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The Mighty Angels of Revelation 9 Rampaging

MP3: The Mighty Angels of Revelation 9
Hosts: Nathan Jones & Vic Batista

The Four Fire-breathing Euphrates Angels and Their 200 Million Demon Army

Nathan Jones: With the Three Woes having arrived, we’ve moved totally out of our daily understanding of events. Up to the Fourth Trumpet Judgment, events could happen politically or naturally. But now demonic hordes are roaming the world killing everybody in sight. This is beyond belief!

Many people who study Revelation get to this point in the narrative and conclude this imagery must be nonsense. How could this be? Revelation 9 is talking about four creatures who are nowhere near human looking. They are definitely not like the locusts demons that came before them. The Four Euphrates Angels have heads that look like lions, but they are breathing fire like mythical dragons. These are crazy looking dragons released upon this earth, almost like monsters from a bad Godzilla movie.

The Locust Demons could only hurt people, but the Four Euphrates Angels and their army are going even further and are actually killing people. They kill a whopping third of the world’s remaining population! Combined with the Seal Judgments which killed a third of the world’s population, now we see another third killed, resulting in almost half of the world’s population dead within 3.5 years. To think that a third of remaining population of the world will be killed by just these four angels alone!

Vic Batista: Sometimes Hollywood makes some good movies, but they’re nothing compared to the Bible’s Revelation. Just amazing!

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The 200 million strong army, is there the possibility that there could be a country out there that could put forth an army that big, or are we talking about something different here, more demonic? Is this army made up of people or demons?

Nathan Jones: That leads to a very highly speculative answer. We know from the text that we’ve got the Sixth Trumpet Judgment Angel who releases the Four Euphrates Angels who had been bound in or under the Euphrates River. The Euphrates River runs through Iraq today. It used to be the border of the Garden of Eden at one time. These angels, we can assume they are demons, because they are held in the Euphrates River like prisoners. They have been held there to be released just for this purpose — to kill a third of mankind. The Four Euphrates Angels are clearly demons set against God, but God being sovereign and in control allows them to be released.

While the Four Euphrates Angels are demons, they lead an army of 200 million horseman. So, what are these, 200 million demons or are we talking about 200 million people? Back in 2015, China announced that they could now field an army of 200 million soldiers. Bear in mind when John was recording Revelation back around 95 AD, that they were lucky if they had 200 million people across the entire planet, much less an army that could be made up of 200 million. So, some theologians have speculated that these 200 million are not demons, but they are just led by four demons. The army could be fielded out of the Far East, most likely China and/or India, but their generals are the Four Euphrates Angels.

Vic Batista: What an amazing number, for we live in the days when one country alone — China with an estimate of over one billion people — could field an army that massive.

Nathan Jones: Last I read China’s population was 1.3 billion. India is also quickly coming up to that population level. If they combined with the Kings of the East and rebel against the Antichrist, which we will read read later in Revelation that they will indeed by the end of the Tribulation rebel against the Antichrist, they’ll have a big enough army to march across the dried up Euphrates River when it dries out in a later judgment. So, some have speculated that this 200 million man army is China and/or India combined marching across the Euphrates.

So, is this army comprised of men, as we’ll later read about during the Bowl Judgments? I don’t believe so. I think this is something totally separate from the rebellion against the Antichrist. Look how their four masters are these four demons who have been released from the Euphrates River, and the carnage they create sounds like nothing ever man-made. Whether this army is comprised of demons or they are people, this is one of those topics that is kind of nebulous and highly up for debate.

Vic Batista: There are a lot of good Bible prophecy teachers like the author of The Late Great Planet Earth, Hal Lindsey, and many others who have written a lot of speculative interpretation on this topic. But, we really do need more information to make a conclusion, and it’s just not given. We just have to allow the Holy Spirit to bring clarification.

Nathan Jones: When it comes to Bible prophecy and the spiritual realm, some of these topics are well beyond our understanding. They’re so outside the realm of our daily living in this Church Age, but the Tribulation will be like no age ever before in human history. The Bible says that it will be the worst time in all of human history. It will be worse than the Flood and the following chaos after the Flood. It will be worse than anything we could ever imagine.

The Four Euphrates Angels are serpent-like creatures running amok across the planet with a 200 million man army. They are destroying a third of the world’s population by consuming them with fire, smoke and brimstone. So let’s say we have 7 billion people today, and already a half are dead from the previous judgments, so that is 3.5 billion people left in the world. Take a third of that number, so we are talking about another billion, not million, but billion people killed by the Sixth Trumpet Judgment!

Vic Batista: I can understand why today there is a fear of nuclear weapons after what happen at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But these demons alone are not going to cause such havoc that nuclear war will seem mild by comparison. This passage literally is talking about Hell’s angels.

Nathan Jones: Good comparison! I don’t want to make light of this judgment, but I would compare these demons to, if you’ve seen The Hobbit movies, to Smaug the Dragon. Revelation 9 is describing something that is powerful, and four Smaugs running amuck around the earth with a 200 million man army killing people basically with flamethrowers coming out of their mouth sounds like Smaug. Again, this seems like some crazy scene out of a Sci-fi movie, but this is the Bible we’re talking about here. These demonic attacks aren’t symbolic either. It’s not a “like or as” situation. These are definite, literal, demonic monsters being released upon the earth.

In the eighteenth segment of our series “The Mighty Angels of Revelation,” we’ll continue in Revelation 9 and puzzle at the world’s strange reaction to these world-shattering judgments.

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Dr. Nathan E. Jones

As the Internet Evangelist at Lamb & Lion Ministries, Nathan reaches out to the over 4.5 billion people accessible over the Internet with the Good News of Jesus Christ. He also co-hosts the ministry's television program Christ in Prophecy and podcast The Truth Will Set You Free.

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  • Hello,
    I just wanted to chime in and say I do enjoy the prophetic insights and your programs.
    I just have one thing that concerns me when it comes to many prophecy teaching ministries and I have heard Vic say recently on his program. The topic of “any moment, imminent return of Christ/pre trib rapture.” while using the “thief in the night” scripture to mean Jesus could come tonight or this second. True, on the day Jesus comes, we will not know the day or hour so it will be sudden at that moment, but I also believe “we are not ignorant of the timing either”. God has stated many will be deceived of the times. But the brethren need not be ignorant. It will not happen unless the dead rise first. and when it comes to His timing, He gives many clues and we will possibly know even up to a week in advance. He will speak to his people, we will not be caught off guard, those who are truly seeking Him. EVen Jesus teaches exactly what to look for before He will appear, and before anyone will be raptured up to meet Him. He never speaks of a secret coming but a very loud, obvious one. He says “AFTER tribulation of those days(satan’s wrath on earth and on those who will not bow to him), 29IMMEDIATELY after the tribulation(satan’s wrath) of those days: ‘The sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.’ 30At that time the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven, and all the tribes of the earth will mourn. They will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven, with power and great glory.… 31And He will send out His angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather His elect from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other.
    then comes God’s Wrath.
    No where in scripture are christians or any of God’s people ever described as being rescued out before tribulation. Many are dying now and they didn’t get a rapture. What makes us any more important that we would get a rapture. we may see amazing miraculous divine protection for a time until we must die in persecution , if we are alive during the Great Trib (satan’s wrath)..
    there are things which must take place still before Jesus appears in his second return. He never speaks of a secret return prior to his actual public return.
    I think it’s dangerous to teach a factual account of a pre trib secret rapture. when the actual trib happens, and many do not understand why they weren’t ‘taken out” first, that will cause a great falling away i believe. Many people will be utterly in shock that no rapture happened before the trib. Anger and doubt will set in. And all along they will not have been preparing and being strengthened in faith to prepare to endure as the scripture tells us to. they will be weak and begin to believe it was all a lie and fall away from truth. Which scriputure says there will be a great falling away. I believe is directly related to main stream church teaching on pre tirb rapture. if you do agree to that at all. I am speaking more to Vic as he mentioned it in a previous recording i was listening to today. which i think was a 2015 show.

    I appreciate many of the insights no your program. I just wish many ministries and preachers would stop teaching pre trib as a fact when scripture never promises us a ride out of here before tribulations.

    May God continue to bless your teaching ministry.

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