Rethinking Revelation 6 Part 4
What if the first horse and rider represent something else, other than the Antichrist? What if without this particular horse and rider, the other seals (2, 3, and 4), could not really occur? Everything then is based on what the first horse and rider will be and do. By the way, I will state this up front as well. I fully believe the first four seals all clearly pave the way for the man of sin/son of perdition/Antichrist to rise to the top of the heap. If not for the opening of the first four seals (Seal 1 especially), I don’t believe Antichrist would have an opening. The first four seals lay the groundwork, building on the previous seal, making his appearance a reality. Each seal does something to global society that pushes the world toward the point where Antichrist can and will make his appearance.
Happy Independence Day
To all who read this blog I hope you have a happy and blessed 4th of July. Don’t allow anyone to rob you of the pride you should have in it knowing what our founding fathers gave to ensure the continuation of this Constitutional Republic.
I have a few more posts coming though I’m sensing a change in direction. I’ve gotten tired of focusing on all the “gloom and doom.” That’s not to say ignoring it means it isn’t there but I just question the approach that many have taken (me included), at times.
So, I want to begin emphasizing what God has said in His Word and how I believe He will protect and provide for those who call on Him in faith believing He and He alone is God and more than capable of holding us firmly in His righteous right hand.
We’re in but not of this world. What have we to fear really?
May the Lord bless you and keep you. May His face shine upon you. May we all learn the art fearing to offend Him that it may be well with us even as it is well with our souls. Amen?
Revelation 18 Part 3
Revelation 18 and 19 teach us because God is holy, righteous, perfect in judgment, the world will reap the consequences of their sin and denial of God. As Christians, we need to practice living lives that reflect our fear of offending God, the only wise God, the only God. We must design our lives so that our love for God and our growing fear of offending Him by sinning would take over our lives allowing us to live the way He wants us to live, so that He and He alone is glorified. We must decrease and He must increase. We cannot love or fear offending Him enough in this life. We can simply submit to Him and endeavor to live the way He would have us live.
IRS Whistleblowers Outline Corruption
The writers of the Psalms arrived to the conclusion that one day, when God saw fit, He would right wrongs, punish evil and reward those who spent their lives serving Him in faith, seeking to bring glory to Him. It is sometimes difficult for me to appreciate that (as it may be for you), because we live in the here and now and are often deeply affected by the decisions made by evil people in this realm who want things done their way regardless of who or how many are harmed because of those decisions.
Rethinking Revelation 6 Part 3
In conclusion then, I believe it is very possible we are seeing and experiencing aspects of the second seal of Revelation 6. The contents of the third seal may be just around the corner, with the fourth seal naturally following that. Again, while I could be 100% wrong, it seems to me this scenario is very possible while we are still before the official start of the coming Tribulation period. If the first seal had a built in, obvious timeline or specific starting point where the rider on the white horse does something very specific that cannot be ignored, then we could correlate the first seal with the actual start of the Tribulation. It seems to me that the first seal provides a general view of the things that will occur, but no specific point we can look to as we can in Daniel 9:24-27 or Zechariah 9:9-10.
Ignoring the Obvious
Unless the Lord intervenes, it clearly means that the world will be thoroughly overcome with evil and bring global society to the door of the coming Tribulation. We can give into the fear of what lies ahead or we can simply see it for what it is – warning signs that inform us – and do what we can to mitigate the effect of what is coming. Huge corporations are currently downsizing by closing stores, laying off employees and taking other cost-cutting measures to save a dollar. If this continues or even speeds up, it will create at the very least a trickle down series of downturns and at worst, possibly an avalanche of downturns, which will leave no one untouched by the fallout. Charles Hughes Smith goes into some detail regarding this problem, including what we may see in the near to far future and it’s not pretty, in his article, The Coming Crisis of Cities: Reinvention or Bankruptcy.
Difficult to Appreciate
Asaph understood – he had an epiphany and realized that God held Asaph up. God guided him through life, helping him maneuver through the difficulties, while the arrogant rich had only themselves and their money to rely on. They could not cheat death though because they will die. The globalists of today who want trans-humanism to keep them alive forever here on this planet, but they will one day die. They cannot escape that.
Trump vs Neocons
Decades later, this country is being destroyed by neocons who are conservative in name only. They like war. They enjoy it for the financial rewards they receive and they inordinately believe that it’s not merely a show of strength. It’s actually the US military being used to bully other nations into submission so that the Pentagon can perfect new weapons systems and also perfect methods of torture on “enemies.” The main goal however, has always been and remains a big payday and war can really bring in the financial bacon to those who are invested in weapons and armaments. War ramps up the factories to produce more military armaments and weaponry. It’s big business. Big business.
News and Notes June 14
What remains is to pray that God would see fit to bring some sense of judgment and justice to the perpetrators in high places now, instead of after they leave this life. I realize it is grace that stays His hand and we must always approach this with His will in mind, not ours. He may choose not to bring justice now. It will be dealt with in His way and in His time. We can be sure of that. So barring His working now to bring some of the more corrupt and evil people to justice now, we should also pray that He will grant us grace to persevere and trust Him.
News and Notes for June 12, 2023
Daily, I read of folks – young, old and very young – who are simply dying. The response from medical community is “Gee, we are simply baffled.” Mark my words folks. When the numbers of sudden deaths increase to the point where they won’t be able to hide it any longer, they will use those numbers to scare society into believing that another “pandemic” is upon us. They will turn a deaf ear to anyone who asks about whether or not the excess deaths are representative of the vaxxed or unvaxxed communities. In fact, those folks who dare ask that question will be emotionally and verbally eviscerated into silence and then censored and banned. There are things you are not allowed to ask today.
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