Words in italic type have been added for clarity. They are not found in the original Hebrew or Aramaic.

Revelation 6

• The Seven Year Tribulation begins when the Antichrist signs a seven year peace treaty with the Jews and ends at Armageddon covering all six seals. Then Jesus returns.

• The tribulation is the Kingdom of the Antichrist – the last kingdom before Jesus’ return to rule during the Millennium.
  
• See Topic: The Antichrist (like Haman, Antiochus IV, Hitler, and the Antichrist)
  See Topic: The Mimic Messiah
  See Topic: The Passover and the Mimic Messiah
  See Topic: Names of the Antichrist
• Note: The Seven Year Tribulation is Daniel’s 70th Week of Seven Years.

THE SEALS, TRUMPETS, AND BOWLS BEGIN AT THE MIDDLE OF THE TRIBULATION

THE SEALS, TRUMPETS AND BOWLS are like three runners, each with a different point of view. They all begin together and they all cross the finish line together resulting in the completion when Jesus returns to earth.

• Get ready, Get set, …GO!

First Seal: The Conqueror …The White Horse

Revelation 6:¹ Now I saw when the Lamb opened one of the (seven) seals; and I heard one of the four living creatures saying with a voice like thunder, “Come and see.”

Revelation 6:² And I looked, and behold, a white horse. He who sat on it had a bow; and a crown was given to him, and he went out conquering and to conquer.

• It is the middle of the tribulation the Antichrist betrays the Jews by breaking the peace treaty. He is involved in the battle of Gog and Magog, ten kings who attack Jerusalem. (Ezekiel 38,39) See: Isaiah 21.
• John sees the Antichrist entering the world’s stage on a white horse. He looks like Christ, but he is a mimic messiah.
  
  • John 5:43 I have come in My Father’s name, and you do not receive Me; if another comes in his own name, him you will receive.

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• The Antichrist is a conqueror. He carries a “bow”. A bow in scripture is a covenant/vow/oath. (ie: Noah’s Rainbow). This man’s “bow” is a Seven Year peace treaty with the Israel. A “bow” or “arc” is defined as a covenant, treaty, vow, or oath.
• In Ezekiel 39:3 This conqueror also has arrows. This conqueror is the battle of Gog and Agog.
  “Then I will knock the bow out of your left hand, and cause the arrows to fall out of your right hand.”
• The Hebrew meaning of arrow is to cut in half. The Antichrist attacks in the middle of the tribulation, cutting the seven years in half. It also means “to divide”.

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• THE FOUR IDENTITIES OF THE ANTICHRIST: He is: Middle Eastern.
  
  1. GENTILE (non-Jewish)-The last of seven gentile kings who rule over the Jews.
  2. AMALAKITE – A descendant of King Agag aka interchangeable with “Gog”. Sometimes the word “Agag” is used instead of “Gog” in various translations.
  3. SYRIAN-A descendant of Antiochus IV, a historical “type” of the Antichrist described in the Kings of the South and the Kings of the North in Daniel. Syria is one of the four horns on the goat’s head in Daniel, one of which is the Antichrist.
• BABYLONIAN? Probably Iraqi of the Syrian empire. In Daniel’s day, Syria spread across the mideast from the Mediterranean Sea to the border of India. (A reference to the fact that Babylon is written on the harlot’s forehead.)
  4. EDOMITE – A descendant of Esau, also called Edom for red clay (that does not adhere to the iron in the book of Daniel on Nebuchadnezzar’s prophetical list of kingdoms to come.)
  He is prophesied by the prophets of old: Asaph, Isaiah, Daniel, Ezekiel, Amos, Joel, and Baalam.
  • Ezekiel 38:¹⁷ Thus says the Lord God: “Are you “he” (the Antichrist) of whom I have spoken in former days by My servants the prophets of Israel, who prophesied for years in those days that I would bring you against them?

• FOR DETAILED INFORMATION CONCERNING THE ANTICHRIST
  See Topic: The Antichrist (like Haman, Antiochus IV, Hitler, and the Antichrist)
  

Second Seal: Conflict on Earth

Revelation 6:³ When He opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature saying, “Come and see.”

Revelation 6:⁴ Another horse, fiery red, went out. And it was granted to the one who sat on it to take peace from the earth, and that people should kill one another; and there was given to him a great sword.

Third Seal: Scarcity on Earth

Revelation 6:⁵ When He opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, “Come and see.” So I looked, and behold, a black horse, and he who sat on it had a pair of scales (balances) in his hand.

Revelation 6:⁶ And I heard a voice in the midst of the four living creatures saying, “A quart (Gr. choinix, about 1 quart) of wheat for a denarius (About 1 day’s wage for a worker), and three quarts of barley for a denarius; and do not harm the oil and the wine.”

Fourth Seal: Widespread Death on Earth

Revelation 6:⁷ When He opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature saying, “Come and see.”

Revelation 6:⁸ So I looked, and behold, a pale (green: chlorophyll) horse. And the name of him who sat on it was Death, and Hades followed with him. And power (authority) was given to them over a fourth of the earth, to kill with sword (conflict), with hunger (famine), with death, and by the beasts of the earth.

Fifth Seal: The Cry of the Martyrs

Revelation 6:⁹ When 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 testimony which they held.

Revelation 6:¹⁰ And they cried with a loud voice, saying, “How long, O Lord, holy and true, until You judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?”

Revelation 6:¹¹ Then a white robe was given to each of them; and it was said to them that they should rest a little while longer, until both the number of their fellow servants and their brethren, who would be killed as they were, was completed.

Sixth Seal: Cosmic Disturbances

Revelation 6:¹² I looked when He opened the sixth seal, and behold, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became like blood (whole moon).

Revelation 6:¹³ And the stars of heaven fell to the earth, as a fig tree (Symbolic of Israel) drops its late figs when it is shaken by a mighty wind.

Revelation 6:14 Then the sky receded as a scroll when it is rolled up (Or split apart), and every mountain and island was moved out of its place (earthquake).

Revelation 6:¹⁵ And the kings of the earth, the great men, the rich men, the commanders, the mighty men, every slave and every free man, hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains,

Revelation 6:¹⁶ and said to the mountains and rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of Him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb.

Revelation 6:¹⁷ For the great day of His wrath has come, and who is able to stand.

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AN OUTLINE OF THE TRIBULATION