Revelation 9:1And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit.
2 And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.
When I was younger this always struck me as an exact description of an asteroid hitting earth, and it still does.
Here's some nightmare fuel about Rev 6
https://www.calvarychapeljonesboro.org/prophecynews/yellowstone-super-volcano-and-the-revelation-6-effect-part-1
Good news! The book of Revelation of Jesus Christ is the work or heaven in a people. The language is figurative and has spiritual application in the life of the believer. There is a link there if you'd like to read the Idealist interpretation of the book.
And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: (asteroid) and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit. (Crater)
2 And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, (impact) as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit. (The global winter created by the fallout/debris)
Always fascinated me. Raised Catholic. Have a deep faith in Jesus these days.
Pretty cool, I've always struggled with any literal interpretation of Revelation. I'm glad your faith in Jesus is increasing. Great to meet you.
God works in mysterious ways. Always liked the idea of His will being done through natural forces. Makes sense to me. Like it has to, in order to interact with our world. Not that He's limited, but chooses to do so.
Also, what were reading here is a prophet in those days trying to interpret the best he can. But doesn't mean it isn't literal as well. It's both.
True enough, but there is an ignorance of the language of the past that dealt in spiritual terms relating the rule(heaven) to the ruled(earth), Revelation is written in a prophetic language and culture of the past. The present literalisation of the book leads to a whole lot of misinterpretation and fear of the end of world. The physical world is not ending, but it will be changed.
Thank You. Best wishes.
"So thick and murky is that smoke that it blots out the light of the sun of the glorious, illuminating truth of Christ, and darkens the air of our spiritual understanding, causing men to find themselves alienated from the life of God. The very atmosphere in which man moves is made fuzzy by the smoke, permeated with that negative energy which is borne along with the thoughts, imaginations, perceptions, concepts, words, and actions and becomes an oppressive atmosphere for all who walk in that realm."
"This is why Paul so fervently wrote to the saints in Corinth, saying, “Brethren, be not children in understanding: howbeit in malice be ye children, but in understanding BE MEN” (I Cor. 14:20). Paul prayed for the Ephesian brethren to this end: “The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know (by understanding) what is the hope of His calling, and what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, and what is the exceeding greatness of His power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of His mighty power, which He wrought in Christ when He raised Him from the dead, and set Him at His own right hand in the heavenly places” (Eph. 1:18-20). And again, “Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is”(Eph. 5:17). To the Colossians Paul wrote, “For this cause we also, since the day we heard of it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding” (Col. 1:9-10)."
https://communities.win/c/Christianity/p/141ErpCP2Z/revelation-91-the-fifth-trumpet/c
"The "bottomless pit" or the "abyss" signifies the human heart! As soon as the abyss is unlocked it begins to belch forth columns of dirty blue-black smoke just like the smoke of a great furnace. This smoke displays a movement, a tendency coming out of the abyss. It is that which comes forth from the deceitful nature of the heart, for the heart of man is "deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked" (Jer. 17:9). There are indeed wicked, vile, and corrupt things that come out of the heart, as Jesus makes plain in Matthew 7:18-23. In this writing, however, we want to look at the deceit of the heart and the things that arise from that deceit. The deceitfulness of the human heart was first revealed amidst the mysterious mists of the long ago Eden. God had told Adam that if he ate of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, he would die. The serpent disagreed and said, "You shall not surely die!" Eve, Paul tells us, was deceived by the serpent! Adam then followed her in her transgression. Can we not see by this that the whole dreadful realm of sin, sorrow, darkness, error, and death came through deception! Satan was a liar right from that earliest beginning! The deception caused man to become joined to the delusion that is in the lie! Adam’s consciousness of himself, of God, and of the true nature of all things, was now birthed in a lie, and joined in both mind and body to the dust realm instead of the spirit realm he became separated from God in his thinking, speaking, and acting. A few of the many things that arise out of the deceitfulness of the heart are ego, thoughts, imaginations, desires, perceptions, attitudes, interpretations, ideas, concepts, suggestions, opinions, propositions, and divinations. All these, and more, constitute the smoke that arises out of the pit!"
Smoke is a cruel enemy that fills the air with darkness and penetrates the lungs of men and women, filling them with deadly gases, cutting off the oxygen supply, and endangering their lives. It is the deceitfulness of the heart by which the truth of God is turned into a lie, and it was by that lie that man lost his life! The smoke ascending out of the pit is the lie! It is the lie about God, the lie about truth, the lie about reality, the lie about ourselves. It is the human consciousness, the natural man’s distorted perception, analysis, and definition of all things, pouring forth out of the abyss in thought, word, and expression."