The Angels and the Trumpets
"And the seven angels who had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound them." Revelation 8:6

Reference:

Revelation 8:12 - And the fourth angel sounded, and a third of the sun and a third of the moon and a third of the stars were smitten, so that a third of them might be darkened and the day might not shine for a third of it, and the night in the same way. (NAS)

In Revelation 8:13, the angel warns of the
three woes.

The First Woe: Torment
(to those who are not the bond-servants of God)

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The 5th Angel Sounds His Trumpet

The star and the pit (Revelation 9:1-2):

And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star from heaven which had fallen to the earth; and the key of the bottomless pit was given to him. ² And he opened the bottomless pit; and smoke went up out of the pit, like the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by the smoke of the pit. (NAS)

The locusts (Revelation 9:3-10):

³And out of the smoke came forth locusts upon the earth; and power was given them, as the scorpions of the earth have power. ⁴And they were told that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, nor any green thing, nor any tree, but only the men who do not have the seal of God on their foreheads.

• Power to torment:

⁶And they were not permitted to kill anyone, but to torment for five months; and their torment was like the torment of a scorpion when it stings a man. ⁶And in those days men will seek death and will not find it; and they will long to die and death flees from them. (NAS)

• Physical appearance in vision:

⁷And the appearance of the locusts was like horses prepared for battle; and on their heads, as it were, crowns like gold, and their faces were like the faces of men. ⁸And they had hair like the hair of women, and their teeth were like the teeth of lions. ⁹And they had breastplates like breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings was like the sound of chariots, of many horses rushing to battle. ¹⁰And they have tails like scorpions, and stings; and in their tails is their power to hurt men for five months. (NAS)

The king of the locusts (Revelation 9:11):

¹¹They have as king over them, the angel of the abyss; his name in Hebrew is Abaddon*, and in the Greek he has the name Apollyon.

* Abaddon is the Hebrew word for "the place of death".  Apollyon in the Greek means "destroyer."

The First Woe is Past (Revelation 9:12):

¹²The first woe is past; behold, two woes are still coming after these things. (NAS)

The Second Woe: Death to 1/3
(to those who are not the bond-servants of God)

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The 6th Angel Sounds His Trumpet.

John hears a voice (9:13-15):

¹³And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God, ¹⁴one saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, "Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates."  (NAS)

The four angels and their armies are released (Revelation 9:15-18):

¹⁵And the four angels, who had been prepared for the hour and day and month and year, were released, so that they might kill a third of mankind. ¹⁶And the number of the armies of the horsemen was two hundred million; I heard the number of them. (NAS)

Riders and horses in the angels' armies (Revelation 9:17-19):

And this is how I saw in the vision the horses and those who sat on them:

• ¹⁷the riders had breastplates the color of fire and of hyacinth and of brimstone; and

• the heads of the horses are like the heads of lions; and out of their mouths proceed fire and smoke and brimstone. ¹⁸A third of mankind was killed by these three plagues, by the fire and the smoke and the brimstone, which proceeded out of their mouths. ¹⁹For the power of the horses is in their mouths and in their tails; for their tails are like serpents and have heads; and with them they do harm. (NAS)

Those that were not killed by the angels and their armies (Revelation 9:20-21):

John then describes the remaining 2/3 of mankind (those that were not the bond-servants of God):

²⁰And the rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands, so as not to worship demons, and the idols of gold and of silver and of brass and of stone and of wood, which can neither see nor hear nor walk; ²¹ and they did not repent of their murders nor of their sorceries nor of their immorality nor of their thefts. (NAS)