Satan’s Assistant Series

Now we will see in chapter 11 verse 8 this statement, “And their dead bodies will lie in the street of the great city which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.” This poetic description of where the ‘Two Witnesses’ will be killed is Jerusalem. Jerusalem had become so sinful that spiritually it was likened to Sodom and Egypt. This is the same thing Peter did by saying that even though he was in physical Rome, he was in spiritual Babylon because this is where Satan has set up his throne.

Now what is my point in all this? We will read in the next couple of chapters how the Euphrates river is going to dry up so the kings of the east can come across it. There will not be any Chinese armies coming on land to attack Israel. The Chinese can currently field an army of that size. However it is very doubtful this could be a human army due to the inability to equip, feed, transport, not to mention the water it would take to support that size contingent. What about the possibility of air strikes and missiles. The need for human forces therefore is not needed. Those things taken into consideration strongly suggest this will be a supernatural rather than a human force, especially as the four angels (demons) are commanding this force.

As we read this war involves demonic attacks. The old false religion that Satan created began in Babylon which sat next to the real Euphrates River. The false religious Babylonian system has moved from literal Iraq and now the Spiritual Babylon sits on the spiritual waters which are now Rome.

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. 16 Now the number of the army of the horsemen was two hundred million; I heard the number of them. 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. 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. 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.

God’s timing is always exact. Here it is fixed with computer like precision, to the very hour, with the aim of releasing on the earth at that point in time four murderous angels who had been prepared for this very purpose. Their aim was the slaughter of ‘the third part of men’.

The end result of this demonic 200 million was that a third of the remaining mankind would be killed. Note that a quarter of mankind was killed during the seal judgments, leaving three quarters of the remaining population. As one third is now killed, 50% of mankind now has been killed. (one third of 75 that was remaining is 25%)

There is only one definite article with respect to ‘the hour and day and month and year’, stressing that the four elements of time must be seen together as indicating the defining moment, detailed step by step. They are to have their hour. The slaughter is to be considerable, ‘the third part of men’ in that region. We are not told how long they would be operating. The aim was rather to bring out the evil forces at work against the world, and to bring out that God had them under control, only allowing their release on His timing.