The 6th angel sounds its trumpet, and a voice from the horns of the golden altar before God, says to the 6th angel;
"Release the four angel who are bound at the great river Euphrates."
John then writes that these four angels had been prepared for this hour and day and month and year. That being released, they might kill a third of mankind. It is hard to imagine such a devastation that would be able to execute such and destruction of human lives, humanly speaking. I am percieving, here, that what this will be is a military response to what had occured at the 5th trumpet.
These angels are playing an active roll in orchestrating what will occur after the church is caught up to be with Jesus. You have to imagine what it might be like if all the christians are no longer present on the earth. Militaries throughout human history have either acted for a noble or not noble cause. Think of world where militaries no longer have a restraint because there is no longer a deterent. People who protect the welfare of the people are no longer present on the earth. Militaries will have free reign and there will be a power struggle at that time. This power stuggle will end when the anti-christ gets all the armies of the world to join together and come to the Valley called Har- Magedon, better know as Armageddon. His reason for him pulling them together there, is to try to stop Jesus when He returns. Scripture says that Jesus will laugh at even the thought that they could stop Him. This gathering will be easy to acheive because the armies at that time would have already been positioning themselves in that area for other reasons.
So we see at the 5th trumpet what could be a military action that will use nerve gas on the inhabitants. In response we see when the 6th trumpet sounds, John sees;
"And the number of the armies of the horsemen was 200,000,000; I heard the number
of them. And this is how I saw in the vision the horses and those who sat on them;
1) The riders had breastplates the color of fire and of hyacinth(clusters of colors) and of brimestone (sulfur);
2) and the heads of the horses are like the heads of lions;
3) and out of their mouths proceed fire and smoke and brimstone.
A third of mankind are killed by these three plaques, by the fire and the smoke and the
brimstone, which proceeded out of their mouths. For the power of the horses in in their
mouths and in their tails; for their tails are like serpents and have heads; and with them
they do harm."
If we look at this vision, again we have to ask what was John descibing, what he was seeing, if they were things in the future that did not exist when he was alive. First of all, back when John was alive there were not even 200 million people alive on the earth, let alone an army of that size. Today China has an army of that size. China has over a billion people and one out of every five people are in their military. That would put them at 200 million soldiers. If John had to descibe an army that size moving with tanks, might he had descibed it the way he did? We will read later in Chapter 16, verse 12, where John writes;
"And the sixth angel poured out his bowl upon the great river, the Euphates; and its water
was dried up, that the way might be prepared for the kings from the east."
The Euphates is the river that runs from Turkey to the Persian Gulf. For armies from the east to come easily into the area where the anti-christ will be, they will have to be able to cross the Euphates.
This happens right before the anti-christ persuedes them to join with the armies of the world to gather in Har-Mageddon. I think originally, these armies are coming in response to what the anti-christ had been doing, as far as the nerve gas. When the anti- christ sees them coming, he (it) has to alter his plans, or maybe this was his plan, to draw the militaries there. In Daniel, Daniel writes in Chapter 8, verse 25,
"He will even oppose the Prince of princes, But he will be broken without human agency."
Man cannot do anything that Jesus does not allow. Angels are used throughout the world to keep evil from prematurely having its way. If evil was permitted to have there way, it would be horrifying. People would have been abused well beyond imagination. We see a small piece of this, when we see the few things that they have been permited to do. With Jesus desiring that no man should perish but that all would come to Him for eternal life, He has not allowed Satan, his demons and the evil spirits, to have at it, without His allowing it. Thank you Jesus for that. After the first resurrection this all changes and the restraints held by the angels are loosened.
This is just a small piece of what scripture in other places has revealed. So far in earlier blogs, I have covered some of this. Please take advantage of what I have already have written. It will make the picture more understandable.
The sad thing for the people left on the earth at this time, they still did not repent, even though they don't know they can't. When John finishes;
"And the rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plaques, did not repent of the
works of their hands, so as to not worship demons, and the idols of gold and of silver
and of brass and of stone and of wood, which can neither see nor hear nor walk; an
they did not repent of their murders nor of their sorceries nor of their immorality nor
of their thefts."
Jesus peace be with you.
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