When the sixth angel sounds his trumpet in Revelation 9, a voice from the four horns of the golden altar commands the release of the four angels bound at the great river Euphrates. An army of two hundred million horsemen follows – breastplates of fiery red, hyacinth blue, and sulfur yellow, horses with heads like lions, and fire, smoke, and brimstone pouring from their mouths – and a third of mankind is killed.
In this message from our series Revelation: Jesus Revealed – The View Behind The Veil, we study Revelation 9:12-21 under four headings: the release and region of satanic spirits, the realtime and return of satanic slaughter, the range and rampage of the satanic soldiers, and the reaction and refusal of real repentance.
Most sobering of all, even after these terrible plagues, the rest of mankind still did not repent of their murders, sorceries, sexual immorality, or thefts. The heart is deceitful above all things – but the Lord searches the heart, and He still calls sinners to turn to Him today.
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Revelation 9:12 One woe is past. Behold, still two more woes are coming after
these things.
Revelation 9:13 Then the sixth angel sounded: And I heard a voice from the
four horns of the golden altar which is before God,
Revelation 9:14 saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, “Release the
four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates.”
Revelation 9:15 So the four angels, who had been prepared for the hour and
day and month and year, were released to kill a third of mankind.
Revelation 9:16 Now the number of the army of the horsemen was two hundred
million; I heard the number of them.
Revelation 9:17 And thus I saw the horses in the vision: those who sat on them
had breastplates of fiery red, hyacinth blue, and sulfur yellow; and the heads
of the horses were like the heads of lions; and out of their mouths came fire,
smoke, and brimstone.
Revelation 9:18 By these three plagues a third of mankind was killed-by the
fire and the smoke and the brimstone which came out of their mouths.
Revelation 9:19 For their power is in their mouth and in their tails; for their tails
are like serpents, having heads; and with them they do harm.
Revelation 9:20 But the rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues,
did not repent of the works of their hands, that they should not worship demons,
Revelation 9:21 And they did not repent of their murders or their sorceries or
their sexual immorality or their thefts.
One Bible commentator (quote)
“This is the description of modern warfare and this is a human army of 200 million
with rocket launchers coming out of the backside of these guys with guns coming
out the front side of them.”
Revelation 9:12 One woe is past. Behold, still two more woes are coming after
these things.
Revelation 9:13 Then the sixth angel sounded: And I heard a voice from the four
horns of the golden altar which is before God,
Psalm 18:2 The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer; My God
my strength, in whom I will trust; My shield and the horn of my salvation, …
1 Samuel 2:10 “… He will give strength to His king, and exalt the horn of His anointed”
I. THE RELEASE AND THE REGION OF SATANIC SPIRITS
Revelation 9:14 saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, “Release the
four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates.”
Genesis 2:10 Now a river went out of Eden to water the garden, and from there
it parted and became four riverheads.
Genesis 2:14 “… The fourth river is the Euphrates.
II. THE REALTIME AND RETURN OF SATANIC SLAUGHTER
Revelation 9:15 So the four angels, who had been prepared for the hour and day
and month and year, were released to kill a third of mankind.
Exodus 12:23 For the Lord will pass through to strike the Egyptians; and when
He sees the blood on the lintel and on the two doorposts, the Lord will pass
over the door and not allow the destroyer to come into your houses to strike you.
III. THE RANGE AND RAMPAGE OF THE SATANIC SOLDIERS
Revelation 9:16 Now the number of the army of the horsemen was two hundred
million; I heard the number of them.
All angels are split into two categories or kind;
The holy, elect angels, and the fallen angels.
Of the fallen angels there are two kinds, loose and bound.
Of the bound there are two kinds, permanently bound, temporarily bound.
Revelation 9:17 And thus I saw the horses in the vision: those who sat on them
had breastplates of fiery red, hyacinth blue, and sulfur yellow; and the heads
of the horses were like the heads of lions; and out of their mouths came fire,
smoke, and brimstone.
Revelation 9:18 By these three plagues a third of mankind was killed-by the
fire and the smoke and the brimstone which came out of their mouths.
Revelation 9:19 For their power is in their mouth and in their tails; for their
tails are like serpents, having heads; and with them they do harm.
Revelation 9:10 They had tails like scorpions, and there were stings in their tails.
Luke 10:19 Behold, I give you the authority to trample on serpents and scorpions,
IV. THE REACTION AND REFUSAL OF REAL REPENTANCE
Revelation 9:20 But the rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues,
did not repent …”
Vincent Bugliosi in his 1974 book “Helter Skelter” writes:
Manson placed no special meaning on the last verse of Revelation 9. But I
found myself thinking of it often in the months ahead:
Revelation 9:21 Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries,
nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.
Jeremiah 17:9 “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked;
Who can know it?
Jeremiah 17:10 I, the Lord, search the heart, I test the mind, even to give every
man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.
