Revelation
9:14,15
Rev.9:14,15
saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, "Release the four angels
who are bound at the great river Euphrates."
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.
Release the four angels
The angels released from the Euphrates River
are probably fallen angels because they have been bounded there. The Greek word
for “bound” (deō) is only used twice in the Book of Revelation. The other verse
where this word appears is in Revelation 20:2, which describes Satan being
bounded for 1000 years.
Rev 20:2 And he laid hold on the dragon, that
old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and
bound him a thousand years, the four angels bounded at the Euphrates
River are imprisoned in a similar manner that Satan will be imprisoned for one
thousand years.
The treatment of these four
angels is interesting to note because they will be temporarily released from
their bondage unlike the group of angels described in Jude 1:6 and 2 Peter 2:4.
Jud
1:6 And the angels who did not keep their proper domain, but left their own
abode, He has reserved in everlasting chains under darkness for the judgment of
the great day;
2Pe 2:4 For if God did not spare the angels
who sinned, but cast them down to hell and delivered them into
chains of darkness, to be reserved for judgment;
Revelation 9:14-15 states that the four angels who will be
released “were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year” at the
Euphrates River. This phrase indicates that these angels are reserved for a
specific purpose-primarily causing the type of chaos that leads to the death of
a third of mankind.
“…the
great river Euphrates”
- the New Testament Greek name for the river, pronounced yoo-frat-ace, which means sweet water. In the Old Testament Hebrew (although most English translations use the Greek word for the actual Hebrew word, which is completely different), the river is called by the Hebrew name pronounced per-awth, which means to break forth, or rushing.
The
Euphrates is also referred to in the Holy Scriptures simply as "the
river" or "the great river."
"Euphrates,"
a river in what is today central Iraq
This river connects between east to west. It
is from Parish Gulf to Turkey. It covers the below countries
It holds more historical events. We will see
only biblical events now.
1.
This river is running from the
beginning of the earth that mean when God created the heaven and earth from
that time onwards.
2.
Many biblical historical events
were happened in this place
1. In the
beginning
Gen. 2:10-14
10 Now a river went
out of Eden to water the garden, and from there it parted and became four
riverheads.
11 The name of the
first is Pishon; it is the one which skirts the whole land of
Havilah, where there is gold.
12 And the gold of
that land is good. Bdellium and the onyx stone are there.
13 The name of the
second river is Gihon; it is the one which goes around the whole
land of Cush.
14 The name of the
third river is Hiddekel; it is the one which goes toward the east
of Assyria. The fourth river is the Euphrates.
2.
The First murder
Committed here (Cain and Able)
3.
The flood began
here (Noah)
4.
The first war
fought here (Nebuhathnezzer )
2King 24:7,9 And the king of Egypt did
not come out of his land anymore, for the king of Babylon had taken all that
belonged to the king of Egypt from the Brook of Egypt to the River Euphrates.
5.
The tower of babel
constructed here (Babylon is the part of Asyria)
6.
Israelite started
worship idol. ((Nebuhathnezzer’s statue )
7.
From here only the
new tongue was born
8.
God gave the
promise land to Israelites from the Western sea (Mediterranean) and the river
of Euphrates. Gen 15:18, Due. 11:24 and Jos.1:4
Due. 11:24 Every place on which the
sole of your foot treads shall be yours: from the wilderness and Lebanon, from
the river, the River Euphrates, even to the Western Sea, shall be your
territory.
New Testament
Killing a third of people
Revelation
9:15 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.
Armageddon war
"Armageddon"
is spoken of directly in relation to a prior event at the Euphrates i.e.
"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" ... "And he gathered them together into a place called in
the Hebrew tongue Armageddon."
Revelation
16:12-16 KJV Then the sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates,
and its water was dried up, so that the way of the kings from the east might be
prepared.
13 And I saw three
unclean spirits like frogs coming out of the mouth of the dragon, out of
the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet.
14 For they are
spirits of demons, performing signs, which go out to 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 am
coming as a thief. Blessed is he who watches, and keeps his garments,
lest he walk naked and they see his shame."
16 And they gathered
them together to the place called in Hebrew, Armageddon.
[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.
And the four angels were loosed, who were prepared — By loosing
them, as well as by their strength and rage.
To kill the third part of men — That is, an immense number of them.
For the hour, and day, and month, and year — All
this agrees with the slaughter which the Saracens made for a long time after
Mahomet's death. And with the number of angels let loose agrees the number of
their first and most eminent caliphs. These were Ali, Abubeker, Omar, and
Osman. Mahomet named Ali, his cousin and son-in-law, for his successor; but he
was soon worked out by the rest, till they severally died, and so made room for
him. They succeeded each other, and each destroyed innumerable multitudes of
men. There are in a prophetic Com. Years. Com. Days. Hour....... 8
Day............ 196 in all 212 years. Month........... 15.........318 /
Year............ 196.........117 / Now, the second woe, as also the beginning
of the third, has its place between the ceasing of the locusts and the rising
of the beast out of the sea, even at the time that the Saracens, who were
chiefly cavalry, were in the height of their carnage; from their, first caliph,
Abubeker, till they were repulsed from Rome under Leo IV. These 212 years may
therefore be reckoned from the year 634 to 847. The gradation in reckoning the
time, beginning with the hour and ending with a year, corresponds with their
small beginning and vast increase. Before and after Mahomet's death, they had
enough to do to settle their affairs at home. Afterwards Abubeker went farther,
and in the year 634 gained great advantage over the Persians and Romans in
Syria. Under Omar was the conquest of Mesopotamia, Palestine, and Egypt made.
Under Osman, that of Afric, (with the total suppression of the Roman government
in the year 647,) of Cyprus, and of all Persia in 651. After Ali was dead, his
son Ali Hasen, a peaceable prince, was driven out by Muavia; under whom, and
his successors, the power of the Saracens so increased, that within fourscore
years after Mahomet's death they had extended their conquests farther than the
warlike Romans did in four hundred years.
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