6 SEALS

3-2-25

6 Seals

• The first 4 seals (The four horsemen of the apocalypse)

Matthew 24:6–8 (ESV)

Ezekiel 14:21–23 (ESV)

Revelation 6:1–17 (ESV)

¹Now 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!” ²And 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.

• Bow
• Crown – στέφανος – stephanos – a crown
• Conquering –
  • Wars and rumors of wars

³When he opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature say, “Come!” ⁴And 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.

• Red – , malice, passion, rage
• Take peace – internal/external – individual/national
• Slay –

⁵When 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. ⁶And 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!”

• Denarius – a day’s wage
  • A quart of wheat – one day’s rations for one individual
  • 3 quarts of barley – one day’s rations for you and a couple dependents
• Famine
• Do not harm the oil and wine…
  • Literal understanding
    • the produce of the wealthy will be mostly unharmed
    • Medicinal items will still be in abundance.

Luke 10:33–34 (ESV)
³³But a Samaritan, as he journeyed, came to where he was, and when he saw him, he had compassion. ³⁴He went to him and bound up his wounds, pouring on . Then he set him on his own animal and brought him to an inn and took care of him.

• • Figurative understanding
    • The wealthy will be less impacted than the poor
    • Luxury goods will still be largely available
      • Interesting ‘covid times’ comparison

⁷When he opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature say, “Come!” ⁸And 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.

• Hades – Not the hell of fire – The
• Death
  • Sword, famine, pestilence, wild beasts
  • The inevitable outcome of war/slaughter/scarcity
• Over a 4^th of the earth
  • A comparative understanding…

⁹When he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain for the word of God and for the witness they had borne. ¹⁰They cried out with a loud voice, “O Sovereign Lord, holy and true, how long before you will judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?” ¹¹Then they were each given a white robe and told to rest a little longer, until the number of their fellow servants and their brothers should be complete, who were to be killed as they themselves had been.

• Vengeance

Romans 12:19 (ESV)

Deuteronomy 32:39–43 (ESV)

• White Robe

Revelation 3:5 (ESV)

• The Altar
  • Altar of incense not sacrifice – connected with and God His people.

Revelation 5:8 (ESV)

¹²When he opened the sixth seal, I looked, and behold, there was a great earthquake, and the sun became black as sackcloth, the full moon became like blood, ¹³and the stars of the sky fell to the earth as the fig tree sheds its winter fruit when shaken by a gale. ¹⁴The sky vanished like a scroll that is being rolled up, and every mountain and island was removed from its place.

• Prophetic hyperlinks

Joel 2:30–32 (ESV)

Isaiah 13:9–13 (ESV)

• Literal? Maybe…
  • Black Sun Potentials:
    • Volcanic smoke blackening the sky
    • Nuclear fallout
    • Meteor strike blackening the sky with ash
    • Solar eclipse
  • Moon like blood
    • Total lunar elcipse
  • Stars fell to the sky
    • Meteors
  • Sky vanished like a scroll being rolled up
    • Worldwide Hurricane
  • Every mountain and island being removed from its place
    • Shifting of the tectonic plates
    • Melting of the polar ice caps
• Figurative

Genesis 37:9–10 (ESV)

¹⁵Then the kings of the earth and the great ones and the generals and the rich and the powerful, and everyone, slave and free, hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains, ¹⁶calling to the mountains and rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of him who is seated on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb, ¹⁷for the great day of their wrath has come, and who can stand?”

• shall be

Zephaniah 1:14–18 (ESV)

Isaiah 2:12–19 (ESV)

• You and I… , hold firm to

Joel 2:30–32 (ESV)

James 4:14–15 (ESV)

Matthew 6:31–34 (ESV)
³¹Therefore do not be anxious, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ ³²For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all. ³³But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you. ³⁴“Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.