Mystery – fifth trumpet

By: Jo Smith  ..  September 6, 2022

Revelation 9

9 And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit.

2 And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.

The star to whom the key of the bottomless pit was given is Jesus Christ.  He ‘fell’ when He died but was then given the key of death, hell and the grave.  So He alone now has that key.  He said ‘the son of man which is in heaven…  soo the heaven is to be in the Spirit.  He fell from this lofty Spirit realm when the sins of the World were placed on him, God forsook him, and he died and went to hell.

What is the bottomless pit? Proverbs tells us the  whore is a deep PIT.  the Pit is the church.  Yes that is the answer, the church, on the wrong foundation, is the bottomless pit.  The present church is the whore against God.  She goes against everything that God said and worships all the idols of the world.  She tells only lies.  She is this pit. This mama whore began in old Jerusalem.  She is the mama of harlots.

What is the smoke that rose out of the pit and darkened the sun, and air?  It is the lies or false doctrine that this whore church produced.  It clouded out all the truth of God.

3 And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power.

So what are these locusts that came OUT of that false doctrine?  It is the witnesses of Jesus.  We who received the TRUTH came out of that harlot church.  See, they were given POWER, not that they are locusts, but AS the scorpions of the earth have power.

The true locusts of the earth have power to hurt God’s people and destroy the earth.  But God has raised up witnesses and given them power to do to her as she has done to us.

4 And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads.

Take notice of who these ‘locusts’ are to hurt;  not the grass or any green thing or tree, that has LIFE in it.  They are told to only hurt those who have NOT the SEAL OF GOD in their foreheads, or knowledge.

Everyone that I have ever heard attempt to ‘teach’ on this says that these locusts are demon spirits.  They are liars and have not a word of Truth being told to them by God.  They are parrots who only spew out the lies that have been handed down for ages.  If you carefully read this you can clearly see that there is no way these could be demon spirits.

5 And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man.

Aw, now, let the Word of God, not some false money-grabbing wild hog teach you what this means.  Turn to Scripture for all interpretations, or you have it wrong.

Rev 11: 3 And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.

Now there is proof that God gave POWER to his WITNESSES.

6 These have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of their prophecy: and have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the earth with all plagues, as often as they will.

Here is the proof that these witnesses have power to stop the rain upon those who will not worship Jesus:  Zech. 14: 17 And it shall be, that whoso will not come up of all the families of the earth unto Jerusalem to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, even upon them shall be no rain.

The power to turn waters to BLOOD will astonish your mind.  Oh, the carnal minds have so distorted these glorious things.  When a minister, the one who WATERS, steps out into the baptismal water and pronounces that word of God according to Acts 2, over the one he is baptizing, this, in the spirit, turns this water into Holy Water and washes away their sins.

Oh I know the carnal churches flat deny this, but it is proven in the words of Paul, ‘now why tarry, arise and be baptized washing away your sins.’  If you don’t like it, call Paul a lie.  Not me.  It is not my words;  I am only saying what God said.  It is his words.

I asked God once, when is the Blood of Jesus applied to us and He told me, when they are baptized in Jesus’ name.  See, the baptizer had the power to turn that water into the blood.  Not anything the man did, but it is a working of God in the Spirit and no one can change it.

I have seen so much revealing today of the Word, that I know I will never remember it all and get it into this message.  But it will be enough that if you truly want the truth, you will study this and be able to see it all.  Study the Written Scripture!!!

Rev 11: 10 And they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them, and make merry, and shall send gifts one to another; because these two prophets tormented them that dwelt on the earth.

See that? These two prophets, the witnesses of Jesus, TORMENTED them that dwelt on the earth.  Proof!

3 And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power.

They had the power as of the scorpions of the earth, which means that now they are doing to mystery Babylon as she has done to them.  They are now bringing the judgment against the hore church.  Their words sting those who hate truth.  This is the power of the ‘new’ scorpions. Their words torment those who are not willing to give up their sins and idols and repent.  So the sinners then set up xmess to celebrate the death of these witnesses.

5 And if any man will hurt them, fire proceedeth out of their mouth, and devoureth their enemies: and if any man will hurt them, he must in this manner be killed.

See the fire is coming out of their mouth;  it is their WORDS.  But is the killing natural or spiritual?  That is the surprising part!

The carnal mind sees this as bad, but it is good.  Their WORDS cause these sinners to be convicted and REPENT.  They then DIE to self, DIE to the law, and DIE to the sins of the flesh, and are now baptized into the DEATH of Jesus and are now Dead with Jesus.

Yes, this is how the WITNESSES lay DEAD in the streets.  The streets mean the doctrines of the organizations.  It is society.  So now, explore the Death of these witnesses!

7 And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them.

8 And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.

9 And they of the people and kindreds and tongues and nations shall see their dead bodies three days and an half, and shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put in graves.

It is not physically killing anyone.  It is killing their influence or turning everyone against them and causing them not to listen to the truth they are teaching.  In this way, that SMOKE out of the pit destroys the knowledge of the truth to the people and takes them into a dead, lukewarm condition.  These witnesses are DEAD TO SIN, DEAD TO THE LAW, AND DEAD WITH JESUS.

THAT IS HOW THEY ARE DEAD;  NOT PHYSICAL DEATH.  The carnal church sees these living witnesses as DEAD.  They refuse to listen to them and will not allow them into their THEATER CHURCHES.  This is what it means, that they would not put their ‘dead’ bodies into graves.

Jesus said you are as whited graves and full of dead men’s bones.  That is the church and they will not allow these ‘dead’ witnesses to come in and teach the truth to the people.  See that it is a SPIRITUAL Sodom where our Lord was crucified.  How it is a crucifixion?  Hebrews said they crucify HIM again and put him to an open shame with the evils they do.  So this is the Street where these DEAD- to- the -world witnesses are.

It is not as people have thought, at all.  That is the mess that the carnal minds, money-grabbing hogs have brought onto this world.

Now to prove that this DEATH is not physical, but the dying to the old man and becoming renewed in Christ Jesus:

Romans 6:4

Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.

Romans 6:2

God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?

Romans 6:8

Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:

Romans 6:11

Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Romans 6:13

Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.

Romans 7:4

Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.

Romans 8:10

And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.

[So this proves that if you are in Christ your body is DEAD.  not physical death but dead to sin. ]

2 Corinthians 5:14

For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead

Galatians 2:19

For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God.

Colossians 2:12

Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.  [see what I said, this is an operation of God ;  when you are baptized he washes away your sins.  That is if you are baptized the right way.]

Colossians 2:20

Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances,

[ dead with Christ ]

More solid proof:

Colossians 3:3

For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. [this is the ‘dead’ witnesses;  but they are alive].

2 Timothy 2:11

It is a faithful saying: For if we be dead with him, we shall also live with him:

More proof:

1 Peter 2:24

Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.

hummm , perhaps this also has ‘that’ meaning:

Revelation 11:8

And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.

Now if this is not enough to show you that we who are baptized into Christ Jesus are DEAD to self, I say you are hopeless and will never see light.  So those witnesses are not dead physically, but dead to this world, dead to sin, dead to the law, dead with Jesus.  The sinful church hates them for their words tormented them….  ‘You must give up your idols;  your bunnies and flying deer and santa’’  so this tormented those who love the ways of Satan/world.

Revelation 16:3

And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea, and it became as the blood of a dead man: and every living soul died in the sea.

Carnal-minded folks see this as evil and are horrified at it.  But no, it is glorious.  The true ministers were turning these waters into the Blood of Jesus (Jesus is that DEAD man).. to save these folk who make up the Sea of peoples, for the entire world.  See that is said, ‘every LIVING SOUL…this means those who have the life of God in them… DIED in the sea..  It is the death to sin and evil and self that I just showed you!  Open your blinded eyes so you can see!

Now back to Rev. 9, still under that fifth trumpet, which is the first woe:

6 And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.

Now, don’t you see from all the above verses that the DEATH that these people are seeking is to be given salvation or the ability to DIE TO SIN AND SELF?  But see that it is too late for them.  They have waited too long to repent and now that judgment has struck them, they cannot find that place of repentance, just as Essau could not find it.

7 And the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared unto battle; and on their heads were as it were crowns like gold, and their faces were as the faces of men.

8 And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions.

9 And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle.

These ‘locusts like horses is the Army of God as told in Joel 2.  It is also in Jeremiah 49.  It is the powerful witnesses of God bringing the judgment against the wicked ones.

They are now battling with the enemy;  the enemy is the liars who have deceived people for ages.  Crowns like gold,,,,,  they have been crowned with the glory of God for the Knowledge of God in their heads.  Faces of men and hair of women show that both men and women are part of this mighty army.  Teeth of lions, shows they now have been given back the might power of the first Kingdom, before the flood, because that was the Lion kingdom.  It also shows that they are part of the Lion Kingdom of Jesus Christ.  He comes back as a LION.  Back to the original cherubs with the power of God.  Jesus was given all the power of God, in heaven and earth.  He is the mighty Lion of God.

They had breastplate of IRON.  the Iron always shows the LAW.  So it shows that these people lived by LAW and are now being judged BY THE LAW.  This is why they cannot find repentance and the death;  there is no salvation by the LAW.

They have rejected the Grace of Jesus too long and are now judged by the LAW.  This is the first woe.

Their WINGS?  THE WINGS ALSO show that they have now been given back the mighty power of God, that Adam lost.  That lion kingdom had its wings plucked and until this place with the witnesses, the wings had been lost to mankind.  But now this woman who brought forth the manchild has wings again.

10 And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails: and their power was to hurt men five months.

11 And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon.

12 One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.

The TAIL shows the latter end of this ministry.  So it is the last ones, as today, who are doing this ‘stinging’ of those who hate truth.  As we teach against their idols, and tv and the other evils that they hold to,  this torments them for that duration called five months.

The king over these mighty horses/locusts, is JESUS.  Again, I have always heard that this is Satan.  Not so. Satan is not our king,  Jesus is.

This is the first woe that was pronounced to fall on the inhabitants of the earth.

Two more woes follow.  Then it is all OVER.

Amen and praise God for this glorious revelation.