INTRODUCTION
1. Four Trumpets Have Sounded

2. Worse Is Yet To Come, v.13

3. The Fifth and Sixth Trumpet Sound, 9:1-12

4. They Are The First Two Woes of 8:13

1. THE FIFTH TRUMPET SOUNDS, v.1-12
   1. The Identity of the Star, v.1
      1. Luke 10:18

      2. Isaiah 14:12-15

   2. The Key to the Bottomless Pit is Given to Him, 1b

   3. He Opens the Pit, v.2

   4. The Demons Ascend Out of the Pit, 3,7-10

   5. They Come to Torment and to Destroy, v.3b-5,10

   6. Their Leader is Destroyer, Satan

      Note: Name given in Hebrew and Greek
      Note: The purpose of Satan is to Destroy. The purpose of God is to Save.

   7. So Terrible is the Pain that Men will Seek Death, v.6

   8. This is the First Woe of 8:13

2. THE SIXTH TRUMPET, v.13-21
   1. The Golden Alter, v.3
      1. Prayer is being answered

      2. The horns of the alter was always available for the sinner's sacrifice, but in those days there will be no more room for sacrifice. Hebrews 10:12-14, 26-29

      3. The alter of divine mercy will one day put forth devine judgement.

   2. The Four Fallen Angels, 13-15
      1. Note: 9:1-2 (demons who are bound 9:14)

      2. It seems that is this present age of grace certain demons who would torment and kill all men are kept bound by God.

      3. Four unfallen angels restrain judgement (7:1) Now four fallen angels are loosed for the purpose of executing judgement.

   3. They Were Prepared For This Very Day and Hour, v.15

   4. An Army of 20 Million, v.16-17

      "It is the combined power of the devil and men acting in their own interest, and yet, at the same time, they are ignorantly carrying out God's judicial will." (STRAUSS)

   5. One-Third of the Population is Killed, v.15-18

   6. The Weapons Used, v.17-18

   7. The Response of Those Not Killed, v.20-21
      1. The serverest of God's judgements upon guilty men do not soften rebellious hearts.
         Ill.: Pharaoh in Egypt

      2. Even in Hell men and women will manifest bitter definance against all that is Holy.
         Matthew 13:42 - gnashing of teeth is an expression of the hatred in the unregenerate heart of man.

      3. God names their sins, v.20-21

At the end of the sixth seal one-third of the earth's population or by today's standards two billion people have died in a very short period of time. Yet man's heart only grows harder and more defiant and rebellious against God.