Revelation 9:3 - John Wesley's Notes

Revelation 9:3

Fifth Trumpet: The Locusts from the Bottomless Pit

1 Then the fifth angel sounded: ^aAnd I saw a star fallen from heaven to the earth. To him was given the key to ^bthe bottomless pit.

2 And he opened the bottomless pit, and smoke arose out of the pit like the smoke of a great furnace. So the ^asun and the air were darkened because of the smoke of the pit.

3 Then out of the smoke locusts came upon the earth. And to them was given power, ^aas the scorpions of the earth have power.

4 They were commanded ^anot to harm ^bthe grass of the earth, or any green thing, or any tree, but only those men who do not have ^cthe seal of God on their foreheads.

5 And¹ they were not given authority to kill them, ^abut to torment them for five months. Their torment was like the torment of a scorpion when it strikes a man.

6 In those days ^amen will seek death and will not find it; they will desire to die, and death will flee from them.

7 ^aThe shape of the locusts was like horses prepared for battle. ^bOn their heads were crowns of something like gold, ^cand their faces were like the faces of men.

8 They had hair like women’s hair, and ^atheir teeth were like lions’ teeth.

9 And they had breastplates like breastplates of iron, and the sound of their wings was ^alike the sound of chariots with many horses running into battle.

Commentaries:

John Wesley's Notes

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Revelation 9:3

And out of the smoke - Not out of the bottomless pit, but from the smoke which issued thence. There went forth locusts - A known emblem of a numerous, hostile, hurtful people. Such were the Persians, from whom the Jews, in the sixth century, suffered beyond expression. In the year 540 their academies were stopped, nor were they permitted to have a president for near fifty years. In 589 this affliction ended; but it began long before 540. The prelude of it was about the year 455 and 474: the main storm came on in the reign of Cabades, and lasted from 483 to 532. Toward the beginning of the sixth century, Mar Rab Isaac, president of the academy, was put to death. Hereon followed an insurrection of the Jews, which lasted seven years before they were conquered by the Persians. Some of them were then put to death, but not many; the rest were closely imprisoned. And from this time the nation of the Jews were hated and persecuted by the Persians, till they had well nigh rooted them out. The scorpions of the earth - The most hurtful kind. The scorpions of the air have wings.

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