The 5th and 6th Trumpets
occur concurrently with the prior 4 Trumpets. Trumpets 1-6 are blown
during the 10-days of Tribulation rehearsed each year during the 10 Days
of Awe between Yom Teruah and Yom Kippur. The Son of Man wages all-out
war on Earth and overcomes the Dragon and those who follow her.
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The fifth angel sounds his trumpet
signaling the First woe.
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A star falls from Heaven to the Earth and is
given the key to the bottomless pit.
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The pit is opened, and smoke rises causing
the Earth to fall into darkness.
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Locusts come out of the smoke coming
out of the bottomless pit, and Abaddon commands them to torment any
man who does not have the seal of Yahuah on his forehead. This lasts
for five months.
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The sixth angel sounds his trumpet for
announcing the Second woe.
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The four angels bound at the great
river Euphrates are released.
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A massive 200-million-man army raised by the
four angels cross the Euphrates River invading the Middle East from
the Far East. A third of mankind dies.
Revelation 9:5, 10
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… 10 They have
tails and stings like scorpions, and their power to hurt people for
five months is in their tails.
Each year there is what is called The Annual Day
and the Annual Night at Earth’s North Pole. It is a time when the Sun
shines at the North Pole continuously for 7 months (March 4 – October
6).
The Annual Day is when Yahuah’s Feasts are
celebrated. This is when all of the Northern Hemisphere is in sync with
Jerusalem. Yahuah’s people are called “children of the day”
as we keep the Creator’s holy days during the Annual Day.
The Annual Night runs from October thru the end
of February (5 months). This 5 months of physical darkness is
also a time of Spiritual Darkness when the false religion,
children of the night, celebrate the Babylonian Festivals of
Halloween, Christmas, New Year Eve, etc. This 5 months of darkness we
call Winter is when the Sun shines less and there is more darkness than
light and the foliage dies and turns brown. In this physical shadow we
find a Spiritual Parallel between the battle of “the Sun” and “darkness”
as the Earth is furthest from the Sun and its healing wings.
In The Plan of Salvation celebrated each year in
The Feast Cycle, these 5 months of “darkness” runs from the end of
Sukkot to the Passover. This is ESPECIALLY important. It is when
Yahusha “spreads his tabernacles over us” and we are “taken to the
wilderness” and protected from the wrath of Yahuah. Yahusha return on
the Feast of Tabernacles, followed by the 10 days of awe (tribulation),
Revelation 2:10
Do not be afraid of what you are
about to suffer. I tell you, the devil will put some of you in prison to
test you, and you will suffer tribulation (persecution)
for ten days. Be faithful, even to the point of death, and I will give
you life as your victor's crown.
then The Day of Yahuah on Yom Kippur. We are
taken “to the wilderness on the wings of an Eagle” and protected (Sukkot)
and then Earth enters the 5 months of “darkness” leading up to a “new
year” and a “new day” on Passover. This represents the beginning of the
1,000-year reign.
As we witnessed in Chapter 7, the four angels
hold back the four “winds” and Yahuah’s Grace, Mercy, and Ruach, are
withheld from the inhabitants of the Earth. There is no more forgiveness
or mercy for sin. The time has come to pay up and with that come the
“sting of a scorpion”.
The “sting of a scorpion” is a metaphor used to
illustrate the effects of sin on the heart and mind. In this period,
salvation is closed and there is no forgiveness or reprieve from sin. It
just compiles from one sin to the next and love “grows cold” and the
heart hardens leading to panic and terror outside the Love of Yahuah.
The symptom of a scorpion sting is the same effects of a “panic attack”.
The reality of events and compounding effects of sin cause the hearts of
man to fail with sure panic. Below are the common symptoms of both a
“scorpion sting” and a “panic attack”:
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Difficulty breathing
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Drooling, sweating, nausea and vomiting
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Restlessness or excitability or insoluble
crying
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Muscle twitching or thrashing
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High blood pressure (Hypertension)
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Accelerated heart rate (Tachycardia)
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Unusual head, neck and eye movements
We see the effect of the curse found in violation
of The Torah prophesied in Isaiah 24:
Isaiah 24
4 The Earth mourns and withers; the
world languishes and fades; the exalted of the Earth waste away. 5 The
Earth is defiled by its people; they have transgressed the laws; they
have overstepped the decrees and broken the everlasting covenant of the
Sabbath. 6 Therefore a curse has consumed the Earth, and its inhabitants
must bear the guilt; the Earth’s dwellers have been burned, and only a
few survive.…
Love has grown cold and humanity has failed in
keeping the most basic aspect of Yahuah’s Righteousness… to “honor your
father and mother” and “love your neighbor as yourself”.
Matthew 24:12
Because lawlessness is increased,
the love of most people will grow cold.
As love grows cold so does the heart, and with that comes the sting of a
scorpion.
