During the Tribulation, there will
be an army made up of
200,000,000 men that will come into Israel from the east
across the dried up bed of the River Euphrates . This will
be the largest army that has ever been assembled. It will
culminate in the bloodiest event in human history at
Armageddon. Turn in your Bibles to Revelation chapter 9 and
let’s start reading in verse 13:
Revelation 9:13-19
13 And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice
from the four horns of the golden altar which is
before God, 14 Saying to the sixth angel which had
the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound
in the great river Euphrates. 15 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. 16 And the number of the army of the
horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand: and I
heard the number of them. 17 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. 18 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. 19 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.
Revelation 16:12-16
12 And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the
great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was
dried up, that the way of the kings of the east
might be prepared. 13 And I saw three unclean
spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the
dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out
of the mouth of the false prophet. 14 For they are
the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go
forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole
world, to gather them to the battle of that great
day of God Almighty. 15 Behold, I come as a thief.
Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his
garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his
shame. 16 And he gathered them together into a place
called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon. |
In these passages, the Bible does not specifically identify
who the kings of the east are. Keeping in mind that the
Tribulation wars are not about geography, but are instead
about the destruction of the nation of Israel, the
annihilation of the Jewish people, and the annihilation of
Christians, we can look for a common spiritual thread that
runs through the nations located to the east of Israel that
would drive them to seek the destruction of Israel, the
Jews, and Christians. Once again, that common thread is
Islam. Islam is Satan’s wicked whore and Muhammad is her
consort. The vilest forms of Jew hatred spews forth from the
hellish Islam that controls most of these nations. These
nations would include Kazakhstan with an Islamic population
of 8,822,000, Turkmenistan with an Islamic population of
4,757,000, Afghanistan with an Islamic population of
28,072,000, Uzbekistan with an Islamic population of
26,469,000, Tajikistan with an Islamic population of
5,848,000, Kyrgyzstan with an Islamic population of
4,734,000, Pakistan with an Islamic population of
174,082,000, Bangladesh with an Islamic population of
145,312,000, Indonesia with an Islamic population of
202,867,000, parts of India with an Islamic population of
160,945,000, and parts of China with an Islamic population
of 21,667,000. As of 2009, these eastern nations had Islamic
populations totaling 972,537,000. With Islam being the
fastest growing Satanic religion in the world and with four
years having elapsed since the last figures were compiled,
those numbers have increased significantly. Many of the
aforementioned countries have Islamic populations
approaching 100%. Notwithstanding China’s relatively small
Islamic population, there is also the issue of China’s
critical need for oil and gas which have been discovered in
huge quantities in Israeli waters. China’s 2012 population
figures were 1,344,130,000. Another significant player in
this scenario is Russia with an Islamic population of
16,482,000. Russia has been historically Anti-Semitic even
without her significant Islamic population. The question
that follows from all this information is: “Can these
eastern nations raise an army of 200,000,000?”. The answer
is, yes, of course. Add to all that the fact that the world
Islamic population exceeds 1,571,198,000 and from a worldly
perspective Israel and the Jews have impossible obstacles to
overcome to ensure their survival. Further complicating the
scenario for Israel and the Jews is the addition to the mix
of the Jew hating Roman Catholic whore and her Protestant
harlots. These groups make up another 2,184,060,000 most of
whom are nominal professing Christians at best. Then
entereth the Lord Jesus Christ and it is all over for the
Jew hating Islamic, Roman Catholic, and Protestant devils.
Any church or religion that hates the Jew is of the Devil
and that especially includes Roman Catholicism and Islam.
What we will deal with now is Armageddon.
Armageddon may be the most talked about future event in
world history. It is an almost universally occurring event
in all the world’s major religions including Islam. The
Mahdi is the Islamic messiah that brings death and
destruction with him. The Iranian antichrist, Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad, dreams of the coming of the Islamic antichrist
known as the Mahdi. The Mahdi is yet another name for Satan
incarnate. The Mahdi and his Armageddon is the greatest
desire of the Satanic Iranian Ayatollahs. Armageddon is the
battle to end all battles during the Tribulation. It is the
last battle before the Gog and Magog battle following the
Millennium in Revelation 20:8-9. We are about to read 61
verses that give a very broad overview of the events of
Armageddon. Turn in your Bibles to:
Joel 3:1-17
1 For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when
I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and
Jerusalem, 2 I will also gather all nations, and
will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat,
and will plead with them there for my people and for
my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among
the nations, and parted my land. 3 And they have
cast lots for my people; and have given a boy for an
harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might
drink. 4 Yea, and what have ye to do with me, O
Tyre, and Zidon, and all the coasts of Palestine?
will ye render me a recompence? and if ye recompense
me, swiftly and speedily will I return your
recompence upon your own head; 5 Because ye have
taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into
your temples my goodly pleasant things: 6 The
children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem
have ye sold unto the Grecians, that ye might remove
them far from their border. 7 Behold, I will raise
them out of the place whither ye have sold them, and
will return your recompence upon your own head: 8
And I will sell your sons and your daughters into
the hand of the children of Judah, and they shall
sell them to the Sabeans, to a people far off: for
the LORD hath spoken it. 9 Proclaim ye this among
the Gentiles; Prepare war, wake up the mighty men,
let all the men of war draw near; let them come up:
10 Beat your plowshares into swords, and your
pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say, I am
strong. 11 Assemble yourselves, and come, all ye
heathen, and gather yourselves together round about:
thither cause thy mighty ones to come down, O LORD.
12 Let the heathen be wakened, and come up to the
valley of Jehoshaphat: for there will I sit to judge
all the heathen round about. 13 Put ye in the
sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, get you down;
for the press is full, the fats overflow; for their
wickedness is great. 14 Multitudes, multitudes in
the valley of decision: for the day of the LORD is
near in the valley of decision. 15 The sun and the
moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw
their shining. 16 The LORD also shall roar out of
Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the
heavens and the earth shall shake: but the LORD will
be the hope of his people, and the strength of the
children of Israel. 17 So shall ye know that I am
the LORD your God dwelling in Zion, my holy
mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there
shall no strangers pass through her any more.
Zephaniah 3:8
8 Therefore wait ye upon me, saith the LORD, until
the day that I rise up to the prey: for my
determination is to gather the nations, that I may
assemble the kingdoms, to pour upon them mine
indignation, even all my fierce anger: for all the
earth shall be devoured with the fire of my
jealousy. |
Zephaniah 3:8 pictures the time of the gathering of the
Gentile nations for the judgment of God. God’s purpose in
gathering the nations is to pour out His indignation and
wrath upon the nations. Revelation 14:10 pictures the
undiluted wrath of God being poured out without mixture into
the cup of His indignation. God states that He will devour
the earth with the fire of his jealousy. This is an event
that takes place during the Tribulation and ends at
Armageddon. Armageddon is an event that can be classified as
the all time horror of horrors. Words cannot adequately
express the carnage that will take place during Armageddon.
In Joel 3:4, Palestine (and Palestina) are seen as the
ultimate judgment place for those that hate the Jewish
people. Bible believing Christians should never refer to the
land of Israel as Palestine. That is not God’s name for it.
God has chosen Palestine as the place of destruction for the
wicked nations that persecute and murder the Jew. Palestine
is the graveyard of nations whereas Israel, or Canaan-land,
is the place of blessings for the nations. In Exodus 15:14,
when the children of Israel entered into Palestina, it
brought great fear upon all of its inhabitants. In Isaiah
14:29-32, we see the destruction of the rod of Satan in
Palestina. The rod of Satan is none other than the
Antichrist. Palestine and Palestina are used only four
different times in the Bible and are never used in the
context of anything but the destruction of the nations that
hate the Jew and Israel.
In Joel 3:1-8, we see the reasons for God’s judgment upon
the Gentile nations. Three major reasons are set forth in
these verses for the judgement of the Gentile nations. These
reasons are: (1) they drove the Jewish people out of the
land of Israel and divided (parted) the land of Israel among
themselves. (2) They sold the Jewish people into slavery.
(3) They stole the holy things of God for display in their
temples. For a nation to seek to divide the land of Israel
in “land for peace deals”, is to seek national and spiritual
destruction at the hands of God. In other words, it is
national suicide. The place of the nations’ judgment is
stated to be at Jerusalem in the Valley of Jehoshaphat.
Jehoshaphat literally means “Jehovah judges”. The Valley of
Jehoshaphat is thought to be the deep ravine which separates
Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives through which the Kidron
River flowed. In Joel 3:8, we see that the nations are
delivered into the hands of the children of Judah. The
Gentiles are issued a call to war by God in Joel 3:9-16. The
plowshares and pruning hooks are symbols of peace while the
swords and spears are symbols of war. The Valley of
Jehoshaphat is seen to be full of multitudes of people.
According to Joel 2:10 and Joel 3:15, the judgment takes
place during great earthquakes and great darkness. Turn in
your Bibles to the Book of Zechariah. Let’s read Zechariah
12:2-6:
Zechariah 12:2-6
2 Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling
unto all the people round about, when they shall be
in the siege both against Judah and against
Jerusalem. 3 And in that day will I make Jerusalem a
burdensome stone for all people: all that burden
themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though
all the people of the earth be gathered together
against it. 4 In that day, saith the LORD, I will
smite every horse with astonishment, and his rider
with madness: and I will open mine eyes upon the
house of Judah, and will smite every horse of the
people with blindness. 5 And the governors of Judah
shall say in their heart, The inhabitants of
Jerusalem shall be my strength in the LORD of hosts
their God. 6 In that day will I make the governors
of Judah like an hearth of fire among the wood, and
like a torch of fire in a sheaf; and they shall
devour all the people round about, on the right hand
and on the left: and Jerusalem shall be inhabited
again in her own place, even in Jerusalem. |
Zechariah 12:2-3 states that there would come a time when
Jerusalem will have become a cup of trembling and a
burdensome stone to all the nations of the world. That time
has been upon us since the wonderful day of May 14, 1948
when David Ben Gurion issued the formal declaration
reestablishing the nation of Israel. Hallelujah! Since that
time, Israel has become an hearth of fire in the hands of
God to all the nations that surround her. From 1967 through
1989, out of 865 resolutions in the UN Security Council and
the UN General Assembly, 526 were against Israel. That means
that 61% of their resolutions were in condemnation of
Israel! That makes Israel a burdensome stone to the nations
with exclamation points!! So, what does the Bible say about
the so-called “Palestinians”. The bidding of the Bible is
that the nations of the world will come into Palestine for
their destruction. Even so, come, Lord Jesus. Since the
nation of Israel was reconstituted on May 14, 1948, she has
constantly been at war with those warmongering, “peace
loving” Muslims. Since the official proclamation
reestablishing the nation of Israel she has been involved in
11 (eleven) major wars and/or conflicts up to an including
the 2012 Pillar Of Defense Operation. These wars and
conflicts included the 1948 War Of Independence, the 1956
Egyptian Suez War, the 1967 Six Day War, the 1967-1970 War
Of Attrition, the 1973 Yom Kippur War, the 1982-1985 Lebanon
War, the 1988-1992 Palestinian Intifada, the 2000-2005
Palestinian War, the 2006 Lebanon War, the 2008-2009
Operation Cast Lead War, and the 2012 Operation Pillar Of
Defense War. None of these wars was started by any act of
war by the nation of Israel. I have come to call all that
advocate and follow Satan’s Islamic whore “Satan’s Swine”.
Islam is an unclean thing in the hands of Satan. To seek
compromise with Islam is to seek and grovel after
destruction and ungodliness. For any professing Christian to
advocate for the so-called Palestinians, is to show a
Biblical illiteracy that leads to willful spiritual
blindness and the wrath and judgment of God. The God of
Islam is yet another of Satan’s reincarnations of the Old
Testament Baal. Elijah the prophet said, “How long halt ye
between two opinions? if the LORD be God, follow him: but if
Baal, then follow him. And the people answered him not a
word.”. There is a deafening silence in unbelieving American
Christianity. The spirit of fear of Islam has gripped our
nation. The spirit of fear and bondage has gripped this
ungodly nation of America and its mostly unsaved people.
Jehu the prophet said to King Jehoshaphat, “Shouldest thou
help the ungodly, and love them that hate the LORD?
therefore is wrath upon thee from before the LORD”. How long
will weak kneed Christians stand by and not defend Israel
from the onslaught of Satan. Professing Christianity’s
compromise with Satan’s spies and lies will lead to their
destruction.
Zechariah 12 lays God’s groundwork for the events of
Zechariah 14:1-15 which reads:
Zechariah 14:1-15
1 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, and thy spoil
shall be divided in the midst of thee. 2 For I will
gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and
the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and
the women ravished; and half of the city shall go
forth into captivity, and the residue of the people
shall not be cut off from the city. 3 Then shall the
LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as
when he fought in the day of battle. 4 And his feet
shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives,
which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount
of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward
the east and toward the west, and there shall be a
very great valley; and half of the mountain shall
remove toward the north, and half of it toward the
south. 5 And ye shall flee to the valley of the
mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall
reach unto Azal: yea, ye shall flee, like as ye fled
from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah
king of Judah: and the LORD my God shall come, and
all the saints with thee. 6 And it shall come to
pass in that day, that the light shall not be clear,
nor dark: 7 But it shall be one day which shall be
known to the LORD, not day, nor night: but it shall
come to pass, that at evening time it shall be
light. 8 And it shall be in that day, that living
waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them
toward the former sea, and half of them toward the
hinder sea: in summer and in winter shall it be. 9
And the LORD shall be king over all the earth: in
that day shall there be one LORD, and his name one.
10 All the land shall be turned as a plain from Geba
to Rimmon south of Jerusalem: and it shall be lifted
up, and inhabited in her place, from Benjamin’s gate
unto the place of the first gate, unto the corner
gate, and from the tower of Hananeel unto the king’s
winepresses. 11 And men shall dwell in it, and there
shall be no more utter destruction; but Jerusalem
shall be safely inhabited. 12 And this shall be the
plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people
that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh
shall consume away while they stand upon their feet,
and their eyes shall consume away in their holes,
and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.
13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a
great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and
they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his
neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the
hand of his neighbour. 14 And Judah also shall fight
at Jerusalem; and the wealth of all the heathen
round about shall be gathered together, gold, and
silver, and apparel, in great abundance. 15 And so
shall be the plague of the horse, of the mule, of
the camel, and of the ass, and of all the beasts
that shall be in these tents, as this plague. |
Zechariah 14:1-15 presents one of the most gruesome scenes
in Scripture. These verses mark the end of the “times of the
Gentiles”. In verses 1 and 2, the Lord Jesus Christ has
gathered all the nations against Jerusalem where he will
fight against them with the sword of His mouth. The
burdensome stone of Zechariah 12:3 has become the millstone
of destruction about the necks of those nations that hate
God and the Jew. They will drown in a sea of their own blood
and be cast into hell in fulfilment of Psalm 9:17 and
Matthew 25:31-46 which we will deal with soon. In Zechariah
12:4, the Lord Jesus Christ has set his feet upon the Mount
of Olives causing the land to split into a huge east to west
valley creating a North Mount of Olives and a South Mount of
Olives. In doing so, the Lord Jesus Christ has come to take
dominion of the works of His creation in fulfillment of
Psalm 8:6 followed by the judgment of the nations in Psalm
9. Verse 5 tells us we will see a giant earthquake like the
Middle East has never seen. This is an event that takes
place at the Second Coming, or in other words, the Second
Advent, of the Lord Jesus Christ and sees its ultimate
fulfillment in Revelation 19:11-21. In Zechariah 14:12-15,
we see the gruesome sight of men’s and animal’s flesh and
eyeballs consuming away as they stand upon their feet. The
only weapon of war known to man that can cause this type of
death is nuclear weapons.
Revelation 14:14-20
14 And I looked, and behold a white cloud, and upon
the cloud one sat like unto the Son of man, having
on his head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp
sickle. 15 And another angel came out of the temple,
crying with a loud voice to him that sat on the
cloud, Thrust in thy sickle, and reap: for the time
is come for thee to reap; for the harvest of the
earth is ripe. 16 And he that sat on the cloud
thrust in his sickle on the earth; and the earth was
reaped. 17 And another angel came out of the temple
which is in heaven, he also having a sharp sickle.
18 And another angel came out from the altar, which
had power over fire; and cried with a loud cry to
him that had the sharp sickle, saying, Thrust in thy
sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of
the earth; for her grapes are fully ripe. 19 And the
angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and
gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the
great winepress of the wrath of God. 20 And the
winepress was trodden without the city, and blood
came out of the winepress, even unto the horse
bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred
furlongs. |
The Son of man in verse 14 is none other than the Lord Jesus
Christ. What we have in Revelation 14 is a picture of the
Lord Jesus Christ reaping the earth in judgment. This
reaping may well be in part that by the Lord Jesus Christ in
Isaiah 34:2-3 and Isaiah 63:3 which say:
Isaiah 34:2-3
2 For the indignation of the LORD is upon all
nations, and his fury upon all their armies: he hath
utterly destroyed them, he hath delivered them to
the slaughter. 3 Their slain also shall be cast out,
and their stink shall come up out of their carcases,
and the mountains shall be melted with their blood.
Isaiah 63:3
3 I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the
people there was none with me: for I will tread them
in mine anger, and trample them in my fury; and
their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and
I will stain all my raiment. |
The picture in Revelation 14:20 is not one of bloodshed just
in the area of Armageddon. It is shown to be throughout
Israel because it is spread out over a distance of about 200
miles which is roughly the length of Israel. This proves
that the battle of Armageddon is but the final battle in an
extended series of battles in an all out war that engulfs
all of Israel. What we have is Satan’s final attempt to
destroy the land that brought forth the man child and that
land is Israel. Israel is personified by that sun clothed
woman with the moon beneath her feet and a crown of twelve
stars in Revelation 12:1 and Genesis 37:9 (Joseph is the
twelfth star.). Turn in your Bibles to Revelation 16:12-16
where it is written:
Revelation 16:12-16
12 And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the
great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was
dried up, that the way of the kings of the east
might be prepared. 13 And I saw three unclean
spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the
dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out
of the mouth of the false prophet. 14 For they are
the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go
forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole
world, to gather them to the battle of that great
day of God Almighty. 15 Behold, I come as a thief.
Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his
garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his
shame. 16 And he gathered them together into a place
called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon. |
We have already discussed the armies described in these
verses on page 1 of this article (This discussion is located
here). What we
did not talk about is the deception of the Satanic trinity
which we will briefly mention here since we are going to do
a series on the unholy trinity. The three unclean spirits
are none other than Satan as the dragon, the Antichrist as
the beast, and the False Prophet as the deceiving spirit.
This will be in fulfillment of Matthew 24:24, Mark 13:22, 2
Thessalonians 2:7-10, and Revelation 13:13-14. These
Scriptures state:
Matthew 24:24
24 For there shall arise false Christs, and false
prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders;
insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall
deceive the very elect.
Mark 13:22
22 For false Christs and false prophets shall rise,
and shall shew signs and wonders, to seduce, if it
were possible, even the elect.
2 Thessalonians 2:7-10
7 For the mystery of iniquity doth already work:
only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken
out of the way. 8 And then shall that Wicked be
revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the
spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the
brightness of his coming: 9 Even him, whose coming
is after the working of Satan with all power and
signs and lying wonders, 10 And with all
deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that
perish; because they received not the love of the
truth, that they might be saved.
Revelation 13:13-14
13 And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh
fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight
of men, 14 And deceiveth them that dwell on the
earth by the means of those miracles which he had
power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to
them that dwell on the earth, that they should make
an image to the beast, which had the wound by a
sword, and did live. |
There is already in our day a spirit of deception that
dominates apostate American Christianity. That spirit is
rooted in and feeds off of unbelief. That unbelief is also
rooted in wicked churches that are chock-full of unsaved,
professing Christians who are being blown about by every
wind of false doctrine. These wicked churches are also
overflowing with Anti-Semitic, Jew hating devils posing as
professing Christians. Unbelief is always looking for a sign
and a wonder and Satan is more than happy to accommodate
unbelief with a false sign and a false wonder. The
Pentecostal/Charismatic movement in the world’s churches has
been the willing victim of much of Satan’s deception. As
deceived as these churches are, they have not seen anything
like the deception that will take place during the
Tribulation. It will be a worldwide false signs and wonders
movement accompanied by miracles that will lead unsaved,
professing Christians to take the mark of the beast.
Unbelief will always accept a sign instead of believing the
word of God. Satan pushes signs, wonders, and miracles. God
demands faith in the Word of God to prove that which is of
God. If I have an uncompromising belief in the Word of God,
then I am much less likely to receive a lying and deceiving
spirit. The apostle John said in 1 John 4:1: “Beloved,
believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they
are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into
the world”. It will be the spirit of devils working miracles
that will draw the armies of the world to Armageddon for
their destruction. None of this comes as a surprise to God
because the Holy Ghost prophesied through Paul the coming of
a great falling away in 1 Timothy 4:1-3, 2 Timothy 3:1-9, 2
Timothy 4:1-4, and 2 Thessalonians 2:1-12. God the Holy
Ghost also prophesied of this great apostasy through Peter
in 2 Peter 2:1-10. The Lord Jesus Christ Himself spoke of
this great falling away in Matthew 24:24, Mark 13:22, and
Luke 21:8. Now, let’s look at the final Scripture passage
dealing with the wars of the Tribulation. Turn in your
Bibles to Revelation 19:11-21:
Revelation 19:11-21
11 And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white
horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful
and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and
make war. 12 His eyes were as a flame of fire, and
on his head were many crowns; and he had a name
written, that no man knew, but he himself. 13 And he
was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his
name is called The Word of God. 14 And the armies
which were in heaven followed him upon white horses,
clothed in fine linen, white and clean. 15 And out
of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he
should smite the nations: and he shall rule them
with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of
the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. 16 And he
hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written,
KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS. 17 And I saw an
angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud
voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst
of heaven, Come and gather yourselves together unto
the supper of the great God; 18 That ye may eat the
flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the
flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of
them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men,
both free and bond, both small and great. 19 And I
saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their
armies, gathered together to make war against him
that sat on the horse, and against his army. 20 And
the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet
that wrought miracles before him, with which he
deceived them that had received the mark of the
beast, and them that worshipped his image. These
both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning
with brimstone. 21 And the remnant were slain with
the sword of him that sat upon the horse, which
sword proceeded out of his mouth: and all the fowls
were filled with their flesh. |
The first appearance of a white horse in Revelation has the
Antichrist as its rider. The rider of the second white horse
is the Lord Jesus Christ who is the greatest Faithful and
True warrior to ever live. He leads the greatest cavalry the
world has ever known. This is the cavalry of the saved
saints of the Living God, who is the Lord Jesus Christ
Himself. The saints ride upon white horses clothed in fine
linen uniforms that are white and clean because they have
been washed in the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Hallelujah! The whiteness of the garments is the
righteousness of the Lord Jesus Christ. The Lord Jesus
Christ is called the Word of God. There is great power in
His words for He spoke the world into existence and He will
speak the armies of this world into destruction. The sharp
and two-edged sword is the Word of God. He, the Word of God,
will rule the world with a rod of iron in fulfillment of
Psalm 2:9, Revelation 2:27, Revelation 12:5, and Revelation
19:15. He will rule the world as KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF
LORDS. The Lord Jesus Christ has prepared a great feast for
the vultures of the air. They will feast upon all the wicked
dead including their political and military leaders. At the
end of this great battle of Armageddon, the beast and the
false prophet will be cast into the lake of fire burning
with brimstone.
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