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

Revelation 6

• This part of chapter 6 is replete with speculations. Details are included simply for the reader to consider.

• The Seals, Trumpets and Bowls occur in the second half of the seven year tribulation. Each one is the same event told from a different perspective. They begin with the attack of Gog on Jerusalem. Jerusalem is called Babylon the harlot because she is accepting a Messiah figure who is not Jesus and a global agenda just like the tower of Babel. She accepts all religions. The attack of Gog betrays her, “burns” her with a military attack, because Gog (who is the Antichrist) hates her and he is part of a ten king coalition.

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.

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.

• War: An attack on the Jews by “Gog” aka “Agag” (Amalekite), the Antichrist.
  
• Allow me to propose that the Antichrist is currently alive, and sponsored by the current most powerful global group called “The Club of Rome”. He acts as a negotiator between the Jews and the Muslims.
• The goal of the Club of Rome is to maintain peace in the world, but the Middle East is a boiling point because the Jews are hated by the “Palestinians”. Scripture calls it “an ancient hatred”. Palestinians feel Israel and the Jews are on “their” land. God calls it “His Land”. Antagonism is so severe it pulls all the major nations into their conflict.
  
• The last gentile kingdom on Nebuchadnezzar’s statue is the feet of iron and clay, which will not adhere one to the other. Daniel 2:33.
• The Club of Rome represents the iron while the Palestinians represent the clay. Miry clay has a connection to Esau who is called “Edom” because he was born red, (like Adam, who was made from the red clay of the ground). “dom” and “dam” are the same words, and both mean red blood or red wine (as in the grapes of wrath). The word “Adam” is sometimes translated “Red”. Adam and Edom are the same names.
• This is one reason why the Antichrist is believed to be Edomite (as well as Syrian and Amalakite). Furthermore; Gog is identified in Ezekiel as the “HE” the prophets foretold.
  
  • Ezekiel 38:17 Thus says the Lord God: “Are you he 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?
    
• The warring factions are ten kings from Daniel 7:24 and Revelation 17:12. They are the ten horns on the last head of the dragon/beast/Leviathan.
• Like Nebuchadnezzar’s statue, the heads of the dragon represent the gentile kingdoms which preceded and includes the last head – the kingdom of the Antichrist.
• However; both the Club of Rome and the Antichrist turn against Israel.
• Isaiah chapter 21 describes this attack (remember, Babylon is Jerusalem): Israel is attacked during the midpoint of the tribulation by a host of armies as far as the eye can see causing the Jews to run for their lives.
• Jesus describes this event in Matthew 24:20 “And pray that your flight may not be in winter or on the Sabbath.”
• The Antichrist takes the reign of Jerusalem as he begins to become a global leader. (Remember, Babylon was condemned by God for being a global empire and the origin of all pagan religions-hence Jerusalem is called a harlot city with Babylon on her forehead). He reigns for 3-1/2 years. These 3-1/2 years are a march to Armageddon.
• Jerusalem was also called a harlot in the book of Isaiah because she worshiped the world’s religions.
  • Isaiah 1:21 The Degenerate City
    How the faithful city has become a harlot! It was full of justice; Righteousness lodged in it, But now murderers.
• The pope (with the auspices of the Club of Rome) is currently setting up a coalition of religions in Jerusalem to promote a “green agenda”. The pope received the Nobel Peace Prize given by the Club of Rome for his work in Jerusalem.
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• We are not to forget there is also “a false prophet” who appears with the Antichrist.
• One may, or may not find it strange that a pope living in the 1100s AD by the name of Saint Malachy made a prophetic list of all popes yet to come. It ends with the last pope, dubbed Peter the Roman. He is called the last pope, Peter the Roman, the “pope of the tribulation”. If his predictions were to hold true, pope Francis would be that last pope. However; within the Catholic Church he is called a “fake” Pope since his onclave were Jesuites. Since that prophecy is at our doorstep we may soon know.

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: Death and Hades

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 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.