Revelation 9:1

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

• ·        The text clearly shows us that this star is a person (to him), not a literal star. The verb tense (fallen) indicates that he already had fallen. (DG)

• ·        This key becomes the devil’s turnkey, to let loose the powers of hell against the churches of Christ (MH)

Isaiah 14:11-16 ….How you are fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning!  How you are cut down to the ground, you who weakened the nations!.....

Psalm 30:3  O LORD, You brought my soul up from the grave; You have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.

Revelation 8:13

And I looked, and I heard an angel flying through the midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice, “Woe, woe, woe to the inhabitants of the earth, because of the remaining blasts of the trumpet of the three angels who are about to sound!”

• ·        Here are three woes, to show how much the calamities coming should exceed those that had been already (MH)

• ·        If less judgments do not take effect, but the church and the world grow worse under them, they must expect greater. (MH)

Isaiah 3:11 Woe to the wicked!  It shall be ill with him, for the reward of his hands shall be given him.

Psalm 47:5  God has gone up with a shout, the LORD with the sound of a trumpet.

Revelation 8:12

Then the fourth angel sounded:  and a third of the sun was struck, a third of the moon, and a third of the stars, so that a third of them were darkened.  A third of the day did not shine, and likewise the night.

• ·        This supernatural work of God will affect heat, health, agriculture, navigation, etc.

• ·        This parallels the fifth bowl judgment which will cause darkness to fall on the Antichrist’s empire (Rev. 16:10-11) and the ninth plague of darkness on Pharaoh’s kingdom for three days (Ex. 10:21-23).

Ezekiel 32:7 When I put out your light, I will cover the heavens, and make its stars dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give her light.

Amos 8:9  And it shall come to pass in that day, says the Lord GOD, that I will make the sun go down at noon.  And I will darken the earth in broad daylight…