Revelation 9 Footnotes

9:1-11 The fifth trumpet recalls the plague of locusts in Jl 1:4 and 2:25. There is no protection from the extremely painful, but not fatal, scorpion-like stings of the demonic locusts (Rv 9:1-3) except the seal of God on one’s forehead (7:3-4,8). Believers are protected in terms of their eternal destiny by the seal of the Holy Spirit (Eph 1:13-14; 4:30).