Revelation 9:15-16

¹⁵ So the four angels who had been in readiness for that hour in the appointed day, month, and year were liberated to destroy a third of mankind.

• All of the evil messages that are in the middle east will be liberated to destroy a 1/3^rd of mankind. Think if the fear of radical Islam is removed and just Islam is allowed to flourish? Being destroyed doesn’t necessarily mean being killed. Following after a lie can lead to destruction as well. 
• Right now the unrest in the Middle East causes the world to have fear. It hurts economies. It affects fuel prices and that trickles down to harm many.
• But if the angels actually unify the Middle East along with the anti-christ’s kingdom. Think of the peace that the world would say was happening. Commerce would explode under such peaceful conditions. Prices would skyrocket and people wouldn’t care because money would be available. 
• Jesus is the only One that brings true peace and people will flee from Him to the world and the anti-christ. Without Jesus there is only death. Following Jesus will come at a high cost. Rethink the 4 Horsemen to not mean physical destruction, but spiritual destruction and you can see how people will be saying peace and safety and be acting like they were in the days of Lot.
• Remember that our Father is in control of everything happening here. These messages have an appointed time, they cannot be released until the church is unified. Or sealed as mentioned earlier in Revelation. So until we will not be able to be deceived and need the world, none of this can happen.

¹⁶ The number of their troops of cavalry was twice ten thousand times ten thousand (200,000,000); I heard what their number was.

• No army can sustain 200,000,000 men. But 200,000,000 people all believing in the antichrist can easily be maintained. 
• Right now there a billion Muslims and a billion Catholics. So what I think is encouraging is that there is only a fraction of that with the anti-christ’s church. I think while the number is large it shows that salvation will actually outnumber it. The number who come out of the Great Tribulation who are adorned in white cannot be counted, while these guys can.