16:10 Beast’s kingdom in darkness 11:1–10; 12:29–30 Death (firstborn) 9:13–19 Death (one-third of human race) The locust-demons of Revelation 9:2–11 (cf. especially their description in vv. 7–10) appear out of a smoke “like the smoke from a gigantic furnace [ὡς καπνὸς καμίνου μεγάλης]” (v. 2), and the phrase recalls God’s judgment on Sodom and Gomorrah: “[Abraham] looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah, toward all the land of the plain, and he saw dense smoke rising from the land, like smoke from