200 million men on horses are going to be able to kill 2 billion+ people? Really?
17 And in my vision, I saw the horses and the riders sitting on them. The riders wore armor that was fiery red and dark blue and yellow. The horses had heads like lions, and fire and smoke and burning sulfur billowed from their mouths. 18 One-third of all the people on earth were killed by these three plagues—by the fire and smoke and burning sulfur that came from the mouths of the horses. 19 Their power was in their mouths and in their tails. For their tails had heads like snakes, with the power to injure people. THE MESSAGE VERSION: AMPLIFIED: 16The number of their troops of cavalry was twice ten thousand times ten thousand (200,000,000); I heard what their number was. 17And in [my] vision the horses and their riders appeared to me like this: the riders wore breastplates the color of fiery red and sapphire blue and sulphur (brimstone) yellow. The heads of the horses looked like lions' heads, and from their mouths there poured fire and smoke and sulphur (brimstone). 18A third of mankind was killed by these three plagues--by the fire and the smoke and the sulphur (brimstone) that poured from the mouths of the horses.
15 Then the four angels who had been prepared for this hour and day and month and year were turned loose to kill one-third of all the people on earth. 16 I heard the size of their army, which was 200 million mounted troops.
15-19The Four Angels were untied and let loose, Four Angels all prepared for the exact year, month, day, and even hour when they were to kill a third of the human race. The number of the army of horsemen was twice ten thousand times ten thousand. I heard the count and saw both horses and riders in my vision: fiery breastplates on the riders, lion heads on the horses breathing out fire and smoke and brimstone. With these three weapons—fire and smoke and brimstone—they killed a third of the human race. The horses killed with their mouths and tails; their serpentlike tails also had heads that wreaked havoc.
15So the four angels who had been in readiness for that hour in the appointed day, month, and year were liberated to destroy a third of mankind.
Here, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, dogs and cats, we have another blazing example of derisive, dismissive affrontery to the UNRUBBERIZED AUTHENTIC SCRIPTURES OF ALMIGHTY GOD.
200 million men on horses are going to be able to kill 2 billion+ people? Really?
This REPLACEMENTARIAN et al perspective seems to be clearly casting derisive aspersions at the very idea so clearly stated in Scripture that 1/3 of mankind will be killed by the 200 million strong angelic calvary.
Yet again we see the same sort of spirit and attitude so present with the so called "higher" criticism group of "Biblical" "Scholars" of 100+ years ao--i.e. derision that ALMIGHTY GOD REALLY IS ALMIGHTY GOD AND CAN DO JOLLY WELL WHATEVER HE WANTS TO DO HOWEVER HE WANTS TO DO IT! LOL.
I had forgotten how clear it is in Scripture that the 200 million strong calvary is angelic, supernatural.
Evidently, the fact that mere humans can murder 10's of millions with one bomb is somehow convolutedly in a different part of Alice's Rabbit Hole School Of Rubber Bible Interpretation and Theology. Evidently in that fairy-land . . . humans can kill 10's of millions with rather ancient weapons but God's angels on supernatural horses cannot.
I realize it doesn't make rational sense to hold that perspective. However, 'tis the kind of unthinking irrationality we have come to expect from the REPLACEMENTARIAN et al camp. And they rarely disappoint us.
I suppose the contention is that such riders and horses must be symbolic. I don't think so. I believe viewers will see literally just what was described. Now it may be that what was described is not 100% identical to the images REPLACEMENTARIANS et al may have in their heads when reading that description. God only knows what THOSE images might be!
However, on that likely not too distant day, I'm utterly convinced that the viewers on the scene--had they read the prophecy, will see easily how precisely the descrption literally fits what they are then seeing.
God has this habit of meaning what He says and saying what He means--whether it fits REPLACEMENTARIAN et al's rubber "Bible's," or not. Evidently it tends to be NOT!
My human side still finds this sort of seemingly glib hostility to authentic Scripture an outrageous and dangerous affront to Authentic Biblical Truth and to the Author, God Almighty.
GOD HAVE MERCY!
May lurkers and others throughtfully consider the Scriptures themselves. As a number of you have indicated via Freepmail--you are thankfully not hindered in your apprehension of authentic Biblical truth by the gross irrational silliness on the other side of these back and forth exchanges.
Thankfully, all it takes is childlike faith and taking Scripture at face value . . . and asking Holy Spirit to enlighten the treasures therein to your conscious mind and to your spirit, your heart, your body, your life. PRAISE GOD, HE IS FAITHFUL TO DO SO when there are eyes to see and ears to hear.
Woohoo!! Thanks Quix, for your boldness!! Love your posts and heartily agree. I think it is such a shame how people consider God on such human levels.
God is HOLINESS!!!
His plan is on His terms rather than ours, and it’s for the sake of His glory rather than our desires.
Then I found this site.
Thanks for the ping!