REVELATION - 22 3-21

Apocalypse logic & riddles, weekly study, verses paraphrased [ ] references { } thots

BOOK OF REVELATION

3 - And there shall be no more curse nor cursed (accursed) for all [pas - all] curse [katanáthema  - from katá - according to, down, which intensifies anáthema - a curse – properly, an oath-curse which "devotes something to destruction" literally, to take it down] shall no longer be.

     And the throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it (the New Jerusalem) and his servants will serve him. [Latreia - from latris - render technical, acceptable service because qualified.] 4 They will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads. (No more ‘mystery babble’/all confusion on the forehead of the world.) 5 And by-night will be no more. They will not need the light of a lamp nor of the sun, for the Lord God will be the light of them, and (so) they will reign [basileuó - exercise dominion] (over creation and well being, not over others, lol) age to age.

     6 “These words are faithful and true” the angel said, “and the Lord God of the spirits [pneuma: wind, breath, spirit] of the prophets, has sent his angel to show his servants what must come to pass in quickness [tachu - quickly, speedily]”.

     7 “And behold, I come quickly [tachu]. Blessed is the one who keeps the words of the prophecy of this book.”

     8 I, John, am the one who heard and saw all these things. And when I heard and saw them, I fell down to worship at the feet of the angel who showed them to me, 9 but he said, “You mustn’t do that! I’m a fellow servant with you and the prophets, and with those who keep the words of this book. Worship God.”

     10 Then he told me, “Don’t seal up the words of this book of prophecy, for the time is near at hand. {Entropy is ever progressing.} 11 The ones being unrighteous, let them be unrighteous still. (Until then! And INITIALLY during GWT judgment/discernment/review/closure for all ‘Day’.) And the ones who are vile, let them be vile still. (Until then! And INITIALLY during GWT ‘day’.) And those being righteous, let them practice righteousness still, and those who are holy let them be so still. [Holy - hagios - the fundamental (core, basic) meaning of hagios is "different" – thus a temple in the 1st century was hagios - holy, sacred because different from other buildings; different from the world because like the Lord - biblehub dot com.] 12 “Behold, I’m coming quickly, bringing with me what’s due [misthos - pay for service, literally or figuratively, good or bad] to repay each for what they have done. 13 I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end. 14 Blessed are those who wash their robes, so they may have right to the tree of life and may enter the city by its gates. 15 Outside (now, and initially during GWT ‘day’) are the dogs and sorcerers [pharmakos - poisoner, sorcerer, magician] and the sexually immoral [pornos] and murderers and idolaters [eidólolatrés - an image worshiper] and everyone loving and making/doing a lie. 16 I, Jesus, have sent my angel to testify to you these things to the churches. I am the root and the descendant of David, the bright morning star.”

     17 The Spirit and the Bride say, “Come.” And the one hearing let them say come. And the one thirsting let them come, and the one desiring, let them take the water of life freely. 18 And I testify to everyone hearing the words of the prophecy of this book, if anyone adds to them, God will add to him the plagues described. 19 And if anyone should take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God will take away his share in what is described in this (Rev.) book, the share out of the New Jerusalem and out of the tree of life (the healing of the nations). 20 And He who is testifying of these things says, “Surely I am coming quickly.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus! 21 The grace of the Lord Jesus be with all. Amen. 

                The End.

                         ~*~

📜🗞️ The revelation vision is told 3 times: 6:1-2 to 11:19; chap.12 w/ Mt.23:39; and 13:1 to 19:11, the three rejoining at the 7th trumpet’s sounding.

Jesus’ brief first advent perfectly fulfilled the ancient Spring Holy Days, more perfectly than is easily seen. So logically his long second advent will fulfill the Autumn Holy Days (of Lev.23) their names and pattern:

  TRUMPETS (of Rev, return at 7th during the concurrent bowls) - 10days/1000yrs - to ‘DAY’ oF ATONEMENT - 5days/500yrs - to TABERNACLES — a fiery regenesis, “All new.. God will now tabernacle with mankind” Rev.21:1-5.

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Revelation - 11 1-14

 BooK of Revelation

                a paraphrased study

1 - Then I (disciple/apostle John) was given a measuring rod like a staff (clue about the “rod of iron” Jesus will rule the nations with after shattering them with it - measuring rod - Truth). And I was told, “Rise and measure the temple of God and the altar and those who worship there, 2 but don’t measure the court outside the temple. Leave that out, for it’s given over to the nations, and they’ll trample the holy city for forty-two months”. (Cross reference? - 1Cor.3:16 - “do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit”/Presence of God.. I.e. waiting for a ‘third temple’ in prophecy, could be an error? Dn.12:11-12.

     3 “And I will grant authority to my two witnesses (Rev.7:9,4?) and they’ll prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth.” (Poverty, mourning, and has to be during the second half of the lauded treaty that will last only seven years and be broken in the middle against Israel, Dn.12:11-12 w/ Lk.19:41,44-which verses prove the “70 weeks” gap between 69 and 70; and w/ 1Cor.3:16. A math problem revealing what?) 4 These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth. 5 And if anyone would harm them, fire pours from their mouth and utterly ruins their foes. If anyone wants and is willing to harm them, thus it’s [dei - necessary, inevitable] they will be killed. 6 They have the power to shut the sky, that no rain may rain during the days of the prophesying, and they have power over the waters to turn them into blood and to strike the earth with every kind of plague, as often as they wish. 7 And when their testimony is completed, the beast rising from the bottomless pit (from the abyss of potential that imperfect/straying is) will make war upon them, will conquer them, and kill them, 8 and their dead bodies will lie in the street of the great city that symbolically is called Sodom and Egypt, where their Lord was crucified. (Which was “outside the gate” of Jerusalem, so outside Jerusalem, not solely Jerusalem as Sodom and Egypt.) 9 And those of the peoples, tribes, tongues, and nations, will look upon them for three and a half days, not allowing them to be put into tombs/graves (Jn.5:28-29). 10 And they’ll rejoice over their murders, make merry and exchange gifts, because these two had been a torment to them. 11 But after the three and a half days a breath of life from God entered them, and they stood up! And great fear fell upon those who saw it. 12 Then they heard a loud voice from heaven saying, “Come up here!” And they went up in a cloud, as they watched.

     13 And at that very hour, there was a great earthquake, and a tenth of the city fell. Seven thousand people were killed in the earthquake, and the rest were terrified and gave glory to the God of heaven. (Zech.14:4)

     14 The second woe has passed, behold, the third woe is coming quickly. [The word is tachu - quickly. But translated here and elsewhere as ‘soon’. Which is not quite the same, although soon after would be.]                          

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Revelation 6 1-4

 BooK of Revelation

                a paraphrased study     

THE vision 1 - Now I {disciple/apostle John} was watching as the Lamb [Jesus “as slain” only one “worthy to open the scroll”] opened one of the seven seals, and I heard one of the four {majestic} living creatures say with a voice like thunder, “Come!” 2 And I looked! And there, was a white horse! And its rider had a bow, and a crown was given to him, and he came riding forth conquering, and to conquer. {Often taken to be the shadow rider to the gospel, the false way, especially when we lock the vision in a box titled “7 years only”. I am 99.9% convinced thiS white horse is the gospel riding forth into the age “openly victorious over powers and principalities” Colossians 2:15. Yet both the good news (gospel) and the false way, will escalate, gather momentum toward gallop, in late days and ‘last’ hour.}

     3 When he opened the *second* seal, I heard the *second* living creature say, “Come!” 4 And out came another horse. This one was fiery [pyrros] red and its rider was allowed to take peace from the earth, so that people slay one another, and he was given a long sword. {Obviously war. War is given a megas - a great, large, mighty sword. Second of the four horsemen of the apocalypse is mankind’s response to the good (or megas - great, large, mighty!) news.}

     {“Second” - second creature, second seal - Father Most High is veRy organized. ..And 100% unfettered Genius. Chapter 6 is where the actual vision begins. First of THREE tellings of the vision. The 3 being 6:1-2 to 11:19; chapter 12, but verse 17 needs Matthew 23:39; and 13:1 to 19:11. And the THREE rejoin at the sounding of the 7th trumpet, Isaiah 24:20/Rev.10:4, Zechariah 14:4, noT to be confused with Rev.21:1-5.}

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Revelation 21 10-22

Weekly Book Of Revelation

            Paraphrased

10 - And he (an angel) carried me (John) in the Spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me the Holy City, Jerusalem, coming down from heaven, from God. 11 It was radiant with the glory of God, like a stone most precious, like jasper, and clear as crystal. 12 It had a great, high wall of twelve gates, with twelve angels at the gates. And on them were written the names of the twelve tribes of Israel. (All believers are “grafted INTO Israel” Ro.11:17-26.) 13 There were three gates facing east, three facing north, three south and three west. 14 The wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them were the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb. 15 The angel who talked with me had a measuring rod of gold with which to measure the city, the gates and the walls. (Side Note - a rod is a measuring stick, the “iron rod” Jesus will rule the nations with is Truth, which is unbreakable, an unbreakable measure, that breaks all that is not true.) 16 The city was square, and as long as it was wide. He measured the city with the rod and found it to be 12,000 stadia in length, and as wide and high as it is long. [Stadia - a greek measurement, stadium length, the length of a race course,  furlong which is an 8th of a mile - 12,000 stadia, between 1,300 to 1,400 miles?) 17 The angel measured the wall using human and angel measurement, and it was 144 cubits thick. 18 The wall was of jasper, the city of pure gold, and pure as glass. 19 The foundations of the city walls were adorned with every kind of precious stone. The city had twelve foundations, each made of a precious stone, the first jasper, the second sapphire, the third agate, the fourth emerald, 20 the fifth onyx, the sixth ruby, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth turquoise, the eleventh jacinth, and the twelfth amethyst. 21 The twelve gates were of pearl, each gate made of a single pearl. The great street of the city was of gold, as pure and clear as glass. 22 I didn’t see in the city, a temple, because the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple.

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The Rev vision is told 3times, joining at trumpet 7. The seal description-as their full effects-veils much. Vs.13:13 was by an office. A weekly study.

BOOK OF REVELATION IN PICTURES - LESSON SEVEN - A LASTING PARADISE

Shrouded in Mystery...

How does it all end?

                                 

Where do we go from there?

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#1 - Jesus returns, all believers are resurrected.

 Jesus sets up a 1,000 year rule on Earth.

#2 - Shortly after His 1,000 year reign..

The rest of all mankind are resurrected

and there is a Great 'Day' of Review

of all history... 

#3 - Then the New Heavenly City called 

New Jerusalem and the Very Throne of God

will Come to the Earth..

"Behold I make all things new.." Revelation 21:5

"God shall dwell with mankind.. will wipe away every tear.. 

there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying.." Revelation 21:3,4

"The Son Himself will also be subject to Him, who put

all things under Him, that God may be all in all."

1 Corinthians 15:28 (21-28)

And then shall it be said of all - "...They 

shall sit each under his own vine, and fig tree, 

and there is none troubling.."

Micah 4:4

"The lion will eat straw like the ox..

     

    ...and the bear will graze with the cow.."

 - Isaiah 11:7

He (surely!) is Life itself,

and also Perfection.

We are learning good from evil

Life from death..?

                                             

...an unavoidable lesson, and journey?

If we are to be rational creatures? 

For with thinking ability, 

comes the ability to

make choices..?

~

When He endowed thinking ability, surely(?) 

A whole new world (tree) of possibilities came about. 

If He is Life and Perfection, does that make imperfection the opposite of Life?

Surely(?) Perfect makes no mistakes, and can lose nothing. 

Could any mortal ever dream of a better
"happily ever after"
than He can
?

"With God all things
are possible."
Mk 10:27

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BACK TO FIRST

BOOK OF REVELATION IN PICTURES - LESSON ONE - CHAPTER TWELVE

The Woman ~ The Faith

A woman with twelve stars around her head,

gives birth to a manchild (Son of man).

Revelation chapter twelve is an insert and a history all its own.

Many have mistakenly sealed all of Revelation in a box called "7 years".
This greatly obscures the message.

A red dragon tries to devour the child as soon as he is born.

 (Herod the Great ordered all young boy 

children in Bethlehem be slain.)

But the child was caught up to God's throne.

Ephesians 1:20 - "God raised Him from the dead and seated 

Him at His right hand in the heavenly places."

And the woman "fled".  

(A migration of the faith "to a new place".)

70 a.d.

...And war broke out in heaven..

..and the dragon was

no longer allowed access to the heavens..                   

"Rejoice, O heavens, and you who dwell in them! But woe to the inhabitants of the earth.. For the devil has come down to you, having great wrath.."

                                                                                 -- Verse 12

                                                           

  

        " And when the dragon saw that he was cast forth to the earth, 

                                           he persecuted the woman.." [the faith] -- Verse 13

"But the woman" (the faith) 

"was given two wings of an eagle.."

"that she might fly to a wilderness place.."

                                                                                                       --Verse 14a

"...to be nourished and safe from the face of the dragon 

for 3.5 divisions of time.." -- Verse 14c

 + 350 =

"Then the serpent" (guise of the dragon) 

"spewed water out of his mouth like a flood, 

after the woman, that he might cause her 

to be swept away by the flood..." -- Verse 15

"But the Earth will swallow the flood." -- Verse 16

i.e.

 "The earth will swallow the flood."

"Then the dragon.. went off to wage war against the rest of the woman's children —  those who keep God’s commands and" (by then) "hold fast their testimony about Jesus." -- Verse 17

"Jerusalem you shall see me no more, until, you say -
'blessed is He who comes in the name of the LORD!'  " Mt. 23:39

                

"Then I John saw three unclean spirits like frogs.. out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet, spirits of demons.. to gather the kings and all the world to that great day of Armageddon.. `lo, I do come as a thief, happy is the one who is watching'.."

 - Revelation 16:14,15

"When you see Jerusalem being surrounded by armies, 

then know that the desolation thereof is nigh." - Luke 21:20

       ~ ~ ~

A Riddle ~ "From the time the daily/perpetual sacrifice" (or current place of continual prayers?) "is removed ~ and the abomination that causes desolation is set  up ~ there will be 1,290 days.  Blessed is the one who waits for and reaches, the end of the 1,335 days." (45 days later)  ~~ Daniel 12:11,12

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APOCALYPSE IN FEW WORDS

FIRST A QUICK SUMMARY OF THIS OUTLINE:

        a. This outline ignores inner, spiritual symbolisms other than how, ultimately, `
            all which is built upon untruth, can only fail and fall.
        b. The Hiroshima, Nagasaki thermonuclear bombing in 1945 was the breaking
            open of a sixth seal on a scroll called the Revelation vision, or Apocalypse.
            Following this, a pause.
        c. Until limited thermonuclear. (In or from the Middle East?)
        d. The office which began its use and a world body become much stronger
            and join forces; Peace treaties.
        e. Peace treaty w/ Israel is broken, (and the place of?) daily prayers is
            removed/ceased/taken away.
        f. Much drought - Regional conflicts of the world flare back up - Marshall
           Law five months - Mega troops from China to Middle East
           battleground - Man's global "city" had crashed? now falls.
        g. Three years plus seven months (made up of 30 da. months) after the treaty
            w/ Israel is broken, the notorious '666' is "set up". And "blessed is the one
            who comes to (the) forty-five days later".
            (Daniel 12:11,12; all other verses are in the outline.)
             ____   ____   ____   ____   ____   ____   ____   ____
     ____   ____   ____   ____   ____   ____   ____   ____

I. Revelation 13:13 occurred in the year 1945, pinpointing an office.
   This is also "Seal Six" of chapter 6, verses 12 through 17.
        a. The "Seals" are described as a blend of
            (1) what they are at their beginning, and
            (2) what they are as fully grown and at full maturity, at the 'end'.
            This obscures much of the Revelation vision.

II. We are in the pause of thermonuclear as warfare. (Rev. 7:1 to 8:6)

III. (Rev. 8:5, and later 8:7-12) - Limited thermonuclear warfare (in or from
      the Middle East?) This is the breaking (open) of the "Seventh Seal" on the
      scroll which is the Revelation vision. At the breaking of the 7th Seal things
      escalate. The scroll is fully unrolled.
        a. Seven angels with "Trumpets" prepare to sound with these results:
            (1) Environmental woes
            (2) Droughts (Rev. 12:16 + Luke 23:28,31)
            (3) The (two horned) office of Rev. 13:13 or one of that office (at one time?)
                  takes his/her seat in the prime office(?) of Rev. 13:1-10 a world beast/body
                  "which was, then wasn't" (when its head expired, not having signed on
                  after all) then after 13:13 "was once again" but lacks "breath"
                  (much authority) for some time (verses 14,15).
                  Treaties, especially between the dove and the vulture?
                  A (world?) Great Treaty? (Or just w/ Israel?)
            (4) Israel's (place of?) daily prayers and praise is taken away.
                  Aka? Matthew 24:1-2, "..not one stone will be left one atop another"..?

IV. Global Babylon (called harlot, the Greek "pornos" and "to sell") of the Earth
      crashes "in one hour.."

V. Three final "Woes" (results of mankind's doings)
        a. Five months of Marshall Law, via helicopters, or? (Rev. 9:5-10, written 90 C.E.)
        b. Troops from China to the Middle East battleground / Great War (Rev. 9:14,16)
        c. Daniel 12:11,12 - From the time Israel's (place of?) daily prayers and praise is
            removed, until 666 is "set-up" will be 3.5 Hebrew years, plus thirty days.
            Blessed is the one who makes it to day 1,335.. which is 45 days later.

VI. Babylon the Great / Global Babylon,
      whose forehead (psyche) is "Mystery Babble" (all untruth)
      falls "in one day.." (Rev. chapters 17 and 18)
         a. (During?) "...will lead to streams of living water" (Rev. 7:17)
             "..waters in the day when the towers fall". (Isaiah 30:25)
         b. "Immediately after the tribulation of those days.. they will see the
             Son of man coming on the clouds with power and great glory."
             (Matthew 24:29,30)
           
             "When Jesus is revealed from heaven with His mighty angels and in fire ..He
             will send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather
             His own from the four winds of Earth."
             (2 Thessalonians 1:7,8; Matthew 24:31 )

             "The Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice
             of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise,
             and those believers who are alive shall be caught up together with them in
             the clouds to meet the Lord.." .."He comes on the clouds with ten thousands
             and thousands of His holy ones." (1 Thessalonians 4:16,17; Jude 1:14)

             "In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last Trumpet  ..the dead
             shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed, for this corruptible
             must put on incorruption, and this mortal shall put on immortality..
             swallowing death in victory". (1 Corinthians 15:52-54)
             "As we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the
             image of the heavenly." (Verse 49)

             "When the 7th angel sounds his trumpet, loud voices in heaven say, 'The
             kingdoms of the world are become the kingdoms of our LORD (God) and
             of His Christ (Messiah) and He shall reign forever and ever'." (Rev. 11:15)

        c.  "...lightnings, noises, thunderings, earthquake, and great hail.."
             (Great debris? when the towers fall?) (Rev. 11:19)
             "Come out of her (city Babylon) my people.." (Rev. 18:4)
        d.  "And His feet shall stand in that day upon the Mount(ain)
             of Olives," Jerusalem. (Zechariah 14:4)

VII. His return is called the "Second Advent" and the "millennium" ("Day of the LORD")
        a. "He shall judge nations.. they shall beat their weapons into plowshares
            and pruning hooks.." (Micah 4:3)
        b. The millennium of Jesus lasts 1000 years.

VIII. "When the 1000 years are ended.." (Rev. 20:7)
        a. "the dead, small and great, stand before God" - this is the 2nd resurrection,
            which is of all those not resurrected in the first one,
        b. and which, at the conclusion of, "death and the grave" (usually translated 'hell')
            are no more .(Rev. 20:7-14)
        c. "The books are opened" - A great 'day' of the review of all mankind's
            history and doings? "I will put my law into their hearts. And in their
            minds I will write them." (Hebrews 10:16 & Jeremiah 32:33) "The queen
            of the South will rise up in the judgment with this generation ...for
            indeed a greater than Solomon is here..." ( Luke 11:31)
            "All the ends of the earth will remember and turn to the Lord, and all
            the families of the nations will worship before Him." (Psalm 22:27)
                (1) If Jesus' 1st Advent is said to have fulfilled Israel's ancient Spring
                     Holy Days (as prophecy)
                (2) Won't the three peaks of His long 2nd Advent fulfill the stretched
                      out Autumn Holy Days of :
                       #1 - Trumpets - 10 days (1000 years) later
                       #2 - Day of Atonement - with the next, #3, 5 days (500 years) later
                                a. Day of Atonement was an annual, historic, national day
                                    of great mourning, repentance and forgiveness.
                                    (1) "Whatsoever soul will not be afflicted in that day will be
                                          cut off from among his people." (Leviticus 23:29)
                                    (2) All Jubilee's began on a Day of Atonement.
                                 b. (Then) "anyone whose name is" (still) "not written in the Book
                                     of Life" (still not believing/redeemed/reconciled/in love
                                     with God) "are cast ("age-lasting"-per the Aramaic and the
                                     Greek words used vs the English) "into the lake of fire".
                        #3 - (Until finally) Tabernacles - God, the Father "will now tabernacle"
                               (tent/live with) man on Earth made new, in a universe made
                               new - "Behold. I make all things new." (Rev. 21:3,5)
                                 a. The heavenly Father, "God" who "is Love," Life, Perfection
                                     (1 Jn 4 and 5) "will be all in all". (1 Corinthians 15:21-28)
                                 b. "All things in heaven and earth having been gathered
                                     into Jesus" (Colossians 1:20)
                                 c. "Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life,
                                     clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and..
                                     ..on each side of the river.. the tree of life, bearing
                                     twelve manner of fruit each month.. and the leaves
                                     of the tree for the healing of the nations.. Behold,
                                     I am coming soon! Blessed is the one who keeps the
                                     words of the prophecy written in this scroll..
                                     ..And God will wipe away every tear.. there shall be no
                                     more death, nor sorrow, pain, nor crying."
                                     (Rev. 22:1-2,7; 21:4) "The lion will eat straw like
                                     the ox. The bear will graze with the cow."
                                     (Isaiah 11:7)


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TWO MORE MAJOR ELEMENTS OF THE AGE / SEALS

Book of Revelation ("Revealing") 6:9-17

When the Lamb of God (Jesus) unrolls the prophetic scroll, breaking the fifth seal on the scroll, we are shown and can hear those who have been slain for the Word of God and their testimony, saying "when will you avenge our blood upon Earth O Lord?" This is like the voice of Abel's blood crying out to God from the ground. A white robe is given to each of them and they are told to rest a while longer, until those who would be killed as they were, is completed. This element of the latter age (and fifth seal) is martyrdom (which of course has been going on since before Nero.)

When the sixth seal is opened, all hades breaks loose! (Not "the grave" but that other translation, "hell".) A spiritual earthquake that progresses into the very shaking of the earth. The very fabric of life changes.

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THE FOUR HORSEMEN OF THE APOCALYPSE

Book of Revelation 6:1-8

The scroll of the Revelation vision is kept rolled closed by seven seals. As the Lamb of God (Jesus who was slain for Earth's rescue) unrolls the scroll, each time he breaks one of the first four seals, a horse and rider come riding, each one of a different color.

The first horse is white, and its rider "went out conquering and to conquer". Many believe this first seal and horse and rider to be a last days false gospel and world religion. But I believe the seals span the whole latter age, the years of our Lord, A.D. and I believe it is the glorious gospel which conquered and was "openly victorious over powers and principalities", namely those ancient fierce 'gods'.

The four horsemen of the apocalypse continue their ride (from canter to gallop?) throughout the age, and to the 'end'. Each seal progresses from its beginning to the end of the age.

There's a 'lock on the vision' here. Each seal is described at it's opening (breaking) as a blend of two things. What it is at its beginning and what it is at its full progression and maturity. In this way, things which occur very late on the planet, are described here so very early on in the narrative!!

The second horse with rider, is red, he is war, and he is "given a long" or some versions say, "great sword" - our first look at thermo-nuclear weaponry?

The third horse is black and its rider holds a scale. He is imbalance and shortage, especially as a companion to war.

The fourth horse is a pale (or green) horse, and his rider is called "death" and "the grave follows after him". (Including the mass grave.) Many interpretations translate this as "and hell follows after him". But "the grave" is a closer translation.

I recently listened to a preacher who said the white horse is Roman Catholicism (or a form of it), the red horse is Communism, the black horse is Capitalism and the green horse is that radical religion we hear so much about these days. These also fit. I often think Bible prophecy is wider, more nimble than we realize and more than one interpretation works very well together. (To say nothing of different fulfillments of Old Testament prophecies from the time they were written, usually at least two, a 'soon' one and an 'end' times fulfillment.)

In summary - the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (the Unveiling/Revelation) - Conquering gospel (with shadow rider, false? all forms) - War - Shortage & Inequity - that sad horror, the Mass Grave
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