12.18.2014 New Testament: Rev 9.17–19

To read the Bible in a year, read Revelation 9 on December 18, In the year of our Lord 2014

By Don Ruhl

When the sixth angel sounded his trumpet, the four angels released a great army riding horses, and John said of the horses that he saw,

And thus I saw the horses in the vision: those who sat on them had breastplates of fiery red, hyacinth blue, and sulfur yellow; and the heads of the horses were like the heads of lions; and out of their mouths came fire, smoke, and brimstone. By these three plagues a third of mankind was killed—by the fire and the smoke and the brimstone which came out of their mouths. For their power is in their mouth and in their tails; for their tails are like serpents, having heads; and with them they do harm (Revelation 9.17–19). 

Yet, the biblical text goes on to say that those who survived these plagues, did not repent of their evil. Do we not see that happening in the world? People suffer for their sins, but others watching do not learn from it and repent.