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Revelation 9:2-3

Using that authority, the one who received the key to the pit opened it. Smoke rose from the well like the smoke of a great furnace, darkening the sun. These words bring to mind the image of a volcanic eruption; on earth, when some volcanoes erupt, they produce so much smoke that it covers the sunlight, everything turns gray.
FROM THE SMOKE CAME LOCUSTS. AND THEY WERE GIVEN POWER LIKE THE POWER OF THE SCORPIONS OF THE EARTH. It is a terrifying scene! A plague of locusts has always been one of the most feared catastrophes for those who work with farming in some parts of the world. The first two chapters of Joel present a graphic portrait of their work of destruction.

Note that these are not(?) literal locusts, because they were ordered not to harm the grass, vegetables, or trees. These are precisely the things that are destroyed by swarms of locusts.

John sees locust-like beings with the power of scorpions. Are these modern locusts military combat helicopters? Or drones?
Could their venom be poison in the form of chemicals and poisonous chemicals like gas grenades? Could these insects be robotic, loaded with poison and piloted by someone?

On the other hand, when the Abyss opens, the invisible hidden separation between the world of men and the world of evil spirits is removed. Modern man and modern philosophy reject the existence of the underworld, of evil spirits, demons, fallen angels and the devil. These are all mythological absurdities, they say.
Medieval superstition, an invention of religious sadists trying to win souls with this kind of fear-mongering. Modern man is intelligent and rational. Scientific thought, science and technology will rule the world and make a paradise on Earth, they say.
To tell the truth, for these people Christianity is despised, considered fanaticism, but they themselves give credence and respect to the New Age, Indian gurus, paranormal phenomena, supernatural phenomena, and many occult witches and shamans. However, demons are very much alive and acting through human beings and are seen and worshipped by Satanists.