This Is The 2nd Or 3rd Time I Have Posted Concerning This Topic. People Think The Rider Of The White Horse Is The Antichrist. How Can One Of The Riders Be A Person And The Rest Be Things? I Think The Rider Of The White Horse Symbolizes The Ministry Of The Church Or The Church Itself. People Rightly Point Out That The Church And Israel Are Usually Symbolized By A Woman. But There Are Exceptions.
Exodus 4:22 - "And You Shall Say Unto Pharaoh `This Is What JEHOVAH Says' Israel Is My Son, My Firstborn Son"
Also Read Hosea 11:1 To See My Point.
The Rider Held A Bow Which I Think Is The Bible. The Crown Might Symbolise Victory.
Why would you think that when there's nothing in the text that even hints to that?
Here's what I know. They are 5 beast kingdoms, from Babylon to Rome; 5 fallen angels, the Beast and the 4 Euphrates angels; and 5 horsemen, the 4 listed and "Hell" that followed "Death." Why?
In
Zech 1:8-19 and
6:1-9 we have the
same color horses as Revelation's horsemen,
sent to and fro thru the earth. The color of the horses are white, black, red, pale (gray), and speckled (spotted).
Zech 6:5, when asked what the chariots [horses and riders] meant, the angel answered, they are the "4 [5] spirits of the heavens" that go forth from before God.
So, who do you suppose them to be if not angels.
Zec 3:9 For behold the stone that I have laid before Joshua; upon one stone shall be seven eyes: behold, I will engrave the graving thereof, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day.
Zec 4:10 For who hath despised the day of small things? for they shall rejoice, and shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel with those seven; they are the eyes of the LORD, which run to and fro through the whole earth.
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Rev 5:6 And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth.
A changing of the guards:
Zec 1:18 Then lifted I up mine eyes, and saw, and behold four horns.
Zec 1:19 And I said unto the angel that talked with me, What be these? And he answered me, These are the horns which have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem.
Zec 1:20 And the LORD shewed me four carpenters.
Zec 1:21 Then said I, What come these to do? And he spake, saying, These are the horns which have scattered Judah, so that no man did lift up his head: but these are come to fray them, to cast out the horns of the Gentiles, which lifted up their horn over the land of Judah to scatter it.
- So who do you suppose the "4 horns" to be if not the 4 [5] beast kingdoms in Dan 7, and the "4 carpenters" to be Christ.
Dan 7:16 I came near unto one of them that stood by, and asked him the truth of all this. So he told me, and made me know the interpretation of the things.
Dan 7:17 These great beasts, which are four, are four kings, which shall arise out of the earth.
Last but not least:
2Ki 2:11 And it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked, that, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.
2Ki 2:12 And Elisha saw it, and he cried, My father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof. And he saw him no more: and he took hold of his own clothes, and rent them in two pieces.
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2Ki 13:14 Now Elisha was fallen sick of his sickness whereof he died. And Joash the king of Israel came down unto him, and wept over his face, and said,
O my father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof.
Again, here we have chariots, horses, and horsemen identified as angels.
The 4 [5] horsemen are the 4 [5] kings that represent the 4 [5] beast kingdoms in Daniel, the 4 [5] horns" that scattered Israel, Nebuchadnezzar, Cyrus, Alexander the Great, Augustus, and Nerva.
Dan 7:21 I beheld, and the same horn [Nerva] made war with the saints, and prevailed against them;
Dan 7:22 Until the Ancient of days came, and judgment was given to the saints of the most High; and the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom.
Dan 7:23 Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.
Dan 7:24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.
By the way, these 5 fallen angels also represent the "
5 naked eye planets" that are worshiped in every pagan religion, allegedly the 4 winds of the earth.
Rev 7:1 And after these things I saw four angels standing on the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, nor on the sea, nor on any tree.
Rev 7:2 And I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God: and he cried with a loud voice to the four angels, to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea,
Rev 7:3 Saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads.
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Rev 9:2 And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.
Rev 9:3 And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power.
Rev 9:4 And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads.