Revelation 9:10 Revelation 9:10 And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails: and their power was to hurt men five months. By the tails of the locusts, we are to understand the false prophet, \ that is, false teachers. \ The prophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail. \ Read 2 Thessalonians 2:8-11. The stings in their tails, signify the venomous deadly poison, that is, in their false doctrines, called the doctrines of devils \ by which, the souls and consciences of men and women that worship the Beast or his image, are stung, pained, and poisoned to death. And their power was to hurt men five months; that is, only those men which had not the seal of God in their foreheads. \