He Breaks the Seals

“God's wrath, properly, is an aspect of his love: it is because God loves human beings with a steady, unquenchable passion that he hated Apartheid, that he hates torture and cluster bombs, that he loathes slavery, that his wrath is relentless against the rich who oppress the poor. If God was not wrathful against these and so many other distortions of our human vocation, he is not loving. And it is his love, determining to deal with that nasty, insidious, vicious, soul-destroying evil, that causes him to send his only, special son.” 

― N.T. Wright

Last week we finished up Revelation 5 where all of the created order shouted out the worthiness of Jesus and the slain lamb. This week we move on to Revelation 6, the seven seals. We must remember that the book of Revelation is about revealing Jesus, so hard or easy passages…they should all lead to us knowing the son better than we do. Here in Revelation 6 I like how Mike Bickle describes this as Jesus battle plan. With all the chaos and things that could be deemed scary, we know the end of the story, Jesus wins. And may he do what he needs to do to accomplish that purpose. We will start with Revelation 6:1-8

The Passage

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!” And I looked, and behold, a white horse! And its rider had a bow, and a crown was given to him, and he came out conquering, and to conquer.

When he opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature say, “Come!” And out came another horse, bright red. Its rider was permitted to take peace from the earth, so that people should slay one another, and he was given a great sword.

When he opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, “Come!” And I looked, and behold, a black horse! And its rider had a pair of scales in his hand. And I heard what seemed to be a voice in the midst of the four living creatures, saying, “A quart of wheat for a denarius,and three quarts of barley for a denarius, and do not harm the oil and wine!”

When he opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature say, “Come!” And I looked, and behold, a pale horse! And its rider's name was Death, and Hades followed him. And they were given authority over a fourth of the earth, to kill with sword and with famine and with pestilence and by wild beasts of the earth.

The List:

1. The lamb is the one opening the seven seal judgements on the earth
2. He assigns one of the four living creatures to announce the first judgment
3. He gives authority (a crown) to this rider on a white horse with a bow to conquer (Anti-Christ’s Politcal aggression)
4. He assigns another one of the four living creatures to announce the second judgment
5. He gives permission to the rider on the red horse to take peace from the earth (war, world war)
6. He assigns another one of the four living creatures to announce the third seal judgment
7. The rider on the black horse with scales in his hand brings economic crisis and famine
8. He assigns the fourth living creature to announce the fourth seal judgment
9. The rider on the pale horse whose name Death and Hades followed with him was given power to kill ¼ of the earth’s population with swords, hunger and beasts.

The Declarations:

Jesus you are the slain lamb that is opening the seals on the scroll and releasing judements

You assign one of the living creatures to announce the first seal

You will give authority (a crown) to this rider on a white horse with a bow to conquer

You assign the second living creature to announce the second judgment

You will give permission to the rider on the red horse to take peace from the earth (war, world war)

You assign a third living creature to announce the third seal judgment

You allow rider on the black horse bring economic crisis and famine

You assign the fourth living creature to announce the fourth seal judgment

You permit the rider on the pale horse to kill ¼ of the earth’s population with swords, hunger and beasts.

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