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Revelations 9.

The vision once again takes a turn and we find ourselves wondering if we missed something. Here John talks about the fallen angels and their intention for the human race; to make it subjective.

[1] 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.

A star?

Could this be the Bright Morning Star'?

The fallen angel of Isaiah 14?

Satan?

[2] 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.

[3] 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.

[4] 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.

[5] And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he strikes a man.

The plague that shall befall man will bring with it a lingering and painful death.

[6] And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.

Man will pray for death but it will not come.

[7] And the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared unto battle; and on their heads were as it were crowns like gold, and their faces were as the faces of men.

[8] And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions.

[9] And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle.

[10] And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails: and their power was to hurt men five months.

[11] And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon.

Abaddon literally means destruction, ruin or perdition, and is the name of the demon identified as the 'angel' of the bottomless pit. Here he ties up the Devil for a millennium.

The name also means 'The Destroyer', from his role as one of the destroying angels of the Apocalypse. In Job 26:6, and Proverbs 15:11, the word Abaddon arises in conjunction with Sheol. (Hell).

Abaddon is also identified as the Devil himself in the

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