Revelation 9:1

The fifth trumpet shows a fallen star given the key to the abyss. It pictures a powerful spiritual being permitted to release demonic torment by God's authority.

Cross-references · 18

• Rev 8:10Then the third angel sounded his trumpet, and a great star burning like a torch fell from heaven and landed on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water.
• Rev 9:2The star opened the pit of the Abyss, and smoke rose out of it like the smoke of a great furnace, and the sun and the air were darkened by the smoke from the pit.
• Rom 10:7or, ‘Who will descend into the Abyss?’ (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead).”
• 2 Tim 3:1–5But understand this: In the last days terrible times will come.
• Rev 1:18the Living One. I was dead, and behold, now I am alive forever and ever! And I hold the keys of Death and of Hades.
• Rev 17:8The beast that you saw—it was, and now is no more, but is about to come up out of the Abyss and go to its destruction. And those who dwell on the earth whose names were not written in the Book of Life from the foundation of the world will marvel when they see the beast that was, and is not, and yet will be.
• Rev 9:11–13They were ruled by a king, the angel of the Abyss. His name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek it is Apollyon.
• Rev 20:1Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven with the key to the Abyss, holding in his hand a great chain.
• Luke 8:31And the demons kept begging Jesus not to order them to go into the Abyss.
• Rev 8:6–8And the seven angels with the seven trumpets prepared to sound them.
• Rev 11:14–15The second woe has passed. Behold, the third woe is coming shortly.
• Luke 10:18So He told them, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven.
• Rev 8:12Then the fourth angel sounded his trumpet, and a third of the sun and moon and stars were struck. A third of the stars were darkened, a third of the day was without light, and a third of the night as well.
• Rev 8:2And I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and they were given seven trumpets.
• Rev 1:20This is the mystery of the seven stars you saw in My right hand and of the seven golden lampstands: The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands are the seven churches.
• 2 Th 2:3–8Let no one deceive you in any way, for it will not come until the rebellion occurs and the man of lawlessness—the son of destruction—is revealed.
• Isa 14:12How you have fallen from heaven, O day star, son of the dawn! You have been cut down to the ground, O destroyer of nations.
• Rev 20:10And the devil who had deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur, into which the beast and the false prophet had already been thrown. There they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.

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