{"collection":"Bible & Christianity","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/cmt/tsk/rev009.htm","path":"bib/cmt/tsk/rev009.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bib/cmt/tsk/rev009.htm","text":"Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge, by R.A. Torrey, [ca. 1880]\nOverview\nRev 9:1, At the sounding of the fifth angel, a star falls from heaven, to whom is given the key to the bottomless pit; Rev 9:2, He opens the pit, and there come forth locusts like scorpions; Rev 9:12, The first woe past; Rev 9:13, The sixth trumpet sounds; Rev 9:14, Four angels are let loose, that were bound.\nthe fifth: Rev 9:12, Rev 9:13, Rev 8:6-8, Rev 8:10,Rev 8:12, Rev 11:14, Rev 11:15\na star: Rev 1:20, Rev 8:10; Isa 14:12; Luk 10:18; Th2 2:3-8; Ti2 3:1-5\nthe bottomless: Rev 9:2, Rev 9:11, Rev 17:8, Rev 20:10; Luk 8:31; Rom 10:7 *Gr.\nthere: Rev 9:17, Rev 14:11; Gen 15:17, Gen 19:28; Isa 14:31; Joe 2:30; Act 2:19\nand the sun: Rev 8:12; Exo 10:21-23; Joe 2:2, Joe 2:10\nlocusts: Exo 10:4-15; Jdg 7:12; Isa 33:4; Joe 1:4, Joe 2:25; Nah 3:15, Nah 3:17\nas: Rev 9:5, Rev 9:10,Rev 9:11; Deu 8:15; Kg1 12:11; Eze 2:6; Luk 10:19\nthat they: Rev 6:6, Rev 7:3; Job 1:10,Job 1:12; Psa 76:10; Mat 24:24; Ti2 3:8, Ti2 3:9\nhurt: Rev 8:7\nbut: Corrupt and idolatrous Christians; against whom the Saracens chiefly prevailed.\nwhich: Rev 7:3, Rev 7:4, Rev 14:1; Exo 12:23; Job 2:6; Eze 9:4, Eze 9:6; Eph 4:30\nit was: Rev 13:5, Rev 13:7; Dan 5:18-22, Dan 7:6; Joh 19:11\nthey should not: That is, should not kill them as a political body, state, or empire; and accordingly, however they desolated the Greek and Latin churches, they could not extirpate them, nor gain possession of the empire. Rev 11:7; Job 2:6\nthey should be: Rev 9:10\nfive: Five prophetical months, each consisting of 30 days, and each day denoting a year, amount to 150 years; and accordingly, from the time that Mohammed began to propagate his imposture ad 612, the building of Bagdad, when they ceased from their ravages, ad 763, are just 150 years.\nand their: Rev 9:3\nshall men: Rev 6:16; Sa2 1:9; Job 3:20-22, Job 7:15, Job 7:16; Isa 2:19; Jer 8:3; Hos 10:8; Joh 4:8, Joh 4:9; Luk 23:30\nthe shapes: Joe 2:4, Joe 2:5; Nah 3:17\nhair: Kg2 9:30; Isa 3:24; Co1 11:14, Co1 11:15; Ti1 2:9; Pe1 3:3\nthey had: Rev 9:17; Job 40:18, Job 41:23-30; Joe 2:8\nand the: Job 39:25; Isa 9:5; Joe 2:5-7; Nah 2:4, Nah 2:5\nthey had: Rev 12:9; Joh 12:31, Joh 14:30, Joh 16:11; Co2 4:4; Eph 2:2; Jo1 4:4, Jo1 5:19\nthe angel: Rev 9:1\nAbaddon: that is, a destroyer, Joh 8:44\ntwo: Rev 9:13-21, Rev 8:13, Rev 11:14\nthe sixth: Rev 9:1\na voice: Rev 8:3-5; Heb 9:24, Heb 10:21\nthe great: Gen 2:14; Sa2 8:3; Jer 51:63\nfor: or, at\nfor to: Rev 9:18, Rev 8:7, Rev 8:9, Rev 8:11, Rev 8:12\nthe number: Psa 68:17; Dan 7:10\nhorsemen: Eze 23:6, Eze 38:4; Dan 11:40\nI heard: Rev 7:4\nhaving: This appears to point out the scarlet, blue and yellow colours, for which the Turks have always been remarkable. The \"four angels bound in the Euphrates\" denote their four sultanies bordering on that river, where they were confined till after the period of the Crusades. The time for which they were prepared, \"an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year,\" computing a year for each day, amounts to 391 years, 15 days; and from their first conquest over the Christians, ad 1281, to the taking of Cameniec from the Poles, ad 1672, which was the last conquest by which their dominion was extended, is exactly that period. Rev 9:9\njacinth: Rev 21:20\nbrimstone: Rev 9:18, Rev 14:10, Rev 19:20, Rev 21:8; Gen 19:24; Psa 11:6; Isa 30:33; Eze 33:22\nas the: Ch1 12:8; Isa 5:28, Isa 5:29\nin their tails: Rev 9:10; Isa 9:15; Eph 4:14\nAnd the: That is, those of the Latin and Greek churches, who escaped destruction, still persisted in their idolatrous worship of demons, etc.\nyet: Rev 9:21, Rev 2:21, Rev 2:22, Rev 16:8; Deu 31:29; Ch2 28:22; Jer 5:3, Jer 8:4-6; Mat 21:32; Co2 12:21\nworship: Lev 17:7; Deu 32:17; Kg2 22:17; Ch2 34:25; Psa 106:37; Isa 2:8; Jer 25:6, Jer 44:8; Act 7:41, Act 19:26; Co1 10:20,Co1 10:21; Ti1 4:1\nand idols: Psa 115:4-8, Psa 135:15-18; Isa 40:19, Isa 40:20, Isa 41:7, Isa 42:17, Isa 42:18, Isa 44:9-20, Isa 46:5-7; Jer 10:3-5, Jer 10:8, Jer 10:9, Jer 10:14, Jer 10:15, Jer 15:19, Jer 15:20, Jer 51:17; Dan 5:23; Hab 2:18-20; Act 17:29; Rom 1:21-23\ntheir murders: Rev 11:7-9, Rev 13:7, Rev 13:15, Rev 16:6, Rev 18:24; Dan 7:21-25, Dan 11:33\ntheir sorceries: Rev 13:13, Rev 18:23, Rev 21:8, Rev 22:15; Isa 47:9, Isa 47:12, Isa 57:3; Mal 3:5\nnor of their fornication: Rev 14:8, Rev 17:2, Rev 17:5, Rev 18:3, Rev 19:2; Mat 15:19; Co2 12:21","title":"Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge: Revelation: Revelation Chapter 9","type":"page"}