The Seal Solutions

I’ll make this post short and sweet, for all of your sakes! Jesus took the book from His Father, and broke the first seal. Thunder emanated from heaven, and the voice of the first beast said, “Come and see.” This thunder separates the first and second angels’ messages. The first beast’s words produced a white horse, which became a conqueror. White represents purity which is given to us at the marriage. At the marriage, this white horse gets a crown, which is an abstract crown, not a concrete crown. We receive the latter at the kingdom of glory. The white horse rides out to claim the Advent people. This beast stands for those who hear God’s truth and accept it. The next beast also uttered the words, “Come and see.” The red horse rides out, representing those who’ve heard the truth of Jesus, but rejected it. These people work their way towards the black horse, which stands for the total lack of truth. They are fast morphing into Babylon. The beast continues to speak about barley, oil, and wine. It warns about the alarming shortage of the three angels’ messages. It also cautions not to “hurt the oil and the wine.” These represent Christ’s atoning blood for our sins. Now the black horse becomes pale as the Sunday law is enforced. Its rider and name is death, because spiritual things are totally dead. He holds the keys of death, and hell is his destiny. Spiritual Babylon’s falling is now finished. At the opening of the fifth seal, all the martyrs are judged. Jesus waited for a bit until some of the living righteous were slain. After this seal comes the proclamation of Revelation 8:1-4. Seals six and seven are both about the second coming of Christ. Seal six is the way the wicked will respond to the advent, and seal seven is the way the righteous will react to it. The wicked will say, “And said to the mountains and rocks, fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb.” (Revelation 6:16) The saved, however, respond in a quite different manner. “Lo, this is out God; we have waited for him, and he will save us: this is the Lord; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation” resound from the broken up peaks and valleys. Are we getting ready for that great event, for “who shall be able to stand?” (Revelation 6:17) J. Fink