Of many horses running to battle.—The old‐time Methodist hell‐fire revival was in days gone by the noisiest place on earth, excepting the camp‐ meeting. Those good old days have long since gone. 9:10. And they had tails.—Followers—class‐leaders. Like unto scorpions.—The old‐time class‐leader was an invaluable adjunct of the Methodist Church. Upon him devolved the duty of requiring each probationer to attend the class‐meeting and report his spiritual progress weekly, whether he had made any or not. After each report it was the class‐leader’s duty to squirt in a little more of the poisonous doctrines from the two orifices referred to in comments on Rev. 9:3. From the “heaven” orifice came the doctrine “If you are good you will go to Heaven when you die”—and from the “hell” orifice came the message “If you are bad you will go to hell when you die.” It was all very simple. Everybody was simple in those days. And [there were] stings.—Revivals in which the attendants were stung, doctrinally and financially. AND in their tails [and] WAS their power [was] to hurt men five months.—One hundred and fifty years, from Wesley’s ordination in 1728 to the casting off of Methodism in 1878.—Rev. 9:5. 9:11. [And] they [had a] HAVE THEIR king [over them].—The same king as exercises general rulership over all the ecclesiastical affairs of this present evil world. [Which is] the angel of the [bottomless pit] ABYSS.—“The prince of the power of the air.”—Eph. 2:2. Whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon.—And he is “a bad one,” sure enough.—2 Cor. 4:4. But in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon.—That is, Destroyer. But in plain English his name is Satan, the Devil. As a means for preventing people from seeing the Truth, Methodism has been as efficient as any of the five systems previously described, or any that follow. All have been sadly misled and deceived by our great and wily Adversary; “Taken captive by him at his will.”—2 Tim. 2:26. 9:12. One woe is past.—Methodism was the first woe of the epoch leading up to and associated with the Time of the End. It was a serious blow to the pretensions of the Papacy, but its days of usefulness have long since passed. And, behold, there come two woes more [hereafter].—One outlined in the remainder of this chapter and one in Chapter 10. It was the discovery of Methodism as the first woe that led to an identification of the four movements of the Reformation proper which preceded it.—Rev. 8:7‐13.