Chicken Soup

There is a lot of confusion about how to make chicken soup.  Here's how:

Roast a chicken.  This is not very involved.  Buy a roasting chicken, remove any giblets inside the chicken, wash it, rub it inside and out with salt.  Some warn against stuffing the chicken, but I usually do, usually just with coarsely chopped onions.  Roast at 350 degrees about half an hour per pound.  Once I roasted a chicken covered with foil at 200 degrees, for about 8 hours.  Yum!  

The roasted chicken will have juice in the roasting pan.  Save this!!  
After eating the chicken, or most of it, use the bones and skin and juice from the pan and leftover chicken meat to make the soup.  Put all this in a slow cooker or else pressure cooker and cover with water.  Add about 2 tablespoons vinegar and 1 tablespoon salt.  If cooking in a slow cooker, bring to a boil then simmer for 24 hours or until the bones break easily.  Be sure the water continues to cover the bones.  If cooking in a pressure cooker, also cover bones, skin and juice from pan with water and add same amounts of vinegar and salt.  Pressure cook for about 3 hours. As with the slow cooker, the soup is ready when the bones begin to crumble and break easily.  

Viola!  Chicken soup.  I strain the bones, skin and chicken through a colander and chill.  Then I take the fat off the top when it's chilled and save it.  If the soup seems to be like jello, perfection has been achieved.  

The Two Witnesses

The Two Witnesses are described in Revelation 11, halfway through the book of Revelation.  John "is given" a reed that is like a rod and told to measure the temple of God, the altar and the worshippers in the temple.  First, "is given."  This is said over and over in Revelation.  Given by whom?  I think it would be safe to say God or an angel working of God's behalf.  The way the passive voice is used so often in Revelation seems curious, as if to distance God's role. 
Then there is the fact that there is no temple.  The temple was destroyed in 70 AD, and Revelation was written about 26 years later.  I knew that John wrote Revelation while exiled on the Isle of Patmos.  That doesn't sound all that bad.  "You go live on a Greek island!"  What I didn't realize is that he had to work in the salt mines there.  Anyway, when John wrote this there was no temple.  John also writes about Babylon, but there was no Babylon when John wrote Revelation either.  Will the temple be rebuilt?  There are a lot of reasons why the temple must be rebuilt for prophetic reasons.  The sacrifices will be resumed.  Have you ever wondered why there are no sacrifices?  The sacrifices are required to be offered at the place where the temple was, and no other place.  If there is no temple there is no place to sacrifice.  The "Abomination of Desolation" spoken of the the prophet Daniel will enter the temple and demand that he be worshipped as God.  Therefore there must be a temple.  Have you ever wondered where the Ark of the Covenant is?  Maybe not, but a lot of people have.  I think it will turn up one day, and the temple will be rebuilt and the Ark will be put in the temple.  Why?  Mostly because I can't imagine God going to the trouble to appear at Mt. Sinai and personally etch the Ten Commandments in stone, and then allow them to be destroyed.  
Why is John told to measure the temple?  There isn't a temple. Some say God is about to judge the temple and the worshippers because they are not found acceptable.  How did anyone come up with this idea?  What temple?  Oh, maybe the point of measuring the temple and worshippers was to say, "You don't measure up." Or maybe to clearly delineate the temple as a sacred place.  "But," John is told, "leave out the outer court of the temple because it is given to the Gentiles and the holy city will be tread under their feet for forty two months."  Again, forty two months is three and a half years, the last half of the Tribulation.  The holy city will be trampled, by people who could care less about its sacredness.   Measuring the temple is also found in Ezekiel and Zechariah.  One more temple thought:  Revelation 11:19 "And the temple of God was opened in heaven, and there was seen in his temple the ark of his testament." The ark of his testament would be the Ark of the Covenant.  One person explained to me that this shows that the Ark of the Covenant has gone to heaven.  Well, so has the temple.  Or maybe the earthly temple and Ark of the Covenant were modeled after the heavenly ones. 
God tells John that He will give power to his Two Witnesses and they will prophesy for 1260 days.  That would be three and a half years.  So for the period of the Great Tribulation there will be Two Witnesses sent from God speaking against the Antichrist and people who follow him. 

The Two Witnesses are very incredible.  The Greek word used for witness is the word we get the word martyr from.  For the three and a half years of the Tribulation, they are able to speak their minds about the Antichrist and are invincible, because as long as they have this work to do, God protects them from their enemies.  They are called God's two olive trees and two candlesticks.  Why is this?  I suppose we're to understand that they have been annointed. Also, they will prophesy wearing sackcloth.  What's that?  There used to be a material made of goat hair that was used to make bags like flour sacks.  Sometimes people used this material to make rough clothing.  Will the Two Witnesses actually get clothing made of goat hair to wear?  I don't know.  I think their dress will be unusual.  
What powers do they have?  They have the power to prevent rain from happening for the entire three and a half years of the Great Tribulation.  This is something that the Bible has spoken of before in I Kings, chapters 17 and 18.  Elijah told Ahab that there would not be rain or dew.  After three and a half years, the word of the Lord came to Elijah telling him to visit Ahab and God would send rain.  
I have heard some say that Revelation states that there will not be rain for the period of three and a half years during the Great Tribulation.  I'm not sure it's saying there won't be rain, but that the Two Witnesses can prevent the rain for the three and a half years they prophesy, and it could be the whole three and a half years.  It seems like it would make sense that if it is a parallel of the drought brought on by Elijah, it would last the same period of time.  
But that's not all.  They are able to turn water into blood.  They are able to smite the earth with plagues as often as they decide to, and if anyone tries to injure them they kill them with "fire that proceedeth out of their mouth."  Oh.  Does that sound Christian?  Well, they are acting on behalf of God against evil on a level that the world has never seen before.  God, and the Two Witnesses on God's behalf, intend to let humanity know in no uncertain terms that they have taken a wrong turn.  This means war!  To God, that means judgment and the wrath of God.  

I can imagine the macabre scene the Two Witnesses must make.  Clothed in sackcloth, standing on a soapbox prophesying, surrounded by a hostile crowd that makes fun of them, and their odd clothing.  The crowd more than makes fun, and begins to attack them physically.  The people that do so get an unpleasant surprise. 
And so it is that the Two Witnesses prophesy against the evil of their day for three and a half years, and not just prophesy, but bring about a dreadful drought, plagues, probably like giant hailstorms, infestations, turning all the water to blood, and breathe fire on people.  
In doing so, they don't become popular.  The Antichrist, or "the beast that ascendeth from the bottomless pit," "makes war against them," overcomes them and kills them.  That seems curious.  Making a war against two people?  What isn't being said?  
Another curious thing about the Two Witnesses.  A great many people feel that Christians will be raptured before the Tribulation.  After that, people can get saved, but all the saved people would have to be people who were saved after the Rapture, or else they would have gone with everyone else in the Rapture.  So the Two Witnesses either are recently saved, or the Rapture hasn't happened yet.  Or, or....  Or maybe they are people like Moses and Elijah and they are sent back to earth during this period!  
Who are the Two Witnesses?  Moses and Elijah?  Enoch and Elijah?  They seems to me to be most like Moses and Aaron, sent in Exodus to announce to Pharaoh that Egypt will have to let the children of Israel go.  Why did Aaron go with Moses?  A big reason is moral support.  The earth, like Egypt, is about to have two prophets call down judgments from heaven on them.  What set this off?  The people of earth by and large have declared their allegiance to the Antichrist, Satan on earth.  
Public sentiment does not favor the Two Witnesses or God.  The Antichrist has deluded the masses of people on earth, so that almost everyone is convinced that he is God.  He came back from the dead.  He does awesome miracles.  He has a mouth that speaketh great things and blasphemies.  Why doesn't this bother anyone?  Well, he is extremely persuasive.  Even "the very elect," according to Christ, will find themselves feeling drawn by the Antichrist.  He seems to have solutions to crises.  Not to mention the fact that people want to follow someone.  Yes, he makes some claims that from anyone else would seem evil.  He blasphemes God, he claims he is God.  Is he holy?  Not so much.  Isn't God holy?  Apparently they don't think God needs to be holy anymore.  
The Two Witnesses are there to challenge this affront to God.  
After three and a half years without rain, the world would have dreadful problems, crops failing, water supplies drying up...way past alternating days that we water the lawn.  Where did the rain go?  People drill deeper wells.  And then the Two Witnesses turn the water they found to blood!  When that doesn't wake anyone up, the Two Witnesses send greater levels of plagues, like Moses did in Egypt.  Someone has to stop these two!  For the children!
After the three and a half years, the Antichrist finally succeeds in killing the Two Witnesses, because their work is done and his time has come, although he doesn't know it.  And yet, at this point in Revelation, the Antichrist hasn't even been said to come to power.  That happens in the next two chapters.  After he assumes power, and after his reign of three and a half years, he kills the Two Witnesses.  People hate them so much for all their "crimes," that they just leave their dead bodies on display in the streets of "the great city," "spiritually Sodom and Egypt," "where also our Lord was crucified."  So, John is talking about Jerusalem, the holy city, but calling them Sodom and Egypt.  Well, this is the time when they are being tread under foot by the Gentiles.  
The dead bodies of the Two Witnesses lie in the street for three and a half days.  During this time, the people on earth celebrate.  Revelation 11:10  "And they  that dwell upon earth shall rejoice over them, (lying dead in the street) and make merry, and shall send gifts one to another, because these two witnesses tormented them that dwelt on the earth." 
Listening to Dr. Toussaint discuss the Two Witnesses, he told of how one year at Christmas, his family received a Christmas card, with this verse, "And they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them, and make merry, and shall send gifts one to another,"  as a scriptural basis for the way Christmas is celebrated. 
After three and a half days, the spirit of life from God is breathed into the Two Witnesses, and they stand on their feet alive again.  This is probably broadcast via satellite on the nightly news.  People are aghast to see this.  

Then a great voice from heaven tells them to "Come up hither," and away they go, floating off to heaven in a cloud.  This too is probably on the nightly news. This is a terrifying turn of events to "them that dwell upon the earth."  I guess so.  
The second woe is past, and behold, the third woe cometh quickly.  It's taken a long time for the second woe to pass.  The sixth trumpet sounded in Revelation 9, three and a half years ago.
Then, after all this time since the sixth trumpet sounded, the seventh angel sounds.  

Commentaries on Revelation

In reading Revelation, one easily becomes puzzled.  John states from the beginning that he is writing about a vision.  A vision is a lot like a dream, sometimes a vision is a dream.  Daniel mentions that he had a dream.  He interpreted Nebuchanezzar's  dream, saying that God had spoken to Nebuchanezzar.  In Job, Scripture states that God talks to men in dreams.  Why does God talk to men in dreams and visions?  Why does God talk in riddles?  I don't know.

So, my point is, yes, dreamland is hazy and unclear.  Visionland is too.  But this doesn't mean that a whole book of the Bible can just be dismissed as a figure of speech.  It can be regarded as a figure of speech when that is the only possible explanation...."the four winds," locusts with women's hair, breastplates of iron, men's faces, scorpion's tails.  

Then there are expressions and "types".  A sacrificial lamb is a type of Christ.  The Passover in Exodus exemplifies our rescue from the second death by the Blood of Christ.  All kinds of types, especially physical representing spiritual.  

However, I find myself frustrated to no end to run into dead ends reading commentaries, learned commentaries, verbose, lengthy, by legendary Christian leaders past and present, and find every question about Revelation answered with "the entire book of Revelation is figurative!"  Then the rest is the commentator's own imagination.  I HAVE AN IMAGINATION TOO!

I've mentioned before that in the not too distant past, Revelation 9, when an angel opens the Abyss, was interpreted, by the Protestants at least, to be referring to the invasion of Europe by Muslims.  This was considered to be standard accepted Protestant thought.  Catholics thought the locusts of the Abyss were the Protestants, and the angel that opened the door of the Abyss was Martin Luther.  

I've read commentaries high and low on the Two Witnesses of Revelation 11.  Count them: TWO (2).    Many commentaries I've come across don't think there even are Two Witnesses in Revelation 11.  "No, no, no.  There are a few witnesses. The witnesses are the Church...  the influence of the Church, which  is on the wane!" they explain. 

The Two Witnesses of the Bible have power, awesome power given to them by God.  They have power to stop the sky from raining anywhere on earth for three and a half years.  They can devour their enemies with fire out of the their mouths.  They can turn water into blood.  They can smite the earth with plagues.  Oh, yes!  This sounds like the Church!!

Commentators speculate that when "the beast that ascended out of the bottomless pit" kills the 'alleged' Two Witnesses, this must be all spiritualized.  One, "the beast" means the personification of evil, or maybe Satan.  Two, kill doesn't mean kill.  It means stuff like: excommunicate, ostracize, embarrass, shun, banish.  Wait.  Even if "the beast" is the personification of evil,  or Satan, how is he in charge of excommunication?  The saints of the church are said to be so socially humiliated, they are practically non-existentant, hence "killed."  

Even the three and a half days that the Two Witnesses lie dead in the street is challenged.  Three and a half days????  No, no, no.  Read that years.  OK, fine, their dead bodies lie in the street three and a half years.  "NO!!!!!!  The Church's influence is not felt for three and a half years." 

Well, then, what about the 1260 days that the Two Witnesses prophesy?  "Oh, that just strengthen's the argument that this witness thing bespeaks the Church!  1260 days is 1260 years, simply meaning 'a long time,' like maybe the period of time the Church has been around."  

Yeah yeah yeah.  It wouldn't be so bad if one or two kooks said this.  This has been standard thought by theologians for hundreds of years!!  Using all kinds of Greek and Latin and Hebrew to do it! 

Helene is here to set them straight!!  I too have puzzled over "the Two Witnesses," "the beast that ascended out of the bottomless pit," "the 1260 days," "dead bodies in the street three and a half days," etc.  

Next:  The Two Witnesses of Revelation 11

The Seven Thunders

John saw another mighty angel come down from heaven in his vision, in Revelation 10.  He went into much more detail in his description of this angel than any other.  The angel was dressed in a cloud, and had a rainbow on his head.  He was very bright and shining, having a face that shone like the sun, and feet that looked like fire.  He put one of his fiery feet on the sea, and one of them on the earth, showing dominion.  The angel must have been something to see.  Why would he have a rainbow on his head?  Maybe there is a connection with the Flood in Genesis, and the rainbow being given by God after the Flood as a token that God wouldn't flood the earth again, not completely at least.  This angel appeared in the vision between the sounding of the sixth and seventh trumpet, and when the seventh trumpet sounds, the final series of disastrous judgments of God are to be sent to the earth.
When this angel cried out, it was like a lion roaring, and "seven thunders uttered their voices."  Then John heard a voice from heaven telling him not to write anything that they said.  OK.
But the angel went on to say that when the seventh angel sounded his trumpet, "time would be no longer."  What this means is that there will be no more delay in the bringing the last seven judgments, the Seven Vials judgments.  These are the worst.  The sounding of the seventh trumpet introduces the final Seven Vials judgments.
The angel was holding a little scroll, and John heard the voice from heaven again telling him to take the scroll out of the angel's hand and eat it.  So John walked up to the angel and asked for the scroll.  The angel told him to take it and eat it.  It would be sweet to the taste but it would turn bitter in his stomach. What is this scroll?  Some say the scroll is the Word of God, which he was to thoroughly digest.  But why would it be little?  Some say it is a record of the vision John had.  I would say "Peruse this document carefully."
No one knows anything about the seven thunders, except that we don't know.
Next, in Revelation 11, is the prophesying of the Two Witnesses.

Revelation 10

Revelation 10    from memory

1.  And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet were as pillars.  
2.  And he had in his hand a little book open, and he set his right foot upon the sea, and his left foot on the earth. 
3.  And cried with a loud voice, as when a lion roareth, and when he had cried, seven thunders uttered their voices.  
4.  And when the seven thunders uttered their voices, I was about to write, and I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Seal up those things which the seven thunders uttered, and write them not.  
5.  And the angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up his hand to heaven, 
6.  And sware by him that liveth for ever and ever, who created heaven, and the things that therein are, and the earth, and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things which are therein, that there should be time no longer.  
7.  But in the day of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared unto his servants the prophets.  
8.  And the voice which I heard from heaven spake unto me, and said, Go and take the little book which is open in the hand of the angel which standeth upon the sea and upon the earth. 
9.  And I went unto the angel, and said unto him, Give me the little book.  And he said unto me, Take it and eat it up, and it shall make thy belly bitter, and it shall be in thy mouth sweet as honey.  
10. And I took the little book out of the angel's hand, and ate it up, and it was in my mouth sweet as honey, and as soon as I had eaten it, my belly was bitter.  
11.  And he said unto me, Thou must prophesy again before many peoples, and nations, and tongues, and kings.  

Dragons

In Revelation 12, Revelation 13, and Revelation 17 dragons are introduced.  Actually Revelation 13 and 17 call it a beast, not a dragon, but it is similar in its description to the dragon, so I'm comparing the three.

Descriptions of the dragons:

DRAGON 1:

Revelation 12:3-4, and 12:9

And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold, a great red dragon, having seven heads, and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads.  4. And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth:
9. And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the earth, he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

DRAGON 2:

Revelation 13:1-2,  Revelation 12:5

1. And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.
2. And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.
5. And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months.

DRAGON 3:

Revelation 17:3

3. So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
7. And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou marvel? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and ten horns. 8. The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition.....9.  ... The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.  10.  And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space. 11. And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition. 12.  And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.
16. And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and small make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire. 17. For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled.

How are the dragons similar?

Dragon 1                                       Dragon 2                                  Dragon 3

7 heads                                          7 heads                                      7 heads
10 horns                                        10 horns                                     10 horns

How are they different?

Dragon 1                                       Dragon 2                                    Dragon 3

Appeared in heaven                      Rose from the sea                       In the
Has power                                     Is given power from the              wilderness
                                                      dragon
Red                                                                                                  Scarlet
                                                      On his heads the name of           Full of names
                                                      blasphemy                                  of blasphemy
                                                                                                         Ascends from
                                                                                                         the bottomless
                                                                                                          pit
One third of angels
follow him
                                                      Like a leopard
                                                      Feet as a bear
                                                      Mouth as a lion
Is the old serpent
Is the devil
Is Satan

Has seven crowns on his               Has ten crowns on his                   Has no
seven heads                                   ten horns                                      crowns

Are they all the same dragon?  Dragon 2 and 3 aren't even called dragons.  The biggest similarity is that all have seven heads and ten horns.  But then why does Dragon 1 have crowns on his heads, Dragon 2 has crowns on his horns, and Dragon 3 has no crowns at all?

This is to show the timing of events.  Dragon 1 has crowns on his heads to show that all the seven empires that the heads represent are or were in existence.  The seventh empire has arrived.  Dragon 2 has crowns on his horns to show that the ten kings or rulers that they represent, within the seventh empire, have attained actual power.  This is a must for the Antichrist to come to power.  All the ten horns or rulers have to be in power.  Dragon 3 has no crowns on his seven heads or his ten horns because at the beginning of the Tribulation until the middle, a period of three and a half years, the ten kings are not yet in power.  So first Dragon 3 begins to come on the scene at the beginning of the seven year Tribulation, before the seventh empire is divided into ten kingdoms.  Maybe even before the seventh empire is a reality.  Then, sometime during the first half of the Tribulation, or the first three and a half years, Dragon 1, Satan has a war in heaven, loses, and is cast out of heaven.  Then Dragon 3, the Antichrist, comes to power starting the Great Tribulation, which is the last three and a half years of the Tribulation.

Who is who?  Dragon 1 is Satan, because he is called Satan.  Dragon 2 is "The Beast of the Sea," which is the Antichrist, who is empowered by Satan.   Is Dragon 3 also the Antichrist?  Dragon 3 is said to have ascended out of the abyss.  The Antichrist is a man and the abyss is not a place that men go.

Dragon 3 has ascended from the bottomless pit, which would have happened when the bottomless pit was opened in Revelation 9 at the sounding of the fifth angel, and all the demons came out like a plague of locusts.  Dragon 2 is not said to have ascended from the bottomless pit.  Neither is Dragon 1.

The bottomless pit is the abyss, the prison of demons.  Are all demons in the abyss?  No, then he will be on earth and the Tribulation will start.  Is Dragon 3, being a demon from the abyss, living in the Antichrist?  Yes, that's what it looks like.  Is this demon actually Satan?  Hmm...I think Satan comes to earth and lives in a man called the Antichrist like Jesus is God and came to earth and lived as a man.  So, is the Antichrist is possessed by the demon that comes out of the abyss and later Satan?  Or both of them?  Or else one or the other?  This is not 100% clear to me.

I would say that Satan is the one that inhabits the Antichrist during the Tribulation, especially the Great Tribulation, but is Satan in the abyss?  Where is he, anyway?  First he's in heaven, then he's cast to earth, what about the abyss?  Satan isn't omnipotent or omnipresent like God is.  I suppose it could seem like he is because he has a lot of evil minions helping him, the one third of the angels that went with him when he rebelled against God.

I've been surprised to see that when I search commentaries to try to find out what others have been able to make of Revelation so little seems to be understood by anyone.  I read the idea that the placement of the crowns is to indicate timing from my reading.  I listened to a video by a man who writes books and makes videos about prophesy and has a church or  an organization.  He was one who jumps around from one prophesy to the next, mixing them together.  Bad things were happening in the Tribulation, he said, but up until the seventh year, all the trouble was caused by Satan.  Then God was responsible for the seventh year.  How so?  Scripture lays out that the whole period of the Tribulation is a time of judgment from God.  He also thought "the Rapturists" were wrong wrong wrong.  This has always been an attitude that puzzled me.  When there is good evidence in Scripture for a pre tribulation rapture, why not believe that?

Revelation 9

Revelation 9 Written from memory  

1.  And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven, and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit. 
2.  And he opened the bottomless pit, and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace, and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit. 
3.  And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth, and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power.  
4.  And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree, but only those men which had not the seal of God in their foreheads. 
5.  And to them was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months, and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion when he striketh a man. 
6.  And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it, and shall desire death, and death shall flee from them.  
7.  And the shapes of the locusts was like unto horses prepared unto battle, and on their heads were as it were crowns like gold, and their faces were as the faces of men. 
8.  And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions. 
9.  And their breastplates were like unto breastplates of iron, and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle.
10. And their tails were like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails, and their power was to hurt men five months. 
11. And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon. 
12. One woe is past, and behold, there come two woes more hereafter.
13. And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God, 
14. Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.  
15. 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.  
16. And the number of the army of the horsemen was two hundred thousand thousand, and I heard the number of them. 
17. 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. 
18. 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.  
19. For their power is in their mouth, and in their tails; for their tails are like unto serpents, and had heads, and with them they do hurt.  
20. And the rest of the men which were not killed of these plagues yet repented they not of the deeds of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood; which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk. 
21. Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.