Rev 9:1

Rev 9:1-11: Fifth Trumpet: Siege of Jerusalem: “[Consider] the parallel between Jer 8 and the Trumpets. This is the chapter to which Jesus referred four times in foretelling the casting off of Israel: v 11 = Luke 19:42; v 12 = Luke 19:44; v 13 = Luke 20:10 and Mat 21:19. In Rev Jesus resumes his exposition of that prophecy:

  1. Jer 8:2: The idols ‘which they have loved, served, walked after, sought, worshipped.’ Rev 9:20: ‘Idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and wood; which can neither see, nor hear, nor walk.’
  2. Jer 8:3: ‘Death shall be chosen rather than life.’ Rev 9:6: ‘Men shall seek death and shall not find it.’
  3. Jer 8:5: ‘Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? They hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.’ Rev 9:20,21: ‘Yet they repented not of the works of their hands neither repented they of their murders, etc.’
  4. Jer 8:7: The stork knoweth her appointed times… but my people doth not know… ” Rev 9:15: ‘Prepare (the attacking army) for the hour and day and month and year.’
  5. Jer 8:14: ‘The Lord God hath given us water of gall (wormwood) to drink.’ Rev 8:11: ‘The star wormwood… and many men died, because the waters were made bitter.’
  6. Jer 8:16: ‘The snorting of his horses was heard… the whole land trembled at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones.’ Rev 9:9: ‘The sound of many horses running to the battle.’
  7. Jer 8:17: ‘I will send serpents, cockatrices among you… and they shall bite you.’ Rev 9:5: ‘Their torment was as the torment of a scorpion when he striketh a man.’
  8. Jer 8:20: ‘The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.’ Rev 9:5: The end of the five months (it came in August), and only hopelessness.
  9. Jer 8:22: ‘Is there no balm in Gilead?’ Rev 9:13: Saints in Pella (Gilead) pleading for Jerusalem, yet unable to save it?
  10. Jer 8:19. ‘The cry of the daughter of my people from a land that is very far off.’ Israel sold into captivity in far-off lands.
  11. Jer 8:19. ‘Is not the Lord in Zion? Is not her King in her?’ Jerusalem rejected as God’s dwelling place. The Messiah no longer acknowledged there by any” (WRev).

Fifth Trumpet and Last Days: cp Joel’s prophecy: