Revelation 6 - Introduction
In Chapter s 6 & 7, the Lamb who took the sealed scroll (Revelation 5:7), now begins to open the seals and to disclose a sequence of events.... [ Continue Reading ]
In Chapter s 6 & 7, the Lamb who took the sealed scroll (Revelation 5:7), now begins to open the seals and to disclose a sequence of events.... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN I SAW. The Lamb breaks open the first of the seals. COME. The four living creatures (cherubim) take turns introducing a horseman.... [ Continue Reading ]
THERE WAS A WHITE HORSE. The Rider on the white horse symbolizes Christ. [This is still a vision.] The bow, the crown, and the white horse, are symbolic of conquest and victory. AS A CONQUEROR TO CONQUER. Christ is a conqueror (Revelation 3:21). He has already conquered death and the world of the de... [ Continue Reading ]
ANOTHER HORSE CAME OUT. This horse is red - symbolic of violent death. As the Good News of Jesus is preached, persecution and sacrifice follow. Read what Jesus said in Matthew 10:34-39. The red horse refers to religious persecution stirred up by preaching Christ. The sword here is the sacrificial kn... [ Continue Reading ]
THERE WAS A BLACK HORSE. Symbolic of great economic hardship. The scales are symbolic of famine (Ezekiel 4:10_ ff),_ and the prices given for wheat and barley are famine prices. But it is not famine, since plenty of wheat and barley are available _if you can pay the price!_ Oil and wine symbolize lu... [ Continue Reading ]
THERE WAS A PALE-COLORED HORSE. This horse is a very sickly gruesome color, symbolic of disease and death. Its Rider is Death, and Hades (the world of the dead) comes trotting along behind. War, famine, disease and wild animals come on believer and unbeliever alike. Death cuts down, and Hades [symbo... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN THE LAMB BROKE OPEN THE FIFTH SEAL. This is still a vision. I SAW... THE SOULS. He sees an altar, and under it the SOULS (not bodies) of those who were being slaughtered under the second seal. Their lives were both a sacrifice and a testimony to Christ.... [ Continue Reading ]
HOW LONG? These souls shout in a loud voice, asking for vengeance! But did not Jesus ask God to forgive those who killed him? We answer, these souls do not ask for revenge, but they ask God's vengeance for God's sake. By slaughtering them, the world repudiates God! See Jude 1:14-15.... [ Continue Reading ]
THEY WERE TOLD TO REST. A white, flowing robe is given to each of them (symbolic of being free from guilt, of being holy, and of great happiness). God hears their prayers, but his purpose is not yet fulfilled. God knows the exact number of martyrs to his cause, and not until this many are sacrificed... [ Continue Reading ]
AND I SAW THE LAMB BREAK OPEN THE SIXTH SEAL. The sixth seal introduces the Judgment, and shows us something of the terror of the wicked at that time. The events of Revelation 6:12-14 are to be lumped together around the central idea of God's wrath and power _unleashed_ [at Christ's Second COMING] a... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN THE KINGS OF THE EARTH, ETC. Under the symbolism of six groups of men, John sees [in his vision] the total godless world in terror as they will attempt to escape from God's wrath. As the very earth shakes to pieces beneath their feet, even death itself seems less to be feared than the wrath of... [ Continue Reading ]
THE GREAT DAY OF THEIR WRATH IS HERE. Chapter 6 closes with Judgment Day, but the seventh seal is not yet opened! God sends punishment on the world in our day [or at least allows it to come] because the wicked persecute his people. But God will not execute his complete vengeance, nor close the door... [ Continue Reading ]