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 8:10The third angel sounded, and a great star fell from the sky, burning like a torch, and it fell on one third of the rivers, and on the springs of the waters.
• Rev 9:2He opened the pit of the abyss, and smoke went up out of the pit, like the smoke from a burning furnace. The sun and the air were darkened because of 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 know this, that in the last days, grievous times will come.
• Rev 1:18and the Living one. I was dead, and behold, I am alive forever more. Amen. I have the keys of Death and of Hades.
• Rev 17:8The beast that you saw was, and is not; and is about to come up out of the abyss and to go into destruction. Those who dwell on the earth and whose names have not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world will marvel when they see that the beast was, and is not, and shall be present.
• Rev 9:11–13They have over them as king the angel of the abyss. His name in Hebrew is “Abaddon”, but in Greek, he has the name “Apollyon”.
• Rev 20:1I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand.
• Luke 8:31They begged him that he would not command them to go into the abyss.
• Rev 8:6–8The seven angels who had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound.
• Rev 11:14–15The second woe is past. Behold, the third woe comes quickly.
• Luke 10:18He said to them, “I saw Satan having fallen like lightning from heaven.
• Rev 8:12The fourth angel sounded, and one third of the sun was struck, and one third of the moon, and one third of the stars; so that one third of them would be darkened, and the day wouldn’t shine for one third of it, and the night in the same way.
• Rev 8:2I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and seven trumpets were given to them.
• Rev 1:20the mystery of the seven stars which you saw in my right hand, and the seven golden lamp stands. The seven stars are the angels of the seven assemblies. The seven lamp stands are seven assemblies.
• 2 Th 2:3–8Let no one deceive you in any way. For it will not be, unless the departure comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of destruction,
• Isa 14:12How you have fallen from heaven, morning star, son of the dawn! How you are cut down to the ground, who laid the nations low!
• Rev 20:10The devil who deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet are also. They will be tormented day and night forever and ever.

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