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REVELATION - Behold, I am Coming Soon
Studies in the Book of Revelation
BOOK 2 - THE ENTHRONEMENT OF JESUS CHRIST (REVELATION 4:1 - 6:17)
PART 2.3 THE LAMB OF GOD BREAKS OPEN THE SEVEN SEALS (REVELATION 6:1-17)

2. The Second Seal: The Rider on a Red Horse (Revelation 6:3-4)


REVELATION 6:3-4
3 When he opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature saying, “Come!” 4 Another came out, a red horse. To him who sat on it was given power to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another. There was given to him a great sword.

The Lamb of God is the Prince of Peace who denied himself and preferred to be crucified instead of destroying his enemies by armies of angels. He does not force anybody to follow him. Impenitent people with a wolf character destroy each other.

The Lord instructed the second throne guardian that he commanded the rider on a fiery red horse come out of the seclusion. This rider had a great sword in his hand and was ready to mow down the masses.

Devastating World Wars: There have been wars at every time. Modern technology, however, enabled the industrial nations in the 18th and 19th century to enslave most of the countries in Asia and Africa. The domineering spirit of anti-Christ deceived the proud colonial powers in their course of competition for world domination to decimate each other in two bloody world wars. More than 100 millions of people had been torn to pieces by the steel thunderbolts of these two worldwide catastrophes. The indigenous people of the colonies lost respect for and confidence in their white lords and become all independent by 1962. The chance of the white man to evangelize them came to an end untimely because of his murderous spirit.

Because of the revolution in Russia instigated by Lenin and carried on by Stalin over 20 million people died of hunger or in concentration camps.

83 Years of War in the Middle East War! The war in Middle East being full of hatred started in 1923 when England divided its mandate territory of Palestine into East Jordan and the West Bank. From that time on again and again bloody waves of conflicts rolled over Jewish and Palestinian residential areas. The state of Israel has become one of the results of the birth pangs of the preceding world wars. Its diverging mixture of peoples is getting welded together to an anti-Christian unity under the pressure of the religiously motivated hatred of Muslims. Not forgiveness, love and patience but revenge, law and retaliation are prevailing there.

Basically the conflict in Middle East is an unrestrained clash of diametrically opposed rights. The foundation of the state of Israel in 1948 was based on international law. Its fundamentalists, however, claim the right of promise of the Bible and are therefore not able to agree to a compromise on the matter of returning territory.

The Arabs on the other side who has been in Palestine for 1380 years expect the implementation of the human rights. The Islamic Sharia bans their politicians on pain of death penalty from making peace with the archenemy.

The conflict in Middle East is like a tornado which drags more and more nations into its whirlpool. The fight for Jerusalem, however, is still in its early stage.

In the background of the Middle East NBC weapons are lurking for the next wave of this 83 year old conflict. Israel has more than 300 atomic warheads. Khaddafi and Saddam Hussein had tried to produce chemical and biological weapons so as to eradiate Israel. It is not for nothing that since the beginning of 1998 modern NBC masks have been given to the inhabitants of Israel.

Mass Suicide or a New World Order? The stock of hoarded NBC weapons worldwide is sufficient to eradicate the population of the world several times. The evil spirit in the background tries to instigate people against each other so as to mow among them with his sword.

The rider on the white horse blows his peace shams in view of these threatening dangers. He does not allow that the issue of peace disappears from the conference agendas of the statesmen and church leaders. He inspires them to install world organisations so as to get the global problems under control which result from the world's overpopulation. The abbreviations of these organisations can be seen daily on the TV screens of the affluent societies: UN, NATO, EU, OPEC, OAO, ASEAN, Arab League, etc. Further organisations operate rather in secrecy, e.g. free masons, Christian Science, Jewish Lobbies in the Diaspora, and are hardly mentioned. Anti-Christ uses these umbrella organisations in order to prepare his world dominion. What Lenin, Mao, Khomeini and other despots had in mind in a rather vague manner wants to implement the rider on the white horse without further ado with the aid of those organisations.

Worldwide Tensions: The rider on the white horse is followed by the fighter on the fiery red horse. In order to reach his target the adversary of Christ uses world wars. The fight for oil will probably be replaced by the fight for water. The reserves of raw materials on the earth will come to an end. Foodstuffs in the overpopulated countries become more and more unaffordable. The desperation of the poor people is increasing. Everybody is waiting for a Savior and prince of peace who will reign with an iron fist. He will appear after the mutual destruction of the global powers as a mediator, as justice of the peace and as Savior so as to bind mankind to him.

The rider on the fiery red horse is an obedient follower of the rider on the white horse. Power is given to him to take peace from the earth! He is to pace the way for the world dominion of anti-Christ by destroying homes, cultures and personality of people.

In the meantime mass murder of unborn life by abortion is going on tacitly in all countries. The number of dissected foetuses and embryos already surmounts the number of deaths of both of the world wars! Jesus is right when he spoke of an adulterous generation which opens up to the spirit of "the murderer from the beginning".

The Lamb of God admits of these developments; for man still thinks of himself to be good. He does not want to repent. The beast in man must still mature to its full wickedness. Therefore both riders keep on galloping through the world.

PRAYER: Truly Holy One, the world cries out, "Peace, peace", while there is no peace, but wars following wars, because peace was taken completely from the world and the men kill each other mercilessly. Fill our hearts with Your peace that we may bandage the wounds and comfort the hopeful until You, Prince of Peace, come.

QUESTION:

  1. What does the rider of the red horse bring?

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