To continue with the Revelation 9:11 idea, the following is a copy of the e-mail I sent to President Bush the day after the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center on September 11th, 2001...
...The letter to President Bush begins as follows:
"And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit. And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit. And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power." (Revelation 9:1-3)
"And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon." (Revelation 9:11) See the connection here? ... To Revelation 9:11? ... Wow! ...
While this isn't the only unusual connection to be made in the book of Revelation. "And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon: and the dragon fought and his angels." Are you familiar with this verse? It's chapter 12, Verse 7. And what day might that represent? ... December 7th -- which, is Pearl Harbor Day! ... yet another "Great Wake Up Call" ... the day we were forced to take a stand against the "imperialistic dragon" of Japan. While to continue here, who might "Michael" be? Well we just recently discovered the name on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery ... Michael Joseph "Blassie" ... i.e., he who protects over blasphemy? Suggesting this is The Spirit (the archangel Michael) that watches over our country ...
While in accord with the name Joseph, this was Israel's (Jacob's) favorite son -- his "11th son" -- whose brothers cast him into the pit and sold him into slavery in Egypt, where he later became governor (Genesis 37-50). Whereas in Revelation "chapter 11," it refers to the two witnesses, which are the two olive trees and "two candlesticks" which stand before God (Revelation 11:3-4). Any coincidence to why two candlesticks should look like the "number 11?" ...
"And when they shall have finished their testimony [the two witnesses], the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them. And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified." (Revelation 11:7-8) ... The angel of the bottomless pit? ... Joseph sold into slavery in Egypt? ... Our Lord crucified (spiritually) in Egypt? ...
And what of the two witnesses? Could it be they correspond to the two towers of the World Trade Center? Did you know that New York was the "11th state" of the union? And, that the height of the World Trade Center towers, at 110 stories each, correspond to the age at which Joseph died -- 110 years? (Genesis 50:26) ... Wow! ... Just another coincidence?
And what of the "fifth angel" which sounds, with the key to the bottomless pit? ... By slamming a jet airplane into the Pentagon -- where "penta" means five -- could this not be construed as opening that which should not be opened ... i.e., the gates of hell, where evil and falsity reside? (where the Pentagon normally protects us over "such blasphemies").
And what of Apollyon and Abaddon? In Greece, Apollo was the god of light and, "god of truth." And yet similar to Adam, Apollo disobeys his father (Zeus) and has to serve the mortal King Admetus for eight years as a shepherd. Now why does Admetus sound so much like Adam? Anyway, Adam fell for having eaten of the "tree of knowledge," which is to say he had all this "knowledge" -- of God -- but without the practical experience to back it up, and he couldn't help but flail! ... Knowledge is not is wisdom they say! ... In fact here it destroys, and so conjures up the angel over the bottomless pit ... So what do they mean by Babel? ... Or Babylon? ... And why does it sound so much like "babble" when they stand in their towers and pray? ... And what of the Moslem Fundamentalists? ...
While you might be interested to know that the battle of truth against falsity and of good against evil doesn't originate with Christianity, but with the Zoroastrian Creed of Persia. Where the great creator Ahura Mazda gives rise to his two sons Spenta Mainyu (the holy spirit) and Angra Mainyu (the devil) who do battle over the world and the souls of men. And to those who think and live justly are given eternal bliss, and to those who think and do what is evil are given eternal suffering. Sound familiar? While it was Cyrus the Great of Persia (Spenta Mainyu?) who freed the Jews from Babylon (Angra Mainyu?) and allowed them to return to their homeland.
Anyway, I thought you might appreciate a biblical perspective on who might have done these bombings and, if anyone cares to bring up the idea of a "holy war," and the great emergency wake up call on 9-11, you can site this very verse, saying this was the devil which was evoked from the middle east, called Angra Mainyu.
"And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of god in their foreheads." (Revelation 9:4) Now this is quite unusual, for I had just planted a lawn recently, and been tending it the last couple of months, and mowed it the first time on Monday night, September 10th. In fact I had been thinking about this particular chapter over the past month (about the grass, the locusts and Apollyon), and all this happened the very next day! ...