Apocalypse Chap 9 verses 3-12

APOCALYPSE CHAP 9 VERSES 3-12

Here St. John the Apostle makes a future prophesy about a war somewhere in the 20^th century. A war conducted both by air and ground forces with weapons that tortured people so bad that they prayed for death. These type of weapons are chemical and radioactive bombs causing a slow and painful death.

So is it possible to identify this war? In our  opinion yes. St John evidently refers to the gulf warfare during the operation “desert storm” and to the operation “ Iraqi freedome”. These two battles lasted for 5 months. The first from the17^th of Jan. until the 11^th of April 1991, and the second from the 20^th  of March until the 1^st of Mai 2003(the fighting continued for a while despite the announcement of “mission accomplished” because some significant pockets of resistance remained).  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Iraqi_Freedom

Apart from the duration of the two operations which is the correct one (5 months) both other two key elements of the prophesy fit to the gulf war hypothesis.

Thus nothing else – trees and animals – was harmed (chap 9 verse 4), and in the same verse the people who were harmed hadn’t had the seal of God on their foreheads which is also true for they were Muslims and never been marked with the cross of Jesus at the mystery of chrism. For those not familiar with the Christian faith and especially the Christian orthodox faith, the chrism is one of the seven mysteries of church which always immediately follows baptism. At the chrism ceremony the priest marks the sign of the cross on the forehead of the new Christian using chrism – anointing oil.      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrism