Four Horsemen at the Gallop!

 'Vision 3-REVELATION  6:1-17

Subject:  The Ride of the Four horsemen, the martyred witnesses underneath the altar, and the great day of wrath

Time of fulfillment: From 1914 up to the destruction of this system of things

IN THIS day of crisis, are not intensely interested in "the things that must shortly take place"?  Surely we are, for we ourselves are involved!  So let us now accompany John as Jesus proceeds to open the intriguing scroll.  Remarkably, John does not have to read it.  Why not?  Because its contents are conveyed to him "in signs" by a series of dynamic, action-packed scenes. - REVELATION  1:1,10.

Listen to John as Jesus opens the first seal of the scroll:  "And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seven seals, and I heard  one of the four living creatures say with a voice of thunder: 'Come!"'  (Revelation 6:1)   This is the voice of the first cherub.  Its lionlike appearance would suggest  to John that Jehovah's organization will act with courage   in executing His righteous judgments.  And to whom is that command addressed?  It could not be to John, for John has already been invited to share in these  prophetic scenes.  (Revelation 4:1)   That "voice as of thunder" is calling forth other participants in the first of a series of four rousing episodes. 

Next time: Four Horsemen at the Gallop! - The White Horse and Its Illustrious Rider

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