angels who had been given power to harm the land and the sea: "Do not harm the land or the sea or the trees until we put a seal on the foreheads of the servants of God."

They were not allowed to kill them but only to torture them for five months 
Revelation 9:10  They had tails with stingers, like scorpions, and in their tails they had power to torment people for five months.

During those days people will seek death but will not find it; they will long to die, but death will elude them. 
Job 3:21  "... to those who long for death that does not come, who search for it more than for hidden treasure, ..."
Jeremiah 8:3  " 'Wherever I banish them, all the survivors of this evil nation will prefer death to life, declares the LORD Almighty.' "
Revelation 6:16  They called to the mountains and the rocks, "Fall on us and hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb!"

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