I believe God through His Word has shared with me
the mission of the four angels of which you speak and
question. Some time back I wrote an article to Doves
concerning "Gods End Time Army" and enclosed in that article
is an explanation of the mission of these four angels of
which you question. I'll copy the article I wrote
below in hope that it sheds some light on the
subject.
Doves,
The bible goes into great detail about God's end times
army.....why is it that no one at Doves or other sites
discuss or speak about it??
Let me take you on a biblical tour of this army, its
amazing aspects...... and its deadly mission.
This army is spoken of and referenced in several
areas of the bible. Let's start in Ezekiel 37,
which is a fascinating chapter of God's holy word.
Here we find God having a little fun with Ezekiel. God
gave Ezekiel previews of end times events and brought
Ezekiel (in the Spirit) to a valley full of dried bones
and asked Ezekiel if these dried bones could live? Ezekiel
immediately deflected the question back to God and
said...."O Lord God, You know".
God then told Ezekiel to prophesy to these bones and to
tell these bones to hearken to the Lord's words. The
Lord's words were as follows....(emphasis mine)
"Surely I will cause breath to
enter into you, and you shall live. I will put sinews on
you and bring flesh upon you, cover you with skin and
put breath in you; and
you shall live. Then you shall know
that I am the Lord."
So Ezekiel prophesied to these bones as God had
commanded and before his eyes the sinews, flesh and skin
were restored to these bones but the breath of life had
not yet been blown into them to make them alive.
Where does this breath come from that will make these
restored beings alive? The next verses tells us that God
instructed Ezekiel to prophesy to the breath and that the
breath will come from the four winds. And
the breath will come to these slain, that they may live.
Ezekiel prophesied as instructed and breath came into them
from the four winds and they lived, and stood
upon their feet, an exceedingly great army.
More on the four winds
later.....
Now I draw you attention to the above wording God used,
He didn't say that it was a large group of regular people
that was resurrected or restored...He said it was an
army. And not a large army or a great army but
an exceedingly great army. In God's terms
what number of troops would you think would comprise and
exceedingly great army? We'll get to that later as well...
By the way, who are these people who were restored to
life to form this exceedingly great army? In verse 11 God
tells us that this great quantity of people are the "whole
house of Israel"....meaning all the ancestors of Jacob who
have died over the centuries. God says... "I will open
their graves and cause them to come up from their graves,
and bring them into the land of Israel."
Has this event happened yet in biblical history?
No.....
Will this event happen in the end times? Yes....
When this army is activated or brought back to life
what will they be like?
It appears they will be spirit beings just like Jesus
was after His resurrection. They will be able to walk
through walls like Jesus did and they will be impervious
to death in the battling with humans. They will require no
food and be tireless in their mission.
Let's see if we can find in scripture, in the end
times, where this army is activated. That is, when the
four winds blow life back into them. In Rev. 7 we see four angels sent by God to hold
back these four winds from blowing. Why
are these four angels
holding back the four winds from blowing life back into
this army? Because something has to happen first and that
something is.... as per Rev.7........that God wants to
seal the 144,000 on their foreheads first
before He lets the four winds blow life
into His exceedingly great army. So basically God has hit
the pause button and instructed these four angels to wait
for His command before they are allowed to let these four
winds blow.
Now in chapter 9 of Revelation we find these same four angels who have held back
the four winds from blowing. The word says that God has
prepared these angels for the exact hour, day, month, and
year. These angels of God have been in the pause mode and
only need the command from Him and they will release the
four winds that blow life into this exceedingly
great army. God releases them in Rev. 9:15 and allows the
four winds to blow breath and life into God's army of
resurrected beings from the house of Israel (Jacob).
Now to answer that prior question from Ezek.37...what
does God consider an exceedingly great army? We find out
in the next verse of Rev. 9...."Now the number of the army
of the horsemen was two hundred million"....Wow! God
doesn't mess around when He raises an army. Indeed that is
an exceedingly great army.
The task of this army as per verse 15 is to kill one
third of mankind. That's over 2 billion people...what a
horrific scenario and number...it gives one great pause.
What do we know about this army? They are mounted on
horses. The riders wear breastplates of fiery red,
hyacinth blue, and sulfur yellow. The horses heads are
like the heads of lions and out of their mouths comes
fire, smoke and brimstone. It is by these three (fire,
smoke, brimstone) that a third of mankind is killed. Also
the tails of these horses have heads like serpents and
with them they do harm.
Which third of mankind are they sent to kill? I don't
believe this is revealed in scripture, but I believe they
will be the enemies of His chosen people and Satan's
demonic strongholds, religions and followers.
Are there other scripture verses that tell about this
army that God will resurrect and their exploits?
Yes...Joel chapter 2 describes the horror of their ride
and the destruction they cause and makes it crystal clear
that it's ....God's army and not some
Asian or other world army.
Let's go there to Joel and see what the world will be
facing from God's army. (coloring used to focus in on the
applicable verses)
Joel 2:1-11
Blow the trumpet in Zion,
And sound an alarm in my holy mountain!
Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble;
For the day of the Lord is coming,
For it is at hand:
A day of darkness and gloominess,
A day of clouds and thick darkness,
Like the morning clouds spread over the mountains.
A people come great and strong,
The like of whom has never been;
Nor will there ever be any such
after them,
Even for many successive
generations.
A fire devours
before them,
And behind them a flame burns;
The land is like the Garden of
Eden before them,
And behind them a desolate
wilderness;
Surely nothing shall escape them.
There appearance is like the
appearance of horses;
And like swift steeds, so they
run.
With a noise like chariots
Over mountaintops they leap,
Like the noise of flaming fire
that destroys the stubble,
Like a strong people set in
battle array.
Before them people writhe in
pain;
All faces are drained of color.
They run like mighty men,
They climb the wall like men of
war;
Everyone marches in formation,
And they do not break ranks.
They do not push one another;
Everyone marches in his own
column.
Though they lunge between the
weapons,
They are not cut down.
They run to and fro in the city,
They run on the wall;
They climb into the houses,
They enter at the windows like a
thief.
The earth quakes before them,
The heavens tremble;
The sun and the moon grow dark,
And the stars diminish their
brightness.
The Lord
gives voice before His army.
For his camp is very great;
For strong is the one who
executes His word.
For the day of the Lord is great
and very terrible;
Who can endure it?
Do you have a picture of this in your minds eye? Two
hundred million resurrected people from the lineage of
Jacob who are now spirit beings impervious to death. They
ride terrible ferocious fire breathing horses able to leap
over mountains if necessary. They don't break ranks and
devour with fire everything before them. And they are
tasked to kill over 2 billion people. Hollywood would be
dumbfounded trying to fulfill a production of this
magnitude.
Can you imagine knowing this enormous army is going
from country to country eradicating and killing everything
in its path and your country is next?
This army needs no fuel, no rest, no transportation, no
re-supply, no anything. Unimaginable horror on an
unimaginable scale. Picture a huge fire breathing lawn
mower that's a hundred miles wide that is cleansing the
earth with fire.
God said after opening the sixth seal that His wrath
had come....who is able to stand? The short answer....No
one.
Most people believe that this two hundred million man
army comes from the Asian countries and through nuclear
exchanges 2 billion people are killed. I believe that we
can ascertain from these applicable scriptures
that........ this will not be the case.
And I do not believe God will allow His planet to be
polluted by biological, chemical and nuclear warheads,
after all He and many others will have to live here for
the thousand year millennium. It does appear though that
the majority of the earth will be burned by the fire.
God's army will burn a massive amount in the process of
killing a third of the planet and another third of the
earth will be burned by the first trumpet judgment. This
means that the majority of the earth will have had a
cleansing fire which will fulfill other prophetic verses
of scripture.
I hope this article sheds some light on God's end times
army and makes clear some of the end times gray areas.
Blessings......John B
P.S. Some other things you will need to know to make
this story complete and tie up some loose mental ends you
may have.
There will be one very large "combined
resurrection" that happens after Jesus opens
the sixth seal accompanied by a worldwide earthquake.
And many things will happen...all at the same
time. I'll focus below on the resurrection
aspects only...
----The bodies of "the dead in Christ"
from earth and we "the alive in Christ" on earth will be
taken up to meet Jesus in the clouds. Jesus will have
brought with Him from heaven the souls of the dead in
Christ
----At this same huge combined
resurrection God will also resurrect "the whole house of
Israel" that we just discussed in detail. From these
hundreds of millions He reserves His two hundred million
man army. This army is now resurrected with skin and bone
but life has not been breathed into it yet as we have
discussed above. This army is in the pause mode because a
group of these resurrected, the 144,000, have to be sealed
with the Father's name on their forehead before
anything else can transpire with house of
Israel. Rev. 7:1-4
----From this hugh resurrection of the
"house of Israel" God also at the same time selects the
144,000. Twelve thousand from all the tribes of the
children of Israel. They will be the redeemed from the
earth, the first fruits (and are dealt with first) to God
and to the Lamb. They will follow the Lamb wherever He
goes. They, not like His army will at this point be fully
alive and functioning.
----As we discussed above in the
article God has resurrected His two hundred million man
army from the house of Israel but has not permitted the
four angels to allow the four winds to blow life back into
them until the correct hour, day, month and year. So this
army is in the pause mode until
God's timeframe is correct as we discussed above. This
timeframe becomes correct later in Rev.9.
All the glorious, bizarre and terrible happenings of
sixth seal (Rev. 6:12-17) will also be happening
at the same time. Can you imagine trying to
orchestrate all of these events
simultaneously.........you'd have to be God!!! :)