The first horseman (on the white horse) represents religious deception
The deceived followers of the man on the white horse “go forth conquering and to conquer”
based on their erroneous belief that the white horseman is Jesus Christ. In fact, he is Satan
disguising himself as Christ (2?Corinthians 11:14). This leads directly into, and overlaps with,
the second horseman of the apocalypse: war!
Matthew 24 refers to:
1) a first typical fulfillment in a.d.?70;
2) a long-term condition prevailing from a.d. 70 until now; and
3) an end-time anti-typical fulfillment yet ahead.
It is this last type that you and I are staring straight in the face!
John’s vision, revealed by Jesus Christ and recorded for us today in Revelation 6:1-8,
differs only slightly from the Olivet prophecy in Matthew 24 and the other Gospel accounts.
Josephus describes in graphic detail the wars and resultant famine and plagues in Jerusalem
about a.d.70, almost 40 years after the Olivet prophecy was first given.
Josephus’s Wars of the Jews, tells of thousands of Jews being impaled by the Romans.
Yes, what Christ said in Matthew 24 indeed had a typical fulfillment in a.d.?70.
But John’s vision was recorded 20 years after the city’s fall and the temple’s destruction.
Nothing in it speaks of historical fulfillment or events occurring in John’s day.
Instead, it is referring to a future completion immediately ahead of us.
An End-Time Message ,Revelation is clearly a book for the end time.
Revelation 9:16 mentions a standing army of about 200 million men.
Even the context of Matthew 24 shows that the ultimate fulfillment of these prophecies
is still ahead. Verses 21-22 show that Christ’s message would apply at a time when
human annihilation was a very real threat.
the second horseman (on the red horse) represents war (Revelation 6:1-4).
When peace is gone, there is only war. The man on the red horse plainly represents war.
In Matthew 24:6-7, Christ said, “And ye shall hear of wars and rumours
of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass,
but the end is not yet.
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The third horseman, riding a black horse, symbolizes famine. In Matthew, Mark
and Luke, Christ was speaking of general famine, set against the backdrop of war.
depicting famine, follows directly behind war.
Examples of war-induced famines are recorded for us (2Kings 25; Jeremiah 52;
Isaiah 14:30; 51:13; Jeremiah 16:4; 44:27).
The Jewish historian Josephus recorded a Roman siege on Jerusalem that produced
a famine so great that the masses resorted to cannibalism in the so-called city of peace
The Middle Ages, the first several hundred years after the first millennium a.d., are also
known as the Dark Ages. Entire cities experienced starvation followed by killer diseases.
Thousands of dead bodies could not be disposed of quickly enough. Rats spread bubonic plague
throughout all of Europe. War, one example being the Thirty Years’ War (1618-1648),
was again the main culprit. Whole cities were leveled with starvation so severe that some
even resorted to cannibalism! You may read the many historical accounts for yourself.
Immediately following, and as a direct result of worldwide religious deception and World War3,
the first and second horsemen respectively, a great famine, like none before it or ever again,
will strike this Earth with frightening force and fury. This time, instead of only affecting war-torn
regions or the Third World, it will affect the First World nations
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The first is religious deception, next is war, then famine.
With the fourth, pestilence, these horsemen represent the final, end-time culmination of the
most traumatic problems endured by a rebellious mankind. They picture one of the most
ominous scenarios ever.
The context mentions two of the other horsemen—war and famine.
The key word to its identity is the word pale, which often makes us think of someone
who is feeling sick, having an anemic-looking appearance. Pale is translated from the
Greek chloros, which we would normally take to mean the color of chlorophyll, the
property that gives plants their healthy green appearance. When used biblically,
however, chloros means the sickly pale green color of sickness and disease.
Other biblical translations describe the pale horse as an ash-colored horse, a horse sickly
green, a horse sickly pale and an ashy pale horse. We have continually stressed throughout
that we should look to Christ the Revelator to explain these seals and symbols. He provides
us with the most correct word to unlock the true identity of this pale green horse which man’s
best translations cannot: “and there shall be?…?pestilences” (Matthew 24:7).
The man on the pale horse symbolizes climactic, globe-encircling plagues and pandemics
occurring and soon to occur in this modern age!
Look up pestilence in any Bible concordance and you will be amazed by the link
between the second, third and fourth horsemen representing war, famine and pestilence
(Jeremiah 21:9; 27:13; 29:17-18; 32:24; 34:17; 38:2; 42:16-17; 44:13).
These three horsemen derive their origin directly from the first horseman of religious deception,
in a way these riders have been ongoing , like in a loop, but the hooves keep getting louder