Revelation 9 – The Fifth and Sixth Trumpets Unleashed

Overview: Trumpets That Shake the Soul

🔹 Theme: Demonic torment and divine judgment unleashed.

🔹 Focus: Wake-up calls to a rebellious world.

🔹 Outcome: Most still refuse to repent, fulfilling prophecy.

Trumpets as Dual Warnings – Spiritual and Physical

Each trumpet in Revelation unveils more than natural disaster—they are heaven’s alarms, combining physical judgment with spiritual significance.

🔁 Dual Layers of Meaning

🔹 Physical Judgments – War, torment, plague, and chaos across the world.
🔹 Spiritual Warnings – False teachings, demonic deceptions, mental anguish, and hard-heartedness.

📖 1 Corinthians 15:46 – “That was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual.”

➡️ Earthly destruction points to deeper spiritual realities.

🔎 Fifth & Sixth Trumpets Compared

5️⃣ Locusts from the Abyss – Demonic torment / False religion and despair
6️⃣ Army from the Euphrates – Global war / Spiritual blindness and rebellion

📖 Amos 3:6 – “Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid?”

➡️ Final Insight: God’s trumpets are not just wrath—they are merciful warnings. When ignored, they become woes.

What Is the Abyss?

📖 Revelation 9:1 – “…a star fall from heaven… and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit.”

The “Bottomless Pit” = The Abyss

🔹 Greek word: Abyssos – literally “unfathomable depth.”
🔹 It is the prison or holding place for demons until their final judgment.

📖 Luke 8:31 – Demons begged Jesus not to send them into “the deep” (abyssos).
📖 Revelation 20:1–3 – Satan is bound and cast into the bottomless pit for 1,000 years.

🔎 So what is it?

🔹 It’s not hell (Gehenna), the final lake of fire.
🔹 It’s more like a temporary holding place—a dark spiritual realm where evil powers are restrained until God allows them to emerge.

What Are the Locusts?

📖 Revelation 9:3 – “And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth…”

🔍 Symbolic or Literal?

They are not regular bugs. Let’s see why:

🔹 They come from the abyss (a spiritual realm).
🔹 They have power to torment like scorpions.
🔹 They don’t eat vegetation like real locusts do.
🔹 They have human-like faces, iron breastplates, and wings like war machines.

➡️ These locusts are demonic entities—either literal fallen angels or symbolic of a global deception (false doctrine, religious terror, psychological torment).

Spiritual Interpretation:

🔹 The abyss opens = spiritual darkness floods the world.
🔹 The smoke = confusion, deception, and false teachings.
🔹 The locusts = demonic ideologies and mental/spiritual torment, afflicting those without the seal of God.

📖 Joel 2:1–11 describes a locust army as God’s instrument of judgment—this is echoed here in Revelation 9.

What Is CERN?

CERN is the European Organization for Nuclear Research, located on the Franco-Swiss border. It operates the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s largest particle accelerator.

🔹 Their goal: to explore fundamental particles—“the building blocks of the universe.”
🔹 The LHC smashes particles together at near-light speed to study matter, antimatter, dark energy, etc.

Is CERN Linked to the Abyss?

1️⃣ Biblical Language vs. Scientific Goal
Revelation 9 describes a bottomless pit (abyss) being opened, releasing tormenting spirits upon the earth. CERN, interestingly, speaks of opening “portals” or “dimensions” beyond our current understanding.

2️⃣ Symbolism at CERN
🔹 CERN features a statue of Shiva, a Hindu god associated with destruction and rebirth—placed prominently at their campus.
🔹 Some public statements and imagery used by CERN flirt with apocalyptic themes (e.g., their 2015 dance performance called “Symmetry” included abyss-like symbolism).

3️⃣ Theoretical Physics & Portals
CERN researchers have openly speculated about creating or observing alternate dimensions or even mini black holes. This raises spiritual alarms for many who interpret these as possible gateways to spiritual realms—not just scientific frontiers.

Possible scenarios:

🔹 CERN as a tool or catalyst
It may unknowingly or spiritually be aligned with something demonic—used by powers beyond human control to unlock forbidden realms.

🔹 God allows the abyss to open
In Revelation 9, the abyss opens only when God permits it, and a key is given to an angel. If CERN plays a role, it would only be because God has allowed it for prophetic fulfillment.

Final Insight:

While Scripture doesn’t mention CERN by name, the idea of humans unlocking powers they don’t understand is a recurring biblical theme:

📖 Genesis 11:6 – “Now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.” (Tower of Babel)
📖 2 Thessalonians 2:11 – “God shall send them strong delusion…”

Whether CERN is symbolic or literal in this connection, the opening of the abyss is a spiritual act, and modern science may simply be walking into it blindly.

Key Takeaways

🔑 The abyss is opened only by divine permission.

🔑 Spiritual torment is real—and only the sealed are protected.

🔑 The sixth trumpet brings literal death and spiritual warning.

🔑 True repentance is the only safeguard.

Prophetic Patterns & Fulfillment

🔮 The fifth trumpet echoes Joel’s locust army and Exodus plagues.

🔮 The sixth trumpet mirrors Ezekiel’s army from the north and Revelation 16’s Euphrates kings.

🔮 Both woes preview the final war between light and darkness.

Historical & Cultural Context

📜 Abyss (Bottomless Pit) – Often associated with demonic imprisonment (Luke 8:31, Revelation 20:1–3).

📜 Locusts in Scripture – Tools of divine judgment (Exodus 10, Joel 1–2).

📜 Euphrates – Eastern boundary of Israel; symbolic of invasion and judgment.

Final Reflection: The Warning Intensifies

The fifth and sixth trumpets shake the soul. Demonic torment, judgment, and the refusal to repent reveal a world on the brink.

📌 Are you ignoring God’s voice, or embracing His seal?
📌 Are you hearing the trumpet now—before the final woe?

🚀 Let these trumpets awaken the heart, before the door of mercy closes.

Rev 9:1  And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit. 
Rev 9:2  And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit. 
Rev 9:3  And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power. 
Rev 9:4  And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads. 
Rev 9:5  And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man. 
Rev 9:6  And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them. 
Rev 9:7  And the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared unto battle; and on their heads were as it were crowns like gold, and their faces were as the faces of men. 
Rev 9:8  And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions. 
Rev 9:9  And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle. 
Rev 9:10  And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails: and their power was to hurt men five months. 
Rev 9:11  And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon. 
Rev 9:12  One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter. 
Rev 9:13  And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God, 
Rev 9:14  Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates. 
Rev 9:15  And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men. 
Rev 9:16  And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand: and I heard the number of them. 
Rev 9:17  And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone. 
Rev 9:18  By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths. 
Rev 9:19  For their power is in their mouth, and in their tails: for their tails were like unto serpents, and had heads, and with them they do hurt. 
Rev 9:20  And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk: 
Rev 9:21  Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.