Trumpet #6- The Army of Fallen Angels, Part 3 (TMF:1350)

Peace to Live By: Trumpet #6- The Army of Fallen Angels, Part 3 (TMF:1350) - Daniel Litton
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       Based off of what John says here, he likely is using the term horse to describe these creatures to us, but they probably are not literal horses. He describes these creatures as having heads like lions. That’s pretty frightening and definitely portrays a vicious creature in this context. If you consider their heads like lions and later their tails, what comes to my mind is almost like a dinosauric type creature, like a Tyrannosaurus Rex, or perhaps, on a smaller scale, even an alligator. What’s even worse is the power that these supernatural creatures hold. These beasts are said to be able to spew out fire, smoke, and suffer from their mouths. And this is how they kill people. Each to these different abilities John calls as plagues. They will kill one-third of all the people living on the world at that time. That’s a huge number of people besides those who have already been killed by the other judgments. As a matter of fact, if you add up the number of people killed to this point, it would be over half of the world’s population.

Trumpet #6- The Army of Fallen Angels, Part 2 (TMF:1349)

Peace to Live By: Trumpet #6- The Army of Fallen Angels, Part 2 (TMF:1349) - Daniel Litton
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       Continuing in the passage: “And this is how I saw the horses in my vision and those who rode them: they wore breastplates the color of fire and of sapphire and of sulfur, and the heads of the horses were like lions' heads, and fire and smoke and sulfur came out of their mouths. By these three plagues a third of mankind was killed, by the fire and smoke and sulfur coming out of their mouths. For the power of the horses is in their mouths and in their tails, for their tails are like serpents with heads, and by means of them they wound” (Revelation 9:17-19, ESV). In this section, the Apostle John talks about how he saw both the riders and the horses. For the riders, he says that they wore breastplates which were multi-colored. The colors were that of fire, so orange or red, that of sapphire, probably a darker blue, and sulfur, which is a greenish or yellowish color. John moves to describe the supernatural horse-like creatures which the demon forces are riding.

Trumpet #6- The Army of Fallen Angels, Part 1 (TMF:1348)

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       Nevertheless, in a way that perhaps we cannot understand, these fallen angelic beings have been prepared for a mass slaughter of human beings here on the earth. Since they have been currently bound, perhaps due to their gross violence and wickedness, God is going to have them released so they can accomplish his will.
Along with these angel leaders are a whole army of fallen angels, perhaps demons that are currently unbound, and he tells us their number is “twice ten thousand times ten thousand.” So, 10,000 times 10,000 is a 100,000,000 and two times that is 200,000,000. That’s how many fallen angels are in this army. And, he goes to show that this number is not a mistake by adding the phrase here, “I heard their number.” John’s saying, “I’m not joking folks.” That’s an enormous amount of demonic beings.

Trumpet #6- Releasing the Fallen Angels, Part 2 (TMF:1347)

Peace to Live By: Trumpet #6- Releasing the Fallen Angels, Part 2 (TMF:1347) - Daniel Litton
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       The point is that four angels are going to be released who have been bound for a time at the great river Euphrates. Now, we know the importance of the Euphrates River from studying Scripture, for God created this river at the very beginning of time, in Genesis 2, and this river was carried over into the new world after the Flood of Noah. It would appear that there are four angels, possibly today, bound at that river in the supernatural realm. As to who these four fallen angels are, it could be that they are demonic rulers in the spiritual realm who ruled on the earth in the kingdoms of the world, like we we saw in Daniel 10. Remember? There, one ruler was called the Prince of Persia. Nevertheless, in a way that perhaps we cannot understand, these fallen angelic beings have been prepared for a mass slaughter of human beings here on the earth. Since they have been currently bound, perhaps due to their gross violence and wickedness, God is going to have them released so they can accomplish his will.

Trumpet #6- Releasing the Fallen Angels, Part 1 (TMF:1346)

Peace to Live By: Trumpet #6- Releasing the Fallen Angels, Part 1 (TMF:1346) - Daniel Litton
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       The sixth Trumpet Judgment: “Then the sixth angel blew his trumpet, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar before God, saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, “Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates.” So the four angels, who had been prepared for the hour, the day, the month, and the year, were released to kill a third of mankind. The number of mounted troops was twice ten thousand times ten thousand; I heard their number” (13-16, ESV). Here, at the sixth Trumpet Judgment, we see that when the angel blows his trumpet, a voice comes from the four hours of the golden alter, which is before God’s throne. Note, this is probably either the voice of the Lord Jesus Christ, who had been standing near the throne earlier, or this could be the voice of the angel who was at the alter of incense (see Revelation 5:6, 8:3). Anyway, the point is that four angels are going to be released who have been bound for a time at the great river Euphrates.