新約聖經 和合本
啟示錄 第九章
1第五位天使吹號,我就看見一個星從天落到地上,有無底坑的鑰匙賜給他。
2他開了無底坑,便有煙從坑裡往上冒,好像大火爐的煙;日頭和天空都因這煙昏暗了。
3有蝗蟲從煙中出來,飛到地上;有能力賜給他們,好像地上蠍子的能力一樣,
4並且吩咐他們說,不可傷害地上的草和各樣青物,並一切樹木,惟獨要傷害額上沒有神印記的人。
5但不許蝗蟲害死他們,只叫他們受痛苦五個月。這痛苦就像蠍子螫人的痛苦一樣。
6在那些日子,人要求死,決不得死;願意死,死卻遠避他們。
7蝗蟲的形狀,好像豫備出戰的馬一樣,頭上戴的好像金冠冕,臉面好像男人的臉面,
8頭髮像女人的頭髮,牙齒像獅子的牙齒。
9胸前有甲,好像鐵甲。他們翅膀的聲音,好像許多車馬奔跑上陣的聲音。
10有尾巴像蠍子,尾巴上的毒鉤能傷人五個月。
11有無底坑的使者作他們的王,按著希伯來話,名叫亞巴頓,希利尼話,名叫亞玻倫。
12第一樣災禍過去了,還有兩樣災禍要來。
13第六位天使吹號,我就聽見有聲音從神面前金壇的四角出來,
14吩咐那吹號的第六位天使,說:把那捆綁在伯拉大河的四個使者釋放了。
15那四個使者就被釋放;他們原是豫備好了,到某年某月某日某時,要殺人的三分之一。
16馬軍有二萬萬;他們的數目我聽見了。
17我在異象中看見那些馬和騎馬的,騎馬的胸前有甲如火,與紫瑪瑙並硫磺。馬的頭好像獅子頭,有火、有煙、有硫磺從馬的口中出來。
18口中所出來的火與煙並硫磺,這三樣災殺了人的三分之一。
19這馬的能力是在口裡和尾巴上;因這尾巴像蛇,並且有頭用以害人。
20其餘未曾被這些災所殺的人仍舊不悔改自己手所作的,還是去拜鬼魔和那些不能看、不能聽、不能走,金、銀、銅、木、石的偶像,
21又不悔改他們那些兇殺、邪術、姦淫、偷竊的事。
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Then the fifth angel blew his trumpet. I saw a star which had fallen down to the earth, and it was given the key to the abyss.
The star opened the abyss, and smoke poured out of it, like the smoke from a large furnace; the sunlight and the air were darkened by the smoke from the abyss.
Locusts came down out of the smoke upon the earth, and they were given the same kind of power that scorpions have.
They were told not to harm the grass or the trees or any other plant; they could harm only the people who did not have the mark of God's seal on their foreheads.
The locusts were not allowed to kill these people, but only to torture them for five months. The pain caused by the torture is like the pain caused by a scorpion's sting.
During those five months they will seek death, but will not find it; they will want to die, but death will flee from them.
The locusts looked like horses ready for battle; on their heads they had what seemed to be crowns of gold, and their faces were like men's faces.
Their hair was like women's hair, their teeth were like lions' teeth.
Their chests were covered with what looked like iron breast-plates, and the sound made by their wings was like the noise of many horse-drawn chariots rushing into battle.
They have tails and stings like those of a scorpion, and it is with their tails that they have the power to hurt people for five months.
They have a king ruling over them, who is the angel in charge of the abyss. His name in Hebrew is Abaddon; in Greek the name is Apollyon (meaning "The Destroyer").
The first horror is over; after this there are still two more horrors to come.
Then the sixth angel blew his trumpet. I heard a voice coming from the four corners of the gold altar standing before God.
The voice said to the sixth angel, "Release the four angels who are bound at the great Euphrates River!"
The four angels were released; for this very hour of this very day of this very month and year they had been kept ready to kill a third of all mankind.
I was told the number of the mounted troops: it was two hundred million.
And in my vision I saw the horses and their riders: they had breastplates red as fire, blue as sapphire, and yellow as sulphur. The horses' heads were like lions' heads, and from their mouths came out fire, smoke, and sulphur.
A third of mankind was killed by those three plagues: the fire, the smoke, and the sulphur coming out of the horses's mouths.
For the power of the horses is in their mouths and also in their tails. Their tails are like snakes with heads, and they use them to hurt people.
The rest of mankind, all those who had not been killed by these plagues, did not turn away from what they themselves had made. They did not stop worshipping demons, nor the idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone, and wood, which cannot see, hear, or walk.
Nor did they repent of their murders, their magic, their sexual immorality, or their stealing.
King James Version
9:1 | And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit. | |
9:2 | And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit. | |
9:3 | And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power. | |
9:4 | And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads. | |
9:5 | And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man. | |
9:6 | And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them. | |
9:7 | And the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared unto battle; and on their heads were as it were crowns like gold, and their faces were as the faces of men. | |
9:8 | And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions. | |
9:9 | And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle. | |
9:10 | And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails: and their power was to hurt men five months. | |
9:11 | And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon. | |
9:12 | One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter. | |
9:13 | And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God, | |
9:14 | Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates. | |
9:15 | And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men. | |
9:16 | And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand: and I heard the number of them. | |
9:17 | And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone. | |
9:18 | By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths. | |
9:19 | For their power is in their mouth, and in their tails: for their tails were like unto serpents, and had heads, and with them they do hurt. | |
9:20 | And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk: | |
9:21 | Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts. |
Verses 15 and 18 say a third of mankind are to be killed. If this is true that means 2 billion people are to be killed. Therefore what is the 3000 dead at New York WTC compared to 2 billion. American leaders are worried about 3000 death, but are not interested about the pending death of 2 billion. There are idiots with senses fixed by God.
Euphrates river might refer to the pending war in Iraq. I am not too sure because the words are not clear enough. But if 2 billion people are to be killed, the war is major with nuclear bombs and missiles exploding, killing many.
Whatever it is, the message is telling you DOOM is near. Get the Mark on your forehead Sealed by the Heavenly Way group. So you can be saved. See verse 4.
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Edited on 11th June 2008