Symbolism: The Fire, Smoke and Brimstone

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( This is my attempt to explain how I read these verses . This will be my last major reply, since i cant sit here and type this much again tonight .Nor tomorrow, as ill be busy . If you want to chat in the chat rooms, ill do that, but ill brake from writing this much for now .)


I'll try to share more scriptures then i did in my previous post. But since only a few verses are considered here, obviously theses are not complete notes. So always study yourself .
So perhaps this will clarify some of that i wrote before.

Ill try to be brief . But brief is not going to do it for us as Christians , if we want to understand the Bible . So to repeat you gotta study this on your own, by actually recalling the scripture you've read, or at least study it with a concordance, or tool like esword. That way its the bible thats doing the interpreting and not opinion or whatever .


We agree the locust army is Satan's angelic army during the Tribulation .


You see that far, but you're not holding that thought through to the end of the chapter .
We're not talking about shape-shifting here. The symbolism is shaping the teaching in a way that conveys to the mind the most Truth .


When Christ returns we have the state of peoples sous explained by Paul : "


1 Corinthians 15:52
In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
54 So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.



Corruptible and incorruption -( speaking of the bodies )
mortal and immortality -( speaking to the state of the soul )

So we see when Christ returns at the Last Trump , some have that eternal life .
While we read in Revelation 20 some do not .
Why not for others ?


Revelation 20:3 And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season.
4 And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
5 But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.
6 Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.


Another word for these "dead" is Mortal; because they took the Mark of the beast..
They would've been those part of the whore. Those churches in Revelation, that valued their churches doctrines, or mans traditions moreover than Christ's teachings concerning the end.
So their souls are liable to perish at the end of the Lords Day .
If they make it ; they will take part in Eternal life at the end of the Lords Day; that is called the Second resurrection :
in which they are judged out of the books "according to their works" ( (Rev 20:11-15) They no longer have Christ for repentance .

Those that took part in the First, did Not take the mark, were not deceived and remained faithful to Christ ( they were not taken by the false Christ ( Matthew 24:40 ; Matthew 24:43 ; etc )..
They have Eternal life coming out the gate when Christ returns at the Last Trump :That is called the first Resurrection .


That is also taught int he OT. Where Christ was teaching from

Daniel 12:1 And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.


2 And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
3 And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever.


Keep the Corinthian verses in mind here :
This ""sleep in the dust" is a saying , referring to their moral state: or spiritual "state of their soul ".
Since, they've been drowned in the flood from the Serpents mouth during the tribulation ; just prior to Christs arrival,
they're considered Mortal as Paul says .

Act 24:15 And have hope toward God, which they themselves also allow,
that there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust. ( Resurrection in this sense, is speaking about the Body .

Remember Paul said "corruption to incorporation" in the change at Christs return .

1 Corinthians 15:51 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,

In verse 50 Paul said flesh and blood Cannot inherit the Kingdom of God. In as much as Paul is talking about Christ and His return at the Last Trump ( The 7th ) to Earth to establish His Kingdom here ( Revelation 11:15 )
Paul is saying there is going to be an instant change, from flesh and blood, to a spiritual body at His return . The moment He touches down on the mount of Olives everyone will be changed That includes the bad .Those that took the mark.



52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.


Pause for a moment. Paul is talking about Flesh and blood . Flesh and blood is alive. Therefor needing that transfiguration at Christ's return . We know Paul said in 1 Thessalonians 4, that those who have died in Christ, are already with Christ in Heaven. So why does Paul say, in 1 Corinthians 15: 52 "" and the dead shall be raised incorruptible ".

Again , living bodies, are in need of a change .. Those who have physically died, Paul teaches in other letters, already went through the change.. We are talking about Christs return. So who are the dead ? Remember what takes place just Prior to His actual return . The Tribulation was going on .. The dead shall be changes, and we also with them. Everyone must be changes, for Judgment . Every Knee will bow to Christ, every touch shall confess .





2 Corinthians 5:10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.


With that in mind, about the dead, ill repeat Daniel for a reminder :

Daniel 12:1 And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.

( there is that book mentioned ; Revelation 20:11-15 kjv )


2 And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.

So with what we read in mind, those that sleep in the dust, are spiritually deceives, asleep or dead in that sense. Very much alive for the change of bodies, they away to face the Truth Christ will reveal at HIS Coming . But very much lost souls .


Here are some verses that help document what this licking the dust means. Its used in many paces in the bible to indicate immorality or shame , or moral abasement, or degradation .


Micah 7:17 They shall lick the dust like a serpent, they shall move out of their holes like worms of the earth: they shall be afraid of the LORD our God, and shall fear because of thee.

Gen 3:14 And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:

Psalms 72:9 They that dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him; and his enemies shall lick the dust.

Psalms 44:25 For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth unto the earth.
26 Arise for our help, and redeem us for thy mercies' sake.

Isaiah 49:23 And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy nursing mothers:
they shall bow down to thee with their face toward the earth, and lick up the dust of thy feet;
and thou shalt know that I am the LORD: for they shall not be ashamed that wait for me.


What does God think of Watchmen, that are sleeping ?

Isaiah 56:10 His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.

They're not watching for the Signs that are like a thief, so its all unexpected when it happens. Caught in deception .

The watchmen is supposed to Sound the Alarm. The emney is coming !

Ezekiel 33:5 He heard the sound of the trumpet, and took not warning; his blood shall be upon him. But he that taketh warning shall deliver his soul.
33:6 But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned; if the sword come, and take any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman's hand.

( Matthew 24:41-51 kjv )


One more for the sleep meaning spiritual deception reference, used in Daniel ::

1 Thessalonians 5:6 Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.
7 For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.
8 But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.
9 For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,
10 Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.
11 Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.


Those with the Seal of God in their forehead, during the Tribulation, and at the return of Christ After again, take part in the First Resurrection : on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years. So Naturally they're not appointed to Gods Wrath upon Christs' return . Again they knew about the events of the Tribulation, they wont take The Mark.. So the Last Days, can Not be said to overtake them as a thief. They know the signs of the times Christ taught would overtake the world ( Revelation 20:4 ) .

To repeat They speaking of the Elect, would not be under Wrath, since, they will allow the Holy Spirit to speak through them during those trials Mentioned in Matthew 24, Revelation of those two churches, and Luke 12: kjv .
etc .


Daniel 12:

3 And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever.






Lets try to move along into Revelation 9

Sin causes a wound . And without Christ ; we will perish John 3:16

Isaiah 53:5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
Isa 53:6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.

We must always worship Christ .And definitely The Real Christ..

2 Corinthians 11:4 For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him.

( Paul expressed that thought in another letter in a very specific teaching;
2 Thessalonians 2 kjv ) .



Lets try to look at the rest of Revelation 9



We know God never created anything unnatural . These are symbols, object lessons.
You know a picture is worth a thousand words.
Much more thought is conveyed with a picture then wasting space with a lot of words .
And at the same time, only those who its meant for will understand :
as Christ said concerning His parables.

Kids for example may not get what a number is, or what it represents. But if they have a number of objects to symbolize the number, they can understand the meaning of the figure . It represents something .


So Trees are mentioned in Revelation 9:4
Lets try see men as Trees . Keep in mind ; Locusts naturally eat vegetation . And they are very veracious in their appetite . Especially when they're in the swarming stage .

Joel 1:6 For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without number, whose teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hath the cheek teeth of a great lion.

((This Nation is Daniels Fourth Beast. Its Satan and the angelic army. Bear with me, Daniel says they come in peacefully and prosperously . But the effect this has on the trees, on the souls of men ? Its as if a Lions teeth got a hold of them.
Christ taught about the abomination that makes desolate standing where he ought not .

"My land " Is Jerusalem . Remember who stands there ( 2 thess 2 ) . And Why Christ says, those that be in Judah go to the mountains . Identifying Christs place of return ( Act 1:11 ).
Why flee there ? Because Armageddon : Christ is going to dispel Satan's lies and Level the place After the Tribulation is over. ( Rev 16:1 -16 ) 7,000 thousands among the angels die ( Rev 11:10-14 ).




Joel 1:7 He hath laid my vine waste, and barked my fig tree: he hath made it clean bare, and cast it away; the branches thereof are made white.

Again cornering Israel established in Jerusalem, Christ gave the parable of the fig tree.
( Matthew 24:32-51 ; Jeremiah 24 kjv ) .

barked my fig tree; is in reference to the bad figs . What they have causes.
They are Not Jews, but only claim to be Christ teaches ( Revellation 2:9 ).
As they moved into the priesthood, they'd eventually had a hand in killing Christ.
And they also make it near impossible for the Truth to come out without falsehoods to hide it .
The damage they've caused preparing the final stage of the Locusts ( Satan and the fallen angels ),
has been going on since the Beginning .
And Christ is saying we should be aware of that with His teaching about the fig tree parable .
Or else ; theres little change of escaping deception, or even inadvertently perpetuating deception upon others .
Especially in The Last Days





Joel 1:8 Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.
9 The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests, the LORD'S ministers, mourn.
10 The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.


Christ is the offering, the Passover of very Christian . ( 1 Corinthians 11:24 ; 1 Corinthians 5:5 -7 )
Daily we live in Him and He in us, in our Christian walk. But, if its said to be " cut off", that eludes to apostasy .
Christ is expecting a virgin bride. But you noticed He warns of women, with child. Paul said this of the " women "

1 Thessalonians 5:3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
4 But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.

Mark 13:17 But woe to them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!

Luke 23:28 But Jesus turning unto them said, Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep for yourselves, and for your children.

29 For, behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck.
30 Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us; and to the hills, Cover us.
31 For if they do these things in a green tree, what shall be done in the dry?




Christ is the Tree of Life, With Truth . Hes abounding with fountains springing up into eternal life. He is ever Green.

But, the people without the truth, what will Satan be able to do to such people ? People that say you're going to be raptured, disregard Revelation its past. Whatever their shtick their church or commentary taught them. Its drying the majority of Christians out. And Christ knew it ..



Revelation 6:14 And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places.
Rev 6:15 And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains;
Rev 6:16 And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:
Rev 6:17 For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?


Joel 1:11 Be ye ashamed, O ye husbandmen; howl, O ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; because the harvest of the field is perished.

12 The vine is dried up, and the fig tree languisheth; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, even all the trees of the field, are withered: because joy is withered away from the sons of men.


A dried out tree, is easily burnt by a any wind of falsehood .
How will it stand up to" fire ;smoke ;and brimstone ?



Here more verses for how Trees are used in the Bible, to teach :



Psalms 1:2 But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night. 3 And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.

Psalms 52:8 But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God: I trust in the mercy of God for ever and ever.
9 I will praise thee for ever, because thou hast done it: and I will wait on thy name; for it is good before thy saints.


Psalms 92:12 The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
13 Those that be planted in the house of the LORD shall flourish in the courts of our God.
14 They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and flourishing;
15 To shew that the LORD is upright: he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.


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Mark 8:23 And he took the blind man by the hand, and led him out of the town; and when he had spit on his eyes, and put his hands upon him, he asked him if he saw ought.
Mar 8:24 And he looked up, and said, I see men as trees, walking.
Mar 8:25 After that he put his hands again upon his eyes, and made him look up: and he was restored, and saw every man clearly.

Christ is explaining here ( Mat 13:13-17 ) , that we need those eyes and hears in-order to hear, then see.


Unfortunately, if we don't understand, that is a time Satan can step in, and Catch away whatever truth might have been there. This would lead to an apostasy during the Tribulation . ( 2 Thess 2 )

Matthew 13:18 Hear ye therefore the parable of the sower.


19 When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, then cometh the wicked one,
and catcheth away ( I wonder what catch away is in the greek ? Something to think about, we are in the Last Days leading up to Satans' Tribulation .)
that which was sown in his heart. This is he which received seed by the way side






Okay finally ; back to Revelation 9,
try to read this now , with the previous verses IN MIND : Don't let them slip away.


Revelation 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.

( Seal of God In their foreheads : Ephesians 4:30 Revelation 7:3 .
This Seal is the Truth concerning the prophecy Christ said Blessed are those that read and Hear Revelation 1:3 )



Since it uses the scorpion to symbolize the attack of the locust, its good to ask how does a scorpion strike a man, or generally take pray ?
You can research that. So briefly, ill write it out here :
A scorpion holds its victim with its two pincers so it can't move . Then strikes, paralyzing with its poison . It then brings the victim to its mouth, to inject its digestive enzymes into the victims liquefying its body. Then it can fully digest the victim.




Spiritually speaking that is what Satan and these angels will do to a believer ( then the Whore Those with child and nursing that along ).
Christ said, by their miracles by deception.
( 2 Corinthians 11:2-4 ; 2 Corinthians 11:13-15 ; Matthew 24:22-26 kjv )



The nature of the attack is concerning the state of their soul .What is in a person, not an outward.

Mark 7:18 And he saith unto them, Are ye so without understanding also? Do ye not perceive, that whatsoever thing from without entereth into the man, it cannot defile him;
19 Because it entereth not into his heart, but into the belly, and goeth out into the draught, purging all meats?
20 And he said, That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man.
21 For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,

Fornication is what we're talking about In revelation seen its the Whore who rides that abomination .. Fornication Specifically with False-Messiah .

Fornication, in the Bible is often synonymous with Idolatry . If Satan is worshiped "instead of" Christ, then its Idolatry In the worst form, as if it was not bad enough Antichrist comes before Christ, claiming to be Him .


Here are some verses to explain that
Fornication and Idolatry

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2 Chronicles 21:11 Moreover he made high places in the mountains of Judah, and caused the inhabitants of Jerusalem to commit fornication, and compelled Judah thereto.

This verse explains their idolatry, also equates to spiritual fornication. The idea is taught throughout the Bible.

The people during the Trib worship the Devil the end of Revelation 9 states ..
We'll read that here :

Revelation 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.


About the works of their hands, consider the Mark in their hand. Or IN their forehead. And how its the Second Beast ( the dragon as the lamb ) wheedling the First Beast ; which causes the deception to overflow .
The devil is very much apart of what the sin is here in Revelation . The fornication fits since "the woman" ( whore ) , that rides the First-( The dragons world government ) and Second beast- ( Satan proclaiming himself the Lamb ) . That is a religious world order, with Satan being worshiped ( The Dragon, The Beast and False Prophet ) . The women is called The Whore which rides upon it. The whole things rides the people . . And consider later in your own study, they hate the whore . They burn her with fire . Remember its Fire smoke and brimstone that issues from that armies mouths .

I posted this already, but Ill post it again :

Revelation 16:12 And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.
Rev 16:13 And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet.
Rev 16:14 For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.
Rev 16:15 Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.
Rev 16:16 And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.

What are they ? Devils. They're taking about Thee Devil . Same one in Revelation 12 whose put on the earth to deceive the world .Specifically the Woman. The virgins without enough oil in their lamps ( Rev 12:15 - 17 ). . Reminder, Christ teaches about a : false Christ, and points you to learn Daniels prophecy concerning it . At its core thats' all basically forewarning of the same event : False-Christ comes .



Rev 2:13 I know thy works, and where thou dwellest, even where Satan's seat is: and thou holdest fast my name, and hast not denied my faith, even in those days wherein Antipas was my faithful martyr, who was slain among you, where Satan dwelleth.
14 But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication.


In A spiritual sense, what should they be eating ? Christ said, that its not what enters into a person that defiles him or her, its what comes from the mind, that defines the soul .
If a Christian, has eaten false doctrines, bad fruit , it sets a stumbling block, when they rely on their false doctrines, and come up against Gods Actual Truth , the Real plan, The fire smoke and brimstone that issues from the mouth of Satan and his angels .
( Satans Locust army, is in reality Gods army Joe 2:25 ). So He intends to send it . And expects the Christian to be forewarned. Before the fact.. So Christ becomes a stumbling block because of False teachings , because false doctrines do not forewarn as Christ did of Satan's deception.The dragon disguised as the Lamb Slain .


Balaam taught for money .And many churches have that on their mind .
So how do you get the most money ? You tell people what they want to hear, you let them choose their leaders. So many years of it they're trained to persecute Gods actual servants.. Those trying to listen to God. The very Truth from the Bible becomes a foreign idea to such people . Christ found fault with Most of the churches He addressed in Revelation . Save two .

2 Timothy 4:1 I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom;
2 Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.
3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.

So what kind of things start developing in such an environment ? Just look around at all the divisions in Christianity .
Bad Doctrines ( Ezekiel 13:20 kjv Read the entire chapter ).



Im tired, but I'll try to point out things that are important to note.

A star that falls; which unleashes the smoke of the pit Luke 10:18-19 ; Rev 12:7-13 .

Satan is known as the Morning star, and Christ in Luke 10 :18 says as lightning, the same Greek word, is derived from a base used for Star in Revelation 9:1 .



Lets move onto the Fire Smoke and Brimstone .

Revelation 9:16-21


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.

Horses are fearless when they charge into battle. But, these horses with heads of Lions makes the charge much more vicious . Lions shred its victims to pieces. It is written, Satan roams as does a lion,

1 Peter 5:8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
9 Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.

Brimstone, is mentioned in Sodom and Gomorrah, rained down from God.. Revelation being about the end and the Lake of Fire is the final Judgment from God; and is the end for anyone that follows Satan . ( Matthew 10:28 And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. )

Lions are also symbols of Royalty, of the Tribe of Judah. But in this case we're talking about the Locust army , so they're not what they appear to be. They are faking it .

From their Mouths : issues the Fire , Smoke and Brimstone .
We know Christ's Mouth has The Sharp sword which cuts both ways, symbolic of The Word of God
Hebrews 14:12 ; Rev 1:16; Rev 2:12 ; Ephesians 6:17

God is a consuming fire . And its His fire we should be carrying forward .His Holy Spirit .

Luke 12:49 I am come to send fire on the earth; and what will I, if it be already kindled?

John 6:63 It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.


But there is also strange fire. Fire that we should Not be kindling

Leviticus 10:1 And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them his censer, and put fire therein, and put incense thereon, and offered strange fire before the LORD, which he commanded them not.
2 And there went out fire from the LORD, and devoured them, and they died before the LORD.

Again Paul says :
1 Timothy 4:1 Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;

Christ Warns the churches in Revelation .That they were teaching things, that would bring about their spiritual death . Christ going so far as to say, He'd fight against them .

Revelation 2:16 Repent; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will fight against them with the sword of my mouth.
Rev 2:17 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it.

Why ? Because of they're not teaching of the deception of the Tribulation .
Instead they're and prepping everyone to be at division with the Elect: Real Christians that know better. Waiting upon Christ's returns, remaining Faithful to the True Savior . This is why Christ would teach : Mark 13:12 Now the brother shall betray the brother to death, and the father the son; and children shall rise up against their parents, and shall cause them to be put to death.
Mar 13:13 And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.

For example Sardis Rev 3:

Only two ( Smyrna and Smyrna ) of the 7 where completely pleasing to Christ in their teachings. Christ teaching, they will face trial before the Devil . And to hold fast His teachings in Patience, and to overcome .

Consider the delivering up and the Holy Spirit has opportunity to speak to the nations taught by in Matthew 24.
The Elect carry God's Fire : those that are delivered up :
Acts 2:3 And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them.
The Holy Spirit through Peter, would teach Joel the prophet about what would happen in the latter days, which their witness during Pentecost was an example of whats to come ..

So what Comes from the mouth of Satan ? Lies. Satans fire burns the dry trees, its hurts the soul, it kills Christians in that sense. .Those that buy his lies .
The Fire the smoke and brimstone, which issues from their mouths .


Whats James have to say about the mouth ?

James 3:5 Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!
6 And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.
7 For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind:
8 But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
9 Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God.
10 Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.
11 Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter?
12 Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh.

Mind over body. We gotta keep in Christ's teachings everyday best we can .
The gospel armor in Christ's name is a defense against The Adversary .


Back to Revelation 9

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.

Killing of the souls, falling away, apostasy, is the kind of killing Christ is concerning with warning Christians to avoid . Christ shortened the days, or no flesh would be saved .. He was talking about their soul. Eternal life would not remain in flesh man, by the time He returned, and Satan and the angels had their way with them . When churches today teach the Tribulation is a time of killing, they're misleading the masses, by painting it with blood and gore. Not so, apostasy cannot happen, and a system with false messiah can Not work, if hes going around physically slaughtering everyone ..
Christ is saying, with their mouths they slay spiritually . With lies and miracles, they will deceive until everyone is consumed, and theres just ashes in their wake . . .

Joel 2:3 A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.


With the Seal of God in the forehead, you can escape their deception . When Christ comes, He wont be angry with those who remained true . You escape not only Satan's tribulation, but Christs' Tribulation afterwards .





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.

The power is in the mouth . Because its deception. Three forms, that encircle the entire world, preparing them for the file blow, of the Locust army . The sting maybe unexpected and subtle as a serpent strikes. In this case we're talking about Thee Serpent Satan. And its working is as a scorpions strike . Its to the souls 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.



Just to back track, and mention the Smoke

Revelation 8:11 And the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.

((Again, the stars they're talking about is Satan, the Morning star ( Isaiah 14:12 ) and the bitterness he brings to the waters. Christ provides living waters. If that star touches it, and it goes bitter, whats that mean ? I means the worlds Christian population has just been poisoned. ))




Rev 8:12 And the fourth angel sounded, and the third part of the sun was smitten, and the third part of the moon, and the third part of the stars; so as the third part of them was darkened, and the day shone not for a third part of it, and the night likewise.


As the Trumpets sound, they're doing damage to Christians .So this is the state leading up to the actual arrival of Antichrist and the establishment of the First beast. Which will make whore of anyone that falls for that lie .That is very much aimed at Christians .Again, there were 5 foolish virgins . And 5 were wise.




Revelation 8:13 And I beheld, and heard an angel flying through the midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice, Woe, woe, woe, to the inhabiters of the earth by reason of the other voices of the trumpet of the three angels, which are yet to sound!

The next are the woe trumpets, 5th (___);
6th ( Satan appears as Antichrist ( the second beast ) for the Tribulation. shortened by Christ to Five months ) and 7th ( The Last : with the voice of the archangel ; which sounds that Trump Christ returns . )


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