That’s what we see in chapter 12, that’s coming in a couple of days. We’re seeing Lucifer fall and to become the arch enemy of God.Now, do you see the contrast here? This is what’s going on in Revelation. Jesus shows us that His mission is, as you see on the slide in front of you, to prepare us for living for God in a dangerous world. It says in the gospel by John that Satan, that’s Lucifer fallen to become Satan, has a mission to kill, to steal, to destroy. Jesus and the angels of doom, chapter 9:1-2, remind us of Satan’s mission. Quicken our hearts to obey you and prepare and live in the power of your Spirit, for Jesus’ sake we ask it. It’s today that this very battle is raging around us. So, I pray, that we would be stirred to be prepared for spiritual warfare today because as we will see, it’s not just somewhere in chapter 9 of Revelation. The only way we can survive is wearing our armor your word describes and understanding the sword of the Spirit. Not because it’s so interesting to us and it’s such a curiosity, but because it’s a reminder that we’re in a battle. Then screeching out of that smoke, the angels of doom.įather, I thank you that you included this in your word. To see this bright, shining like lightning, coming down from Heaven, an angel unlocking this pit and smoke billowing up like a volcanic eruption. So, the sun and the air were darkened because of the smoke of the pit. And he opened the bottomless pit, and smoke arose out of the pit like the smoke of a great furnace. To him was given the key to the bottomless pit. “Then the fifth angel…” so, the fifth angel associated with the trumpets, starting in chapter 8 we saw the first trumpets, but “the fifth angel sounded: And I saw a star fallen from Heaven to the Earth. In fact, Jude tells us some of these evil spirits even tried to corrupt the human race.Ĭhapter 9, Jesus, and the angels of doom.Ĭhapter 9, let me read and then we’re going to pray. You can see a picture, artistic representation of them on that slide. These are the super powerful angels that God keeps cooped up, imprisoned. These spirit beings are of the highest magnitude. That’s a culmination of what starts right here. What does God say? The bottomless pit, the Abyss, is the holding tank of punishment for fallen angels, the demons, by the time we meet the antichrist when he is finally – at the end of the day of the Lord – put into the bottomless pit, the beast himself will be in there, and finally Satan. Now, today should be the most motivating class for us to use the word of God, to share the word of God, to evangelize the lost around us. Why? This is God giving, in this center point of all those judgments, looking at the abode of Satan, a preview of Hell. Where we are? We’re at the fifth angel, sounding the fifth trumpet. As soon as you start talking about angels of doom, the Abyss, Lucifer, and aliens, it’s like you’ve hit every possible note that’s interesting to people. It’s almost like, it’s the first time I have a hundred percent engagement of all the students. Now this, I would have to say in all my years of teaching and lecturing at Bible institutes and Bible colleges and places like that, this is the class where I see everybody sit up. In chapter 9, the apostle introduces us to the dreadful realm of the fallen spirits and their abode in what the Bible calls the Abyss. Before we read chapter 9, let me give you an introduction. We, yesterday, began with the seals, then the trumpets, and then of course in the future, the bowl judgments. Where we are in the book of Revelation, is in the fifth trumpet. Welcome to our 14th class entitled Lucifer and the Real Alien Invaders. Like Satan, these demonic spirit-beings are filled with a hatred for God and mankind. Others seem to be key leaders of Satan’s forces, while still others have been so vile that they have been held back until Revelation 9. Jude tells us that some of these evil spirit-beings tried to corrupt the human race so that the promised Seed of the woman, Jesus Christ, could never come. These spirit-beings of the highest magnitude of evil are leftover from Satan’s rebellion. This bottomless pit is the holding tank of punishment for the fallen angels, demons, the beast, the false prophet, and Satan (Revelation 9:1-2, 11 11:7 20:1-3). At this point, the fifth angel sounds the fifth trumpet, which is a preview of hell-endless darkness. In chapter 9, the apostle John introduces us to the dreadful realm of the fallen spirits and their abode: the abyss.
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