Revelation 9

During the seventh seal, before the second coming of the Savior, John sees the fifth angel being -

"...given the key of the bottomless pit." (New Testament | Revelation 9:1)

"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." (New Testament | Revelation 9:2)

Knowing that Satan had been cast into the bottomless pit, the smoke in my mind is much like in Lehi's dream -

"...there arose a mist of darkness; yea, even an exceedingly great mist of darkness..." (Book of Mormon | 1 Nephi 8:23)

...as the people commenced on the strait and narrow path to the Tree of Life. Nephi later is told -

"...the mists of darkness are the temptations of the devil, which blindeth the eyes, and hardeneth the hearts of the children of men, and leadeth them away into broad roads, that they perish and are lost." (Book of Mormon | 1 Nephi 12:17)

This temptations of the devil has always been, but in the seventh seal, with the opening of the bottomless pit, it appears Satan is allowed to exert his greatest effort, or create the greatest mist of darkness for -

"...I beheld, and heard an angel flying through the midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice, Woe, woe, woe, to the inhabiters of the earth by reason of the other voices of the trumpet of the three angels, which are yet to sound!" (New Testament | Revelation 8:13)

Or the worst is yet to come, but even so -

"...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." (New Testament | Revelation 9:4)

In my mind, the grass would be symbolic of youth or those that are "green" in gospel learning and living. The trees would by symbolic of the faithful. Is it any wonder that within stakes of Zion, Isaiah promised -

"...all thy children shall be taught of the LORD; and great shall be the peace of thy children.
14 In righteousness shalt thou be established: thou shalt be far from oppression; for thou shalt not fear: and from terror; for it shall not come near thee." (Old Testament | Isaiah 54:13 - 14)

Does this not bring great comfort as we read of the pronounced "woes" of the last days.