Revelation 9:1-11 Flashcards
What is the title of this lesson ?
The locust from the Abyss and the Angel that sinned.
What is the reality of the start that fell to the earth ?
Wormwood, Mr Oh
What is the meaning of the “abyss” ? (3 definitions)
- Satan’s dwelling, hell (Lk 8:30-31)
- The place where the destroyers worked
- The Stewardship Education Center
What is the key to the shaft of the abyss ?
What are two other chapters in Rv where this key is seen ? Who has the key then ?
The wisdom to bring out or lock in the Devil (spirit) and the messenger of Hell (flesh).
Rv 1:18 Originally with Jesus
Rv 20:1 Key given to the angel to lock away Satan
Wormwood was a person that looked holy on the outside, but was a ignoble vessel that God used to fulfill His purpose. What reference talks about that ?
2 Tim 2:20-21 (about the vessels God prepared for destruction)
What is the smoke from the Abyss ?
What is the opposite of that smoke ?
The destroyer’s doctrine, commentaries.
Opposite: the sound of prayer (Rv 8:3-4)
What is the sun and the sky that grew dark from the smoke ? What does it mean ? (give reference)
Sun: the pastors of the first tabernacle
Sky: the TT’s congregants
Meaning: because they listened to lies, their spirits were darkened and they became unable to distinguish anymore (Ref. Eph 4:18)
What is the meaning of the locust (give reference) ? What other parables describe the same entity ?
Meaning: the destroyers (Joel 1:2-7)
Other parables: the Nicolaitans in Rv2, the Beast with 7H10h in Rv 12,13,17
What does it mean that the locust came down on the Earth ?
The destroyers entered into the TT.
What is the “power of scorpions” ?
The power to kill the spirits of people through Satan’s doctrine.
What do the “grass, plants, and trees of the earth” refer to ?
The various believers amongst the world (Is 40:6); meaning, excluding the TT of the 7 GL.
Why were the locust told not to harm them ?
Because the judgment of the TT has not yet finished.
Explanation: judgment starts with the chosen people that betrayed (Jer 25:28-29, 1 Pt 4:17). After the sealing of the 144 000, the judgment of all churches & people of the world happens (Ez 9).
Who are those that aren’t sealed ? What does it mean that they suffer the agony like that of a sting of a scorpion ?
The people of the TT.
The suffer from the contempt and curses coming from the destroyers .
Where else can we see the shadow of the 5 months of torment in the Bible (provide references) ?
Story of Noah & Lot (Mt 24:37, Gn 7:24): the floodwaters covered the earth for 150 days (~5 months). The seawaters were a shadow of the many waters in Rv 17:1,3.
What does it mean that the people of the Earth longed to die, but were unable to ?
Were else do we see a shadow of this in the Bible ?
They realized that something was wrong with the new teachings provided at the TT, but because they were convinced that the Truth was there and they had to place to go, they were forced to remain and receive the false doctrines.
Shadow: the suffering of Job in Jb 2:6
