Thursday, 18 June 2015
Revelation 9:1-6
다섯째 천사가 나팔을 불었습니다. 내가 보니, 하늘에서 땅에 떨어진 별이 하나 있는데, 그 별은 아비소스를 여는 열쇠를 받았습니다.
그 별이 아비소스를 여니, 거기에서 큰 용광로의 연기와 같은 연기가 올라왔습니다. 그래서 해와 하늘이 그 구덩이에서 나온 연기 때문에 어두워졌습니다.
그리고 그 연기 속에서 메뚜기들이 나와서 땅에 퍼졌습니다. 그것들은, 땅에 있는 전갈이 가진 것과 같은 권세를 받아 가지고 있었습니다.
그것들은, 땅에 있는 풀이나 푸성귀나 나무는 하나도 해하지 말고, 이마에 하나님의 도장이 찍히지 않은 사람만을 해하라는 명령을 받았습니다.
그러나 그들에게는, 사람들을 죽이지는 말고, 다섯 달 동안 괴롭게만 하라는 허락이 내렸습니다. 그것들이 주는 고통은 마치 전갈이 사람을 쏠 때와 같은 고통이었습니다.그 기간에는 그 사람들이 죽으려고 애써도 죽지 못하고, 죽기를 원해도 죽음이 그들을 피하여 달아날 것입니다.The fifth angel sounded his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from the sky to the earth. The star was given the key to the shaft of the Abyss.
When he opened the Abyss, smoke rose from it like the smoke from a gigantic furnace. The sun and sky were darkened by the smoke from the Abyss.
And out of the smoke locusts came down upon the earth and were given power like that of scorpions of the earth.
They were told not to harm the grass of the earth or any plant or tree, but only those people who did not have the seal of God on their foreheads.
They were not given power to kill them, but only to torture them for five months. And the agony they suffered was like that of the sting of a scorpion when it strikes a man.During those days men will seek death, but will not find it; they will long to die, but death will elude them.
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These locusts from the abyss could refer to judgments about to fall on the ungodly immediately before Christ’s second advent.... Who could be the star referenced in this chapter? Does the possibility exist that it could be Satan (Lucipher) since angelic beings are, at times, referred to as stars? That this star is not an astronomical body, but a person, can be seen by the reference to him, he (Rev. Rev. 9:1-2+), and by his personal action of opening the bottomless pit (abyss). Keeping all this in mind, we should pray that our hearts and minds won't be controlled by Satan but that we should be watchful spiritually and cling to our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
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