“And Great Hail as of a talent-weight descended out of the heaven and upon the men; and the men blasphemed the Deity, because of the plague of the hail; for the plague of it is exceedingly great”.
“And there came forth a Great Voice from the Nave of the heaven, from the throne, saying It is done!”
“He poured out his vial into the Air”.
“And he gathered them together into the place called He- braistically, Armageddon” — Verse 16
John informs us, that “authority was given to Death and Hades to kill by wild beasts upon the fourth of the earth.” In commenting upon this, Mr. Elliott says: “There is just one of the destroying agencies mentioned in the vision that is passed over without notice by the historian — that of the wild beasts of the earth.” This idea of Mr.
A. Death and Hades kill with Sword
When John beheld these two symbolical powers, Death and Hades, he saw that “exousia, authority was given to them to kill upon the fourth of the earth, with sword, and with famine, and with pestilence, and under the beasts of the earth.” The phrase, “the fourth of the earth,” implies other three fourths.
John says, that he saw ho Hades, following with Death.