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The Revelation of Jesus Christ
This symbolic statement means that in that day intellect will be crowned. Apostasy will be on the throne. · "Their faces were as the faces of men." Here, also, we see that men shall make a god of reason. As is ever the case in any false doctrine, the appeal is to the intellect. So it is in the rationalism that is sweeping throughout professing Christen- dom today. · "And they had hair as the hair of wom~n." These false doctrines will have a strange subtlety. , "Their teeth were as the teeth of lions." They will fairly destroy those who receive them. "And they had a king over them ... whose·name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek ... Apollyon." In the Word of God, the devil is given many names. In this case, the two names mean the same thing, "destruction." Both apostate Israel and apostate Christendo~ will be faced with desolation. The light will be blotted out; and in the dreadful darkness, the demons from the pit will do their awful work.
THE S1xTH TRUMPET-THE SECOND WoE 9:13-21 ·
--- 1. *The Army of the Two Hundred Million. "Two •See "The Army of the Two Hundred Million and the Lord·s Return" for a more detailed exposltio!} of this portion of Scripture. "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." · Substitute for "an hour, a day, a month, and a year" the definite article "the." and you will see that there is a specific, set time in which these angels are prepared to do their work. The loosing of these angels releases a vast company of horse men, the number of which is given as "two hundred thousand thousand.''
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