Great Tribulation · Future - Tribulation
Sixth Trumpet: Army of 200 Million (Second Woe)
Euphrates army kills one-third
From the teaching of Apostle Mary Banks
When the sixth angel sounds his trumpet, a voice from the four horns of the golden altar before God commands the angel to loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates. These four angels were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men. The number of the army of horsemen is two hundred thousand thousand, or 200 million.
The riders have breastplates of fire, jacinth, and brimstone. The horses have heads like lions, and out of their mouths issue fire and smoke and brimstone. By these three plagues - the fire, smoke, and brimstone which issue from their mouths - a third part of men are killed. The horses' power is in their mouth and in their tails, for their tails are like unto serpents with heads, and with them they do hurt.
Despite this devastating judgment that kills one-third of humanity, the rest of mankind who were not killed by these plagues do not repent of the works of their hands. They continue to worship devils and idols of gold, silver, brass, stone, and wood, which can neither see, hear, nor walk. Neither do they repent of their murders, sorceries, fornication, or thefts.
The scriptures
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. And 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. And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand: and I heard the number of them. And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of 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 was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths. For 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. 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: Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.
Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the LORD cometh, for it is nigh at hand; A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, even to the years of many generations. A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them. The appearance of them is as the appearance of horses; and as horsemen, so shall they run. Like the noise of chariots on the tops of mountains shall they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devoureth the stubble, as a strong people set in battle array. Before their face the people shall be much pained: all faces shall gather blackness. They shall run like mighty men; they shall climb the wall like men of war; and they shall march every one on his ways, and they shall not break their ranks: Neither shall one thrust another; they shall walk every one in his path: and when they fall upon the sword, they shall not be wounded. They shall run to and fro in the city; they shall run upon the wall, they shall climb up upon the houses; they shall enter in at the windows like a thief. The earth shall quake before them; the heavens shall tremble: the sun and the moon shall be dark, and the stars shall withdraw their shining: And the LORD shall utter his voice before his army: for his camp is very great: for he is strong that executeth his word: for the day of the LORD is great and very terrible; and who can abide it?