Chapter Twenty-Three/The Second Woe - Armies of Cavalry - Continue

 Happily, John can report: "And the four angels were untied, who have been prepared for the hour and the day and month and year, to kill a third of the men." (Revelation 9:15) Jehovah is a precise Timer. He has a timetable and is keeping to it. Hence, these messengers are released exactly on schedule and in time to accomplish what they have to do. Imagine their joy on coming forth from bondage in 1919, ready for work! They have a commission not only to torment but finally "to kill a third of the men." This is related to the plagues heralded by the first four trumpet blasts, which afflicted a third of the earth, the sea, the creatures in the sea, the fountains and rivers, and the heavenly light sources. (Revelation 8:7-12) The four angels go further. They "kill," exposing to a completion Christendom's spiritually dead condition. Trumpeted pronouncements made from 1922 onward and continuing to the present time, have accomplished this.

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