Endtime Magazine Jan-Feb 2013 | Page 6

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- 6 www.endtime.com JAN/FEB 2013 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