The two thousand year old warning? It’s found in the ninth chapter of the Book of Revelation, verses 13 thru 21. This is the passage that speaks of the great river Euphrates and the army of two hundred million horsemen. John says, “and I heard the number of them,” emphasizing this as when he wrote an army of that number would have been totally unbelievable, a ludicrous number. But it is the 18th verse that contains the most startling number: “By these three was THE THIRD PART of men killed…” A third part of mankind would be somewhere in the neighborhood of two BILLION people!
By what three? “By fire and smoke and brimstone.” (See verse 17). What is produced by a nuclear explosion?
The Euphrates River begins in the mountains of Northern Turkey and runs down through Syria, then through Iraq and into the Persian Gulf, ISIS stomping grounds. There are well over 300 million Muslims living in the Middle East right now.
God doesn’t want His faithful sons and daughters taken unaware or terrified by world events. “In me, ye shall have peace,” Christ said. And He didn’t qualify that statement. We can have peace regardless of what age or era we live in, regardless of what transpires around us. God gives us a “heads up” warning, letting us know what we can expect. God help us to understand.
Christ’s Aged Servant (Galatians 1:10-12),
Donald Wiley