Rev 6:9  "And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held:
Rev 6:10  And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost
thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?"
God's responds with the trumpets
Rev 8:13  "And I beheld, and heard an angel flying through the midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice, Woe, woe, woe, to the inhabiters of the earth by reason of the other voices of the trumpet of the three angels, which are yet to sound!"  

Rev 10:7  "But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets."
Therefore the Gospel Finished at end of 6th trumpet. The mystery of God is the unexplainable love  and Grace manifested to us while we were His enemy.

Col 2:2  "That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of  the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgment of the mystery of God, and of the  Father, and of Christ;"

Eph 3:3  "How that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery; (as I wrote afore in few  words,"
Eph 3:4  "Whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ)" 
Eph 3:5  "Which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men, as it is now revealed
unto his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit;"
Eph 3:6  "That the Gentiles should be fellow heirs, and of the same body, and partakers of his  promise in Christ by the gospel:"
Eph 3:7  "Whereof I was made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God given unto me by the effectual working of his power".

Rom 16:25  "Now to him that is of power to stablish you according to my gospel, and the
preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret since the world began,"
Rom 16:26  "But now is made manifest, and by the scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the everlasting God, made known to all nations for the obedience of faith:"
Rom 16:27  "To God only wise, be glory through Jesus Christ for ever. Amen."

Trumpets are used most commonly in Old Testament Worship context.
Example
Num 10:8  "And the sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow with the trumpets; and they shall be to you for an ordinance for ever throughout your generations."
Num 10:9  "And if ye go to war in your land against the enemy that oppresseth you, then ye shall blow an alarm with the trumpets; and ye shall be remembered before the LORD your God, and ye shall be saved from your enemies."
Num 10:10  "Also in the day of your gladness, and in your solemn days, and in the beginnings of your months, ye shall blow with the trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings; that they may be to you for a memorial before your God: I am the LORD your God."
This is a call of the oppressed saints for Gods deliverance.

New Testament usages
 Rev 1:10, 4:1; Heb 12:18-20; Matt 24:31 signals of appearance of God
1Cor 15:51-52  -Voice of Christ

2 main themes
1. Response to prayers of the Saints for Justice.
2. Judgments on the rejecters of God grace.
 

Introduction

Rev 8:2  And I saw the seven angels which stood before God; and to them were given
seven trumpets.
Rev 8:3  And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer; and there was given unto him much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne.
Rev 8:4  And the smoke of the incense, which came with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out of the angel's hand.
Rev 8:5  And the angel took the censer, and filled it with fire of the altar, and cast it into the earth: and there were voices, and thunderings, and lightnings, and an earthquake.
Rev 8:6  And the seven angels which had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound.

8:5 indicates no further intercession.  Probation closed. The last act by the Priest in the daily sanctuary service was to though down the censor.

Ezek 10:2  And he spake unto the man clothed with linen, and said, Go in between the wheels, even under the cherub, and fill thine hand with coals of fire from between the cherubims, and scatter them over the city. And he went in in my sight.

Meaning - Jerusalem destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar. - Probation closed for Jerusalem.

Satan kingdom divided into 1/3s Rev 16:13-19

1st Trumpet

Rev 8:7  "The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up."

Psa 1:2  "But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night."
Psa 1:3  "And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper." Vegetation indicates God's people

1 Pet 4:17 "For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?"

Luke 23:28  "But Jesus turning unto them said, Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep for yourselves, and for your children."
Luke 23:29  "For, behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck."
Luke 23:30  "Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us; and to the hills, Cover us."
Luke 23:31  "For if they do these things in a green tree, what shall be done in the dry?"

Mat 3:10  "And now also the ax is laid unto the root of the trees: therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire."

=AD 70 destruction of Jerusalem

2nd Trumpet

Rev 8:8  "And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with
fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood;"
Rev 8:9  "And the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had life, died;
and the third part of the ships were destroyed."

Jer 51:24  "And I will render unto Babylon and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea all their evil that they have done in Zion in your sight, saith the LORD."
Jer 51:25  "Behold, I am against thee, O destroying mountain, saith the LORD, which destroyest all the earth: and I will stretch out mine hand upon thee, and roll thee down from the rocks, and will make thee a burnt mountain."

Jer 51:41  "How is Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the whole earth surprised! how is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations!"
Jer 51:42  "The sea is come up upon Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof."

Jer 51:63  "And it shall be, when thou hast made an end of reading this book, that thou shalt bind a stone to it, and cast it into the midst of Euphrates:"
Jer 51:64  "And thou shalt say, Thus shall Babylon sink, and shall not rise from the evil that I will bring upon her: and they shall be weary. Thus far are the words of Jeremiah."

Judgment 1st to house of God then on power Used by God to Judge, Pagen Rome.

Isa 17:12  "Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations, that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!"
Isa 17:13  "The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind."

Rome fell into the Great Sea of Nations.  Water (nations/people) turned to Blood.  Dark ages , Trade Suffered, Economical order fell.

Nile life blood of Egypt when turn to blood destroyed economy.

3rd Trumpet

Rev 8:10  "And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven,
burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters;"
Rev 8:11  "And the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter."
The "great star from heaven"= Christian Church
Rev 17:15  "And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues."
John 4:14  "But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life."

Water represents people and may represent spiritual food.  Therefore this trumpet is announcing that the medieval Christian Church would poison the people with spiritually deadly teachings.
 

4th Trumpet

Rev 8:12  "And the fourth angel sounded, and the third part of the sun was smitten, and the third part of the moon, and the third part of the stars; so as the third part of them was darkened, and the day shone not for a third part of it, and the night likewise."
Rev 8:13  "And I beheld, and heard an angel flying through the midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice, Woe, woe, woe, to the inhabiters of the earth by reason of the other voices of the trumpet of the three angels, which are yet to sound!"

Ezek 32:2  "Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say unto him, Thou art like a young lion of the nations, and thou art as a whale in the seas: and thou camest forth with thy rivers, and troubledst the waters with thy feet, and fouledst their rivers."
Ezek 32:3  "Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will therefore spread out my net over thee with a
company of many people; and they shall bring thee up in my net."
Ezek 32:4  "Then will I leave thee upon the land, I will cast thee forth upon the open field, and will cause all the fowls of the heaven to remain upon thee, and I will fill the beasts of the whole earth with thee."
Ezek 32:5  "And I will lay thy flesh upon the mountains, and fill the valleys with thy height."
Ezek 32:6  "I will also water with thy blood the land wherein thou swimmest, even to
the mountains; and the rivers shall be full of thee."
Ezek 32:7  "And when I shall put thee out, I will cover the heaven, and make the stars
thereof dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give her light."
Ezek 32:8  "All the bright lights of heaven will I make dark over thee, and set darkness upon thy land, saith the Lord GOD."

When the Church "falls" teaches a false Gospel without power then secular Atheism thrives.

Rise of two Great Anti-Christ philosophies False Religion and Anti Religion i.e. Trumpet 3 and 4.

5th Trumpet

Rev 9:1  And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth:
and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit.
This star was already fallen (past) - different from 3rd trumpet that was observed falling.  This Star began in a fallen state.  Began in a fallen religion or philosophy.
Bottomless pit -"abussos, ab'-us-sos; from G1 (as a neg. particle) and a var. of G1037;
depthless, i.e. (spec.) (infernal) "abyss":--deep, (bottomless) pit"
Luke 8:30  And Jesus asked him, saying, What is thy name? And he said, Legion: because many devils were entered into him.
Luke 8:31  And they besought him that he would not command them to go out into the deep ("abyss")
Rev 9:2  And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.
 Sun=God's Truth
Mat 13:43  "Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Who hath ears to hear, let him hear."
Mat 17:2  "And was transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light."  Sun = Light (spiritual truth) from God.  Smoke is that which block the truths of God.
Rev 9:3  And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power.
Locusts is an illusion to the destructive plagues of Egypt.  Also indication great numbers. Scorpions-1 Ki 12:14  "And spake to them after the counsel of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, and I will add to your yoke: my father also chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions."  Indication of the use of oppressive force to get compliance.

Rev 9:4  And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth,
neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of
God in their foreheads.

Vegetation - God People.
 Psa 1:2  "But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night."
Psa 1:3  "And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper."
Seal
. Eph 1:13  "In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,"
Eph 4:30  "And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of
redemption. "
2 Tim 2:19 " Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity."
    " What is the condition of those who keep the commandments of God and have the faith of Jesus? If in families there are those who are refusing obedience to the Lord in keeping His Sabbath, then the seal cannot be placed upon them. The sealing is a pledge from God of perfect security to His chosen ones (Ex. 31:13-17). Sealing indicates you are God's chosen. He has appropriated you to Himself. As the sealed of God we are Christ's purchased possession, and no one shall pluck us out of His hands. The seal given in the forehead is God, New Jerusalem. 'I will write upon him the name of My God, and the name of the city of My God'
(Rev. 3:12)." 15MR pg225
 

Rev 9:5  And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man.
Rev 9:6  And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall, and death shall flee from them.
Prov 21:6  The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death. God preserves the will even of those seeking death/ worldly riches. Even those in Moslem world seeking death will have open to them the opportunity of salvation

5 Months = 150 day or prophetic years. July 29 was the 1st attack by the Ottoman Turks
(Moslems) on the Byzantine Empire.  The battle of Bapheum near Nicomedia.  1299 = 150 brings us to 1449.  The Byzantine Emperor Constantine Palaeolo requested permission of the Turkish Sultan Murad II ( A Muslim) before taking his throng.  Similar to how the European Kings requested a Papal blessing to assume their throne.

Rev 9:7  "And the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared unto battle; and on their heads were as it were crowns like gold, and their faces were as the faces of men. "
2 Chr 7:13 " If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people; "

Ezek 1:10  "As for the likeness of their faces, they four had the face of a man, and the face of a lion, on the right side: and they four had the face of an ox on the left side; they four also had the face of an eagle. "
Face of man - not a mindless deception

Rev 9:8  "And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions."
Song 7:5 " Thine head upon thee is like Carmel, and the hair of thine head like purple; the king is held in the galleries." 
Psa 124:6  "Blessed be the LORD, who hath not given us as a prey to their teeth.
destructive." The outward beauty of righteousness (good works) but brings only spiritual death.

Rev 9:9  "And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle."
Isa 59:17  "For he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and an helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on the garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloak."

Wing and running =speed

Rev 9:10  "And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails: and their power was to hurt men five months." See comments on Rev 9:5
 

Rev 9:11  "And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon."

Leader Satan

Rev 9:12  One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.

     "In the year 1840, another remarkable fulfillment of prophecy excited widespread interest. Two years before, Josiah Litch, one of the leading ministers preaching the second advent, published an exposition of Revelation 9, predicting the fall of the Ottoman empire. According to his calculations, this power was to be overthrown "in A.D. 1840, sometime in the month of August;" and only a few days previous to its accomplishment he wrote: "Allowing the first period, 150 years, to have been exactly fulfilled before Deacozes ascended the throne by permission of the Turks, and that the 391 years, fifteen days, commenced at the close of the first period, it will end on the 11th of August, 1840, when the Ottoman owner in Constantinople may be expected to be broken. And this, I believe, will be found to be the case."--Josiah Litch, in Signs of the Times, and Expositor of Prophecy,   Aug. 1, 1840.
     At the very time specified, Turkey, through her ambassadors, accepted the protection of the allied powers of Europe, and thus placed herself under the control of Christian nations. The event exactly fulfilled the prediction. . . . A wonderful impetus was given to the advent movement." Mar 152
7/271299 to 7/27/1449
7/27/1299 - 1st attack on Byrzantine Empire by Ottoman Turks.  Battle of Bapheum.
1449-(July 27 i.e. 150 year prophecy ended) Collapse of Byzantine power.
8/11/1840-  Treaty of London signed July 15, 8/11 Turkish emissary arrived at Alexandra with the terms of Treaty of London -Turkish government recognized it independent power was gone.
(Britain, France, Austria interceded to Prevent Mohammed Ali of Egypt from taking over
Turkey)

   "For centuries, the Byzantines were the most powerful and influential people in Europe and the Middle East. Their contributions to the world were many. Scholars preserved the literature of Rome and Greece through the darkest centuries of the Middle Ages. Statesmen developed pioneering legal codes, which were used as a basis for imperial monarchies for more than 1,000 years. Artists created a distinctive style of mosaic work, painting, and domed architecture, which influenced the cultures of Greece, Italy, Spain, and Russia. The Byzantine state religion Eastern Orthodox Christianity became dominant in the Balkan and Russian kingdoms as well as in Greece." Excerpted from Compton's Interactive Encyclopedia Copyright (c) 1994, 1995 Compton's New Media, Inc. All Rights Reserved

"The Pope, who as Aeneas Sylvius had been so uniformly successful as a diplomat, had to bear one setback after another in his dealings with the European powers. Louis XI gave him a brief triumph by revoking the Pragmatic Sanction of Bourges, but when Pius refused to aid the house of Anjou in its plans for recapturing Naples, Louis in effect revoked his revocation. Bohemia persisted in the revolt that John Huss had started; the Reformation had begun there a century before Luther, and the new king, George Podebrad, was giving it his powerful support. The German hierarchy continued to league with German princes in resisting collection of the tithe, and renewed the old cry for a general council to reform the Church and sit in judgment upon the pope. Pius responded by issuing (1460) the bull ®Execrabilis,¯ which condemned and forbade
any attempt to convene a general council without papal initiative and consent; if, he argued, such a council could be summoned at any time by opponents of papal policy, papal jurisdiction would be in constant jeopardy, and ecclesiastical discipline would be paralyzed.  These disputes fettered the efforts of the Pope to unify Europe against the Turks. On the very day of his coronation he expressed his horror at the advance of the Moslems along the Danube to Vienna, and through the Balkans into Bosnia. Greece, Epirus, Macedonia, Serbia, Bosnia were falling to the enemies of Christianity; who could say when they would leap across the Adriatic into Italy? A month after his coronation Pius issued an invitation to all Christian princes to join him in a great congress at Mantua and lay plans to rescue Eastern Christendom from the Ottoman tide.  He himself arrived there on May 27, 1459. Arrayed in the most gorgeous vestments of his office, he was borne through the city on a litter held up by
the nobles and vassals of the Church. He addressed great throngs in one of the most moving orations of his career. But no king or prince came from beyond the Alps, and none sent representatives with powers to commit his state to war; nationalism, which was to achieve the Reformation, was already strong enough to make the papacy an ineffectual suppliant before the thrones of the kings. The cardinals urged the Pope to return to Rome; neither did they relish the thought of yielding a tithe of their income to the crusade; some decamped to their pleasures; some asked Pius to his face did he wish them to die of fever in Mantua's summer heat? The Pontiff waited patiently for the Emperor, but Frederick III, instead of coming to the aid of the man who in the past had served him well, declared war on Hungary in an effort to add to his realm the very nation that was most actively preparing to resist the Turks. France again made its co-operation conditional on papal support of a French campaign against Naples. Venice held
back for fear that her remaining possessions in the Aegean would be the first sacrifice in a war of Christian Europe against the Ottomans. At last, in August, an embassy came from Duke Philip the Good of Burgundy; in September Francesco Sforza appeared; other Italian princes followed his lead, and on the 26th the Congress held its first sitting, four months after the arrival of the Pope. Four months more passed in argument; finally, by agreeing to the division of Turkish and formerly Byzantine territory in Europe among the victorious powers, Pius won Burgundy and Italy to his plan for a holy war. All Christian laymen were to contribute to the cause a thirtieth of their income, all Jews a twentieth, all clergy a tenth. The Pope returned to Rome in almost complete exhaustion; but he gave orders for the construction of a papal fleet, and prepared, despite gout and cough and stone, to lead the crusade himself.  And yet his nature shrank from war, and he dreamed of a peaceful victory. Perhaps encouraged by rumors that Mohammed II, born of a Christian mother, had secret leanings toward Christianity, Pius addressed to the Sultan (1461) an earnest appeal to accept the Gospel of Christ. He had never been more eloquent.   Were you to embrace Christianity there is no prince on earth who would surpass you in glory or equal you in power. We would acknowledge you as emperor of the Greeks and the East; and what you have now taken by violence, and retain by injustice, would then be your lawful possession.... Oh, what a fullness of peace it would be! The golden age of Augustus, sung by the poets, would return. If you were to join yourself to us the whole of the East would soon turn to Christ. One will could give peace to the entire world, and that will is yours! -
  Mohammed made no reply; whatever his theology, he knew that his final protection against Western arms lay not in the promises of the Pope but in the religious ardor of his people. Pius turned more realistically to collecting the clerical tithe. A windfall sustained him in 1462 when rich deposits of alum were found in papal soil at Tolfa in western Latium; several thousand men were put to work mining the substance so valued by dyers; soon the mines were yielding 100,000 florins per year to the Holy See. Pius announced that the discovery was a miracle, a divine contribution to the Turkish war. `051538 The Papal States were now the richest government in Italy, with Venice a close second, Naples third, then Milan, Florence, Modena, Siena, Mantua. `
  Venice, perceiving the resolute earnestness of the Pope, accelerated its preparations. The other powers held back, or offered merely token aid; the collection of taxes for the crusade met with formidable resistance almost everywhere. Francesco Sforza cooled to the enterprise as promising to strengthen Venice by redeeming her lost possessions and trade. Genoa, which had pledged eight triremes, withheld them. The Duke of Burgundy urged the Pope to wait for a better day. But Pius announced that he would go to Ancona, expect there the union of new papal and Venetian fleets, cross with them to Ragusa, join Skanderbeg of Bosnia and Matthias Corvinus of Hungary, and lead in person the advance against the Turks. Nearly all the cardinals protested; they had no appetite for marching through the Balkans; they warned the Pope that Bosnia was reeking with heretics and plague. The ailing pontiff nevertheless took the cross
of a crusader, bade farewell to Rome, not expecting to see it again, and sailed with his
fleet for Ancona (June 18, 1464)   Meanwhile the armies that were supposed to meet him faded away as if by Oriental magic; the troops originally promised by Milan did not come; those which Florence sent were so poorly equipped as to be useless; when Pius reached Ancona (July 19) he found that most of the crusaders who had assembled there had deserted, weary of waiting and worried for food. Plague broke out in the Venetian fleet as it left the lagoons, and caused a delay of twelve days. Brokenhearted by the vanishing of his armies and the nonappearance of the Venetian armada, Pius languished at Ancona, sick to the verge of death. Finally the fleet was sighted; the Pope sent his galleys to meet them, and had himself carried to a window from which he could see the harbor. As the combined navies came in sight he died (August 14, 1464). Venice recalled her vessels, the remaining soldiers dispersed, the crusade collapsed. The brilliant and versatile climber who had craved success after success had reached the throne of thrones, had graced it with urbane scholarship and Christian benevolence, and had drunk to the dregs the gall of failure, humiliation, and defeat; but he had redeemed the errors of his youth with the devotion of his maturity, and had shamed the cynicism of his peers with the nobility of his death."  From The Story of Civilization, by Will and Arial Durant

6th Trumpet

Rev 9:13  "And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,"
Rev 9:14  "Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates."

Rev 17:15  "And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues"
The Euphrates is that river that feeds Babylon. When the Turks were no longer a threat to the Papal power then the assent of the Papacy began and the deadly wound began healing. About 1840.

Rev 16:12  "And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared."

Rev 9:15  "And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men."

When the Ottoman empire ceased to be a threat Babylon began its end time focus as described in Chap 17.

Hour =15 days, day= 1year, month =30 years, year= 360 years total 391 and 15 days
1449- (July 27 i.e. 150 year prophecy ended) Collapse of Byzantine power.
8/11/1840-  Treaty of London signed July 15, 8/11 Turkish emissary arrived at Alexandra with the terms of Treaty of London -Turkish government recognized it independent power was gone. (Britain, France, Austria interceded to Prevent Mohammed Ali of Egypt from taking over Turkey)

Rev 9:16  "And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand: and I heard the number of them."
The "two hundred thousand thousand" (Satan force in the final battle in probationary time) are to do battle with" the hundred forty and four thousand",( God's end time force) for the hearts of men.

"Satan, with all his host is on the battlefield.  Christ's soldiers are now to rally round the bloodstained banner of Emmanuel.  In the name of the Lord, leave the black banner of the prince of darkness, and take your position with the Prince of heaven." Special Testimonies Series B, No. 7, pp. 16

Rev 9:17  "And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone."
Jacinth=gem of a deep blue color
Exo 28:15  "And thou shalt make the breastplate of judgment with cunning work; after the work of the ephod thou shalt make it; of gold, of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, and of fine twined linen, shalt thou make it."

Gen 19:24  "Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven;"
Someone in a breastplate that look similar to a priest, is controlling a beast that is breathing destruction. Again a  symbolic picture of the fallen church using the persecuting power of the state.

Rev 9:18  "By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths."

These three = fire, smoke and brimstone.  False Sabbath,  Immortality of the soul, False gospel (salvation by works)

Rev 9:19  "For their power is in their mouth, and in their tails: for their tails were like unto serpents, and had heads, and with them they do hurt."
Mouth =Words
Tail= Force

Rev 9:20  "And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk:"
Some do not buy into the False Church, but have other idols (materialism, pleasures etc.)

Rev 9:21  "Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts."