Most expositors
identify the rider on a white horse in
Revelation as either the
Antichrist or Jesus Christ, usually the former. Both are misleading interpretations
based on guesswork, hearsay and often false interpretations designed to
deceive. The last category is widespread in these last days in order to
promote counterfeits and divert recognition of the real fulfillment of
of prophecy.
The Antichrist
(The Beast) will not rise to power until mid-Tribulation, after the Seal
and Trumpet judgments.
“And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and
saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten
horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of
blasphemy... And they worshipped the
dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast,
saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with
him? And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and
blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two
months. And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his
name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven. And it was given
unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was
given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.”
Rev. 13:1,4-7
Jesus Christ will return to the world on a white horse
at the end of the Tribulation, not the beginning, and He is clearly
identified there as the
“Word of God.”
“And I saw heaven opened,
and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called
Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war. His
eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many
crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself. And
he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is
called The Word of God.”
Rev. 19:11-13
Having ruled out these false
interpretations of Revelation 6:2, we will consider another option. Jesus said that “Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every
word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.”
(Matt. 4:4) We must therefore pay careful attention to every word
of God in the verses which introduce the Tribulation period, especially
the symbols.
In his exposition
of the book of Revelation, American theologian
Albert Barnes noted the prominent use of
symbols to convey important information about the future. He also
acknowledged that these symbols would be open to a wide range of
interpretations which would be proven or disproved as the prophecies are
fulfilled. This lack of
certainty, however, does not mean that Christians are forbidden to seek to
understand and interpret the meaning of the symbols before their
fulfillment. On the contrary, they are encouraged to study the symbols and
pray to understand their meaning. Barnes’ commentary on symbols in the book
of Revelation is instructive:
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Albert Barnes’
Notes on the Bible, Revelation VI
“In the boundless
future that was to succeed the times of John there would be, of necessity,
many events to which these symbols might be applied, and the result has
shown that it has required but a moderate share of pious ingenuity to
apply them, by different expositors, to events differing widely from each
other in their character, and in the times when they would occur...
“It may be assumed
that there is meaning in these symbols, and that they were not used
without an intention to convey some important ideas to the mind of John
and to the minds of his readers—to the church then, and to the church
in future times...
“But it is...to be
borne in mind that it is an inspired book, and this fact is to determine
the character of the exposition. If inspired, it is to be assumed that
there is a meaning in these symbols; an idea in each one of them, and
in all combined, of importance to the church and the world. Whether we
can ascertain the meaning is another question; but it is never to be
doubted by an expositor of the Bible that there is a meaning in the
words and images employed, and that to find out that
meaning is worthy of earnest study and prayer...
“Suppose, for
instance, that there had been some symbol, or emblem representing what
actually occurs now, when in a morning newspaper we read what occurred
last evening at St. Louis, Dubuque, Galena, Chicago, Cincinnati,
Charleston, New Orleans. It is clear that at a time when the magnetic
telegraph and the printing-press were unknown, any symbol or language
describing it that could be employed must be obscure, and the impression
must have been that this could be accomplished only by miracle—and it
would not be difficult for one who was disposed to scepticism to make out
an argument to prove that this could not occur. It would be impossible to
explain any symbol that could be employed to represent this until these
wonderful descriptions should become reality, and in the mean time the
book in which the symbols were found might be regarded as made up of mere
riddles and enigmas; but when these inventions should be actually found
out, however much ridicule or contempt had been poured on the book before,
it might be perfectly evident that the symbol was the most appropriate
that could be used, and no one could doubt that it was a Divine
communication of what was to be in the future. Something of the same kind
may have occurred in the symbols used by the writer of the book before us.
“It is not necessary to suppose that a prophecy will be understood
in all its details until the prediction is accomplished. In the case
just referred to, though the fact of the rapid spread of intelligence
might be clear, yet nothing would convey any idea of the mode or of
the actual meaning of the symbols used, unless the inventions were
themselves anticipated by a direct revelation. The trial of faith in
the case would be the belief that the fact would occur, but would not
relate the mode in which it was to be accomplished, or the language
employed to describe it. There might be great obscurity in regard to
the symbols and language, and yet the knowledge of the fact be
perfectly plain. When, however, the fact should occur as predicted,
all would be clear. So it is in respect to prophecy. Many recorded
predictions that are now clear as noon-day, were once as ambiguous and
uncertain in respect to their meaning as in the supposed case of
the press and the telegraph. Time has made them plain; for the event
to which they referred has so entirely corresponded with the symbol as
to leave no doubt in regard to the meaning. Thus many of the
prophecies relating to the Messiah were obscure at the time when they
were uttered; were apparently so contradictory that they could not be
reconciled; were so unlike anything that then existed, that the
fulfilment seemed to be impossible; and were so enigmatical in the
symbols employed, that it seemed in vain to attempt to disclose their
meaning. The advent of the long-promised Messiah, however, removed the
obscurity, and now they are read with no uncertainty as to their
meaning, and with no doubt that those predictions, once so obscure,
had a Divine origin.
“The view just suggested may lead us to some just conceptions of
what is necessary to be done in attempting to explain the prophecies.
Suppose then, first, that there had been, say in the dark ages, some
predictions that claimed to be of Divine origin, of the invention of
the art of printing and of the magnetic telegraph. The proper business
of an interpreter, if he regarded this as a Divine communication,
would have consisted in four things:
“(a) to explain, as well as he could, the fair meaning of the
symbols employed, and the language used;
“(b) to admit the fact referred to, and implied in the fair
interpretation of the language employed, of the rapid spread of
intelligence in that future period, though he could not explain how it
was to be done;
“(c) in the
meantime it would be a perfectly legitimate
object for him to inquire whether there were any events
occurring in the world, or whether there had been any, to which these
symbols were applicable, or which would meet all the circumstances
involved in them.
“(d) if there
were, then his duty would be ended; if there were not, then the symbols,
with such explanation as could be furnished of their meaning, should be
handed on to future times to be applied when the predicted events should
actually occur.”
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The question will surely be
asked, “Why does God
speak in symbols and not plainly state what will happen in the last days?”
“Predictions respecting the future are often necessarily obscure to man.
It cannot be doubted, indeed, that God could have foretold future events
in the most clear and unambiguous language; he who knows all that is to
come as intimately as he does all the past, could have caused a record to
have been made, disclosing names, and dates, and places, so that the most
minute statements of what is to occur might have been in the possession of
man as clearly as the records of the past now are. But there were
obvious reasons why this should not occur, and in the prophecies it is
rare that there is any such specification. To have done this might have
been to defeat the very end in view; for it would have given to man, a
free agent, the power of embarrassing or frustrating the Divine plans. But
if this course is not adopted, then prophecy must, from the nature of the
case, be obscure. The knowledge of any one particular fact in the future
is so connected with many other facts, and often implies so much knowledge
of other things, that without that other knowledge it could not be
understood.” (Barnes)
Because the book
of Revelation is necessarily obscure, the Lord Jesus Christ encouraged
in-depth study of its prophecies:
“Blessed is
he that readeth, and they that
hear the words of this
prophecy, and keep those things which
are written therein: for the time is at hand.”
Rev. 1:3
Albert Barnes
explained: “It is...more in accordance with the usual meaning of the word
rendered ‘read,’
to suppose that it refers to the act of one’s
reading for himself; to learn by reading.” The
Greek word for “hear”
is ακουω (akouo) which
means “to understand”
while the word for “keep”
τηρεω (tereo)
means to “keep in mind
those things which relate to the future.”
“The writer does
not say that they were blessed who understood it, or that
they who read or heard it would fully understand it; but it is
clearly implied, that there would be so far an understanding of its
meaning as to make it a felicitous condition to have been made acquainted
with it. An author could not be supposed to say that one should regard his
condition as a favoured one who merely heard words that he could not
understand, or who had placed before him magnificent symbols that had to
him no meaning. The word prophecy is used here in its more strict
sense as denoting the disclosure of future events—a large portion
of the book being of this nature. It is here synonymous with Revelation
in Rev. 1:1.” (Barnes)
Encouraged by these
recommendations with respect to the symbols in Revelation 6:2 we shall
proceed “to inquire whether there [are] any events occurring in the
world...to which these symbols [are] applicable, or which would meet all
the circumstances involved in them.”
President Barack Obama is a member
of the Council on Foreign Relations but claims the CFR “is just a forum
where a bunch of people talk about foreign policy.” However, the CFR
was founded and funded in 1921 by the Rockefeller Foundation to develop a
plan for world government. Today the CFR is a 4900 member think tank
and shadow government which determines U.S. foreign policy and strategizes
to bring the world under global governance. The treasonable plans of this consortium of liberal and
conservative power elites are protected from public scrutiny by the
mainstream media.
The CFR is not a military order
but a planning body for a
one world government. The victory achieved by the rider in the First
Seal will be bloodless, the color of his horse being “white.” The
“red” horse of the Second Seal will be a war horse that takes
peace from the earth. That the First Seal will be a nonviolent,
political victory is confirmed by the next clause in Revelation 6:2.
The rider of the white horse has
a “bow”
but no arrow. He therefore does not carry a weapon of war. The
Greek word for
“bow”
in this verse is τοξον toxon.
Remarkably, τοξον means a bow of fabric.
Strong’s Greek
Dictionary
5115. τοξον toxon
from the base of
5088; a bow (apparently as the
simplest fabric):—bow.
τοξον (toxon)
is the same Greek word found in the Greek Old Testament, the Septuagint,
for God’s
“bow”
in Genesis 9:13-16:
“I do set my
bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a
token of a covenant between me and the earth.
And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the
bow shall be seen in the cloud: And I
will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every
living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood
to destroy all flesh. And the bow
shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the
everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh
that is upon the earth.”
Septuagint
Genesis 9:13 3588
το
5115-1473
τόξον
μου
[2my
bow
5087
τίθημι
1I
put]
1722
εν
in
3588
τη
the
3507
νεφέλη
cloud,
2532
και
and
1510.8.3
έσται
it will
be
1519
εις
for
4592
σημείον
a sign
1242
διαθήκης
of covenant
303.1
αναμέσον
between
1473
εμού
me
2532
και
and
3588
της
the
1093
γης
earth.
Interlinear Greek New Testament
Keyed to Strongs 1894 Scrivener Textus Receptus
Genesis 9:13
2 G2532
και AND
G1492 (G5627)
ειδον I SAW,
G2532 και
AND
G2400 (G5628)
ιδου BEHOLD,
G2462 ιππος
A HORSE
G3022 λευκος
WHITE,
G2532 και
AND
G3588 ο
HE
G2521 (G5740)
καθημενος SITTING
G1909 επ
ON
G846 αυτω
IT
G2192 (G5723)
εχων HAVING
G5115
τοξον
A BOW;
G2532 και
AND
G1325 (G5681)
εδοθη WAS
GIVEN G846
αυτω TO HIM
G4735 στεφανος
A CROWN,
G2532 και
AND
G1831 (G5627)
εξηλθεν HE
WENT FORTH
G3528 (G5723)
νικων OVERCOMING
G2532 και
AND
G2443 ινα
THAT
G3528 (G5661)
νικηση HE
MIGHT OVERCOME.
In the preceding verse, 6:1,
there was a
“noise
of thunder”
before John saw the white horse
whose rider had a bow.
“And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it
were the noise of thunder, one of
the four beasts saying, Come and see.”
Rev. 6:1
This detail may have been
included by the Lord to reveal the “bow”
in verse 2 as a “rainbow”
instead of a weapon.
Thunder naturally precedes rain and rainbows:
“Is it not wheat harvest to day? I will call unto the LORD, and he
shall send thunder and
rain; that ye may perceive and see that your wickedness is
great, which ye have done in the sight of the LORD, in asking you a
king.”
1 Samuel 12:17
Revelation 6:1-2 and Genesis
7-9 both contain the rain/rainbow symbolism which is, therefore, an
important clue to the interpretation of the First Seal.
7:4 For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain
upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance
that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.
7:12 And the rain was upon the
earth forty days and forty nights.
8:2 The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped,
and the rain from heaven was restrained;
9:13 I do set my bow in the cloud, and it
shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.
9:14 And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that
the bow shall be seen in the cloud:
9:16 And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I
will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between
God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.
After God caused a flood to destroy the
generation that was defiled by fallen angels, He made a covenant with mankind.
This
covenant established inviolable laws to regulate the social order and
to protect mankind from another judgment.
Genesis 9
1 And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them,
Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.
2 And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be
upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon
all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea;
into your hand are they delivered.
3 Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for
you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.
4 But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof,
shall ye not eat.
5 And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every
beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every
man's brother will I require the life of man.
6 Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood
be shed: for in the image of God made he man.
7 And you, be ye
fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and
multiply therein.
8 And God spake unto Noah, and to his sons with him, saying,
9 And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed
after you;
10 And with every living creature that is with you, of the fowl, of
the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you; from all that go out
of the ark, to every beast of the earth.
11 And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be
cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be
a flood to destroy the earth.
12 And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make
between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for
perpetual generations:
The agenda of the Synagogue of
Satan,
which includes population control, LGBT
rights and animal rights, violates God’s
covenant with Noah. God’s
covenant contained specific
provisions which the Synagogue of Satan is aggressively working to replace
with a
“fabricated”
covenant called the
Noahide Laws.
These draconian laws
ban
idolatry, blasphemy, murder, theft, sexual immorality and eating the limb
of a living animal.
When the Antichrist comes to power at
mid-Tribulation,
the Noahide laws will become
binding on the Gentiles, but non-binding on the Jews. Being the
chosen people, who are deemed the
“elect”
and
“holy,”
Jews will be permitted to live as they please but
will be required to report Gentiles who violate the Noahide laws to their
local Sanhedrin. The punishment for violation of even one Noahide law is
beheading. Those who worship Jesus Christ will be tried as idolaters and
beheaded. One can readily see that the Noahide Laws are a pretext
for the extermination of those who believe in Jesus Christ.
“The
rainbow given as a sign by God to Noah is the modern symbol of the Noahide
movement.”
(Kabbalah)
For lack of a military
connotation, the
“rider
on the white horse”
must be interpreted in a non-military, civilian context. A reasonable
interpretation of the
“bow,”
which is prominent in these last days, is the
“rainbow”
symbols of the Noahide movement and also of the New Age movement, which
are really made of the same cloth—the
“fabric
of lies”
symbolized by rainbow flag. The agenda of the Noahide Laws is to
transition mankind into the
“New
Age”
which replaces the social
order which God established after the flood with a
“New
World Order”
ruled by Lucifer.
