The Unleashing of the Demonic Hordes An Examination

The Unleashing of the Demonic Hordes An Examination Into the Background of the 5 th Trumpet of Revelation 9 by Eric Douma January 31, 2016 Gospel of Grace Fellowship Background for 5 th Trumpet (Rev. 9) 1

The Players Yahweh Divine Heavenly Realm Council Obedient/disobedient Earthly Realm Background for 5 th Trumpet (Rev. 9) Nephilim Mankind 2

From Where Did These Demons Come? Genesis 6: 1 -4 Now it came about, when men began to multiply on the face of the land, and daughters were born to them, 2 that the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful; and they took wives for themselves, whomever they chose. 3 Then the LORD said, “My Spirit shall not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; nevertheless his days shall be one hundred and twenty years. ” 4 The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men, and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown. Background for 5 th Trumpet (Rev. 9) 3

A Mighty One Brings About Babel Genesis 10: 6 -11 The sons of Ham were Cush and Mizraim and Put and Canaan. 7 The sons of Cush were Seba and Havilah and Sabtah and Raamah and Sabteca; and the sons of Raamah were Sheba and Dedan. 8 Now Cush became the father of Nimrod; he became a mighty one on the earth. 9 He was a mighty hunter before the LORD; therefore it is said, “Like Nimrod a mighty hunter before the LORD. ” 10 The beginning of his kingdom was Babel and Erech and Accad and Calneh, in the land of Shinar. 11 From that land he went forth into Assyria, and built Nineveh and Rehoboth-Ir and Calah… Background for 5 th Trumpet (Rev. 9) 4

God Will Make Abraham’s Name Great! Genesis 12: 1 -3 Now the LORD said to Abram, “Go forth from your country, and from your relatives and from your father’s house, to the land which I will show you; 2 and I will make you a great nation, and I will bless you, and make your name great; and so you shall be a blessing; 3 and I will bless those who bless you, and the one who curses you I will curse. And in you all the families of the earth will be blessed. ” Background for 5 th Trumpet (Rev. 9) 5

Judgment of the Genesis 6 Fallen Angels Jude 5 -7 Now I desire to remind you, though you know all things once for all, that the Lord, after saving a people out of the land of Egypt, subsequently destroyed those who did not believe. 6 And angels who did not keep their own domain, but abandoned their proper abode, He has kept in eternal bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day, 7 just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, since they in the same way as these indulged in gross immorality and went after strange flesh, are exhibited as an example in undergoing the punishment of eternal fire. Background for 5 th Trumpet (Rev. 9) 6

Judgment of the Genesis 6 Fallen Angels 2 Peter 2: 1 -4 But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will also be false teachers among you, who will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing swift destruction upon themselves. 2 Many will follow their sensuality, and because of them the way of the truth will be maligned; 3 and in their greed they will exploit you with false words; their judgment from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep. 4 For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to pits of darkness, reserved for judgment; Background for 5 th Trumpet (Rev. 9) 7

The Release of the Demonic Hordes Gen. 6 Tangible Flood David/Solomon 70 th week 2 Chron. 8 Nephilim Conquered Background for 5 th Trumpet (Rev. 9) 8

David + Solomon Conquer the Nephilim 1 Chronicles 1: 13 -14 Canaan became the father of Sidon, his firstborn, Heth, 14 and the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites… 2 Samuel 5: 6 -7 Now the king and his men went to Jerusalem against the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land, and they said to David, “You shall not come in here, but the blind and lame will turn you away”; thinking, “David cannot enter here. ” 7 Nevertheless, David captured the stronghold of Zion, that is the city of David. Background for 5 th Trumpet (Rev. 9) 9

David + Solomon Conquer the Nephilim 2 Chronicles 8: 4 -8 He also built upper Beth-horon and lower Beth-horon, fortified cities with walls, gates and bars; 6 and Baalath and all the storage cities that Solomon had, and all the cities for his chariots and cities for his horsemen, and all that it pleased Solomon to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon, and in all the land under his rule. 7 All of the people who were left of the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites, who were not of Israel, 8 namely, from their descendants who were left after them in the land whom the sons of Israel had not destroyed, them Solomon raised as forced laborers to this day. Background for 5 th Trumpet (Rev. 9) 10

The Release of the Demonic Hordes Gen. 6 Tangible Flood David/Solomon 2 Chron. 8 Nephilim Conquered Background for 5 th Trumpet (Rev. 9) 70 th week Rev. 9 Jesus Tangible returns 11

What Name Do You Bear? Satan’s Seed: Genesis 11: 4 …come let us make a name for ourselves… Revelation 14: 11 And the smoke of their torment goes up forever and ever; they have no rest day and night, those who worship the beast and his image, and whoever receives the mark of his name. God’s Seed: Genesis 12: 2…and I will make your name great… Revelation 22: 4…they will see His face, and His name will be on their foreheads. Background for 5 th Trumpet (Rev. 9) 12