The sixth angel sounds his trumpet and releases four angels that were bound at the great river Euphrates. The four angels lead an army of 200 million horsemen who kill a third of mankind with fire, smoke, and brimstone that proceeds from their mouths. Those who survive do not repent of worshipping demons and idols.

1. The Sixth Trumpet
Revelation 9:13-21

2. • (13) Then the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a
voice from the four horns of the golden altar which
is before God, (14) one saying to the sixth angel
who had the trumpet, "Release the four angels
who are bound at the great river Euphrates." (15)
And the four angels, who had been prepared for
the hour and day and month and year, were
released, so that they would kill a third of
mankind.

4. • Jude 1:6 And angels who did not keep their own
domain, but abandoned their proper abode, He
has kept in eternal bonds under darkness for the
judgment of the great day,

5. • Jude 1:6 And angels who did not keep their own
domain, but abandoned their proper abode, He
has kept in eternal bonds under darkness for the
judgment of the great day,
• Galatians 4:4 But when the fullness of the time
came, God sent forth His Son, born of a
woman, born under the Law,

6. • (16) The number of the armies of the horsemen
was two hundred million; I heard the number of
them.

7. • (16) The number of the armies of the horsemen
was two hundred million; I heard the number of
them.
• Revelation 16:12 The sixth angel poured out his
bowl on the great river, the Euphrates; and its
water was dried up, so that the way would be
prepared for the kings from the east.

8. • 2 Kings 6:17 Then Elisha prayed and said, "O
LORD, I pray, open his eyes that he may see." And
the LORD opened the servant's eyes and he saw;
and behold, the mountain was full of horses and
chariots of fire all around Elisha.

9. • (17) And this is how I saw in the vision the horses
and those who sat on them: the riders had
breastplates the color of fire and of hyacinth and
of brimstone; and the heads of the horses are like
the heads of lions; and out of their mouths
proceed fire and smoke and brimstone. (18) A
third of mankind was killed by these three
plagues, by the fire and the smoke and the
brimstone which proceeded out of their mouths.

10. • (19) For the power of the horses is in their mouths
and in their tails; for their tails are like serpents
and have heads, and with them they do harm.

11. • (19) For the power of the horses is in their mouths
and in their tails; for their tails are like serpents
and have heads, and with them they do harm.
• “The weapons of this army are fire, smoke, and
brimstone (vs. 17) which are weapons of hell and
may further indicate that the army is made up of
the inhabitants of hell—demons.” Charles Ryrie

12. • (19) For the power of the horses is in their mouths
and in their tails; for their tails are like serpents
and have heads, and with them they do harm.
• Revelation 19:20b these two were thrown alive
into the lake of fire which burns with brimstone.

13. • Revelation 9:2a He opened the bottomless
pit, and smoke went up out of the pit, like the
smoke of a great furnace;

14. • (20) The rest of mankind, who were not killed by
these plagues, did not repent of the works of their
hands, so as not to worship demons, and the idols
of gold and of silver and of brass and of stone and
of wood, which can neither see nor hear nor walk;
(21) and they did not repent of their murders nor
of their sorceries nor of their immorality nor of
their thefts.

15. • 1 Corinthians 10:20 but I say that the things which
the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons and
not to God; and I do not want you to become
sharers in demons.

16. • 1 Corinthians 10:20 No, but I say that the things
which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to
demons and not to God; and I do not want you to
become sharers in demons.
• 1 Timothy 4:1 But the Spirit explicitly says that in
later times some will fall away from the
faith, paying attention to deceitful spirits and
doctrines of demons,

17. • 2 Corinthians 12:7 Because of the surpassing
greatness of the revelations, for this reason, to
keep me from exalting myself, there was given me
a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to
torment me--to keep me from exalting myself!

18. • Mark 5:6-9 Seeing Jesus from a distance, he ran up
and bowed down before Him; (7) and shouting
with a loud voice, he *said, "What business do we
have with each other, Jesus, Son of the Most High
God? I implore You by God, do not torment me!"
(8) For He had been saying to him, "Come out of
the man, you unclean spirit!" (9) And He was
asking him, "What is your name?" And he *said to
Him, "My name is Legion; for we are many."

19. • Titus 3:3-7 For we also once were foolish ourselves,
disobedient, deceived, enslaved to various lusts and
pleasures, spending our life in malice and envy,
hateful, hating one another. (4) But when the
kindness of God our Savior and His love for mankind
appeared, (5) He saved us, not on the basis of deeds
which we have done in righteousness, but according
to His mercy, by the washing of regeneration and
renewing by the Holy Spirit, (6) whom He poured out
upon us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior, (7) so
that being justified by His grace we would be made
heirs according to the hope of eternal life.