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Revelation 8
¹² Then the fourth angel blew his trumpet, and one-third of the sun was struck, and one-third of the moon, and one-third of the stars, and they became dark. And one-third of the day was dark, and also one-third of the night.
¹³ Then I looked, and I heard a single eagle crying loudly as it flew through the air, “Terror, terror, terror to all who belong to this world because of what will happen when the last three angels blow their trumpets.”
Revelation 9
¹ Then the fifth angel blew his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen to earth from the sky, and he was given the key to the shaft of the bottomless pit.
² When he opened it, smoke poured out as though from a huge furnace, and the sunlight and air turned dark from the smoke.
³ Then locusts came from the smoke and descended on the earth, and they were given power to sting like scorpions.
⁴ They were told not to harm the grass or plants or trees, but only the people who did not have the seal of God on their foreheads.
⁵ They were told not to kill them but to torture them for five months with pain like the pain of a scorpion sting.
⁶ In those days people will seek death but will not find it. They will long to die, but death will flee from them!
⁷ The locusts looked like horses prepared for battle. They had what looked like gold crowns on their heads, and their faces looked like human faces.
⁸ They had hair like women’s hair and teeth like the teeth of a lion.
⁹ They wore armor made of iron, and their wings roared like an army of chariots rushing into battle.