Then 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 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 and day
and month and year, were released
to kill a third of mankind. Now the
number of the army of the horsemen was two hundred million;
I heard the number of them.
Revelation 9:13-16
We know three things for certain
about the Sixth Trumpet War from
this prophecy: 1) The war will kill
one-third of the human race. 2) It will
begin from the area of the Euphrates
River. 3) An army of 200 million soldiers will participate in this war.
Four nations house the Euphrates
River: Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran. The
prophesied war will begin from one or
more of these nations.
Between the civil war raging in
Syria and the dispute over Iran’s ongo-
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ing nuclear enrichment, the Euphrates
River Basin has been the number one
focus of the world’s attention throughout 2012.
IRAN
The United Nations, led by the
United States, has levied four levels of
economic sanctions against the nation
of Iran because it has refused to stop
its nuclear enrichment program.
Both Israel and the United States
have said that they w