6 Seals

Rev. 6:1

Now I watched when the Lamb opened one of the seven seals, and I heard one of the four living creatures say with a voice like thunder, Come!

 

John was invited to look at what the seals revealed with the same word, Come.

• The first seal was a white horse with a rider who had a bow and crown. He came out conquering. [political and military leaders expanding their realms]
• The second seal was a bright red horse with a rider who had a sword in his hand. This rider was permitted to take peace from the earth with people killing one another. [The bloodshed following the conquests]
• The third seal was a black horse with a rider who had a scales in his hand regulating buying and selling values. [inflated grain prices because of scarcity of crops due to the preceding war and destruction.]
• The fourth seal was a pale horse and its rider was death and Hades followed him. They were given authority over 1/4 of the earth to kill with sword, famine, pestilence and will beasts. [death by epidemic, the Great Tribulation]
• The fifth seal revealed the souls of those who had killed for the word of God and for their witness. They cried out to God to avenge their blood. They were given white robes and told to rest awhile until the number of them was complete.
• The sixth seal was a great earthquake and the sun became black, the moon like blood with the stars falling out of the sky. The sky vanished and every mountain and island was removed. All the people on the earth hid in the caves and among the rocks calling to the mountains to fall on them and hide them from the wrath of the Lamb for the great day of their judgment had come.

There is the picture! Pretty scary!

 

Father,

Give me the strength to always stand for you even if it means like the souls of those under the altar. Your grace is my strength.

In the name of the Lamb,

Amen