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The star was given the key to the shaft of the Abyss. <a href="/nlt/revelation/9.htm">New Living Translation</a> Then the fifth angel blew his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen to earth from the sky, and he was given the key to the shaft of the bottomless pit. <a href="/esv/revelation/9.htm">English Standard Version</a> And the fifth angel blew his trumpet, and I saw a star fallen from heaven to earth, and he was given the key to the shaft of the bottomless pit. <a href="/bsb/revelation/9.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a> Then the fifth angel sounded his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from heaven to earth, and it was given the key to the pit of the Abyss. <a href="/blb/revelation/9.htm">Berean Literal Bible</a> And the fifth angel sounded his trumpet, and I saw a star having fallen out of heaven to the earth, and the key of the pit of the abyss was given to it. <a href="/kjv/revelation/9.htm">King James Bible</a> 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. <a href="/nkjv/revelation/9.htm">New King James Version</a> Then the fifth angel sounded: And I saw a star fallen from heaven to the earth. To him was given the key to the bottomless pit. <a href="/nasb_/revelation/9.htm">New American Standard Bible</a> Then the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star from heaven which had fallen to the earth; and the key to the shaft of the abyss was given to him. <a href="/nasb/revelation/9.htm">NASB 1995</a> Then the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star from heaven which had fallen to the earth; and the key of the bottomless pit was given to him. <a href="/nasb77/revelation/9.htm">NASB 1977 </a> And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star from heaven which had fallen to the earth; and the key of the bottomless pit was given to him. <a href="/lsb/revelation/9.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a> Then the fifth angel sounded. Then I saw a star from heaven which had fallen to the earth, and the key of the pit of the abyss was given to him. <a href="/amp/revelation/9.htm">Amplified Bible</a> Then the fifth angel sounded [his trumpet], and I saw a star (angelic being) that had fallen from heaven to the earth; and the key of the bottomless pit (abyss) was given to him (the star-angel). <a href="/csb/revelation/9.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a> The fifth angel blew his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from heaven to earth. The key for the shaft to the abyss was given to him. <a href="/hcsb/revelation/9.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a> The fifth angel blew his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from heaven to earth. The key to the shaft of the abyss was given to him. <a href="/asv/revelation/9.htm">American Standard Version</a> And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star from heaven fallen unto the earth: and there was given to him the key of the pit of the abyss. <a href="/cev/revelation/9.htm">Contemporary English Version</a> When the fifth angel blew his trumpet, I saw a star fall from the sky to earth. It was given the key to the tunnel that leads down to the deep pit. <a href="/erv/revelation/9.htm">English Revised Version</a> And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star from heaven fallen unto the earth: and there was given to him the key of the pit of the abyss. <a href="/gwt/revelation/9.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a> When the fifth angel blew his trumpet, I saw a star that had fallen to earth from the sky. The star was given the key to the shaft of the bottomless pit. <a href="/gnt/revelation/9.htm">Good News Translation</a> Then the fifth angel blew his trumpet. I saw a star which had fallen down to the earth, and it was given the key to the abyss. <a href="/isv/revelation/9.htm">International Standard Version</a> When the fifth angel blew his trumpet, I saw a star that had fallen to earth from the sky. The star was given the key to the shaft of the bottomless pit. <a href="/msb/revelation/9.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a> Then the fifth angel sounded his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from heaven to earth, and it was given the key to the pit of the Abyss. <a href="/net/revelation/9.htm">NET Bible</a> Then the fifth angel blew his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from the sky to the earth, and he was given the key to the shaft of the abyss. <a href="/nheb/revelation/9.htm">New Heart English Bible</a> The fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star from the sky which had fallen to the earth. The key to the pit of the abyss was given to him. <a href="/wbt/revelation/9.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a> And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven to the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit. <a href="/wey/revelation/9.htm">Weymouth New Testament</a> The fifth angel blew his trumpet; and I saw a Star which had fallen from Heaven to the earth; and to him was given the key of the depths of the bottomless pit, <a href="/web/revelation/9.htm">World English Bible</a> The fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star from the sky which had fallen to the earth. The key to the pit of the abyss was given to him. <div class="vheading2">Literal Translations</div><a href="/lsv/revelation/9.htm">Literal Standard Version</a> And the fifth messenger sounded the trumpet, and I saw a star having fallen to the earth out of Heaven, and there was given to him the key of the pit of the abyss, <a href="/blb/revelation/9.htm">Berean Literal Bible</a> And the fifth angel sounded his trumpet, and I saw a star having fallen out of heaven to the earth, and the key of the pit of the abyss was given to it. <a href="/ylt/revelation/9.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a> And the fifth messenger did sound, and I saw a star out of the heaven having fallen to the earth, and there was given to it the key of the pit of the abyss, <a href="/slt/revelation/9.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a> And the fifth angel sounded the trumpet, and I saw a star fallen from heaven to the earth: and there was given to him the key of the well of the bottomless pit.<div class="vheading2">Catholic Translations</div><a href="/drb/revelation/9.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a> And the fifth angel sounded the trumpet, and I saw a star fall from heaven upon the earth, and there was given to him the key of the bottomless pit. <a href="/cpdv/revelation/9.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a> And the fifth Angel sounded the trumpet. And I saw upon the earth, a star that had fallen from heaven, and the key to the well of the abyss was given to him. <a href="/nabre/revelation/9.htm">New American Bible</a> Then the fifth angel blew his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from the sky to the earth. It was given the key for the passage to the abyss. <a href="/nrsvce/revelation/9.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a> And the fifth angel blew his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from heaven to earth, and he was given the key to the shaft of the bottomless pit;<div class="vheading2">Translations from Aramaic</div><a href="/lamsa/revelation/9.htm">Lamsa Bible</a> AND the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven upon the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit. <a href="/aramaic-plain-english/revelation/9.htm">Aramaic Bible in Plain English</a> And the fifth sounded, and I saw a star that fell from the sky to The Earth, and the key of the pit of The Abyss was given to it.<div class="vheading2">NT Translations</div><a href="/anderson/revelation/9.htm">Anderson New Testament</a> And the fifth angel sounded; and I saw a star fall from heaven to the earth; and there was given to him the key of the pit of the abyss; <a href="/godbey/revelation/9.htm">Godbey New Testament</a> And the fifth angel sounded; and I saw a star having fallen from the heaven to the earth; and the key of the pit of the abyss was given to him. <a href="/haweis/revelation/9.htm">Haweis New Testament</a> AND the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven to the earth; and to him was given the key of the pit of the abyss of hell. <a href="/mace/revelation/9.htm">Mace New Testament</a> 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. <a href="/wey/revelation/9.htm">Weymouth New Testament</a> The fifth angel blew his trumpet; and I saw a Star which had fallen from Heaven to the earth; and to him was given the key of the depths of the bottomless pit, <a href="/worrell/revelation/9.htm">Worrell New Testament</a> And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fallen out of the heaven to the earth, and there was given to him the key of the pit of the abyss. <a href="/worsley/revelation/9.htm">Worsley New Testament</a> And the fifth angel sounded his trumpet, and I saw a star fall from heaven to the earth: and the key of the bottomless pit was given to him. <a href="/parallel/revelation/9-1.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv">Audio Bible</div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/LJfD7KQcx0I?start=1744" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="vheadingv">Context</div><a href="/bsb/revelation/9.htm">The Fifth Trumpet</a> 1<a href="/greek/2532.htm" title="2532: Kai (Conj) -- And, even, also, namely. ">Then</a> <a href="/greek/3588.htm" title="3588: ho (Art-NMS) -- The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.">the</a> <a href="/greek/3991.htm" title="3991: pemptos (Adj-NMS) -- The fifth. From pente; fifth.">fifth</a> <a href="/greek/32.htm" title="32: angelos (N-NMS) -- From aggello; a messenger; especially an angel; by implication, a pastor.">angel</a> <a href="/greek/4537.htm" title="4537: esalpisen (V-AIA-3S) -- To sound a trumpet. From salpigx; to trumpet, i.e. Sound a blast.">sounded his trumpet,</a> <a href="/greek/2532.htm" title="2532: kai (Conj) -- And, even, also, namely. ">and</a> <a href="/greek/3708.htm" title="3708: eidon (V-AIA-1S) -- Properly, to stare at, i.e. to discern clearly; by extension, to attend to; by Hebraism, to experience; passively, to appear.">I saw</a> <a href="/greek/792.htm" title="792: astera (N-AMS) -- A star. Probably from the base of stronnumi; a star, literally or figuratively.">a star</a> <a href="/greek/4098.htm" title="4098: peptōkota (V-RPA-AMS) -- A reduplicated and contracted form of peto; probably akin to petomai through the idea of alighting; to fall.">that had fallen</a> <a href="/greek/1537.htm" title="1537: ek (Prep) -- From out, out from among, from, suggesting from the interior outwards. A primary preposition denoting origin, from, out.">from</a> <a href="/greek/3588.htm" title="3588: tou (Art-GMS) -- The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the."></a> <a href="/greek/3772.htm" title="3772: ouranou (N-GMS) -- Perhaps from the same as oros; the sky; by extension, heaven; by implication, happiness, power, eternity; specially, the Gospel.">heaven</a> <a href="/greek/1519.htm" title="1519: eis (Prep) -- A primary preposition; to or into, of place, time, or purpose; also in adverbial phrases.">to</a> <a href="/greek/3588.htm" title="3588: tēn (Art-AFS) -- The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the."></a> <a href="/greek/1093.htm" title="1093: gēn (N-AFS) -- Contracted from a primary word; soil; by extension a region, or the solid part or the whole of the terrene globe.">earth,</a> <a href="/greek/2532.htm" title="2532: kai (Conj) -- And, even, also, namely. ">and</a> <a href="/greek/1325.htm" title="1325: edothē (V-AIP-3S) -- To offer, give; I put, place. A prolonged form of a primary verb; to give.">it was given</a> <a href="/greek/846.htm" title="846: autō (PPro-DM3S) -- He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons."></a> <a href="/greek/3588.htm" title="3588: hē (Art-NFS) -- The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.">the</a> <a href="/greek/2807.htm" title="2807: kleis (N-NFS) -- A key. From kleio; a key, literally or figuratively.">key</a> <a href="/greek/3588.htm" title="3588: tou (Art-GNS) -- The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.">to the</a> <a href="/greek/5421.htm" title="5421: phreatos (N-GNS) -- A pit, well, cistern. Of uncertain derivation; a hole in the ground, i.e. A cistern or well; figuratively, an abyss.">pit</a> <a href="/greek/3588.htm" title="3588: tēs (Art-GFS) -- The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.">of the</a> <a href="/greek/12.htm" title="12: abyssou (N-GFS) -- The abyss, unfathomable depth, an especially Jewish conception, the home of the dead and of evil spirits. Depthless, i.e. abyss.">Abyss.</a> 2The star opened the pit of the Abyss, and smoke rose out of it like the smoke of a great furnace, and the sun and the air were darkened by the smoke from the pit.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div> <a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><a href="/isaiah/14-12.htm">Isaiah 14:12</a> How you have fallen from heaven, O day star, son of the dawn! You have been cut down to the ground, O destroyer of nations. <a href="/luke/10-18.htm">Luke 10:18</a> So He told them, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven. <a href="/2_peter/2-4.htm">2 Peter 2:4</a> For if God did not spare the angels when they sinned, but cast them deep into hell, placing them in chains of darkness to be held for judgment; <a href="/jude/1-6.htm">Jude 1:6</a> And the angels who did not stay within their own domain but abandoned their proper dwelling—these He has kept in eternal chains under darkness, bound for judgment on that great day. <a href="/revelation/12-9.htm">Revelation 12:9</a> And the great dragon was hurled down—that ancient serpent called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him. <a href="/revelation/20-1.htm">Revelation 20:1</a> Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven with the key to the Abyss, holding in his hand a great chain. <a href="/job/1-6.htm">Job 1:6-7</a> One day the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came with them. / “Where have you come from?” said the LORD to Satan. “From roaming through the earth,” he replied, “and walking back and forth in it.” <a href="/ezekiel/28-12.htm">Ezekiel 28:12-17</a> “Son of man, take up a lament for the king of Tyre and tell him that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘You were the seal of perfection, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty. / You were in Eden, the garden of God. Every kind of precious stone adorned you: ruby, topaz, and diamond, beryl, onyx, and jasper, sapphire, turquoise, and emerald. Your mountings and settings were crafted in gold, prepared on the day of your creation. / You were anointed as a guardian cherub, for I had ordained you. You were on the holy mountain of God; you walked among the fiery stones. ... <a href="/daniel/8-10.htm">Daniel 8:10</a> It grew as high as the host of heaven, and it cast down some of the host and some of the stars to the earth and trampled them. <a href="/matthew/24-29.htm">Matthew 24:29</a> Immediately after the tribulation of those days: ‘The sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.’ <a href="/mark/13-25.htm">Mark 13:25</a> the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.’ <a href="/john/12-31.htm">John 12:31</a> Now judgment is upon this world; now the prince of this world will be cast out. <a href="/2_corinthians/11-14.htm">2 Corinthians 11:14</a> And no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light. <a href="/ephesians/6-12.htm">Ephesians 6:12</a> For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this world’s darkness, and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. <a href="/revelation/8-10.htm">Revelation 8:10</a> Then the third angel sounded his trumpet, and a great star burning like a torch fell from heaven and landed on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water.</div> <a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div>And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven to the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit.the fifth.<a href="/revelation/9-12.htm">Revelation 9:12,13</a> One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter… <a href="/revelation/8-6.htm">Revelation 8:6-8,10,12</a> And the seven angels which had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound… <a href="/revelation/11-14.htm">Revelation 11:14,15</a> The second woe is past; and, behold, the third woe cometh quickly… a star.<a href="/revelation/1-20.htm">Revelation 1:20</a> The mystery of the seven stars which thou sawest in my right hand, and the seven golden candlesticks. The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches: and the seven candlesticks which thou sawest are the seven churches.<a href="/revelation/8-10.htm">Revelation 8:10</a> And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters;<a href="/isaiah/14-12.htm">Isaiah 14:12</a> How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!to him.<a href="/revelation/1-18.htm">Revelation 1:18</a> I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.<a href="/revelation/20-1.htm">Revelation 20:1</a> And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand.the bottomless.<a href="/revelation/9-2.htm">Revelation 9:2,11</a> 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… <a href="/revelation/17-8.htm">Revelation 17:8</a> The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.<a href="/revelation/20-10.htm">Revelation 20:10</a> And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.<div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/romans/10-7.htm">Abyss</a> <a href="/revelation/8-13.htm">Angel</a> <a href="/revelation/8-12.htm">Blew</a> <a href="/luke/8-31.htm">Bottomless</a> <a href="/revelation/2-24.htm">Deep</a> <a href="/revelation/2-24.htm">Depths</a> <a href="/revelation/8-13.htm">Earth</a> <a href="/revelation/8-10.htm">Fall</a> <a href="/revelation/2-5.htm">Fallen</a> <a href="/revelation/8-7.htm">Falling</a> <a href="/revelation/6-9.htm">Fifth</a> <a href="/revelation/8-10.htm">Great</a> <a href="/revelation/8-13.htm">Heaven</a> <a href="/revelation/3-7.htm">Key</a> <a href="/revelation/8-10.htm">Messenger</a> <a href="/luke/14-5.htm">Pit</a> <a href="/isaiah/49-2.htm">Shaft</a> <a href="/revelation/8-13.htm">Sky</a> <a href="/revelation/8-13.htm">Sound</a> <a href="/revelation/8-12.htm">Sounded</a> <a href="/revelation/8-10.htm">Sounding</a> <a href="/revelation/8-11.htm">Star</a> <a href="/revelation/8-13.htm">Trumpet</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/revelation/9-2.htm">Abyss</a> <a href="/revelation/9-11.htm">Angel</a> <a href="/revelation/9-13.htm">Blew</a> <a href="/revelation/9-2.htm">Bottomless</a> <a href="/revelation/9-2.htm">Deep</a> <a href="/revelation/9-2.htm">Depths</a> <a href="/revelation/9-3.htm">Earth</a> <a href="/revelation/11-6.htm">Fall</a> <a href="/revelation/14-8.htm">Fallen</a> <a href="/genesis/8-2.htm">Falling</a> <a href="/revelation/16-10.htm">Fifth</a> <a href="/revelation/9-2.htm">Great</a> <a href="/revelation/10-1.htm">Heaven</a> <a href="/revelation/20-1.htm">Key</a> <a href="/revelation/9-11.htm">Messenger</a> <a href="/revelation/9-2.htm">Pit</a> <a href="/revelation/9-2.htm">Shaft</a> <a href="/revelation/10-1.htm">Sky</a> <a href="/revelation/9-9.htm">Sound</a> <a href="/revelation/9-13.htm">Sounded</a> <a href="/revelation/9-13.htm">Sounding</a> <a href="/revelation/22-16.htm">Star</a> <a href="/revelation/9-13.htm">Trumpet</a><div class="vheading2">Revelation 9</div>1. <a href="/revelation/9-1.htm">At the sounding of the fifth angel, a star falls from heaven, to whom is given the key to the bottomless pit.</a> 2. <a href="/revelation/9-2.htm">He opens the pit, and there come forth locusts like scorpions.</a> 12. <a href="/revelation/9-12.htm">The first woe past.</a> 13. <a href="/revelation/9-13.htm">The sixth trumpet sounds.</a> 14. <a href="/revelation/9-14.htm">Four angels who were bound are let loose.</a> </div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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The trumpet judgments are a series of divine interventions that follow the seal judgments, indicating an escalation in the severity of God's wrath. The number five often symbolizes grace in biblical numerology, but here it introduces a period of intense spiritual and physical torment. The role of angels as messengers and executors of God's will is consistent throughout Scripture, as seen in passages like <a href="/daniel/8-16.htm">Daniel 8:16</a> and <a href="/luke/1-19.htm">Luke 1:19</a>.and I saw a star that had fallen from heaven to earth The "star" is often interpreted as a symbolic representation of a being, likely an angelic or spiritual entity. The past tense "had fallen" suggests a previous event, possibly alluding to the fall of Satan as described in <a href="/isaiah/14-12.htm">Isaiah 14:12</a> and <a href="/luke/10-18.htm">Luke 10:18</a>. Stars are frequently used in biblical literature to symbolize angels or celestial beings, as seen in <a href="/job/38-7.htm">Job 38:7</a> and <a href="/revelation/1-20.htm">Revelation 1:20</a>. The fall from heaven to earth indicates a transition from a position of authority or purity to one of judgment or rebellion.and it was given the key to the pit of the Abyss The "key" signifies authority and control, suggesting that this fallen star is granted permission by God to unlock the Abyss. The Abyss, or bottomless pit, is a place of confinement for demonic forces, referenced in <a href="/luke/8-31.htm">Luke 8:31</a> and <a href="/revelation/20.htm">Revelation 20:1-3</a>. The granting of the key indicates that even in judgment, God maintains sovereign control over the forces of evil. The imagery of keys is also seen in <a href="/revelation/1-18.htm">Revelation 1:18</a>, where Christ holds the keys of death and Hades, underscoring His ultimate authority over life and death.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <a href="/topical/f/fifth_angel.htm">Fifth Angel</a> This angel is one of the seven angels who sound the trumpets, each heralding a specific judgment or event during the end times. The sounding of the fifth trumpet marks a significant event in the unfolding of God's plan. 2. <a href="/topical/s/star_fallen_from_heaven.htm">Star Fallen from Heaven</a> This "star" is often interpreted as a being, possibly an angel or a fallen angel, given its ability to act and its possession of a key. The imagery of a star falling from heaven is symbolic of a significant spiritual event or change. 3. <a href="/topical/e/earth.htm">Earth</a> The location where the star falls, indicating that the events to follow will have a direct impact on the earthly realm. 4. <a href="/topical/k/key_to_the_pit_of_the_abyss.htm">Key to the Pit of the Abyss</a> The key symbolizes authority and control over the abyss, a place often associated with chaos, evil, and demonic forces. The granting of this key signifies a release or unleashing of these forces. 5. <a href="/topical/p/pit_of_the_abyss.htm">Pit of the Abyss</a> A place of confinement for demonic entities, often associated with the underworld or a realm of darkness and evil. The opening of the abyss signifies a release of these forces upon the earth.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><a href="/topical/u/understanding_spiritual_authority.htm">Understanding Spiritual Authority</a> The key given to the star signifies authority. Believers should recognize that all authority, even over evil, is ultimately under God's control. This should encourage trust in God's sovereignty. <a href="/topical/t/the_reality_of_spiritual_warfare.htm">The Reality of Spiritual Warfare</a> The opening of the abyss is a reminder of the spiritual battles that occur beyond our physical sight. Christians are called to be vigilant and prayerful, understanding that our struggle is not against flesh and blood. <a href="/topical/t/the_consequences_of_rebellion.htm">The Consequences of Rebellion</a> The fallen star serves as a warning of the consequences of pride and rebellion against God. Believers are encouraged to remain humble and obedient to God's will. <a href="/topical/h/hope_in_god's_plan.htm">Hope in God's Plan</a> Despite the chaos unleashed by the opening of the abyss, believers can find hope in knowing that these events are part of God's ultimate plan for redemption and restoration.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_revelation_9.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Revelation 9</a> <a href="/q/how_is_a_'fallen_star'_both_event_and_angel.htm">How can a star “fallen from heaven” (Revelation 9:1) be both an astronomical event and an angelic being? </a> <a href="/q/what's_the_bottomless_pit's_nature.htm">What is the nature of the Bottomless Pit?</a> <a href="/q/what_are_the_three_woes_in_revelation.htm">What are the three woes in Revelation?</a> <a href="/q/what_does_the_bible_say_on_horror_films.htm">What does the Bible say about Christian horror movies?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/revelation/9.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(1) And the fifth angel . . .--Translate, And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star out of the heaven fallen (not "fall," as in English version; the seer saw not a falling, but a fallen, star) upon the earth. The emblem of a fallen star is used elsewhere in the Bible. Isaiah (<a href="/isaiah/14-12.htm" title="How are you fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how are you cut down to the ground, which did weaken the nations!">Isaiah 14:12</a>) speaks of Lucifer fallen from heaven. Christ described Satan as lightning falling from heaven. Some great power or ruler is represented, then, by this fallen star. He is, moreover, said to have fallen from heaven, and he is represented as having been given the key of the abyss. Does not this lead us to expect the working of some evil spirit and diabolical agency? The 11th verse confirms our expectation. We may compare <a href="/context/revelation/12-8.htm" title="And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven.">Revelation 12:8-12</a>, where Satan is described as defeated, cast down to the earth, and filled with wrath. To understand this fallen star as the representative of a good angel seems hardly possible.And to him was given . . .--Literally, and there was given to him (i.e., to the being represented as a fallen star) the key of (not "the bottomless pit") the pit of the abyss. The abyss is the same word rendered "the deep," in <a href="/luke/8-31.htm" title="And they sought him that he would not command them to go out into the deep.">Luke 8:31</a>, where the demons besought our Lord not to send them into the abyss, or deep. It is the word which describes the abode of the evil spirits. The verse before us suggests the picture of a vast depth approached by a pit or shaft, whose top, or mouth, is covered. Dante's Inferno, with its narrowing circles winding down to the central shaft, is somewhat similar. The abyss is the lowest spring of evil, whence the worst dangers arise. (Comp. <a href="/revelation/11-7.htm" title="And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascends out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them.">Revelation 11:7</a>; <a href="/revelation/17-8.htm" title="The beast that you saw was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.">Revelation 17:8</a>; <a href="/context/revelation/20-1.htm" title="And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand.">Revelation 20:1-3</a>.) . . . <div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/revelation/9.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div>Verse 1. - And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth; a star from heaven fallen unto the earth (Revised Version); not saw a star fall. (For the distinctive character of the last three judgments, see on Revelation 8:2.) "A star" sometimes signifies one high in position. Thus <a href="/numbers/24-17.htm">Numbers 24:17</a>, "There shall come a star out of Jacob;" <a href="/daniel/8-10.htm">Daniel 8:10</a>, "And it cast down some of the host and of the stars to the ground." In <a href="/revelation/1-20.htm">Revelation 1:20</a> "the stars" are "the angels of the seven Churches;" in <a href="/job/38-7.htm">Job 38:7</a> the angels are called "stars;" in <a href="/isaiah/14-12.htm">Isaiah 14:12</a> we have Satan referred to thus: "How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning!" It seems, therefore, that Satan himself is here referred to under this symbol. The trumpet visions hitherto have portrayed troubles affecting the outer man; now begin to be set forth these yet more terrible visitations which, affecting his spiritual nature, are seen more directly to emanate from the devil. He has fallen "from heaven unto the earth;" that is, whereas formerly heaven was his abode, the sphere of his work while yet obedient to God, he now has no office or power, or entrance there, but is permitted to exercise what influence he possesses on the earth (cf. <a href="/luke/10-18.htm">Luke 10:18</a>, "I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven"). This is the view of Tertullian, Aretbas, Bede, Vitriuga, Alford, believe an evil angel is meant; Wordsworth thinks an apostate Christian teacher is signified; Andreas, Bengel, and De Wette believe a good angel is intended; others see particular emperors, etc.; while Hengstenberg thinks the figure represents not one, but a number of persons, including Napoleon. And to him was given the key of the bottomless pit; of the pit of the abyss (Revised Version). That is, as Wordsworth explains, of the aperture by which there is no egress from or ingress into the abyss. Christ holds the key (<a href="/revelation/1-18.htm">Revelation 1:18</a>), but for a season Satan is permitted to exercise power. The abyss is the abode of the devil and his angels; the present abode, not the lake of fire, into which they are subsequently cast (<a href="/revelation/20-10.htm">Revelation 20:10</a>). <a href="/commentaries/revelation/9-1.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a> <a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Greek</div>Then Καὶ (Kai) Conjunction <a href="/greek/strongs_2532.htm">Strong's 2532: </a> And, even, also, namely. the ὁ (ho) Article - Nominative Masculine Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_3588.htm">Strong's 3588: </a> The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the. fifth πέμπτος (pemptos) Adjective - Nominative Masculine Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_3991.htm">Strong's 3991: </a> The fifth. From pente; fifth. angel ἄγγελος (angelos) Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_32.htm">Strong's 32: </a> From aggello; a messenger; especially an 'angel'; by implication, a pastor. sounded [his] trumpet, ἐσάλπισεν (esalpisen) Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_4537.htm">Strong's 4537: </a> To sound a trumpet. From salpigx; to trumpet, i.e. Sound a blast. and καὶ (kai) Conjunction <a href="/greek/strongs_2532.htm">Strong's 2532: </a> And, even, also, namely. I saw εἶδον (eidon) Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 1st Person Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_3708.htm">Strong's 3708: </a> Properly, to stare at, i.e. to discern clearly; by extension, to attend to; by Hebraism, to experience; passively, to appear. a star ἀστέρα (astera) Noun - Accusative Masculine Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_792.htm">Strong's 792: </a> A star. Probably from the base of stronnumi; a star, literally or figuratively. that had fallen πεπτωκότα (peptōkota) Verb - Perfect Participle Active - Accusative Masculine Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_4098.htm">Strong's 4098: </a> A reduplicated and contracted form of peto; probably akin to petomai through the idea of alighting; to fall. from ἐκ (ek) Preposition <a href="/greek/strongs_1537.htm">Strong's 1537: </a> From out, out from among, from, suggesting from the interior outwards. A primary preposition denoting origin, from, out. heaven οὐρανοῦ (ouranou) Noun - Genitive Masculine Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_3772.htm">Strong's 3772: </a> Perhaps from the same as oros; the sky; by extension, heaven; by implication, happiness, power, eternity; specially, the Gospel. to εἰς (eis) Preposition <a href="/greek/strongs_1519.htm">Strong's 1519: </a> A primary preposition; to or into, of place, time, or purpose; also in adverbial phrases. earth, γῆν (gēn) Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_1093.htm">Strong's 1093: </a> Contracted from a primary word; soil; by extension a region, or the solid part or the whole of the terrene globe. and καὶ (kai) Conjunction <a href="/greek/strongs_2532.htm">Strong's 2532: </a> And, even, also, namely. it was given ἐδόθη (edothē) Verb - Aorist Indicative Passive - 3rd Person Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_1325.htm">Strong's 1325: </a> To offer, give; I put, place. A prolonged form of a primary verb; to give. the ἡ (hē) Article - Nominative Feminine Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_3588.htm">Strong's 3588: </a> The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the. key κλεὶς (kleis) Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_2807.htm">Strong's 2807: </a> A key. From kleio; a key, literally or figuratively. to the τοῦ (tou) Article - Genitive Neuter Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_3588.htm">Strong's 3588: </a> The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the. pit φρέατος (phreatos) Noun - Genitive Neuter Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_5421.htm">Strong's 5421: </a> A pit, well, cistern. Of uncertain derivation; a hole in the ground, i.e. A cistern or well; figuratively, an abyss. of the τῆς (tēs) Article - Genitive Feminine Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_3588.htm">Strong's 3588: </a> The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the. Abyss. ἀβύσσου (abyssou) Noun - Genitive Feminine Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_12.htm">Strong's 12: </a> The abyss, unfathomable depth, an especially Jewish conception, the home of the dead and of evil spirits. 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