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Jesus came to earth 2000 years ago and lived among us and died on the cross for our sins. He subsequently rose from the dead and ascended to heaven. That is a fact most Christians today believe and count on. ..but the people at that time didn’t see him as the son of God. They had the Torah (first five books of the old testament), psalms and prophets preached to them every Sabbath predicting the arrival of a messiah, the Old Testament contains 330 prophesies of the messiah, the Anointed one, our Savior and Lord Jesus Christ, yet they didn’t recognize the facts as applied to the carpenter from Nazareth. They couldn’t believe the fullness of time had finally come for God to enter the world for prophesies to be fulfilled. They were major doubters until they looked backwards and saw with 20/20 hindsight. Watching the sandaled feet of Jesus disappear into the sky helped. It wasn't until then that the Christian movement took off running.
Now 2000 years later we Christians are seeing prophesies fulfilled, but we are just as skeptical , we claim that the new testament prophesies of the end times are symbolic, not the be taken literally. Well, look around, what is symbolic of all the earthquakes, fires, and deaths that are accelerating. What symbolism due you see in revelation 6 that you want to disregard?
The Seals
6 I watched as the Lamb opened the first of the seven seals. Then I heard one of the four living creatures say in a voice like thunder, “Come!” 2 I looked, and there before me was a white horse! Its rider held a bow, and he was given a crown, and he rode out as a conqueror bent on conquest.
3 When the Lamb opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature say, “Come!” 4 Then another horse came out, a fiery red one. Its rider was given power to take peace from the earth and to make people kill each other. To him was given a large sword.
5 When the Lamb opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, “Come!” I looked, and there before me was a black horse! Its rider was holding a pair of scales in his hand. 6 Then I heard what sounded like a voice among the four living creatures, saying, “Two pounds[a] of wheat for a day’s wages,[b] and six pounds[c] of barley for a day’s wages,[d] and do not damage the oil and the wine!”
7 When the Lamb opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature say, “Come!” 8 I looked, and there before me was a pale horse! Its rider was named Death, and Hades was following close behind him. They were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill by sword, famine and plague, and by the wild beasts of the earth.
9 When he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain because of the word of God and the testimony they had maintained. 10 They called out in a loud voice, “How long, Sovereign Lord, holy and true, until you judge the inhabitants of the earth and avenge our blood?” 11 Then each of them was given a white robe, and they were told to wait a little longer, until the full number of their fellow servants, their brothers and sisters,[e] were killed just as they had been.
When this is all over do you think Jesus will take us aside and repeat what he said on the road to Emmaus to the two troubled disciples. Luke 24:25 “He said to them, “How foolish you are, and how slow to believe all that the prophets have spoken! 26 Did not the Messiah have to suffer these things and then enter his glory?” 27 And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he explained to them what was said in all the Scriptures concerning himself.”
The present world has to suffer before we enter our glory. What do we have to do to have 20/20 vision in the year 2020? Will it take that white horse galloping towards us with a rider whose arrival is described in Revelation 19:11? "And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war.
12 His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself.
13 And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God.
14 And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.
15 And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.
16 And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.
17 And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God;
18 That ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small and great.
19 And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army.
20 And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.
21 And the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse, which sword proceeded out of his mouth: and all the fowls were filled with their flesh."
Sure the book of Revelations has tons of symbolism but John couldn’t describe what he saw in his vision in terms of his time, he saw things beyond his time from the twentieth and twenty first centuries. He also had to protect the believers from attacks from the Roman emperors who would have considered talk of a king coming to take over the world treason and increased persecution of any followers of Christ. We can't criticize the first century believers for their hindsight, apparently our blinders are just as real.
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