What is being described in these verses?

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What is being described in these verses ?


Revelation 9:3

And out of the smoke locusts came down upon the earth and were given power like that of scorpions of the earth.

Revelation 9:7

The locusts looked like horses prepared for battle. On their heads they wore something like crowns of gold, and their faces resembled human faces.

Revelation 9:8

Their hair was like women's hair, and their teeth were like lions' teeth.

Revelation 9:9

They had breastplates like breastplates of iron, and the sound of their wings was like the thundering of many horses and chariots rushing into battle.

Revelation 9: 10

They had tails and stings like scorpions, and in their tails they had power to torment people for five months.

 

[XTruth]

The 6th trumpet of Revelation. The 13th judgment from God. This is the loosing of 200,000,000 demons out of the pit to slay 1/3 of men. These demons will be under the authority of 4 fallen angels that are presently bound in the Euphrates. All will be loosened together at a fixed point in time, during the last part of the first 3 1/2 yrs of the Trib....they are not a 200,000,000 man army under Antichrist at Armageddon, as is taught, b/c these are not ordinary men as proved by their description. No human horseman was ever like these or ever will be.

Brings a whole new reality to... "Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken (Lk.21:26)."


The following is copy and pasted from Dake's topics in WORDsearch

Twelve Proofs They are Literal Creatures:
1. They have angelic leaders, proving them to be real as angels (Rev. 9:14-15).
2. Their exact number and description prove them to be many individuals (Rev. 9:16).
3. They kill one third of man, proving physical contact with them (Rev. 9:15).
4. They are intelligent creatures or they could not follow commands and leadership (Rev. 9:14-15).
5. They have riders on them, proving that they are real creatures (Rev. 9:17).
6. They cannot be killed by fire and the smoke of the abyss, proving they are spirit beings (Rev. 9:1-2,17-18).
7. They are now bound in the abyss, proving them to be fallen and sinful (Rev. 9:1-2). If not sinful they would not be bound.
8. They are indestructible by human beings (Rev. 9:17).
9. They have breastplates of fire, jacinth, and brimstone, proving that they have bodies capable of wearing breastplates (Rev. 9:17).
10. They have bodies like horses and heads like lions (Rev. 9:17).
11. Real fire, and smoke, and brimstone issue from their mouths, proving they have real mouths (Rev. 9:17-18).
12. They have tails like serpent heads that are capable of hurting people (Rev. 9:19).
A gem of orange color.

Rev. 9:18
Three Ways by Which They Kill a Third of Mankind:
1. The fire out of their mouths
2. The smoke out of their mouths
3. The brimstone (sulphur) out of their mouths