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CHAPTER 7: ABYSS- 5 Trumpet

Revelation 8:13 “Then I looked, and I heard an eagle flying in mid-heaven, saying with a loud voice,
“Woe, woe, woe to those who dwell on the earth, because of the remaining blasts of the trumpet of the
three angels who are about to sound!”
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Prior to the fifth angel who brings judgment to the earth, there is an “Eagle” who shouts with a loud voice three
woes. Remember, the Constellation of Aquila, which represents an “Eagle”, was seen in the previous judgment at
nighttime. We see John didn’t use the word “Angel” but that of an “Eagle” flying in Revelation. The first woe has
to do with the unleashing of immortal beings upon the earth to do battle with evil men who are in darkness on
the earth. Darkness represents the opposite of understanding truth, which is light. Let us see what Jamieson’s
commentary has on the last three trumpets.

The last three trumpets of the seven are called, from Rev 8:13, the woe-trumpets.
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What is the significance to the woe-trumpets? Revelation 9:10 says they, the fallen angels, will wound mortal
men on the earth with their scorpion like stings. The more important aspect is that the angels are immortal
beings, who cannot be destroyed by man either by swords, guns, bombs, or any type of weapons. They are
everlasting beings. The fallen angels have eternal bonds and have been cast into the abyss by God. Jude’s
reference to the abyss is under darkness – the underworld. The “bottomless pit” and the “abyss” as well as the word
Tartarus Latin, from Greek Tartaros all refer to the same location. This is where immortal beings are being held
until the “Day of Judgment”. These immortal beings are the fallen angels, who we see in Jude.

Jude 6 “And angels who did not keep their own domain, but abandoned their proper abode, He has kept
in eternal bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day,”
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The “Day of Judgment” has arrived when the fifth angel sounds his trumpet. God is about to release them with the
keys to the abyss which were given to another angel. What is the meaning of “a star from heaven which had fallen…”?
Revelation 9:1-2 “Then the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star from heaven which had fallen to
the earth; and the key(s) of the bottomless pit was given to him.

2 He opened the bottomless pit, and smoke went up out of the pit, like the smoke of a great
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furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by the smoke of the pit.”
The Greek word for keys: kleis; from 2808; a key:—key, keys

This verse is making the statement that a star had fallen previously or had already fallen. We also know that a star
is a symbolic representation of an angel. Let us see what Jamieson’s commentary has to say about “fallen.”

Fall—rather as Greek, “fallen.” When John saw it, it was not in the act of falling, but had fallen already. This is a
connecting link of this fifth trumpet with Rev 12:8,9,12
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88 New American Standard Bible : 1995 update. 1995 (Re 8:13). LaHabra, CA: The Lockman Foundation.
89 Jamieson, R., Fausset, A. R., Fausset, A. R., Brown, D., & Brown, D. (1997). A commentary, critical and explanatory, on the Old and
New Testaments (Re 9:1). Oak Harbor, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc.

90 New American Standard Bible : 1995 update. 1995 (Jud 6). LaHabra, CA: The Lockman Foundation.

91 New American Standard Bible : 1995 update. 1995 (Re 9:1–2). LaHabra, CA: The Lockman Foundation.