And the fifth angel with the trumpet sounded
After the midnight cry 13
Meditate about these things.
Remember at this time the true believers have been in heaven with Our Lord Jesus Christ because the translation was long gone.
Rev. 9:21, “Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornications, nor of their thefts.”
Rev. 9:13-20, “And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God, saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.”
The four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men. This is another place God allowed one third of men to be killed. Remember in Rev. 6:8, as the pale horse rode a fourth of men were killed. If we had 10 billion people on earth 2.5 billion were killed at the riding of the pale horse; remaining 8.5 billions. Again here the four angels loosed from the river Euphrates, killing one third of the 8.5 billion, which remains 5.6 billion on the earth. But remember, those who were translated and those who died in the red horse and black horse rider periods; so the real balance at this point will be less than 5.6 billion in reality. Armageddon is yet to come.
And I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire and jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions: and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone. By these three were the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths. (Why would one wish to miss the rapture and be faced with this tortuous death.) These horses, their power is in their mouth, and in their tails; for their tails were like unto serpents,and had heads, and with them they do hurt.
Rev. 9:20, “And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk.
Repentance was now too late, the blood of atonement was back in heaven. Grace had expired. That day, the day of salvation was already over. Torment and anguish will be all that is left. The men not killed by these plagues only hardened themselves against God and continued in demon and idol worship. Many must have taken the mark of the beast, or the number of the beast or his name. Many must have worshiped the beast and these lead to eternal damnation. What shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul, or what shall a man give in exchange for his life. He who believes in the Lord Jesus Christ today shall be saved and escape damnation but he who rejects Him is damned already, (John 3:18).
And the sixth angel with the trumpet sounded – Week 53