The Unfolding of the Seals
The “First Seal” to the “Third Seal” in Revelation 6
are “the beginning of sorrows.”
The opening of the “Fourth Seal” will be the beginning
of the Great Tribulation” (see Matthew. 24:9-25)
The events of the “First Seal” to the “Fifth Seal” are
“signs of the end of the world,” but in the “Sixth Seal,” we see “the sign of
His Coming.”
The “Seventh Seal” should be “the Rapture!”
First
Seal
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.
And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he
that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth
conquering, and to conquer.
Rev. 6:1-2
In
the “First Seal” was the first deception of “the antichrist”—he emerged in the
world with a religious-deception—he came in the Name of Christ, but he is ‘the
impostor.’
Many fell
for his deception and delusion as “he went forth conquering, and to conquer.”
Second
Seal
And when he had opened the second
seal, I heard the second beast say, Come and see.
And there went out another horse that was red:
and power was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth, and
that they should kill one another: and there was given unto him a great sword.
Rev. 6:3-4
In
the “Second Seal,” he triggered “wars and rumors of wars”—‘nation against
nation, and kingdom against kingdom.’
Third
Seal
And when he had opened the third
seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black
horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand.
And I heard a voice in the midst of the four
beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a
penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.
Rev. 6:5-6
“The oil and
the wine” are so precious to GOD—and so, they must not be hurt by ‘the black
horse rider.’
“The
oil” is for anointing—and so, represents GOD’s ‘anointed ones.’
“Wine”
gladdens the heart, and is for merriment or celebration. In this passage, it
speaks of the sons of GOD to whom The LORD Jesus have been revealed—who have
received Him as their LORD and Savior, and who have received His Holy Spirit.
The
Third Seal is a time of famines (widespread scarcity of food), a time of
pestilences (fatal epidemic diseases or pandemic) and earthquakes.
A
time of global economic recession, and economic depression. Many countries of
the world are already going down that road.
Famine
is a phenomenon that is usually accompanied or followed by regional
malnutrition, starvation, epidemic, and increased mortality.
Today,
famine is most widespread in Sub-Saharan Africa, but with exhaustion of food
resources, over drafting of groundwater, wars, internal struggles, and economic
failure, famine continues to be a worldwide problem with hundreds of millions
of people suffering.
Africa
is currently facing the worst food crisis since 1945. The collision of climate
change, population growth and regional conflict has created massive food
shortages across multiple countries in Africa.
Yemen
is in the grips of a brutal conflict that currently ranks as the world's worst
humanitarian crisis. Food insecurity has risen in the last year, with more than
20 million people across the country facing hunger and 10 million people
suffering from extreme levels of hunger.
Other
countries on the list facing food shortages are Zimbabwe, Burkina Faso, Chad,
Djibouti, Eritrea, Guinea, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Sierra
Leone, Burundi, Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar,
Mozambique, South Sudan, Sudan, Swaziland, Uganda, Afghanistan, Myanmar and
Nepal.
According
to the WFP 2020 Global Hotspots Report, millions of people in Zimbabwe, South
Sudan, Democratic Republic of Congo and the Central Sahel region will require
life-saving food assistance in the coming months – the sheer scale and
complexity of which will stretch the UN food relief agency’s capacity to the
limit and require generous donor support for a ramped-up humanitarian response.
Here are
some facts about poverty and hunger in America:
Even in the world’s greatest
food-producing nation, children and adults face poverty and hunger in every
county across America.
Research by the USDA found that
11.1% of American households were food insecure during at least some of 2018,
with 4.3% suffering from "very low food security."
In 2019, over 12.5 million children,
and 40% of US undergraduate students experienced food insecurity
More than 38 million people are
living in poverty in America. In 2019, most families living in poverty earn
less than $25,750 per year.
More than 37 million people struggle
with hunger in the United States, including more than 11 million children.
A household that is food insecure
has limited or uncertain access to enough food to support a healthy life.
Children are more likely to face
food insecurity than any other group in the United States.
Pestilences
are deadly and overwhelming diseases that affects an entire community, state,
or country. In some cases, pestilence can ravage across national borders.
The
Black Plague, was a disease that killed over thirty percent of Europe's
population, and was certainly a pestilence.
Coronavirus
disease 2019 (COVID-19)
According
to World Health Organization (WHO) Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is an
infectious disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
(SARS-CoV-2).
The
disease was first identified in 2019 in Wuhan, the capital of China's Hubei
province, and has since spread globally, resulting in the 2019–2020 coronavirus
pandemic.
Common
symptoms include fever, cough, and shortness of breath. Other symptoms may
include muscle pain, sputum production, diarrhea, sore throat, abdominal pain,
and loss of smell or taste.
While
the majority of cases result in mild symptoms, some progress to pneumonia and
multi-organ failure.
The
virus is mainly spread during close contact and via respiratory droplets
produced when people cough or sneeze. Respiratory droplets may be produced
during breathing but the virus is not considered airborne. People may also
catch COVID-19 by touching a contaminated surface and then their face. It is
most contagious when people are symptomatic, although spread may be possible
before symptoms appear. The virus can live on surfaces up to 72 hours. Time
from exposure to onset of symptoms is generally between two and fourteen days,
with an average of five days. The standard method of diagnosis is by reverse
transcription polymerase chain reaction (rRT-PCR) from a nasopharyngeal swab.
The infection can also be diagnosed from a combination of symptoms, risk
factors and a chest CT scan showing features of pneumonia.
Recommended
measures to prevent infection include frequent hand washing, social distancing
(maintaining physical distance from others, especially from those with
symptoms), covering coughs and sneezes with a tissue or inner elbow, and
keeping unwashed hands away from the face. The use of masks is recommended by some
national health authorities for those who suspect they have the virus and their
caregivers, but not for the general public, although simple cloth masks may be
used by those who desire them. There is no vaccine or specific antiviral
treatment for COVID-19. Management involves treatment of symptoms, supportive
care, isolation, and experimental measures.
The
World Health Organization (WHO) declared the 2019–20 coronavirus outbreak a
Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) on 30 January 2020 and
a pandemic on 11 March 2020. Local transmission of the disease has been
recorded in many countries across all six WHO regions.
Coronaviruses
are a large family of viruses that are known to cause illness ranging from the
common cold to more severe diseases such as Middle East Respiratory Syndrome
(MERS) and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS).
Biological
warfare: an emerging threat in the 21st century
The
German army was the first to use weapons of mass destruction, both biological
and chemical, during the First World War.
Biological
weapon, also called germ weapon, are any of a number of disease-producing
agents—such as bacteria, viruses, fungi, et cetera. Sometimes known as “germ
warfare,” biological weapons involve the use of toxins or infectious agents
that are biological in origin.
Biological
warfare is the intentional use of micro-organisms, and toxins, generally of
microbial, plant or animal origin with the intent to produce disease, to kill,
or incapacitate humans, animals or plants, or to produce disease as an act of
war.
Biological
weapons are living organisms or replicating entities. ‘Bacillus anthracis’ bacteria, which causes
anthrax, is one of the most deadly agents used as biological weapon.
In
2015 a media report stated that 16 countries plus Taiwan have had or are
currently suspected of having biological weapons programs: Canada, China, Cuba,
France, Germany, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Japan, Libya, North Korea, Russia, South
Africa, Syria, the United Kingdom and the United States.
Offensive
biological warfare, including mass production, stockpiling, and use of
biological weapons, was outlawed by the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention
(BWC). The rationale behind this treaty, which has been ratified or acceded to
by 170 countries as of April 2013, is to prevent a biological attack which
could conceivably result in large numbers of civilian casualties and cause
severe disruption to economic and societal infrastructure. Many countries,
including signatories of the BWC, currently pursue research into the defense or
protection against BW, which is not prohibited by the BWC.
A
nation or group and that can pose a credible threat of mass casualty has the
ability to alter the terms on which other nations or groups interact with it.
Biological weapons allow for the potential to create a level of destruction and
loss of life far in excess of nuclear, chemical or conventional weapons,
relative to their mass and cost of development and storage. Therefore,
biological agents may be useful as strategic deterrents in addition to their
utility as offensive weapons on the battlefield.
Bioterrorism
is a form of terrorism where there is the intentional release of biological
agents (bacteria, viruses, or other germs). This is also referred to as germ
warfare.
Bioterrorism
is terrorism involving the intentional release or dissemination of biological
agents. Further, modern agribusiness is vulnerable to anti-agricultural attacks
by terrorists, and such attacks can seriously damage economy as well as
consumer confidence. The later destructive activity is called agrobioterrorism
and is subtype of agro-terrorism.
The aim and agenda of ‘the third
Horseman’ of the Apocalypse is to effect global economic downturn—thereby
setting most nations and governments on the path towards economic-unifications,
and digitalization of economies—which the world refers to as “globalization.”
The way he does this is through biological terrorism (bioterrorism); causing a
pandemic and depopulation of humans—which results in global crisis and global
economic depression.
In
the midst of these, “economies will fall and economies will rise.”
The
effect of the current pandemic on global economy is definitely causing
governments and institutions to take drastic-physical policies that impact on
the lives of people, and the way they live. Experts are already saying that
the- back-of COVID-19 will apparently be a rising of ‘a new economic order.’
In any case,
the sons of GOD shall apparently be spared from the economic depression of ‘the
third Horseman.’
Earthquakes
of different magnitudes have been recorded around the world in 2020, with
pestilences, and now global economic recession—which clearly indicate that the
time at present is a time of fulfillment of the “Third Seal.”
List of some
earthquakes in 2020
"M 5.5 - 81km SW of
Taybad, Iran" 2020-01-02
"M 5.8 - 9km SSE of Indios, Puerto Rico" 2020-01-06
"M 6.3 - 14km S of
Sinabang, Indonesia" 2020-01-07
"M 6.4 - 14km SE of Guanica, Puerto Rico" 2020-01-07
"M 6.0 - 130km ENE of Kimbe, Papua New Guinea"
2020-01-07
"M 4.9 - 13km SE of
Borazjan, Iran" 2020-01-08
"M 6.4 - Chukotskiy Avtonomnyy Okrug, Russia"
2020-01-09
"M 5.2 - 5km SE of
Maria Antonia, Puerto Rico" 2020-01-11
"M 5.9 - 11km SSE of Indios, Puerto Rico" 2020-01-11
"M 4.5 - 17km NNW of San Martin, Argentina" 2020-01-15
"M 5.2 - 5km ENE of San Jeromino Ixtepec, Mexico"
2020-01-17
"M 6.0 - 141km W of
Abepura, Indonesia" 2020-01-18
"M 6.0 - 86km ENE of
Arzak, China" 2020-01-19
"M 6.1 - 57km SSW of Molibagu, Indonesia" 2020-01-19
"M 4.5 - 3km WSW of
South Hutchinson, Kansas" 2020-01-21
"M 6.1 - 25km SSE of
Bristol Island, South Sandwich Islands" 2020-01-20
"M 5.6 - 15km ESE of
Kirkagac, Turkey" 2020-01-22
"M 6.2 - 22km ENE of
Tanaga Volcano, Alaska" 2020-01-23
"M 6.7 - 9km NNE of
Doganyol, Turkey" 2020-01-24
"M 6.1 - 56km WSW of Amatignak Island, Alaska" 26
January 2020
"M 6.3 - 102km WNW
of Kirakira, Solomon Islands" 27 January 2020
"M 7.7 - 123km NNW
of Lucea, Jamaica 28 January 2020
"M 6.1 - 55km SE of East End, Cayman Islands 28 January
2020
"M 6.0 - 70km W of
Kirakira, Solomon Islands 29 January 2020
"M 6.2 - 108km NNE of Krajan Pangkah Kulon, Indonesia
2020-01-06
"M 6.0 - 104km SSE
of Pondaguitan, Philippines 2020-02-06
"M 4.7 - 39km NE of
Bageshwar, India" 2020-02-13
"M 6.1 - 124km SSE of Bristol Island, South Sandwich
Islands 2020-02-08
"M 6.2 - 122km S of
Kokopo, Papua New Guinea 2020-02-09
"M 7.0 - 93km ENE of
Kuril'sk, Russia 2020-02-13
"M 5.8 - 25km SE of
Saray, Turkey 2020-02-23
"M 6.0 - 25km SE of Saray, Turkey 2020-02-23
"M 4.8 - 2km N of
Rende, Italy 2020-02-24
"M 5.3 - 5km NNE of Culasian, Philippines 2020-03-02
"M 5.0 - 12km WSW of
Cicurug, Indonesia 2020-03-10
"M 6.3 - 298km NE of Raoul Island, New Zealand 2020-03-14
"M 6.0 - 172km E of
Hihifo, Tonga 2020-03-17
"M 6.1 - 97km NNW
of Sola, Vanuatu 2020-03-18
"M 5.7 - 6km NNE of
Magna, Utah 2020-03-18
"5.7-magnitude
earthquake shakes Salt Lake County 2020-03-18
"M 6.2 - 246km S of
Kangin, Indonesia 2020-03-18
"M 5.7 - 15km SE of
Paramythia, Greece 2020-03-21
"M 5.6 Earthquake
Strikes North-Western Greece 2020-03-21
"M 5.4 - 3km SW of
Kasina, Croatia 22 March 2020
"M 6.1 - Central East Pacific Rise 2020-03-22
"M 7.5 - 219km SSE
of Severo-Kuril'sk, Russia 2020-03-25
"M 6.1 - 8km SW of
Baliton, Philippines 2020-03-26
Fourth
Seal
And when he had opened the fourth
seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.
And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his
name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given
unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with
hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.
Rev. 6:7-8
When
the “Fourth Seal” is opened, power will be given to “death” and “hell” over ‘a
fourth of the earth,’ to kill with sword, with hunger, with death, and with the
beasts of the earth (Rev. 6:7-8).
“To kill
with sword”—that’s martyrdom—by being beheaded. This is why the Fifth Seal
reveals ‘the martyrs of Jesus’ slain for the Word of GOD and for the word of
their testimony throughout ‘the tribulation-times.’
"Then
shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated
of all nations for My Name's sake”
Matthew. 24:9
To kill with
hunger—that
is starvation; which is suffering or death caused by lack of food. Prolonged starvation can cause permanent
organ damage and eventually, death.
The
Third Seal is a time of famines (widespread scarcity of food), a time of
pestilences (fatal epidemic diseases or pandemic) and earthquakes.
But, hunger in the “Fourth Seal” would
be deliberate deprivation of food from people at a time ‘that no man might buy
or sell’ except ‘one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number
of his name’ (see Rev. 13:16-17).
“To kill
with death.”
What
does this mean?
‘The pale
horse rider’ is death personified—he is called “the man of sin” in Second
Thessalonians chapter 1 verse 3.
“The sting of death is sin…” (I Cor.
15:56).
When
the “Fourth Seal” is opened, he will kill with “the sting of death.”
When
the “Fourth Seal” is opened, the antichrist will cast ‘a shadow of death’ over
the souls of men. He will be given the power to kill one fourth (¼) of the
earth’s human population; that’s why he will be given the name: “death.”
According
to Romans 6:23 ‘death’ is a ‘payment for sin.’ Death entered the human race
after “the Fall of Man”—and so, Abel’s death became the first physical death in
the human race.
Since
“the Fall,” “the law of sin and death” became activated against all human race,
and death reigned over humanity. “Sin reigned in death,” and death reigned
because of the Law (read Rom.5:14, 20-21).
I
Corinthians 15:56 declares: “The sting of
death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.”
The good news is: Christ Jesus through death on
the cross, destroyed him who had the power of death, that is, the devil (see
Heb. 2:14).
“To kill
with the beasts of the earth” would be havoc unlike any seen since the
dawn of mankind—destruction of men by the beasts of the earth which man once
had dominion over.
The
greatest deception of the antichrist will manifest in the ministry of his false
prophet in the time of “the Great Tribulation.”
“And
many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many” (Mt.
24:11).
Read
also: Revelation 13:11-17
During this period, while the false prophet of the antichrist
spreads his cunning and deceptive message, there will be the greatest
evangelism of the Gospel of the kingdom of GOD in the earth.
During this time, the ministry of the false prophet of the
antichrist will be backed-with all kinds of diabolical signs, and lying
wonders.
Meanwhile, the preaching of the Gospel of the Kingdom by the
saints, and the prophesying of the two witnesses of Revelation 11 shall be
accompanied with signs and wonders.
Just
as Pharaoh’s magicians and sorcerers contested against Moses and Aaron (Ex.
7:1-13, 14-25; 8; 9; 10; 11), even so, the false prophet of the antichrist with
his evil-workers will be in great contest against the saints and servants of
The LORD, who bear the Testimony of Jesus Christ and the Word of GOD.
“For
there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall show great signs
and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very
elect”
Matt. 24:24
The
purpose of this contest will be for the souls of men.
And I beheld another beast coming up
out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.
And he exerciseth all the power of the first
beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship
the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.
And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh
fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men,
And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by
the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast;
saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the
beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.
And he had power to give life unto the image
of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as
many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.
Rev. 13:11-15
“The
abomination of desolation” in the holy place, in Jerusalem, prophesied by
Prophet Daniel will be fulfilled in the “Fourth Seal”—by the antichrist, “the
man of sin,” who is ‘the fourth-horse rider’ (read Dan. 9:27; 12:11).
Those who
know their GOD shall be strong and shall do exploits (Dan. 11:32).
And they that be wise shall shine as
the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as
the stars for ever and ever (Dan. 12:3).
“…this
gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all
nations…” (Matt. 24:14)