A Fallen Star

Revelation 9:11 tells us that Satan is that fallen star of Revelation 9:1.

The abyss is where our Lord descended and from where he led captivity captive (Psalm 16:10; 68:18; Ephesians 4:8-10; Romans 10:7).

Judges 7:12 helps us understand Revelation 9:13-16. The Midianites, the Amalekites, and the others gathered against Israel are all children of Abraham. They are like locusts, and their camels could no more be counted than the sand on the seashore (more than 200,000,000) (Judges 7:12) .

Ezekiel 9:1-11 precedes the LORD's abandoning his Temple, Jerusalem, and his people, with only those who grieve and lament over all the detestable things that are done in it, being spared (Ezekiel 9:4; 10:1-2, 4, 6-8, 18-19). This sealing foreshadows the sealing of Revelation 9:4.

The commander of the Jewish armies of the Galilee, who surrendered to the Romans, witnessed the destruction of the Jewish temple in AD 70, on the exact same day of the exact same month of the Jewish calendar that the Babylonians had destroyed the temple of Solomon, Tisha B'Av, תִּשְׁעָה בְּאָב.

Not only were both Temples destroyed on that day with over a million Jewish people slaughtered, but in the second century of the Christian Era, when the Jewish people returned to their homeland under Simon bar Kokhba, over a half million more Jewish people were slaughtered by the Romans on that day, corresponding to our July-August.

When is peace going to happen between Abraham's warring children? When the world embraces the Prince of Peace, the King of kings and Lord of lords, the Lord Jesus Christ, who is still reigning at the right hand of the Father, and he will come again, and he will take us to himself.