Oakwood Church
The Locusts - Revelation 9
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Oakwood Community Church
11209 Casey Rd, Tampa, FL 33618, USA
Sunday 8:00 AM
“Then I looked, and I heard an eagle crying with a loud voice as it flew directly overhead, ‘Woe, woe, woe to those who dwell on the earth, at the blasts of the other trumpets that the three angels are about to blow!’”
Revelation 8:13
Revelation 8:13
“And the fifth angel blew his trumpet, and I saw a star fallen from heaven to earth, and he was given the key to the shaft of the bottomless pit.”
Revelation 9:1
Revelation 9:1
God’s Judgment is Directed, Diminished, and Delegated
“He opened the shaft of the bottomless pit, and from the shaft rose smoke like the smoke of a great furnace, and the sun and the air were darkened with the smoke from the shaft.”
Revelation 9:2
“He opened the shaft of the bottomless pit, and from the shaft rose smoke like the smoke of a great furnace, and the sun and the air were darkened with the smoke from the shaft.”
Revelation 9:2
God’s Judgment is Directed, Diminished, and Delegated
“Then from the smoke came locusts on the earth, and they were given power like the power of scorpions of the earth.”
Revelation 9:3
“Then from the smoke came locusts on the earth, and they were given power like the power of scorpions of the earth.”
Revelation 9:3
God’s Judgment is Directed, Diminished, and Delegated
“Shall the axe boast over him who hews with it, or the saw magnify itself against him who wields it? As if a rod should wield him who lifts it, or as if a staff should lift him who is not wood!”
Isaiah 10:15
“Shall the axe boast over him who hews with it, or the saw magnify itself against him who wields it? As if a rod should wield him who lifts it, or as if a staff should lift him who is not wood!”
Isaiah 10:15
God’s Judgment is Directed, Diminished, and Delegated
“They were told not to harm the grass of the earth or any green plant or any tree, but only those people who do not have the seal of God on their foreheads.”
Revelation 9:4
“They were told not to harm the grass of the earth or any green plant or any tree, but only those people who do not have the seal of God on their foreheads.”
Revelation 9:4
God’s Judgment is Directed, Diminished, and Delegated
“They were allowed to torment them for five months, but not to kill them, and their torment was like the torment of a scorpion when it stings someone.”
Revelation 9:5
“They were allowed to torment them for five months, but not to kill them, and their torment was like the torment of a scorpion when it stings someone.”
Revelation 9:5
God’s Judgment is Directed, Diminished, and Delegated
“In appearance the locusts were like horses prepared for battle: on their heads were what looked like crowns of gold; their faces were like human faces.”
Revelation 9:7
“In appearance the locusts were like horses prepared for battle: on their heads were what looked like crowns of gold; their faces were like human faces.”
Revelation 9:7
God’s Judgment is Directed, Diminished, and Delegated
“They have tails and stings like scorpions, and their power to hurt people for five months is in their tails.”
Revelation 9:10
“They have tails and stings like scorpions, and their power to hurt people for five months is in their tails.”
Revelation 9:10
God’s Judgment is Directed, Diminished, and Delegated
● Catastrophes and suffering are God’s Wakeup Call: this world is passing away!
“They have as king over them the angel of the bottomless pit. His name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek he is called Apollyon.”
Revelation 9:11
● Catastrophes and suffering are God’s Wakeup Call: this world is passing away!
“They have as king over them the angel of the bottomless pit. His name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek he is called Apollyon.”
Revelation 9:11
God’s Judgment is Directed, Diminished, and Delegated
● God chose to direct His Judgment onto His Only Son
“By these three plagues a third of mankind was killed, by the fire and smoke and sulfur coming out of their mouths.”
Revelation 9:18
● God chose to direct His Judgment onto His Only Son
“By these three plagues a third of mankind was killed, by the fire and smoke and sulfur coming out of their mouths.”
Revelation 9:18
God’s Judgment is Directed, Diminished, and Delegated
● God chose to direct His Judgment onto His Only Son
“By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh.”
Romans 8:3
● God chose to direct His Judgment onto His Only Son
“By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh.”
Romans 8:3
“The rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands nor give up worshiping demons and idols of gold and silver and bronze and stone and wood, which cannot see or hear or walk, nor did they repent of their murders or their sorceries or their sexual immorality or their thefts.”
Revelation 9:20-21
Revelation 9:20-21
God’s Discipline is a call to Repentance
● Now is the time of God’s favor
“The rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands nor give up worshiping demons and idols…”
Revelation 9:20
● Now is the time of God’s favor
“The rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands nor give up worshiping demons and idols…”
Revelation 9:20
God’s Discipline is a call to Repentance
● Now is the time of God’s favor
“Working together with him, then, we appeal to you not to receive the grace of God in vain. Behold, now is the favorable time; behold, now is the day of salvation.”
2 Corinthians 6:1-2
● Now is the time of God’s favor
“Working together with him, then, we appeal to you not to receive the grace of God in vain. Behold, now is the favorable time; behold, now is the day of salvation.”
2 Corinthians 6:1-2
God’s Discipline is a call to Repentance
● Now is the time of God’s favor
“The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me to bring good news to the poor… to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor, and the day of vengeance of our God.”
Isaiah 61:1-2
● Now is the time of God’s favor
“The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me to bring good news to the poor… to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor, and the day of vengeance of our God.”
Isaiah 61:1-2
God’s Discipline is a call to Repentance
● Now is the time of God’s favor
“Awake, you drunkards, and weep, and wail, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine, for it is cut off from your mouth.”
Joel 1:5
● Now is the time of God’s favor
“Awake, you drunkards, and weep, and wail, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine, for it is cut off from your mouth.”
Joel 1:5
God’s Discipline is a call to Repentance
● Now is the time of God’s favor
“Put on sackcloth and lament, O priests; wail, O ministers of the altar. Go in, pass the night in sackcloth, O ministers of my God! Because grain offering and drink offering are withheld from the house of your God.”
Joel 1:13
● Now is the time of God’s favor
“Put on sackcloth and lament, O priests; wail, O ministers of the altar. Go in, pass the night in sackcloth, O ministers of my God! Because grain offering and drink offering are withheld from the house of your God.”
Joel 1:13
God’s Discipline is a call to Repentance
● Now is the time of God’s favor
“Gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land to the house of the LORD your God, and cry out to the LORD. Alas for the day! For the day of the LORD is near, and as destruction from the Almighty it comes.”
Joel 1:14-15
● Now is the time of God’s favor
“Gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land to the house of the LORD your God, and cry out to the LORD. Alas for the day! For the day of the LORD is near, and as destruction from the Almighty it comes.”
Joel 1:14-15
God’s Discipline is a call to Repentance
● Now is the time of God’s favor
“Blow a trumpet in Zion; sound an alarm on my holy mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, for the day of the LORD is coming; it is near.”
Joel 2:1
● Now is the time of God’s favor
“Blow a trumpet in Zion; sound an alarm on my holy mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, for the day of the LORD is coming; it is near.”
Joel 2:1
NY TIMES Headline:
After Shattering Quakes, Some See Political Omen.
“She advised a Buddha amulet to be worn at all times, but the astrologer said she thought the earthquake was an ominous sign for the general.”
After Shattering Quakes, Some See Political Omen.
“She advised a Buddha amulet to be worn at all times, but the astrologer said she thought the earthquake was an ominous sign for the general.”
“The sun shall be turned to darkness, and the moon to blood, before the great and awesome day of the Lord comes. And it shall come to pass that everyone who calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.”
Joel 2:31-32
Joel 2:31-32