With all the violence and bloodshed in our world, sometimes you have to wonder,

when will God's patients finally run out.

When will he say that's enough?

These are natural questions.

And today on Insight for Living, Chuck Swindall reminds us that God is patient, but he's also just.

God will unleash his judgment on mankind in ways we could never imagine.

Chuck draws this assertion from Revelation Chapter 9 9 where our study continues today.

If you missed any portion of our last program, we'll begin with a helpful summary, picking

up in revelation chapter 9 verse 16. The number of the armies of the horsemen,

the horsemen,

the number of the armies of the horsemen, now these are the horsemen that are being led by the four fallen angels that have been released from the river.

The number of the armies of the horsemen was the Greek has an interesting comment.

It reads the number of the bodies of soldiers of the cavalry was two myriads of myriads.

I heard the number of them.

Literally that's the way the original text reads.

Translated because the translator has done the math,

200 million.

This, by the way, is the largest number ever identified in all the word of God.

200 million in this massive body of this force called here the armies of the horsemen.

So there are riders and there are 200 million in this force.

I believe these are demonic in nature like the locusts with tails like scorpions. Remember last time? These are now larger. They are horses or like unto horses and those who sat on them,

verse 17 were told, the riders wore only breast plates this tells us that they were

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