Thinking Thursday

12 The first woe has passed; behold, two woes are still to come. 

In other words, the 5th trumpet has passed.  Trumpets 6 and 7 are on their way.

13 Then the sixth angel blew his trumpet, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar before God, 

Here we go.  The 2nd woe is here.  John hears a voice from the altar.

14 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, the day, the month, and the year, were released to kill a third of mankind. 

Our God is a precise God.  He does nothing willy nilly or reactionary.  One third of mankind will die.

16 The number of mounted troops was twice ten thousand times ten thousand; I heard their number. 

An army of 200 million if my math calculations are correct.

17 And this is how I saw the horses in my vision and those who rode them: they wore breastplates the color of fire and of sapphire and of sulfur, and the heads of the horses were like lions' heads, and fire and smoke and sulfur came out of their mouths.

18 By these three plagues a third of mankind was killed, by the fire and smoke and sulfur coming out of their mouths. 

The three plagues =fire, smoke and sulphur.  The air is not going to be fit to breath.

19 For the power of the horses is in their mouths and in their tails, for their tails are like serpents with heads, and by means of them they wound. [Rev 9:12-19 ESV]

The serpent was in the garden of Eden, he's making another appearance here towards the end. His mission is still the same:  to oppose God and bring destruction to mankind.