The fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slaughtered because of God's word and the testimony they had given about him. If you were in a situation where you could possibly die just because you follow Jesus, would your faith be strong enough?
Revelation 6:1-7 As we read those those verses again, spend some time thinking about the 4 horsemen. How much do you think things would change if every Christian did what Jesus calls us to do? He promised that those of us who stand firm to the end will be saved.
The fourth seal, a pale horse, its rider's name was Death. Hell followed. They were given power over 1/4 of the earth to kill people using wars, famines, plagues, and wild animals. Are you afraid to die? Do you think a quarter of the earth are dying from Covid 19?
The third seal, a black horse, its rider held a scale. A quart of wheat or three quarts of barley for a day's pay. But do not damage the olive oil and wine. Those who don't know Jesus will suffer from famine, but those who believe in Jesus will not.
Be still! As they try to waken the future Saviour of the world they ask "Teacher, don't you care if we drown?"!! What a question to ask the one who came to save the world! But they didn't yet know Him as Saviour, for them He was just a teacher!
The time is coming when people who murder you will think that they are serving God. World history has terrible stories about people being killed for their faith and even christians killing other christians because they disagree on points of theology! Remember that "my peace will be with you" (John 16:33).
So he was given a large sword. The sword represents war and many deaths. Do we really understand the way that the enemy (the devil) is taking over our world, and has been trying to do so since the beginning? Thankfully that is not the end of the story.
Its rider was given the power to make people slaughter one another. We can imagine that many christians thought this was happening during the two world wars of the 20th century. Jesus promises a peace that the world cannot give.
When the lamb opened the second seal, a second horse went out. It was fiery red. Its rider was given power to take peace away and make people slaughter one another. How do the media decide which stories to tell and which to ignore? Who tells them what to say?
The lamb opened the first of the seven seals. There was a white horse, and its rider had a bow. This first rider represents the antichrist who ushers in the 7 year tribulation leading up to Jesus' second coming. These revelations are not necessarily on an earthly time scale.
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