The first woe has passed; behold, two woes are still coming after these things. Rev 9:12
OUTLINE OF THE BOOK OF REVELATION
III. THE MESSIANIC CONFLICT, Revelation 8-14
1. The Seven Angels with Trumpets, Rev_8:1-13; Rev_9:1-21; Rev_10:1-11; Rev_11:1-19
19. What may be meant by “the river Euphrates”?
Revelation 9:12-21
THE SIXTH TRUMPET SOUNDED THE SECOND WOE
The first woe has passed; behold, two woes are still coming after these things.
Then the sixth angel sounded [his trumpet], and I heard a solitary voice from the four horns of the golden altar which stands 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 [appointed] hour and day and month and year, were released to kill a third of mankind.
The number of the troops of cavalry was twice ten thousand times ten thousand (two hundred million); I heard the number of them.
And this is how I saw the horses and their riders in my vision: the riders had breastplates [the color] of fire and of hyacinth (sapphire blue) and of brimstone (yellow); and the heads of the horses looked like the heads of lions; and from out of their mouths came fire and smoke and brimstone (burning sulfur).
A third of mankind was killed by these three plagues–by the fire and the smoke and the brimstone that came from the mouths of the horses.
For the power of the horses [to do harm] is in their mouths and in their tails; for their tails are like serpents and have heads, and it is with them that they do harm.
The rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent even then of the works of their hands, so as to cease worshiping and paying homage to the demons and the idols of gold and of silver and of bronze and of stone and of wood, which can neither see nor hear nor walk; [Psa_115:4-7; Psa_135:15-17; Isa_17:8]
and they did not repent of their murders nor of their sorceries (drugs, intoxications) nor of their [sexual] immorality nor of their thefts.
Comments by
F.B.Meyer
On
Revelation 9:12-21
IMPENITENT IN SPITE OF ALL
The river Euphrates possibly stands for nations and hordes of men emanating from that region; and these verses are held by a large number of expositors to foretell the invasion of Europe by the Turks, who have desolated and held the sacred places of the Jewish faith. The Church of that time was eaten through with idolatry. Image worship had become almost universal, and the invariable consequence of this relapse from the noble spiritual ideals of the Jewish and Christian dispensations was materialism, sensuality, and the greed of the priest. On the other hand, the Turks were fierce iconoclasts, and their progress everywhere was marked by the demolition of Christian emblems.
Demons contrive to get themselves worshiped under the effigies of idolatry; and murders, sorceries, fornication, and theft infest their temples. There is perpetual controversy between the spirit of truth and these perversities; and this conflict must continue, not only in the Church, but in the heart, until everything that opposes the reign of the Spirit is overthrown, and every thought is brought into captivity to the obedience of Christ, 2Co_10:5. Is this supremacy of the Spirit secured for thee, my reader?
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