The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Like ghostly spectres, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse appeared to the apostle John in vision at the close of the first century A.D. What do these four horsemen really represent? Were they merely a vivid nightmare of the elderly John's imagination? Or are they a living prophecy soon to unfold in our generation? Here is how Jesus Christ himself revealed the true meaning---for our day, right now---of the four mysterious riders of the book of Revelation!
Part 5 of 17 The End-Time Fulfillment
The long term condition of false religion described above will culminate in the end-time fulfillment of the white horseman of Revelation 6, in the person of a great False Prophet. From the midst of many conflicting nominal Christian sects and arguing religious leaders will emerge a single individual of immense personal power and magnetism, eclipsing all others. He will rise to prominence in the near future---the exact year is unknown---just prior to all other cataclysms at the time of the end.
Notice his description in II Thessalonians. "And then shall that Wicked [One] be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: Even him whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders..." (II Thess. 2:8-9).
This powerful instrument of Satan will have unusual charisma and power! He will dazzle the world with miracles, mobilizing vast armies of formerly lukewarm professing Christians to his sinister service. This "wolf in sheep's clothing" will appear innocent, sincere, and righteous before men. Only the "elect"---those already led by God's Spirit and obedient to his laws---will be able to recognize the true power behind these deceitful wonders (Matt. 24:24)
This end-time professing Christian leader will arrogate to himself titles and honors equal to, and attempting to exceed, those of God himself! He "exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God" (II Thess. 2:3-4).
After this "White Horseman" proclaims himself to be God, his believers will "go forth conquering and to conquer" in the name of their god, this false prophet. A series of religious wars dwarfing the Crusades will scourge the earth. This leads directly into, and overlaps with, the second horseman of the Apocalypse: WAR!
All three of the remaining horsemen have their basis in this world's false "Christian" religions. So few understand this first horseman---since so few listen to Christ and his interpretation---but it is a vital key to understanding the remainder of the book of Revelation.
If you are still part of this world's religious Babylon, this very book of Revelation warns you to, "Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues" (Rev. 18:4). To escape the following three horsemen, the world would have to come out from under the influence of the first horseman: false religion---the root cause of the war, famine and pestilence prophesied to plague all mankind.
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