The falling star is an
angel (meteors don't open shafts with keys) which opens up the Abyss. It unleashes a swarm of locusts, it
appears. They don't harm Christians,
just non Christians.
The
locusts looked like horses prepared for battle. On their heads they wore
something like crowns of gold, and their faces resembled human faces. Their
hair was like women's hair, and their teeth were like lions' teeth. They had
breastplates like breastplates of iron, and the sound of their wings was like
the thundering of many horses and chariots rushing into battle. They had tails
and stings like scorpions, and in their tails they had power to torment people
for five months. Revelation 9:7-10
These locusts look like
horses, with gold crowns, human faces, long woman’s hair, lion’s teeth, iron
chests, wings, scorpion tails that sting.
If you take it literally, it becomes mythology.
Are they demons? Could be…mostly likely it's an army. Locusts appear in the Old Testament:
·
Exodus – one of the
plagues
·
Isaiah, Jeremiah
–likened to armies
Joel – 835 BC, speaks of
a locust plague that devastated the area and compares it to a greater judgment
coming soon, an army. Known also as The
Day of the Lord.
Joel uses language very
similar to Revelation.
Blow the trumpet in Zion;
sound the alarm on my
holy hill.
Let all who live in
the land tremble,
for the day of the LORD is coming.
It is close at hand-
a day of darkness and
gloom,
a day of clouds and blackness.
Like dawn spreading
across the mountains
a large and mighty army comes,
such as never was of
old
nor ever will be in
ages to come.
They have the appearance of horses;
they gallop along
like cavalry.
With a noise like that of
chariots
they leap over the
mountaintops,
like a crackling fire
consuming stubble,
like a mighty army
drawn up for battle…
They charge like warriors;
they scale walls like
soldiers.
They all march in
line,
not swerving from
their course…
The LORD thunders
at the head of his army;
his forces are beyond
number,
and mighty are those
who obey his command.
The day of the LORD is great;
it is dreadful.
Who can endure it?...
"And afterward,
I will pour out my
Spirit on all people.
Your sons and
daughters will prophesy,
your old men will dream dreams,
your young men will
see visions.
Even on my servants, both
men and women,
I will pour out my
Spirit in those days.
I will show wonders in the
heavens
and on the earth,
blood and fire and
billows of smoke.
The sun will be turned to
darkness
and the moon to blood
before the coming of the great and
dreadful day of the LORD. Joel
2:1-5,7,11,28-31