Revelation 9:14-16

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¹⁴saying to the sixth angel, “Release the four mighty demons^[a] held bound at the great River Euphrates.” ¹⁵They had been kept in readiness for that year and month and day and hour, and now they were turned loose to kill a third of all mankind. ¹⁶They led an army of 200,000,000 warriors^[b]—I heard an announcement of how many there were.

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Revelation 9:14 mighty demons, literally, “[fallen] angels.”
Revelation 9:16 If this is a literal figure, it is no longer incredible, in view of a world population in excess of 6 billion in the near future. In China alone, in 1961, there were an “estimated 200 million armed and organized militiamen” (Associated Press Release, April 24, 1964). warriors, literally, “horsemen.”