{"id":206,"date":"2019-06-24T18:56:06","date_gmt":"2019-06-24T18:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.local.net\/?page_id=206"},"modified":"2019-06-24T18:56:06","modified_gmt":"2019-06-24T18:56:06","slug":"revelation-9","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.gracewalk.net\/?page_id=206","title":{"rendered":"Revelation 9"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Verses 1-12<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>What (or who) is the star? Rev 1:20<\/li><li>Who was given the key that opened the shaft of the bottomless pit? What does this mean to you?<\/li><li>What came out of the bottomless pit? Consider another parallel with the plagues of Egypt&#8230;<\/li><li>Now we see why God marked his chosen (Ezek. 9:4)<\/li><li>What is different about this plague than the one in Egypt? Ex 10:12<\/li><li>Symptoms of scorpion stings &#8211; tachacardia, hypertension, anxiety, nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, dizziness, chills, will not kill you.<\/li><li>Imagine the suffering that would be necessary for verse 6 to come true<\/li><li>The name of the angel: Abaddon 1. The destroyer, or angel of the bottomless pit; &#8212; the same as Apollyon and Asmodeus. 2. Hell; the bottomless pit.<\/li><li>What does it mean to you that the angel of the bottomless pit was the king of over the scorpions?<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Vereses 13-21<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Exodus 27:1-4, Ex 38:1-4 &#8211; What did the 4 horns and the altar before God represent?<\/li><li>How many were in the army of the horsemen?<\/li><li>What is extraordinary about both the scorpions and the horses?<\/li><li>What is extraordinary about the riders of the horses?<\/li><li>What did these evils produce &#8211; unlike the scorpions? Why would God allow suffering before death of 1\/3 of man?<\/li><li>Did the people understand what was happening to them? How can you tell?<\/li><li>What specific examples of evil-doing were mentioned in verse 20 and 21?<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Verses 1-12 What (or who) is the star? Rev 1:20 Who was given the key that opened the shaft of the bottomless pit? What does this mean to you? What came out of the bottomless pit? Consider another parallel with the plagues of Egypt&#8230; Now we see why God marked his chosen (Ezek. 9:4) What [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":173,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-206","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gracewalk.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gracewalk.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gracewalk.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gracewalk.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gracewalk.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gracewalk.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/206\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gracewalk.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gracewalk.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}