The 5 Months of Revelation 9:5
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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.
Revelation 9:5 - King James |
⚪ From 1728 to 1878 (150 literal years)
⚫ From 1926 to the other woes
⚫ From 1919 to the War of Armageddon
⚪ From 1728 to 1878 (150 literal years)
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Rev. 9 [...]
5. And to them It was given that they should not kill them. — [...] But that they should be tormented five months — In symbolic time, 150 years. (Rev. 2:21). Wesley became the first Methodist in 1728. (Rev. 9:1). When the Methodist denomination, with all the others, was cast off from favor in 1878 (Rev. 3:14) its power to torment men by preaching what Presbyterians describe as "Conscious misery, eternal in duration" came to an end legally, and to a large extent actually.— Rev. 9:10. Source : 🇺🇸 1917 - Studies in the Scriptures, Vol 7, The finished mystery, page 157 + Cover |
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Rev. 9 [...]
AND in their tails [and] WAS their power [was] to hurt men five months. — One hundred and fifty years, from Wesley's ordination in 1728 to the casting off of Methodism in 1878. — Rev. 9:5. Source : 🇺🇸 1917 - Studies in the Scriptures, Vol 7, The finished mystery, page 159 + Cover |
⚫ From 1926 to the other woes
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Rev. 9
The command given to the locusts (army of the Lord) was that they should not hurt the grass, nor any green thing, nor any tree, but hurt only those men which have not the seal in their foreheads; and they were not to kill, but to torment. (Rev. 9: 4, 5) [...] A poisonous wound by a scorpion often proves fatal, but these locusts with the power of scorpions were not sent to kill, but they were sent to torment the Devil's agents for a fixed period of time. The torment began in 1926 and is still going on. [...] The "five months" or torment mentioned in the Revelation evidently means the entire period of time until the other woes have ended, because five is a divine number and here marks a fixed period or time without designating how long. Source : 🇺🇸 1930 - Light, vol 1, page 153, page 155 + Cover |
⚫ From 1919 to the War of Armageddon
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[...] these should be tormented five months, and the torment upon them was as torment by a scorpion when it strikes a man.” The life cycle of the locust... is about six months. So for that length of time the locust can do damage. The symbolic locusts who were revived in 1919 for God’s service went forth into the postwar world, but not to kill their persecutors, the religious clergy of Christendom who had no seal of the spirit from God. They went to declare to them God’s judgment message. But this did not please the religious rulers of Christendom. It put them in great pain as if from a scorpion’s sting, but such a sting, though painful, is not necessarily fatal. —2 Cor. 10:3-6.
How long are the remnant of the anointed Christian witnesses of Jehovah authorized to strike the religious clergy with this tormenting message? For the period of their life before God’s war of Armageddon as symbolized by the five months assigned to the locusts. Since Jehovah’s anointed remnant are not authorized to act as his executioners of men who persecute them for preaching God’s message, the religious clergy are left alive to suffer the tormenting pain from God’s judgment message. [...] From this description we note that the remnant of Jehovah’s anointed witnesses were brought forth in 1919 for warfare, a spiritual warfare from that year till the actual outbreak of the “war of the great day of God the Almighty,” commonly called Armageddon. (Rev. 16:14-16) Source : 🇺🇸 The Watchtower, December 1 1961, page 718 + Cover |