Broad meadows

Another area of disagreement between what I view that the book of Revelation is prophesying and what the church generally teaches has to do with time in the sense that what’s being discussed overall takes place in a seven year period and timing in the placement of the rapture and the arrival of the antichrist. In the book of Revelation, there are only four places where a period of time is indicated: a half hour of silence in heaven in Revelation 8:1; Five months of torment for those not receiving the seal of God in Revelation 9:5; the time of testimony of the two witnesses in Revelation 11, expressed three different ways and the thousand years of Christ reign on earth.

One of the places this becomes a problem is in understanding the significance of the seals and what they actually prophesying. This is an area where both time and timing of events are affected. For one, though on white horse which signifies purity, they make this person out to be the antichrist. This misinterpretation then masks the symbolic meaning of the rest of the seals. Even though Old Testament prophecies regarding the coming of Elijah in Malachi 4 to restore all things as Jesus told the disciples after coming down from the mountain of transfiguration or the rising of Michael as was written in Daniel 12, they fail to recognize them at all as being part of the book of Revelation. Because of this they miss both the amount of time that the seals are pointing to and the character to whom these prophesies point. I discussed these things in greater detail in the sun/goat series.

So let me summarize the seals in this segment: The rider on all of the horses is the Michael/Elijah character, with each of the horses color indicating an aspect of his ministry and a description of the times he lives in described. The first seal indicates his entry in the world, given a crown and a bow but no arrows and sets out to conquer or as the way the Lord says earlier in the letters to the seven churches, to the one who overcomes. The red of the second horse indicates that he is part of the church (more on that later) and he wields a great sword, the sword of the spirit, the word of God. The physical manifestation of this prophecy is the vaccine regimen forced on the world . ( a sword can be defined as a typically sharpened metallic object that kills or maims by piercing the flesh.)

The third horse is black, indicating death. In other words, this part of his ministry is dealing with those who died prior to the formation of the church. If the wheat is the church as indicated by Jesus in the parable of the wheat and tares, then what is barley?

In Exodus 9:31-32 it says this, “(The flax and barley were destroyed, since the barley had headed and the flax was in bloom. The wheat and spelt, however, were not destroyed, because they ripen later.) The barley is dealing with those who died before the time of Christ and the formation of the church, the wheat. This is part off what the Lord spoke of when he said Elijah’s role was to restore all things.

The fourth horse is dappled, meaning he is dealing with more than one thing, in this case, death and hell., the final determination to be found in Revelation 20:13: “Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. The lake of fire is the second death.”

The fifth seal deals with how much of the population has been reduced during his lifetime. We will know when we get to the sixth seal how much of the population has been lost. At the end of that time, the Michael/ Elijah character also dies, setting the stage for his resurrection as prophesied in Daniel 12. This sets the stage for his role in opening the abyss who must now follow his orders. It’s the unsealed at this point that are tormented, not the church as one would expect if this were the antichrist. After his resurrection he becomes one of the two witnesses and upon his betrayal by one of the demons released and is allowed then to kill him for a second time and his subsequent second resurrection, triggering the last trumpet and the rapture, and leading to many being pulled from the lake of fire, the second death. This why you see the list of the people that were thrown into the lake of fire now outside the New Jerusalem. This is how they get out. This is why our God is mighty to save. What’s impossible for man is possible for God.