Here is the Lord pictured as with His bow and His arrows and coming in judgment (Revelation 6), and His whet sword (Revelation 19). These symbolisms in Revelation are not an untraditional teaching, it is a teaching as old as the scriptures themselves.
Well, not quite. When we want to ascertain what a word means in the context of a passage, a principle of Biblical Hermeneutics should be applied..... the Law of First Mention.
The first mention of "bow" in scripture is in Genesis 9:13. The Hebrew there is the same as bow which is the same meaning as the Greek in Revelation 6. Bible interpreters have used "rainbow" but the word itself "qeset" means bow as in archery or weapon. So the first mention of "bow" in scripture is regarding a covenant. So it would not be out of line to propose that "bow" in Revelation 6 has the meaning of the rider going out and enforcing a covenant as opposed to some idea that bow pertains to weapons.
So the rider on the white horse could very well be the false Messiah as many have proposed. Enforcing some sort of covenant or binding agreement on the various nations of the world, thereby conquering the world.
Now getting into the realm of pure speculation, it would seem realistic that some sort of covenant or unifying treaty is what is meant here if there seemed to be the idea that there was some threat coming from outside the earth itself. Many, and I include myself here, hold a position that it will be a supposed threat of invasion by extraterrestrials. I know that gets into the weird category, but the Lord Himself warned us that...
Luke 21:26 (NKJV) men's hearts failing them from fear and the expectation of those things which are coming on the earth, for the powers of the heavens will be shaken.
Any who have studied these weird UFO goings on realize that they are inter dimensional entities much as fallen angels are. They defy all known laws of Physics, as could fallen angels. So the UFO phenomenon is really real, but it is Satan inspired, not some sort of alien thing we can embrace as devotees of the UFO thing have proposed. We could be seeing here, Satan playing "good cop, bad cop". Unifying the world under his control via a ruse of protecting the earth against something that he is also behind.
This could be the pretext to unifying the world under a "bow" or covenant. President Ronald Reagan even set the stage for this idea in an address to the United Nations. We see a glimpse of this very thing in Psalm 2.....
Psalms 2:1-4 (NKJV) Why do the nations rage,
And the people plot a vain thing?
2 The kings of the earth set themselves,
And the rulers take counsel together,
Against the Lord and against His Anointed, saying,
3 “Let us break Their bonds in pieces
And cast away Their cords from us.”
4 He who sits in the heavens shall laugh;
The Lord shall hold them in derision.
Just a little nugget to ponder regarding how "bow" is meant in Revelation. It could be a wrong interpretation.
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