Fall of Empires (6) Sixth Trumpet

The sixth trumpet sets in train the events that culminate in the Big Battle when war between the empires breaks out in the Middle East. (This is described in detail in my book Times and Seasons.)

The sixth angel sounded his trumpet, and I heard a voice coming from the four horns of the golden altar that is before God. It said to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, “Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates.” And the four angels who had been kept ready for this very hour and day and month and year were released to kill a third of mankind. The number of the mounted troops was twice ten thousand times ten thousand. I heard their number (Rev 9:13-16).

God does not initiate the big battle. He just stops holding aback the forces that want to make it happen. He has no choice, because the political powers have authority on earth to do it.

The Big Battle is well in the future, so the details are not clear yet.

The horses and riders I saw in my vision looked like this: Their breastplates were fiery red, dark blue, and yellow as sulfur. The heads of the horses resembled the heads of lions, and out of their mouths came fire, smoke and sulfur. A third of mankind was killed by the three plagues of fire, smoke and sulfur that came out of their mouths. The power of the horses was in their mouths and in their tails; for their tails were like snakes, having heads with which they inflict injury (Rev 9:17-19).

Mobile missile launchers that have not yet been invented will come into play.