Here is my summary of Revelation 9...a lot is quoted, but I only took as much as was necessary to understand the chapter.
The fifth angel sounded the trumpet and a star was given a key to open an abyss and locusts came out looking like horses with crowns with human faces. They were to fly over the earth for five months and torture all of those without the seal of God on their foreheads, and were not permitted to eat the grass plants or trees. The locusts had tails like the stingers of scorpions and looked as though they were racing into battle. They had as king over them the angel of the Abyss, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon and in Greek is Apollyon (that is, Destroyer). (Revelation 9:11 NIV)The first woe is past; two other woes are yet to come. (Revelation 9:12 NIV) Next, the sixth angel sounded his trumpet and It said to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, “Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates.” And the four angels who had been kept ready for this very hour and day and month and year were released to kill a third of mankind. The number of the mounted troops was twice ten thousand times ten thousand. I heard their number. (Revelation 9:14-16 NIV)A third of mankind was killed by the three plagues of fire, smoke and sulfur that came out of their mouths.
The rest of mankind who were not killed by these plagues still did not repent of the work of their hands; they did not stop worshiping demons, and idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone and wood—idols that cannot see or hear or walk. Nor did they repent of their murders, their magic arts, their sexual immorality or their thefts. (Revelation 9:18, 20-21 NIV)
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