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Of all the mysterious
symbols and prophecies of
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the Bible, few have
captured the imagination
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of the broader culture
like the four horsemen of
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the apocalypse.
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Leaping from the pages of
the book of Revelation,
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these horsemen and their
colored horses have been
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used as metaphors for
death, destruction, and
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world-ending calamity
for centuries.
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But they aren't
meaningless symbols to be
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used however we want to
use them or speculate
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about them.
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Jesus Christ revealed them
to His servant John in a
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vision depicting our very
real future--a future that
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is galloping toward
us at full speed.
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You need to understand
the meaning of the four
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horsemen before their
arrival catches you and
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your family off
guard and unprepared.
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Join us today as we reveal
Jesus Christ’s own meaning
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behind the coming
four horsemen.
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Greetings, and welcome to
Tomorrow’s World, where we
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help you make sense of
your world through the
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pages of the Bible.
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Today we're gonna talk
about the Four Horsemen of
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the Apocalypse--some of
the most infamous and
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imagination-stirring
figures to enter our
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culture from the
pages of the Bible.
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We'll also give you an
opportunity to request one
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of our most helpful free
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Be sure to note any
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see on your screen
throughout the program.
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Now some of you may remember
how the four popular,
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so-called “new
atheists”--Richard
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Dawkins, Daniel Dennett,
Christopher Hitchens, and
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Sam Harris--were dubbed
the “Four Horsemen” by many.
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Similarly, Google, Amazon,
Facebook, and Apple have
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been called the “Four
Horsemen of Tech.” In the
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movies, you might be
familiar with Clint
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Eastwood’s film “Pale
Rider”--or even the
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superhero movie “X-Men:
Apocalypse” and its four
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“mutant” horsemen...
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Such uses actually obscure
the very important future
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reality that Jesus Christ
intended the Four Horsemen
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to represent.
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It is that life and death
reality that we lay
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out for you on
today’s program.
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To do that, we need to lay
an important foundation first.
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The four horsemen come to
us from chapter 6 of the
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prophetic book
of Revelation.
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In this passage, the
Apostle John is seeing a
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vision of events in
heaven, including the
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unsealing of a scroll
with seven seals.
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Those seven seals
represent future events,
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and of all in heaven and
earth, Revelation 5 tells
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us that only Jesus Christ was
found to be worthy of
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opening those seals and
revealing the contents of
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God’s prophetic scroll.
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And this leads us to a
vital element we need to
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uncover the identity of
these horsemen:
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Jesus Christ is the revelator.
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The entire purpose of the
book of Revelation is not
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to hide truth, but to
reveal it--after all, it
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is called the book of
“Revelation,” not the book
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of concealing or hiding.
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In fact, it gets its
name from its own words.
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Look at them with me in
Revelation chapter 1
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and verse 1...
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“The Revelation of Jesus
Christ, which God gave Him
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to show His
servants--things which
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must shortly take place.”
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Note several things here: First, it is
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the Revelation of Jesus Christ.
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If we want to understand
the things it says, we
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need to consider what He
teaches us and shows us.
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Also note, God gave Him
this revelation to show
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His servants things which
must shortly take place.
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Not to hide those things
so they would not be
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understood, but
to reveal them.
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Keeping in mind that
Revelation represents
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Jesus’ own revelation
about the future, let’s
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turn to Matthew 24.
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This is another place
in the Bible where Jesus
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discusses end-time events,
and there is a pattern
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here that will help us
immensely as we tackle the
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identities of the
four horsemen.
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Here in a prophecy, given
by Christ on the Mount of
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Olives, Jesus explains
much about world
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conditions leading up to
His second coming and the
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end of this age.
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There we see an
important pattern.
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Let’s start in verse 4.
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Here, He begins to answer
His disciples’ questions
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about His return:
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“And Jesus answered and said to
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them: “Take heed that
no one deceives you.
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For many will come in My
name, saying, ‘I am the
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Christ,’ and will
deceive many.
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And you will hear of
wars and rumors of wars.
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See that you are not
troubled; for all these
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things must come to pass,
but the end is not yet.
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For nation will rise
against nation, and
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kingdom against kingdom.
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And there will be
famines, pestilences, and
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earthquakes in
various places.
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All these are the
beginning of sorrows.”
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And while He mentions several
things in this prophecy,
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take note of four
particular items in Jesus’
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words here that occur
in this order: False Religion,
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Warfare, Famine, and Pestilence.
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It is important to note that Jesus says in verse 6,
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“the end is not yet.”
Because, to a great
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extent, the things he
mentions here have been
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happening since
time immemorial.
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Yet, the pattern of items
Jesus establishes here
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will prove vital to
confirming the final,
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future events of world
history, as they are
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repeated in a larger
scale in the future four
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horsemen He reveals to the
Apostle John--and to us.
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We'll use this information
to identify the first
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horseman in just a moment.
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Revelation than the four
horsemen, and Jesus Christ
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Welcome back.
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In the first part of
today’s program, we laid
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some groundwork to allow
us to tackle our topic:
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The Coming Four Horsemen
of the Apocalypse.
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Now, as we turn to
Revelation 6 and the
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vision of the four
horsemen, we'll find that
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they fit the same pattern
Jesus mentioned in Matthew 24,
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with the difference
that the four horsemen of
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the apocalypse represent
cataclysmic, end-time
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extremes of these four
conditions that will
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build, one upon the other.
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How cataclysmic?
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Revelation 6 and verse 8
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says that... “...power was given to them over a fourth of
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the earth, to kill with sword,
with hunger, with death,
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and by the beasts of the
earth.”
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Now as we record this program in 2022, world population is
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projected to soon hit 8 billion people, so a fourth of the
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earth at this time would
be around two billion
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people--truly a vast number.
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So, what does each
horseman represent?
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Let’s begin with the first
horseman, who is revealed
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as the first prophetic
seal is opened.
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We read of that in Revelation 6, beginning in verse 1:
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“Now I saw when
the Lamb opened one of the
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seals; and I heard one of
the four living creatures
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saying with a voice like
thunder, ‘Come and see.’
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And I looked, and
behold, a white horse.
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He who sat on it had a
bow; and a crown was given
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to him, and he went
out conquering and to conquer.”
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Here is a vision
of a white horse, whose
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rider is wearing a
crown, holding a bow, and
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conquering.
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This rider corresponds to
the first element in our
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list of items Jesus
mentioned in Matthew 24:
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a global false religion.
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Of course, corrupt, false
religion has been with
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mankind virtually from the
beginning, after the devil
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deceived Adam and Eve to
take the forbidden fruit.
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When the Apostle John
warned first-century
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Christians of a coming
final Antichrist, in
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1 John 2:18, he also noted
that many antichrists were
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already in the world,
in His own time.
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Satan has been
counterfeiting
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Christianity since
the very beginning.
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Yet in the days still
ahead, this final
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incarnation of the devil’s
counterfeit Christianity
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will turn far more
aggressive and militant,
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described in Revelation 6
as going out to “conquer.”
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Not simply willing to “win
hearts and minds,” it will
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seek to forcibly
convert the whole world.
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Now some confuse this first
horseman on a white horse
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with Jesus Christ,
claiming it represents the
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true religion
conquering the world.
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Are they right?
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Consider the description
of Jesus in Revelation 19,
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beginning in verse 11...
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“Now I saw heaven opened,
and behold, a white horse.
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And He who sat on him was
called Faithful and True,
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and in righteousness He
judges and makes war.
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His eyes were like a flame
of fire, and on His head
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were many crowns.
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He had a name written
that no one knew except
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Himself.
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He was clothed with a robe
dipped in blood, and His
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name is called
The Word of God.
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And the armies in heaven,
clothed in fine linen,
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white and clean, followed
Him on white horses.
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Now out of His mouth goes
a sharp sword, that with
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it He should
strike the nations.
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And He Himself will rule
them with a rod of iron.
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He Himself treads
the winepress of the
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fierceness and wrath
of Almighty God.
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And He has on His robe
and on His thigh a name
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written: KING OF KINGS AND
LORD OF LORDS.”
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Now that this rider in Revelation 19 is
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Jesus Christ should be obvious.
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And a white horse, crowns,
a weapon, conquering...
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Surely this rider is
the same as the first
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horseman, right?
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Wrong.
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The devil is a creature of
subtlety, and it is in the
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subtleties that we
see the difference.
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When you read closely, you
notice that they both ride
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a white horse, but Christ
brings a sword, the word
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of God, while the first
horseman uses a bow.
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Also, the first horseman
is described as wearing a
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crown, but Christ is
described as wearing many
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crowns--not just a King,
but the King of Kings.
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The first horseman
represents a militant,
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dangerous counterfeit
Christianity aggressively
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spreading across the
earth and conquering new
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adherents in a way the
world has never seen
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before--led by the one the
Apostle John calls
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“the Antichrist,” who is the
culmination of the many
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antichrists who
have preceded him.
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His religion is already
present in the earth, but
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in the final years leading
up to Christ’s return, it
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will wield unheard of
influence and power.
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So then, who is the next
horseman--the second
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horseman?
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He's described next, in
Revelation 6, beginning
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in verse 3:
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“When He opened the second seal, I heard the second living
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creature saying, ‘Come and see.’ Another horse, fiery red,
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went out. And it was granted to the one who sat on it to
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take peace from the earth, and
that people should kill
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one another; and there
was given to him a great sword.”
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Again, this
matches the pattern Christ
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mentioned in Matthew 24,
and this horseman refers
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to warfare.
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But this end-time
horseman’s ride indicates
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an extreme level of
warfare unlike anything
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humanity has known before.
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Note that the horseman is
given a “great sword,” and
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he is granted to remove
peace from the entire earth.
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This corresponds well with
the description of the
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great Beast of Revelation,
found in Revelation 13.
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In verse 4 of that chapter we read of the people of the world
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worshipping him and, by
design, the devil who
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empowers him...
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“So they worshiped the
dragon who gave authority
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to the beast; and they
worshiped the beast,
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saying, ‘Who is
like the beast?
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Who is able to
make war with him?’”
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The scale of warfare
that is coming in the end
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times, represented by this
dangerous second horseman,
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is almost unimaginable.
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Even for a world that
has seen two world wars
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climaxing in two mushroom
clouds, past conflicts
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will pale in comparison
to the global warfare to
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come.
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It is not without cause
that Jesus says in Matthew 24:22
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of the days
ahead that...
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“...unless those days were
shortened, no flesh would
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be saved; but for the
elect’s sake those days
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will be shortened.”
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Through chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons, the
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potential for mankind to end all life on the planet
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has steadily grown.
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The coming of the second
horseman heralds a time
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when that potential
becomes a chilling reality.
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Before we reveal the next
two horsemen, let me give
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The first and second
horsemen of the apocalypse
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will unleash terrifying
forces on planet earth,
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but the tale of their
soon-coming ride does not
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end there.
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After the second horseman,
the third and fourth
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horsemen follow
shortly after.
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Let’s continue reading
in Revelation 6.
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“When He opened the third
seal, I heard the third
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living creature say, ‘Come
and see.’ So I looked, and
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behold, a black horse,
and he who sat on it had a
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pair of scales
in his hand.
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And I heard a voice in the
midst of the four living
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creatures saying, ‘A quart
of wheat for a denarius,
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and three quarts of barley
for a denarius; and do not
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harm the oil and the wine.’”
17:21.140 --> 17:24.910
Again fitting the sequence Jesus revealed in Matthew 24,
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the next horseman depicts great
famine--an utter lack of
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the necessities of life.
17:31.383 --> 17:33.652
You know, as recently experienced in Madagascar
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and Ethiopia, mankind has faced famine on and off for millennia.
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But this third horseman
represents a level of
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famine and scarcity on a
scale that humanity has
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never before
experienced--and by
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peoples and nations who
have never known it.
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Revelation 6 says that the
third horseman, holding a
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pair of scales in his
hand, announces that a
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quart of wheat costs a
denarius, which in the
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first century was a full
day's wages--an entire
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day's work spent for
the purchase of a bit of
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grain.
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What we have pictured here
is the scourge of famine
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sweeping the whole world,
when even the most basic
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of foodstuffs--grain
and barley--are rare and
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precious.
18:20.799 --> 18:23.802
You know, some in the affluent West have recently
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experienced a small, small taste of what it is like for the
18:27.739 --> 18:30.542
shelves to be briefly
empty and the staples of
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life to be too expensive
or hard to find.
18:34.580 --> 18:37.683
What will the same nations
do as the third horseman
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arrives, bringing
permanently empty shelves,
18:41.386 --> 18:45.090
empty fields, and
empty stomachs?
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Of course, famines and
lack often follow warfare,
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and the circumstances
brought by the fourth
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horseman often
follow famine.
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We read of him in verses 7-8...
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“When He opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth
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living creature saying, ‘Come
and see.’ So I looked, and
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behold, a pale horse.
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And the name of him who
sat on it was Death, and
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Hades followed
with him....”
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Once again, we find
the pattern matches the
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sequence Jesus Christ,
the revelator, gave us in
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Matthew 24. There, the
Lord listed “pestilence”
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after “famine,” and the
sickly, pale color of this
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horse suits Jesus’ words
precisely as does the
19:32.571 --> 19:35.774
rider’s name, “Death,”
and the fact that he is
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followed by “Hades,”
or the grave.
19:39.311 --> 19:42.247
Of course, in our own day,
COVID-19 has turned many
19:42.314 --> 19:44.983
to thinking of just
how great the scope of
19:45.050 --> 19:49.021
worldwide disease and
pestilence could be.
19:49.087 --> 19:51.623
Yet the testimony of
prophecy--and therefore of
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Jesus Christ, since the
testimony of Jesus is the
19:55.427 --> 19:57.729
spirit of prophecy--is very
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clear: Relative to the
pestilence and disease to
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come, COVID-19 is barely
a warning shot across the
20:05.170 --> 20:06.738
world’s bow.
20:06.805 --> 20:08.974
The coming of the fourth
horseman heralds the
20:09.041 --> 20:12.377
coming of diseases the
likes of which no doctor,
20:12.444 --> 20:15.380
health organization,
or world government is
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prepared to tackle.
20:17.249 --> 20:21.253
Let’s consider these four
horsemen in perspective.
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In the most common
estimates, COVID-19 has
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killed millions.
20:25.123 --> 20:28.527
Some believe the bubonic
plague killed 25 million
20:28.594 --> 20:29.895
in the Middle Ages.
20:29.962 --> 20:32.331
The greatest famine in
history, China’s “Great
20:32.397 --> 20:35.834
Leap Forward” famine,
killed 20 to 40 million
20:35.901 --> 20:39.705
people from 1959 to 1961.
20:39.771 --> 20:43.642
And World Wars I and II, by
some estimates, killed 70
20:43.709 --> 20:45.978
to 80 million people.
20:46.044 --> 20:48.413
These numbers
are horrifying.
20:48.480 --> 20:52.050
Yet, we must remind
ourselves that verse 8 of
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Revelation 6 says
that the coming four
20:55.287 --> 20:58.357
horsemen--false religion,
warfare, famine, and
20:58.423 --> 21:00.292
pestilence--will be given power
21:00.359 --> 21:04.463
over one-fourth of humanity. Right now, around
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2 billion people. That’s “Billion” with a “B.”
21:09.067 --> 21:12.804
The conflicts, famines, and diseases of the past and the
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present hardly compare to the ride of the horsemen to come.
21:18.343 --> 21:21.713
That, my friends, is a
grim picture, I know.
21:21.780 --> 21:24.182
Yet Jesus Christ reveals
this knowledge for a
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reason, and it isn't to
depress us or throw us
21:27.285 --> 21:28.487
into despair.
21:28.553 --> 21:32.057
What can you and your
family do about the times
21:32.124 --> 21:32.891
to come?
21:32.958 --> 21:36.395
Is there anything
anyone can do?
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Yes, there is, and the
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of the apocalypse.
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We'll reveal the
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21:48.273 --> 21:51.309
horseman and what you and
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the times ahead in just a
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My friends, I know the
ride of the four horsemen
24:00.372 --> 24:03.942
sounds terrifying, and
clearly Jesus Christ meant
24:04.009 --> 24:05.544
it to be so.
24:05.610 --> 24:08.480
But God has not left
us without hope.
24:08.547 --> 24:11.583
Because there are more
than four horsemen
24:11.650 --> 24:13.785
mentioned in the
book of Revelation.
24:13.852 --> 24:16.822
We read about the fifth
horseman earlier in
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Revelation 19.
24:18.924 --> 24:22.994
Jesus Christ will
return on a white horse.
24:23.061 --> 24:24.396
And He won't be alone.
24:24.462 --> 24:26.965
He'll be accompanied by
His newly resurrected and
24:27.032 --> 24:31.269
glorified saints riding
white horses of their own,
24:31.336 --> 24:33.138
and together they will
vanquish the enemies of
24:33.205 --> 24:37.509
God and initiate the reign
of the Kingdom of God here
24:37.576 --> 24:38.777
on earth.
24:38.844 --> 24:42.447
We've seen the small
tastes of the coming four
24:42.514 --> 24:44.149
horsemen that God has
allowed the world to
24:44.216 --> 24:45.383
experience.
24:45.450 --> 24:48.153
The recent pandemic gave
us a small taste of global
24:48.220 --> 24:50.388
disease, we're beginning
to see food prices
24:50.455 --> 24:53.358
skyrocket due to inflation
and other causes.
24:53.425 --> 24:56.461
Warfare fills our news
feeds--the war in Ukraine
24:56.528 --> 24:58.597
being only a
recent example.
24:58.663 --> 25:01.733
And if we have eyes to
see and ears to hear, the
25:01.800 --> 25:03.869
world’s counterfeit
Christianity can be seen
25:03.935 --> 25:06.905
and heard for what it is
as it is preached from
25:06.972 --> 25:09.341
behind the lecterns and
on the stages of the most
25:09.407 --> 25:12.677
popular denominations and
churches in the world.
25:12.744 --> 25:16.915
These circumstances should
move us to act now, before
25:16.982 --> 25:19.851
the Four Horsemen are
unleashed upon the world
25:19.918 --> 25:23.455
to bring apostasy,
carnage, starvation, and
25:23.521 --> 25:25.824
pestilence in
full measure.
25:25.891 --> 25:30.061
Now, right now, is the
time to come under the
25:30.128 --> 25:33.832
protection of the fifth
Horseman, that we may find
25:33.899 --> 25:37.736
ourselves riding one day
alongside Him to heal the
25:37.802 --> 25:39.504
world.
25:39.571 --> 25:43.708
For those who submit their
lives to His rule today,
25:43.775 --> 25:46.811
He offers protection from
what is to come tomorrow.
25:46.878 --> 25:50.048
For such individuals, the
precursors to the Four
25:50.115 --> 25:54.152
Horsemen’s rides that we
see on our news feeds--the
25:54.219 --> 25:57.589
daily reminders of what
they will bring--do not
25:57.656 --> 25:59.491
have to be signs
of despair.
25:59.557 --> 26:03.228
Quite the contrary, they
can be signs of hope.
26:03.295 --> 26:06.331
Jesus Himself tells us
so, just as He told His
26:06.398 --> 26:09.200
disciples 2,000 years ago.
26:09.267 --> 26:12.604
To those who commit their
lives in obedience to Him
26:12.671 --> 26:16.675
today and who endure to
that time in faithfulness,
26:16.741 --> 26:20.145
He says in Luke 21:36...
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“Watch therefore, and pray always that you may be counted
26:24.883 --> 26:29.454
worthy to escape all these things that will come to pass,
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and to stand before the Son of Man.”
26:33.224 --> 26:37.262
May all of us be praying for the ride of that fifth Horseman,
26:37.329 --> 26:40.665
Jesus Christ, who is coming soon to usher in the Kingdom
26:40.732 --> 26:43.301
of God, forever.
26:43.368 --> 26:47.238
And may we seek His face
today--His way of life,
26:47.305 --> 26:50.442
His Work, and His
desires--that we may one
26:50.508 --> 26:53.845
day accompany Him on white
horses of our own, to help
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Him put the other four horsemen out to
26:56.715 --> 26:58.750
pasture for good.
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