The Sixth Angel Sounded: AR 442; AR 444 - The Euphrates

AR 442

Then the sixth angel sounded.
(Revelation 9:13)

The people who are the subject now
are totally different from those
who have been the subject so far in this chapter,
whose falsities in matters of faith
were seen in the form of locusts.
They differ in this respect,
that the people described so far
devote themselves to zealously exploring
the mysteries of justification by faith
and to teaching its signs and its testimonies,
which to them are the goods of a moral and civic life,
asserting that although the precepts of the Word
are in themselves indeed Divine,
in people they become natural,
because they emanate from a person's will,
and being natural,
they lack any connection
with the spiritual components of faith.
Moreover, because they defend these ideas
by rational arguments which have the sound of learning,
they live in the southern zone in an abyss.

AR 444

In the Word, the Euphrates symbolizes
the inner constituents of the human mind, called rational,
which in people governed by truths
springing from goodness are full of wisdom,
but which in people caught up in falsities springing from evil
are full of irrationality.