Yesterday, I heard someone mention that people militantly separate the seals, trumpets, and vials,
	and are adamant that they are all only sequential,
	except when they strangely mix the sixth trumpet with the sixth vial together.
In that case, they combine the two, so that they can teach that the 200 million hideous horses,
	which have heads of lions, that have fire, smoke, and brimstone coming out of their mouths,
	and which have tails like serpents with heads that hurt,
	claiming that instead of being hideous creatures of judgment, that they are actually 200 million Chinese soldiers,
	that these Chinese soldiers come all the way from China to cross the Euphrates, to come into Israel.
I had to agree with him, that it seemed strange,
	that the same people who teach that the other seals, trumpets, and vials need to be taken literally,
	that they are all separate and only sequential during the tribulation,
	to suddenly change the literal reading of Revelation 9:14-19, into something that only means human soldiers,
	and to take the sixth trumpet out of their sequential timetable, and instead put it way out at the sixth vial.
This person and the person he was speaking with, began to discuss military logistics,
	what it would take to move an army of 200 million soldiers from China to Armageddon,
	including all the food, fuel, clothing, quarters, vehicles, and armaments, for the trip, and the eventual war.
It reminded me of another man, who discussed the logistics of Desert Shield, where the advanced Western militaries,
	spent months systematically moving men, equipment, food, fuel, clothing, and armaments,
	to Saudi Arabia, preparing for Desert Storm, to liberate Kuwait.
That it would probably take years to transplant an army of 200 million from China to Armageddon, by land, across the Euphrates.
It would be many, many times more efficient for China, to move their troops to Armageddon via the sea,
	where they could disembark on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean,
	or even a number of them by air,
	but it would be madness to move all the armies of the far east, at the same time,
	all the way to Armageddon by land, crossing the Euphrates as they go.
Could not the kings of the east, mentioned in Revelation 16, refer instead to the same "east" mentioned in the old testament?
What if the part of the Euphrates, that the kings of the east cross, is that part which is closer to Israel, northeast,
	where the Euphrates comes out of Turkey, and flows through Syria,
	long before it winds its way through Iraq, and finally touches Iran, before going into the gulf?
No doubt I would be considered an heretic for even hinting to the above,
	and not sticking to the "accepted teaching" that has been taught for the past couple generations.