Rev 9:3 “And there came out of the smoke *d Locusts upon the earth and unto them was given *e power, as the *f scorpions of the earth have power.”
Notes from the G Bible *d- Locusts are false teachers, heretics, patriarchs, archbishops, bishops, doctors, bachelors & masters which forsake Christ to maintain false doctrine. (A few more words in this caption I couldn’t translate)
*e- false and deceivable doctrine which is pleasant to the flesh
*f- that is secretly, to persecute and to sting with its tail as scorpions does such is the fashion of the hypocrites
1 more interesting: Rev 9:5 And to them was commanded that they should not kill *i them, but that they should be *k vexed five months, and that their pain that comets of a *l scorpion, when he hath stung a man.
*i- though the elect be hurt, yet they cannot perish *k-the elect for a certain space and at times are in trouble *l-for at the beginning, the sting of their conscience seem as nothing, but except that some seek remedy, they perish *m-such is the terror of the unbelieving conscience which has no assurance of mercies feel the judgment of God against it, when men embrace error and rescues the true implications of God’s Word. ***”sting of conscience- almost like a sting of a shot-💉
Refuse not rescue