Could The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse Represent Ramadan
In the Book of Revelation a scroll of judgments is revealed that usher in mankind's final judgments. The scroll is opened by Jesus Christ whereupon God's final judgment of mankind begins. As the first four seals are opened a description of Four separate judgments, each by a separate individual horsemen, is revealed with each one representing an increasingly horrible judgment upon the whole world.
Could The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse represent a time in the year that corresponds to the Muslim observance of Ramadan.
Ramadan is observed by those in the Islamic faith for a full month, from New Moon to New Moon, as it corresponds to the 4 phases of the moon. Will each horsemen emerge at each individual phase of the 4 phases of the moon during Ramadan?
While the opening of the scroll of judgments could begin at the commencement of Ramadan. The exact year is still a mystery as even Jesus Christ, God's only son, said that nobody knows the exact time but God the Father.
Believe in the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ and rest assured that when the scroll of Judgments are opened you'll be safely in heaven (hint: because of the rapture) with God the Father, God the Son Jesus Christ, and God the Holy Spirit.
Note: If is interesting that Jesus Christ said that he will come for his faithful like a thief in the night (hint: the rapture). Consider that a thief desires a completely dark night with no light, meaning a night with no moon, which is a New Moon...which corresponds to the beginning and end of Ramadan.
God Bless
"Could The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse represent a time in the year that corresponds to the Muslim observance of Ramadan." No
Rapture? - there is no secret rapture ... there is the 1st resurrection (of the saved) and the 2nd resurrection (of the unsaved) and the first is going to be a noisy event. The "thief" reference is because one is unaware of a time when a thief will appear (show up)
The Return of the Lord - ( 1st resurrection )
1 Thessalonians 4
13Brothers, we do not want you to be uninformed about those who sleep in death, so that you will not grieve like the rest, who are without hope.
14For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, we also believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in Him.
15By the word of the Lord, we declare to you that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who have fallen asleep.
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or the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a loud command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will be the first to rise.
17After that, we who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will always be with the Lord.
18Therefore encourage one another with these words.
In Revelation the horse is an animal associated with war. See
Revelation 19:11, 19. The four horsemen represent the churches as they go forth to battle their enemies. The colors of the horses (white, red, black, and pale) indicate a change from purity to apostasy.
The 1st Seal: A White horse: The Pure Church
White represents purity and righteousness.
Revelation 7:14; 19:8; Isaiah 1:18. The pure white church went out “conquering and to conquer.” During this time the Gospel spread like wild fire. Paul said that the Gospel “was preached to every creature which is under heaven” Colossians 1:23 and his opponents said that they had, “turned the world upside down.”
Acts 17:6. The white horse is the apostolic church going forth victoriously under the banner of Prince Jesus.
Revelation 6:3-4 The 2nd Seal: A Red Horse: The Persecuting Church. Red is the color of sin (
Isaiah 1:18), the
dragon (
Revelation 12:3) and bloodshed (
2 Kings 3:22-23). When the faith and devotion of the Church became corrupted it lost the power of God to carry the Gospel forward in victory. It then began using the
power of the state, uniting with the dragon (Pagan Rome in the form of the Emperor Constantine) to persecute dissenters. The phrase “kill one another” suggests internal controversy, discord and strife.
Revelation 6:5-6 The 3rd Seal: A Black Horse: The Corrupt Church. Black is the color of darkness and error. The “balances” used for measuring “wheat” and “barley” are a symbol of the buying and selling of the Gospel, salvation and forgiveness. The “wheat” and “barley” was 8-16 times more expensive than normal indicating scarcity and famine. The Church, during this time, entered a period of great moral and doctrinal error, substituting pagan beliefs and practices for the truths of God’s Word, and merchandising the Gospel. Thus they caused a scarcity of the bread of life. God decreed, “Hurt not the oil and the wine,” which symbolize the Holy Spirit (
Zechariah 4:3, 6) and the blood of Jesus (
Matthew 26:26-29). Even though the Church was in great darkness, God preserved a people with the true Gospel of salvation.
Revelation 6:7-8 The 4th Seal: A Pale Horse: The Dead Church. This pale horse is the color of nausea and death. The Church that should have been pointing the way to eternal life was instead spreading death. “And Hell [the grave] followed with him.” The spiritual “Death” that spread across Christendom was accompanied by a moral and intellectual paralysis. The Holy Scriptures were forbidden to the people; nobles, commoners and clergy alike were largely ignorant of the great truths they contain. For centuries the Christian world made no progress in science, arts or civilization. Millions lived miserable lives of ignorance and squalor.
Ezekiel 14:21 lists war, famine, pestilence, and wild beasts as judgments on apostasy from God. Whenever the Church takes up the sword to coerce the conscience, a famine of God’s Word results. Pure Bible truth is replaced with the pestilence of heresy, opening the way for persecutors (wild beasts) to punish and chastise the Church, and multitudes perish.
Revelation 6:9-11 The 5th Seal: The Martyred Church. “Under the altar the souls…slain for the word of God.”
Apocalyptic language teaches lessons and truths in pictures or symbols. God does not keep literal souls under a literal alter in heaven. During the middle ages, the
Papal system had millions of people put to death because they would not renounce Bible truth. Here is pictured, in symbolic language, the many martyrs of all ages whose blood, like the blood of Abel (
Genesis 4:8-10), cries out to God for justice and a vindication of the truths for which they died. The Bible teaches that the dead in Christ rise and put on immortality when He returns.
1 Corinthians 15:51-53.
Revelation 6:12-13 The 6th Seal: The End-Time Church, Mid 1700s-The Second Coming of Christ. This seal corresponds to the time of both the church of
Philadelphia and the church of
Laodicea. Under the sixth seal the language shifts from symbolic horses and souls to literal
signs and disasters. The prophecy says “there was a great earthquake,” “the sun became black as sackcloth,” “the moon became as blood,” and “the stars of heaven fell.” (Go read history about:
On November 1, 1755, Lisbon, Portugal was the center of a tremendous earthquake. Its effects were felt over an area of 4 million square miles. On May 19, 1780 beginning around 9:00 AM. heavy black clouds blotted out the sun drawing the dark of night over New England. That night, when the darkness finally lessened and the moon appeared, it had the appearance of blood. November 13, 1833, brought the most extensive display of falling stars which has ever been recorded. These are the same signs that Jesus gave to let us know when His coming would be near.
Matthew 24:29-30.)
6:14-17 The rest of the sixth seal is yet future and describes events that occur when
Jesus returns. The heavens will be rolled back “as a scroll,” and the earth will be in a state of violent upheaval. Those who are ready to meet Jesus will joyfully exclaim “Lo, this is our God; we have waited for Him and He will save us.” Isaiah 25:9. But what
a sad day for those who have rejected Jesus as King they will beg for the mountains to fall on them and hide them from his face.
In these precious hours while time yet remains, we can still make peace with God through Jesus Christ who loves us. To those who repent, He extends forgiveness and cleansing (
1 John 1:9); for those who persist in evil, He will dispense punishment in the lake of fire and the second death (2nd resurrection) and ultimately will be destroyed never to exist again.
Revelation 20:14-15.