1I
watched as the Lamb opened the first of the seven seals. Then I heard
one of the four living creatures say in a voice like thunder, "Come!" 2I
looked, and there before me was a white horse! Its rider held a bow,
and he was given a crown, and he rode out as a conqueror bent on
conquest.
3When the Lamb opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature say, "Come!" 4Then
another horse came out, a fiery red one. Its rider was given power to
take peace from the earth and to make men slay each other. To him was
given a large sword.
5When
the Lamb opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say,
"Come!" I looked, and there before me was a black horse! Its rider was
holding a pair of scales in his hand. 6Then I heard what sounded like a voice among the four living creatures, saying, "A quartF10 of wheat for a day's wages,F11 and three quarts of barley for a day's wages,F12 and do not damage the oil and the wine!"
7When the Lamb opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature say, "Come!" 8I
looked, and there before me was a pale horse! Its rider was named
Death, and Hades was following close behind him. They were given power
over a fourth of the earth to kill by sword, famine and plague, and by
the wild beasts of the earth.
9When
he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who
had been slain because of the word of God and the testimony they had
maintained. 10They
called out in a loud voice, "How long, Sovereign Lord, holy and true,
until you judge the inhabitants of the earth and avenge our blood?" 11Then
each of them was given a white robe, and they were told to wait a
little longer, until the number of their fellow servants and brothers
who were to be killed as they had been was completed.
12I
watched as he opened the sixth seal. There was a great earthquake. The
sun turned black like sackcloth made of goat hair, the whole moon turned
blood red, 13and the stars in the sky fell to earth, as late figs drop from a fig tree when shaken by a strong wind. 14The sky receded like a scroll, rolling up, and every mountain and island was removed from its place.
The seals are the reason that the nations are judged. The nation rules through war, despotism, slavery, a nation of death, persecution of christians. The Sky is rolled back ..possibly in the new earth we will see the throne of God from the new earth.
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