1 The fifth and sixth Angel blow their trumpets: the star falleth from heaven. 3 The locust come out of the smoke. 12 The first wo is past. 14 The four Angels that were bound, are losed. 18 And the third part of men is killed.
1.aAnd the fifth Angel blew the trumpet, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth, and to him was given the bkey of the bottomless pit.
2.And he opened the bottomless pit, and there arose the smoke of the pit, as the csmoke of a great furnace, and the sun, and the air were darkened by the smoke of the pit.
3.And there came out of the smoke dLocusts upon the earth, and unto them was given epower, as the fscorpion of the earth have power.
4.And it was commanded them, that they should not hurt the ggrass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree: but only those hmen which have not the seal of God in their foreheads.
5.And to them was commanded that they should not ikill them, but that they should be kvexed five months, and that their pain should be as the pain that cometh of a lscorpion, when he hath stung a man.
6.*Therefore in those days shall men mseek death, and shall not find it, and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.
7.*And the form of the locusts was like unto nhorses prepared unto battle, and on their heads were as it were ocrowns, like unto gold, and their faces pwere like the faces of men.
8.And they had hair as the qhair of women, and their rteeth were as the teeth of lions.
9.And they had shabergeon, like the habergeons of iron: and the sound of their twings was like the sound of chariots when many horses run unto battle.
10.And they had tails like unto scorpions, and were ustings in their tails, and their power was to hurt men five months.
11.And they have a King over them, which is the xAngel of the bottomless pit, whose name in Hebrew is, y Abaddon, and in Greek he is named Apollyon.
12.One wo is past, and behold, yet two woes come after this.
13.¶ Then the sixth Angel blew the trumpet, and I heard a zvoice from the four horns of the golden altar, which is before God,
14.Saying to the sixth Angel, which had the trumpet, Loose the four aAngels, which are bound in the great river Euphrates.
15.And the four Angels were loosed, which were prepared at an bhour, at a day, at a month, and at a year, to slay a third part of men.
16.And the number of horsemen of war were twenty thousand times ten thousand: for I heard the number of them.
17.And thus I saw the horses in a vision, and them that sat on them, having fire habergeons, and of jacinth and of brimstone, and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions: and out of their mouths went forth fire and smoke and brimstone.
18.Of these three was the third part of men killed, that is, of the fire and of the smoke, and of the brimstone, which came out of their mouths.
19.For their power is in their cmouths, and in their tails: for their tails were like unto serpents, and had heads, wherewith they hurt.
20.And the remnant of the men which were not killed by these plagues, drepented not of the works of their hands that they should not worship devils, and *idols of gold and of silver, and of brass, and of stone, and of wood, which neither can see, neither hear nor go.
21.Also they repented not of their murder, and of their sorcery, neither of their fornication, nor of their theft.
Locusts are false teachers, heretics, and worldly subtle Prelates, with Monks, Friars, Cardinals, Patriarkes, Archbishops, Bishops, Doctors, Bachelors and masters which forsake Christ to maintain false doctrine.
Such is the terror of the unbelieving conscience, which hath no assurance of mercy, but feels the judgement of God against it, when men embrace error and refuse the true simplicity of God’s word.
Which signifies that the Pope’s clergy shalbe proud, ambitious, bold, stout, rash, rebellious, stubborn, cruel, lecherous and authors of war and destruction of the simple children of God.