The Fifth Trumpet (Rev.ch.9)
While pondering this part of the book of revelation vision this morning - well let me start by saying, I’ve long felt these swarming, loud locusts which sting with their tail and head to be John’s description of something in modern warfare.
Always a little puzzling, is how these have faces like men and hair like women(?) So my thought that the swarming, intimidating locusts are helicopters has had that question in it. But today reading through a list of commentaries (on biblehub dot com) I read that perhaps as Eastern thought goes, a face like a woman would be clean shaven, and that of a man, not. And, to have hair like a woman, long hair? ..With golden crowns is still a mystery but I read today maybe turbans? I’ve thought of the crowns as the helicopter blades/wings, that make all that noise, but golden?
I was thinking about all this when into my mind came the vision/imagination like a movie scene (I’ve seen at some time) of a closeup of the ‘face’ of a helicopter while flying, and you can fully see the pilot. It unreeled (lol) like this - as though John saw it as a group of helicopters/locusts all flying together in formation when one veered off and came toward him for a close up and inside was a bearded man, with I think long hair and short turban. Then that one rejoined his flight. (Now I’m thinking ‘where are they going’?)
These locusts “torment men for five months.. but only those who have not the (spiritual) seal of God on their forehead”. Of course I did have to think of all the armaments and helicopters left in Aphganistan.. sadly to come back to bite (or sting)..
Well, this is all in the interesting day of a gramma.. The view out the window during these thoughts was a grey autumn fogginess.
The verses: “Then the fifth angel sounded! And I saw a star fallen from heaven ..he was given the key to the bottomless pit ..opened it, and smoke rose out of the pit ..the sun and the air were darkened because of the smoke.. and out of the smoke locusts..” (Rev.9:1-3, Joel’s cloudy day?) And vs. nine eleven - “And they had as king over them the angel/so called ‘god’? of the bottomless pit, whose name is destroyer..” But has a different name to his followers..?
Rolling Stones: “Wh-wh what’z my name!?”
If you like riddles.. biblical prophecy is tops in that department.
— don’t worry be happy.. all this human world weirdo ‘life’ is going to be replaced! “They will beat their swords/weapons into plowshares, neither shall they learn war anymore, but everyone will live under their own vine and fruit trees and NO one will bother them or make them afraid” Micah 4:3-4.
