Freedom River Church Sunday Message 9/30/18
Channel: Freedom River Church
Date: 30/09/2018

The Seven Trumpets - Demon Locusts and World War 
Revelation 9:1-21

The trumpets continue to bring war, but war to which woe is added. The war to be described next is one of the most important in the Bible. Trumpets five and six move matters along to the point where Satan’s man (the Antichrist, also called The Beast) is left undisputed master of the globe – for a season.

Fifth Trumpet: Woe 1 – Destroyer ______________________ 9:1-12
(1a) – …“star fallen from heaven to the earth”… The fallen star is Satan (Isaiah 14; Luke 10:18), who is now given authority to open the abyss and unleash the terrible beings incarcerated there.
(1b) – …“key to the bottomless pit”… This is an ancient penitentiary for evil spirits that are so vile that they have mercifully been chained there by God (II Peter 2:4). The demons of Luke 8:31 at Gadara knew of this prison house and begged Jesus not to send
them there. These demons are the worst of the worst.
(4) – …“men who do not have the seal of God”… Their hunger is for men. They are forbidden to touch those whom God has sealed. These are the 144, 000 who were sealed back in Chapter 7.
(5-6) – …“scorpion when it strikes a man”… The sting of a natural scorpion is not generally fatal, but it does produce the most intense pain that any creature can inflict on the human body.
The Locusts Described 9:7-11
(7) – …“faces of men”… These fiends are highly intelligent. Their onslaught against the human race is not the result of blind instinct, but of rational thought.
(9a) – …“breastplates of iron”… They are completely insensitive to the suffering they cause, and the cries and agonies of their victims leave them unmoved.
(9b) – …“wings were like the sound of chariots”… These demons travel like the wind, flying swiftly and surely toward their prey.
(11a) – …“and they had as a king over them”… This king is obviously not Satan. This king demon does not open the abyss; he comes out of the abyss with all the other demon locusts.
(11b) – …“name in Hebrew is Abaddon…Greek Apollyon”… His name means “destroyer.” The name is given in two languages, Hebrew and Greek, for both Jew and Gentile will fall victim to this dark angel and his minions.

Sixth Trumpet: Woe 2 – __________________War 9:13-21
With the sounding of the sixth trumpet another of God’s prison houses is now unlocked, and more evil spirits are unchained and sent forth on an errand of terror for mankind. Satan’s plans for putting the Beast (Antichrist) into firm control of things on
earth takes another giant step forward.
(14) – …“bound in the great river Euphrates”… All the world powers of the Scripture have been associated with the Euphrates River Basin: the Babylonians (Nebuchadnezzar), the Medio-Persian Empire (Darius), the Greek Empire (Alexander the Great), and the Romans (Caesars). These four angels then might be the very ones
who, in times past, controlled these entities on Satan’s behalf. Daniel 10:13, 20-21 makes quite clear that such angelic princes exist.
(15) – …“released to kill a third of mankind”… Since the beginning of John’s vision of the Tribulation, the world’s population has been reduced by half. One-fourth of the world died under the fourth seal judgement (6:7-8), and many more died as martyrs for their faith in Christ (6:10), and now one-third of the remaining population is killed. If, after the Rapture, the earth’s population is around six billion, three billion will die in the first three and a half years of the Tribulation.
(17) – This is a demon driven army of men. The mention of fire, smoke, and brimstone might also be a description of modern weapons of warfare.
(18-19) – The battle is terrible both at its beginning and in its end. The earth becomes the graveyard for a billion people. There are only two billion people left on the once heavily populated planet. Is there any hint of a war like this elsewhere in the Bible? There is such a war mentioned in the Scriptures. It is described by Ezekiel (38-39) when Russia invades Israel. Some have equated the Russian invasion of Israel with Armageddon, but careful study of the battle Ezekiel describes (Ezekiel 38-39), and the battle of Armageddon (Revelation 16:12-16; 19:11-21) will soon highlight the differences and show that conclusion to be inaccurate.
(20-21) – Demon worship and idolatry are twins and have been the prevalent form of worship among men since the days of Nimrod. Under the Beast (Antichrist), it will become the only legitimate form of worship. In spite of the devastation and loss of life, those who live on earth will not repent or turn to God.

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