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 Revelation, written some 26 years after Jerusalem's destruction, also describes that plague.  What does it add to Joel's description? Let us take up the record, as reported by John: "And the fifth angel blew his trumpet. And I saw a star that had fallen from heaven to the earth, and the key of the pitof the Abyss was given him." (Revelation 9:1)  This "star" is different from that at Revelation 8:10 that John saw in the act of falling. He sees "a star that had fallen from the heaven" and that now has an assignment with respect to this earth. Is this a spirit or a fleshly person? The holder of this "key of the pit of the abyss" is later described as hurling Satan into "the abyss."  (Revelation 20:1-3) So he must be a  mighty spirit person. At Revelation 9:11, John tells us that the locusts have "a king, the angel of the abyss."  Both verses must refer to the same individual, since the angel holding the key of the abyss would logically be the angel of the abyss. And the star must symbolize Jehovah's  appointed King, since anointed Christians acknowledge only the one angelic King, Jesus Christ. - COLOSIANS 1:13; 1 CORINTHIANS 15:25.

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