I have also posted this in the end times forum.
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In our Monday night Bible study of the end times we are in Rev. 6 and an interesting point was made that I hadn't heard before. My mind is made up becxause it is a Biblical stance, bu I'm just wondering what everyone else thinks.
Rev 6:1-2 says "Then I saw when the Lamb broke one of the seven seals, and I heard one of the four living creatures saying as with a voice of thunder, "Come." I looked, and behold, a white horse, and he who sat on it had a bow; and a crown was given to him, and he went out conquering and to conquer."
Many people have said this is the anti-christ, but I was very interested in this point made:
First of all, the scroll contains the Great 7-year Tribulation, so the 7 seals on the scroll must come before the tribulation, as precurors. So how could it be the anti-christ when the anti-christ doesn't even make his appearance until 3.5 yrs into the trib?
Another consideration is that at NO other place in the book of Rev is the color WHITE attribued to somehing evil. In fact, the opposite is true: at every mention of the color white it is always in reference to Jesus or His people. I haven't done a Bible-wide word study yet, but I can't think of ANY other time that WHITE is attributed to something evil. Why then, would it be a color for the anti-christ in Rev 6? I am more inclined to believe that this symbolism is in reference to the Church or the Gospel.
Another thing that I'll have to look into is the crown. Besides literal kings in the Bible, the only people who ever receive crowns are Christ and His people, the Church. Why would the anti-christ have a crown? And who gave it to him?
Just some things I'm considering these days and wanted to know what others thought.
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In our Monday night Bible study of the end times we are in Rev. 6 and an interesting point was made that I hadn't heard before. My mind is made up becxause it is a Biblical stance, bu I'm just wondering what everyone else thinks.
Rev 6:1-2 says "Then I saw when the Lamb broke one of the seven seals, and I heard one of the four living creatures saying as with a voice of thunder, "Come." I looked, and behold, a white horse, and he who sat on it had a bow; and a crown was given to him, and he went out conquering and to conquer."
Many people have said this is the anti-christ, but I was very interested in this point made:
First of all, the scroll contains the Great 7-year Tribulation, so the 7 seals on the scroll must come before the tribulation, as precurors. So how could it be the anti-christ when the anti-christ doesn't even make his appearance until 3.5 yrs into the trib?
Another consideration is that at NO other place in the book of Rev is the color WHITE attribued to somehing evil. In fact, the opposite is true: at every mention of the color white it is always in reference to Jesus or His people. I haven't done a Bible-wide word study yet, but I can't think of ANY other time that WHITE is attributed to something evil. Why then, would it be a color for the anti-christ in Rev 6? I am more inclined to believe that this symbolism is in reference to the Church or the Gospel.
Another thing that I'll have to look into is the crown. Besides literal kings in the Bible, the only people who ever receive crowns are Christ and His people, the Church. Why would the anti-christ have a crown? And who gave it to him?
Just some things I'm considering these days and wanted to know what others thought.