![]() 11 They were ruled by the messenger of the abyss, whose Hebrew name is Abaddon and whose Greek name is Apollyon, both meaning “the Destroyer.”ġ2 The first disaster has occurred there are two more disasters to come.ġ3 Then the sixth messenger sounded his trumpet and I heard a voice from the four corners of the golden altar that is before God, 14 commanding the sixth messenger with the trumpet.Ī Voice: Set loose the four messengers who are bound in chains at the great river Euphrates.ġ5 Then the four messengers, who had been held in chains until the hour and the day and the month and the year when they would kill one-third of humanity, were released.ġ6 I heard that 200 million soldiers rode in the cavalry. ![]() 10 They have tails like scorpions with stingers, and the power invested in them to inflict torture on people for five months lies in their tails. 9 They had armor that appeared to be iron plated and when their wings flapped, they sounded like an army of horse-drawn chariots rushing into battle. They wore golden wreaths on their heads, and their faces appeared human 8 with hair as long as women’s hair, but they had teeth as sharp as lions’ teeth. They will long to die and end their miseries, but death will elude them.ħ The locusts looked like horses clad in armor, ready for battle. 6 During those days, people will seek any way possible to kill themselves, but death will not befriend them. The torment they inflicted was like the sting of a scorpion when it strikes. Instead, they were given power for five months to torture, but not to kill, the people without the seal of God upon their foreheads. 4-5 However, they were instructed not to damage any grasses, plants, or trees that grow from the earth. They were given power, like the power of scorpions on the earth. 3 From the smoke, locusts appeared and swarmed upon the earth. Huge columns of smoke rose from the depths of the cavern- a black, ugly smoke as if from a great furnace so that the sun was darkened and the air was thickened by the blanket of smoke from the shaft. He received the key that unlocks the shaft leading to the abyss, the pit that falls away to nothingness and 2 he opened the shaft to the abyss. I saw a star that had dropped out of heaven to earth. ![]() Time flies as the disasters intensify.ĩ Then the fifth messenger sounded his trumpet. Each calamity affects one-third of the earth, its inhabitants, and the heavenly lights. When the trumpets blast, another cycle of disasters begin. ![]()
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