10. What happens when the sixth plague is poured out? Revelation 16:12.
Compiler’s note: The Euphrates was the river on which Babylon was situated. When Babylon fell to the armies of Cyrus in the time of Belshazzar and Daniel, its fall was effected by diverting the course of the river so that the Medo-Persian armies were able to march into Babylon along the dried-up river bed. (Isaiah prophesied of this in Isaiah 44:27-Isaiah 45:3.) In the book of Revelation, Babylon is used as a symbol of the power opposed to God and His people. Waters are used as a symbol of peoples and multitudes and nations and tongues. (See Revelation 17:15.) The drying up of the great river Euphrates therefore symbolises Babylon’s fall through her loss of the support of the many peoples and nations that formerly gave her material, political and spiritual support. Symbolic Babylon’s loss of support is pictured in the prophecy of Revelation 17:16-17.
11. What final satanic effort to unite the nations of the earth occurs during the sixth plague? Revelation 16:13-14.
NOTE: ‘Says the prophet: “I saw three unclean spirits like frogs....They are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.” Revelation 16:13, 14. Except those who are kept by the power of God, through faith in His word, the whole world will be swept into the ranks of this delusion. The people are fast being lulled to a fatal security, to be awakened only by the outpouring of the wrath of God.’ Maranatha, page 166.
12. What will happen in the battle of the great day of God Almighty? Revelation 19:11-14, 19-20.
NOTE: ‘The prophet saw the “kings of the earth and their armies,” gathered in battle array against the Son of God and His army. Whatever power we may believe to be represented by the “beast,” there can be no uncertainty as regards “the kings of the earth and their armies.” This is a plain reference to the powers of earth, the great powers, the nations of Europe, and of America as well. These are found, with their armies, arrayed against the forces of heaven. It is a “holy war,” but the holiness is not on the side of the powers of earth. Of course, there can be but one result. The prophet describes it: “And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone. And the remnant were slain with the sword of Him that sat upon the horse, which sword proceeded out of His mouth: and all the fowls were filled with their flesh.” This is the last war scene in earthly history; this is how it all ends.’ A. T. Jones: The American Sentinel, May 19, 1898.