"The Secret of GOD," as revealed by John in the Revelation of Christ, chapter 9:13, with a renewed mind and our victory as foretold.

We have come to the sixth Shepherd-Messenger and the trumpet blast he produces.


Revelation 9:13-19 "And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God, saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, "Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates." 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 number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand: and I heard the number of them. And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone. By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths. For their power is in their mouth, and in their tails: for their tails were like unto serpents, and had heads, and with them they do hurt." (KJV)

Revelation 9:13-19 "Then the sixth angel blew his trumpet, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar before God, saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, "Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates." 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. The number of mounted troops was twice ten thousand times ten thousand; I heard their number. 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. By these three plagues a third of mankind was killed, by the fire and smoke and sulfur coming out of their mouths. 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." (ESV)

Revelation 9:13-19 "Then the sixth Shepherd-Messenger blew his trumpet and I heard what seemed like one voice proceeding out of the four horns of the golden altar before the face of GOD. (The altar of incense positioned before the now, torn veil of the most holy place between the table of the show bread and the golden lamp-stand with the blossoming almonds rod.) The voice from the four horns of the altar instructed the sixth Shepherd-Messenger to release the four Shepherd-Messengers from their confinement to the great Euphrates river. (The number four represents the entire universe - the so-called four "corners" of the earth, the earth itself, the oceans, the under-world and then the heavenly sky-dimension. The meaning of the Euphrates is sweet water; the good and abounding river.) And the four Shepherd-Messengers were released from their confinement and time of preparation to bring to a conclusion the death of one third of humanity. This all pointed to the specific hour which was prophetically contained in the Jewish calendar. Zooming out into their holy days, months and years. (Every annual prophetic picture in their feasts, repeated on a monthly basis in the new moons, then on a weekly basis in every Sabbath, all culminated in the hour of the Lord's earthly walk! The only relevant death that contains and represents every other death is the one Jesus died in His humanity, as humanity's death, 2Corinthians 5:14 / Hebrews 9:28.) And I heard the number of the armies of the cavalry which amounted to two myriads of myriads which is two hundred million horsemen! ( This is an immense and unparalleled number of horsemen. Ten thousand x ten thousand is one hundred million; consequently the number here referred to would be 200 million. The Japanese also have the highest value of ten thousand and their next highest would be ten thousand times ten thousand which is a hundred million. Countless - 2 myriads - literally ten thousands times ten thousand and thousands of thousands! The largest number named in Ancient Greek was the myriad-myriad (written MM) or hundred million. In his Sand Reckoner, Archimedes of Syracuse used this quantity as the basis for a numeration system of large powers of ten, which he used to count grains of sand! According to PIE, the etymology of the word myriad has been variously connected to meu- "damp" in reference to the waves of the sea and to Greek myrmex, "ant," in reference to their swarms. Proto-Indo-European (PIE) is the linguistic reconstruction of the common ancestor of the Indo-European languages, the most widely spoken language family in the world.) In my vision of the unparalleled number of horsemen and their horses, they appeared to be engulfed as if with breastplates of fire. It looked like the deep blue color of a [1]hyacinth flower or a jacinth gem stone or the blue flame of [2]burning sulphur and the horses had heads of lions. Fire, smoke and Sulphur issued from their mouths. (In the Greek mind the Hyacinth flower speaks of resurrection! Vincent writes in his word studies, [1, G5191 from G5192] ὑάκινθος, -hyacinth is the name of a flower and also of a precious gem stone. The noun occurs only in Rev. 21:20, and the adjective only here. According to classic Greek mythology, the flower sprang up from the blood of Hyacinthus, a beautiful Spartan youth, who was accidentally killed during a game of quoits. [When Hyacinth died, Apollo did not allow Hades to claim the youth; rather, he made a flower, the hyacinth, spring up from his spilled blood. Hyacinth was the tutelary deity of one of the principal Spartan festivals, the Hyacinthia, held every summer. The festival lasted three days, one day of mourning for the death of Hyacinth, and the last two celebrating his rebirth as Apollo Hyakinthios!- Wikipedia] It was thought by some that the letters AI, AI, ai ai - the exclamation of woe, could be traced on the pedals, white others discovered the letter Y, the initial letter of Yάκινθος. The story of the slaying of Hyacinthus is told by Ovid.

"Lo, the blood
Which, on the ground outpoured, had stained the sod,
Is blood no more. Brighter than Tyrian dye,
Like to the lily's shape a flower appears,
Purple in hue as that is silvery white.
Nor yet does such memorial content
Phoebus Apollo at whose word it rose.
Upon its leaves he writes his own laments,
And on the flower stands inscribed
AI, AI-ai ai"
"Metamorphoses," x., 175 sqp.

[2, G2303 from a neuter of G2304] θεῖον theiodes , from (G2304 from G2316 theos, god head) theios and eidos, from (G2303) theion, godlike ( neuter as noun, divinity): - divine, godhead. Also the word for Sulphur; a yellow inflammable mineral substance found in quantities on the shores of the Dead Sea. This was also known as divine incense, because burning brimstone was regarded as having power to purify, and to ward off diseases. Its medical values are well known even today. See the notes on the Lake of Fire at the end of Rev. 19.) These three plagues proceeding from their mouths were what caused the third of humans to die, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone coming out of their mouths. Their inherent authority was located in their mouths and also in their tails which looked just like serpents, complete with heads. If the bite wasn't deadly enough they had a venomous back-up in the tail! (The word often translated, authority is the word (G1849 from G1832 exesti , third person singular present indicative of a compound of G1537 ex, denoting origin, and G1510 eimi, I exist), exousia, is from ek or ex, denotes origin and (G1510) eimi, I am - thus the seat of inherent I-am-ness. The horses had heads like lions - a lion's tail has a fluff of hair at its end which could make the tail look like a serpent. The serpent was the symbol of wisdom. These visions were all connected with the heavenly revelation of the lion of Judah who conquered humanity's crisis or judgment as the Lamb of GOD. Only a third of humanity was struck - the man Jesus the Christ represents the third party of the Triune GOD who dies humanity's death in His incarnate human body - the two thirds of humanity, symbolizing the majority initially not responding to the revelation of the Lamb in co-knowing their salvation unveiled in the genius of GOD.) (The Mirror, with editing.)

In our next visit, the LORD willing, we shall look into the third of human race who seem not to respond to redemptions story. This bring to close chapter 9. It is this very truth that has for ages upset me and it still does as I sit in on Bible studies to hear and see what is their teaching. Most seem to be away from the inspiration of the revelation of Christ. Bound in human efforts to try and walk as Jesus did, when we are to pick up on His obedience as our own.