Researched, compiled, and written by Dr. Dave Schoch, Th.D., NT Theology
January 2 – 9, 2024
How do you start writing an article that many people will consider outrageous nonsense? I do not know, so I am just going to put it out there. I am not a prophet, rather I have been gifted to see things in Scripture and the world that most people, for whatever reason, do not see or do not want to see.
I have been moved to write this article because of the many, numerous things taking place not only in the world, but here in America that most people have no knowledge of, primarily because the news media outlets have become ever bit as much propaganda machines as those used in China by the communists in order to take over their country. Although this propaganda machine is used today in a different way, the goal is the same (and anyone who does not believe that our current government is social-marxist in nature and goal…well, what can I say).
My purpose here is to take real-world activities going on today and line them up with what Scripture says will take place during the last days before the Church is raptured out of the earth. I am doing this because most people in the church today have been taught bad theology for so long that they actually believe the church will be taken out of the world before really bad things start taking place – but that is not what Scripture teaches. Scripture teaches that the church will be taken out of the world in order to save it from the Tribulation activities (giant demon-locusts the size of horses flying around the world for five months stinging people to the point that they will try to kill themselves, but God will not allow them to die, etc.) (Rev. 9:1-10).
We will begin by breaking down the first six (6) seals of chapter six, because the church will go through these first six seals, and indeed – we are living in these days right now. Many pastors and Bible “teachers” misidentify these seals as part of the Tribulation period, and even identify the first rider as the antichrist; but when we pay close attention to the words employed (particularly in the Greek), it is not hard to see that such preachers do not understand what they are talking about. I will give the wording as the ESV gives it, and then I will correct the passage straight from the Greek (identified by an asterisk – *)
Revelation 6:1-2 Now I watched when the Lamb opened one of the seven seals, and I heard one of the four living creatures say with a voice like thunder, “Come!” And I looked, and behold, a white horse! And its rider had a bow, and a crown was given to him, and he came out conquering, and to conquer.
Revelation 6:2* I watched as the Lamb opened the first of seven seals, and I heard one of the four living creatures say to me like thunder, “You, come here!” And I looked, and saw a white horse, and one sat upon it having a bow, and he was given a crown, and he came subduing and for the purpose that he should frustrate the victory of another.
White – symbolizes purity or prosperity (the color of each horse answers to the mission of its rider).
Horse – represents strength, especially in battle. Here it can also symbolize the power by which the rider performs what he does; the energizing or causing force behind the rider. Since this horse’s color is the only one that does not have negative connotations, it seems to represent God (purity) as the force and plan behind this rider’s activities. This observation becomes clearer as we continue.
Rider – from the context of these passages, these riders can be identified as either a physical human male, or a spiritual being (when warranted), or as a representation for John to see as he wrote down what he saw, representing specific events either as individual occurrences, or series of occurrences. By the wording here, I am inclined to believe that this rider is a human being, energized by God as a tool temporarily preventing certain things from taking place, and setting into motion other things.
A bow – firstly, the bow represents a powerful weapon of war, a weapon that can kill from a safe distance. Secondly, this rider is not said to have any arrows, no missiles for the bow to shoot; it speaks of the power to conquer, but not by means of warfare. This rider will conquer his enemies but not through physical war.
Was given a crown – first, this rider was given a crown from God, for this specific purpose and time in human history. Second, it represents a king, kingship, a kingdom, or kingly power and authority to rule. This rider (if representing a man) was not born a king, but was given a crown, his story (or divinely ordained ministry, whether godly and spiritual, or physical like Cyrus’ purpose from God) begins after he is given this crown, the power and authority to temporarily rule.
Conquering and for the purpose of conquering – if a man, he takes up his God-ordained purpose as soon as he is crowned with power and authority. The word for conquer here is nikao, meaning to be victorious, to prevail over another, to overcome another, to subdue another, or to frustrate the victory of another.
Keep in mind that there is no sense of time in the narrative, which seems to run together, one event immediately following the preceding event. In reality, literal years can fall between the opening of each seal.
Revelation 6:3-4 When he opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature say, “Come!” And out came another horse, bright red. Its rider was permitted to take peace from the earth, so that people should slay one another, and he was given a great sword.
Revelation 6:3-4* When he opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature say, “Come!” And another horse came, fiery red in color, and the rider sitting upon it was given power to take away civil peace from the earth, for the purpose that people will kill one another; and he was given a great sword.
Horse – represents strength, especially in battle. Here it can also symbolize the power by which the rider performs what he does; the energizing or causing force behind the rider.
Red – represents carnage, blood, bloodshed, or war (the color of each horse answers to the mission of its rider).
Was given power – this rider was given power from God to fulfill his purpose.
To take away the peace from the earth – this particular rider’s mission. The word translated as “peace” here is eirene, meaning peace – but not just any kind of peace, peace in a civil sense, which is the opposite of war and dissension. In this sense, here it means worldwide civil unrest.
In the Greek, the peace is worded as “the peace,” not simply “peace.” This implies that before this rider came on the scene, there was specific peace in the world. It is interesting to note that the first rider’s mission seems to be, as a God-empowered vessel, one who temporarily keeps peace upon the earth, whereas this rider, who follows the first, comes to destroy the peace that the first rider temporarily maintained by what he did.
By the symbolism of the color of this rider’s horse (and the meaning of the word for ‘peace’ in the text), he will take peace away from the earth not through war so much as is understood as one nation against another, but rather each nation upon the earth will be swept into its own internal civil turmoil.
Kill – the word utilized here in the Greek (sphazo) means to slaughter, kill, or slay, but not in a war-like fashion. It can, therefore, also mean murder. It can also mean the slaughtering of a sacrificial victim.
Given a great sword – firstly, this rider was given this sword by God in order to accomplish his purpose. Secondly, a sword symbolized civil authority, warfare, or the instrument of death by which men kill one another. For example, in our day, a sword could symbolize a police officer, hand gun, rifle, machete, military general, bomb, etc.
I do not believe that the word “civil” has been implied in this text twice, by different meanings of two different Greek words, by accident. Here, we are given some details about what and how things will take place during this time period.
Revelation 6:5-6 When he opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, “Come!” And I looked, and behold, a black horse! And its rider had a pair of scales in his hand. And I heard what seemed to be a voice in the midst of the four living creatures, saying, “A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius, and do not harm the oil and wine!”
Revelation 6:5-6* And when He opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, “You, come here and look.” And I saw a black horse and its rider had a pair of scales in his hand. And I heard a sound like a voice coming from the midst of the four living creatures, saying, “Cause a measure of wheat to cost a man’s daily wage, and three measures of barley to cost a man’s daily wage; but do not harm the cost of olive oil or the wine.”
Horse – represents strength, especially in battle. Here it can also symbolize the power by which the rider performs what he does; the energizing or causing force behind the rider.
Black – represents scarcity, want, mourning, famine, distress, calamity (the color of each horse answers to the mission of its rider).
Scales – an instrument for weighing things such as dry goods, in a day when coins were specific weights; one would place two coins (for example) on one side of the scale, and the wheat that equaled the weight of the two coins would be placed upon the other side of the scale until the scale was balanced.
Measure of wheat – the measure here is less than the present-day quart, between three and four cups. It takes 16 ounces of wheat to make a 1½ loaf of bread; 16 ounces is two cups.
A man’s daily wage – a denarius, or Roman penny; is how much a man received daily for his labor in the days of Jesus. Since the vision is of the future, we expect to increase this amount to our modern-day daily wage, which beginning with the average minimum wage of $18 an hour, would be equal to about $144 a day. In other words, speaking of scarcity, want, and famine, in these days a simple loaf of bread will cost a person about $100.
Do not harm the cost of…wine – this is an interesting statement indeed. All hell is breaking loose, food prices are sky-rocketing, food lines will become as common place as when they were in Russia after the fall of communism there (as well as during the U.S. Depression in 1920-21)…but don’t make the price of wine go up astronomically!
One interpretation here is to leave the price of wine lower than food, so that those who cannot afford food can still afford wine…to deaden their suffering by getting drunk. Drunk people, and those addicted to substances, are easier to control than the sober person with his will fully intact and in operation.
Revelation 6:7-8 When he opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature say, “Come!” And I looked, and behold, a pale horse! And its rider’s name was Death, and Hades followed him. And they were given authority over a fourth of the earth, to kill with sword and with famine and with pestilence and by wild beasts of the earth.
Revelation 6:7-8* When He opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature say, “Come!” And I looked and saw a pale horse, and the rider’s name that sat upon it was Death, and Hades followed together with him; and he was given authority over a fourth of the earth, to kill by the sword, famine, plague, and by the wild beasts of the earth.
Horse – represents strength, especially in battle. Here it can also symbolize the power by which the rider performs what he does; the energizing or causing force behind the rider.
Pale colored – symbolizes pestilence (wasting disease), famine, terror, and death (the color of each horse answers to the mission of its rider). Pale is the color of a person’s face in extreme terror (they go pale); the decomposing body is pale; those starving to death are pale; and those whose bodies are wasting away because of deadly pestilence, turn pale.
Death – whether death personified physically, or spiritually, or figuratively, the result is the same. This seal unleashes death upon one fourth of the earth (today, roughly 2 billion people). Understanding the times, and where the events of Revelation take place most of the time (Europe and the Middle East), it seems likely to say Europe should be that quarter. Any quarter of the world that has modern day appliances (for food storage) and factories where foods are prepared and produced (such as canned, dried, and preserved foods), which includes frozen foods; which is interesting because the UN’s list of goods that are not sustainable, includes frozen foods such as meats, and frozen “TV” dinners. They will no longer be available once the New World Order comes to power.
A short list of the things taken for granted today that the UN Agenda 21 sustainable goals lists as not sustainable (and will be, therefore, outlawed), are: animal meats, consumerization, frozen entre foods, farm lands, livestock grazing, small electrical appliances, and air conditioners, to name a very few. Ridding the world of these things will cost lives by the millions through starvation, murder (killing others for their food), heat death (if you live in a place like Arizona without A/C), and other means. But this is no concern for the NWO, because one of their Agenda 21 goals is depopulating the planet…the more people who die through these means, the less people they will have to kill as sacrifices for ‘mother earth,’ so she can survive.
Given authority to kill…by the sword, famine, plague, and by wild beasts – we are told that the means of death will be varied, that even animal attacks upon humans will take place under this period of time. Again, reading the UN’s Agenda 21, which is part of their Goal 2030 program (that is underway as we speak), and their list of unsustainable things of the modern day, death will easily come to over half of the world’s 7.8 billion people over a very quick period of time. Imagine not having a refrigerator to keep perishable goods…no restaurants to deliver your food orders…no dairy farms for meat or milk (because they are now outlawed)…no power for your stove or microwave…and people, even neighbors, freaking out and killing each other for their food stuffs, blankets, fire wood, homes, etc.
Before we move forward, I want to take the above information on the four horsemen and line them up against the things that have happened in the recent past, as well as things that are in the works from major “players” in the world today.
Revelation 6:2* I watched as the Lamb opened the first of seven seals, and I heard one of the four living creatures say to me like thunder, “You, come here!” And I looked, and saw a white horse, and one sat upon it having a bow, and he was given a crown, and he came subduing and for the purpose that he should frustrate the victory of another.
First, it is important to understand that Jesus is the initiating factor here; when the time is right on God’s timetable, He will give the scroll to Jesus and He will begin opening the seals according to the timetable and will of God.
Second, some people say the first rider is Christ, because the horse is white. However, if this was true, according to what the rest of the text states, this would be His Second Coming, not the Rapture (if anyone might think that, also). When we follow the chronology of the chapter, this is untenable because the church is still found on earth – which would make the Second Coming take place before the Rapture. Neither is this the antichrist – which others teach because he is astride a white horse but is conquering; these folks say that he is the antichrist because it first appears that he is good because he sits upon a white horse (purity). Although the symbolized purity is the color of the horse, not the rider – thus the purity speaks more concerning where the power comes from that energizes this rider (God). With nothing but assumptions behind both of these thoughts, we move past them as both false theories. Another reason why some people believe the first rider is the antichrist, is because they erringly assume (without evidence) that the first seal begins the Tribulation period.
But again, none of the seals are called, or otherwise labeled, as any kind of judgment or wrath of God – the things that take place do so because they lead up to the formation of the New World Order that will shortly be handed over to the antichrist when he does come upon the world’s scene. (I stress again, the seals are not part of the Tribulation period, and the church is still upon the earth in chapter six until somewhere between verses 6:12 – 7:8…because the fifth seal shows Christians who had been martyred and beginning with 7:9 we see the Tribulation martyrs. The church is Raptured out of the world somewhere between 6:12 – 7:8.)
Given the wording in the text, the first rider is a man personified. He had no political history and appears to have had no prior issues which pushed him out into the political spotlight. That he becomes a political person is obvious because God gives him a crown, making him some kind of political leader. This tells us that in whatever country he hails from, they do not have successional kingship of royalty, but rather he hails from a country where the leaders are put into place by some other means (presidential, prime ministers, chancellor, etc.). He is given a bow, an implement of war, but no arrows – again lending to the idea that he will do what God has raised him up to do, but not through the means of war.
The God-ordained purpose (from the alternative meaning of the Greek word nikao) for this rider is to “frustrate the victory of another.” While most people today continue to believe that this is still a future event, taking all of the chapter together, I believe that this has already taken place – we are living in the days of Revelation chapter six right now! There is a person living today who has fulfilled verse two, but before I give you his name, let us look at recent historical events.
In 2015, Klaus Schwab and the World Economic Forum invited billionaire Donald Trump to their annual meeting of the rich and powerful in Davos, Switzerland (like they had every year prior), but unlike every year prior to this, in which Trump refused the offer, this time he decided to go. While attending the WEF that year, and learning what the rich and powerful were making plans to do, particularly to America, he left and announced that he was going to run for presidential office in 2016. His announcement did not ruffle anyone’s feathers. There were no protests, no marches to claim that he was unfit to be president. No one brought up his past “debaucheries.” No one brought up taped conversations and seeming anti-feminist nonsense. No, nothing in that regards.
There was no problem in anyone’s eyes concerning him running for president – until the first time in a public debate where he said if he was elected, America under his presidency would not participate in the New World Order. Suddenly, Trump was public global enemy #1. Suddenly, in news headlines from every corner of the globe, we read things like: “Neocons Panic that Trump Presidency Would Mark End to their New World Order,” and “Who is Donald Trump? Why the US Globalist Elites Dread President-Elect Donald Trump,” and “The Trump Doctrine and the End of the ‘New World Order” demonstrates, President Trump was preventing the new world order from marching forward…and the social-marxist democrat globalists do not like that, at all.
Even Politico, an on-line news outlet, today screams in their headlines: “Trump vs. World, Round 2,” and The Economist headlines scream: “Donald Trump poses the biggest danger to the world in 2024.” Why all of the nonsense? Why all of the screaming that Trump will “kill us all” and “destroy the world” as we know it today? Because the globalists have an agenda – their New World Order, which will be a one world marxist totalitarian nightmare for anyone not at the top. Trump successfully postponed and “frustrated the victory of another,” the UN and all of their flunkies; and that frustration continues today, and the 2024 Primaries are just a few months away – causing the Left to panic because none of their ill-conceived, illegal moves to keep Trump from running again have succeeded.
Someone asked me, “Why do you see Trump as the first rider? Why now?” And part of my answer goes back to Rev. 6:1-2…we cannot see what is happening in heaven, Jesus did not just arbitrarily walk up to the Father, take the scroll out of his hand, and begin opening the seals. All of these things were written down, foreordained by God, to take place when He says that it is time. Trump ignored the invitations for years to go to Davos, Switzerland to attend the World Economic Forum’s agenda-setting meetings…until 2015. Something made him change his mind to go check out what these billionaire-elites were up to; I believe it was the opening of the first seal. Once it was opened, things began to change because God is behind that change. Since that day, we have observed a marked rise in deception – not only in America, but globally…
II Thessalonians 2:9-12* The coming of the lawless one is by the activity of Satan with all power and false signs and wonders, and because they are deceived by all of the wrong things they are doing, they are on their way into the lake of fire – because they did not choose to love and embrace the truth; they cannot be saved until they do. And because of this, God is sending among them strong delusion that will cause them to wander out of truth and lead them into believing what is false, in order that all may be condemned who chose not believe the truth, but chose to revel in unrighteousness.
The amount of deception globally today is unmatched to any time previous to the last 12 years, both nationally from national news media outlets, and globally from the UN and its propaganda machines (the Club of Rome, The World Health Organization, the World Bank, the WEF, among others). If you go back and look at world and US events, you will find that the world seemed hunky-dory until Trump made his statement concerning American anti-participation in the New World Order…then all hell broke out on a global scale.
In order to fear-monger the planet, COVID-19 was released upon the world, with a “vaccine” that had been commercially concocted and manufactured up to at least a verified six months before the “break out” was scheduled to take place (both of these things have been discovered and verified even by some news media outlets). Two medications that were effective against COVID – Ivermectin and Hydrochloroquine – were denounced as nothing but hijacked horse de-wormers by the US government and the UN, even when I found at least 15 science journal articles clearly stating that they could be used for COVID. The lies keep mounting, and one by one we are finding them to be lies as the days continue moving forward. We knew that Ivermectin and Hydrochloroquine would save lives – knowledgeable physicians knew it – medical researchers knew it – therefore, for the government to claim that they did not know it also (which they have never claimed, by the way), would have been just another lie. Therefore, it behooves us as responsible researchers to ask why they made such claims when they knew that those claims were lies. The ONLY responsible, logical answer, is that the current administration was following their UN master’s orders because they wanted people to die.
I myself have read and copied those science journal papers before they were deleted from off the internet (and I still have those copies today as evidence of the conspiracy taking place by the conspiracy-deniers). South American countries had vehicles driving out into the city streets of their towns handing out free Ivermectin to people because it was recognized by medical professionals long before COVID was released upon the world, and had been used for the past 30 years all around the world. Suddenly, the World Health Organization, along with certain national leaders (Biden, Canadian, and Australian heads of State), denounced these two drugs that would have saved hundreds of thousands of lives. Why? I already gave my answer above (and my answer is based upon logical inference, it is not an “opinion”).
The other part of my answer is what the UN and all of its flunkies are in the process of doing: The UN wants a one world governing body up and running by the year 2030, they call their plans for implementing this one world government, “Goal 2030.” When you look at the heads of state, and world ‘shakers and makers’ who make up the body of the UN, they are all either communists, socialists, or globalists – what kind of world government do you suppose they are working behind the scenes to establish? I can tell you this…it will not be a Constitutional Republic! The World Economic Forum wants to shut the world’s economy down and start up again with digital currency, so that they can control you better.
This digital currency will be part of the World Bank (part of the UN) and is modeled after China’s cashless system that is already up and running; and if you do anything they do not like, they will punish you by taking money out of your bank account. There will be no more paper money, no more coin, no more gold or silver – the only thing that you will be able to pay or buy with, will basically be an amount the government will put into your account. All of this information can be verified with your phone or computer, I am not coming up with this stuff out of my head. For Americans, there is another angle; Henry Kissinger (democrat) stated in the World Press Conference, on April 19, 1994, that:
The New World Order cannot happen without U.S. participation, as we are the most significant single component. Yes, there will be a New World Order, and it will force the United States to change.
If Trump had gone along with the UN and Klaus Schwab’s desires, COVID might not have been released upon the world…because there would not have been a need for it. After Trump announced that under him America would not participate in the UN’s wickedness, suddenly Antifa and BLM (both communist organizations) started rioting in democrat-run states and cities around the United States, and they continued their onslaught until the 2019 election had been stolen by the democrats (yes…stolen; since the election the servers and other illegitimate means have been discovered, votes re-counted, etc., but the only way we hear about these is from people who were actually there taking videos of what had been found – the state-run news media continues to deny those facts).
At the same time all of the LGBTQ and gender nonsense started up…children being taken from their parents in California and other states because they would not affirm their 8 year-old’s gender “identity,” and other foolishness. At the same time, biden stopped the border wall and has allowed untold millions of illegals into the country, and the latest reports on the subject tell us that thousands of known terrorists have come into the country. Just yesterday (1/3/2024) it was reported that the border patrol arrested a middle eastern man posing as a Hispanic with four home-made bombs on his person.
At the same time, the “woke” nonsense started up…and the “cancel culture” nonsense started up…and then the climate change nonsense… and then the current administration began making very stupid, moronic decisions all designed to either cripple the American economy more, or to give militant groups around the world free military equipment that cost American’s millions of dollars. Handing guns, grenades, and all kinds of other weaponry over into the hands of people who have sworn “death to America” does not demonstrate any kind of commitment to America. Rather, it demonstrates a commitment to destroy this country as we know it today. Make no mistake, biden may be a moron, but he is not making economic blunders – he is doing exactly what his UN overlords have told him to do because the New World Order cannot start until America no longer exists as a free nation.
While the idea that this was planned still hits many people as ludicrous, the facts bear out the reality of the situation. This was all part of the plan to destroy America as we know it today…because Americans will not give up their freedom and be turned over to a Marxist regime. The only way America will become part of the New World Order, is if America as we know it today is destroyed…and the New World Order is coming. One thing Kissinger had wrong – the New World Order will not change America, it will have to be “changed” before the New World Order can begin. All of these things and more, with the UN’s “Great Reset” through the World Economic Forum, their passing laws to stop all farming and ranching in order to control the global food market, digital currency, and the other things that are part of “Agenda 21,” all coming to a boiling point within months of each other…and all made known by Trump’s proclamation when he was running for President.
Need further evidence? For the last 12 years or so, they have been desensitizing Americans through movies to what they are doing, so that if anyone like myself tries to show you what they are doing, they simply label me as a conspiracy theorist, point to movies where they have put their plans down for you to watch, and then claim that I am watching way too many movies. For example, in the movie, Captain America: Winter Soldier, we have a computer room scene where a computerized Dr. Zola (from the first Capt. America movie) tells “Cap” that…
Humanity cannot be trusted with its own freedom. What we did not realize was that if you try to take that freedom, people resist. The war taught us much, humanity needs to surrender its freedom willingly. After the war…secretly feeding crises…accidents will happen…creating a world so chaotic that humanity is finally willing to sacrifice its freedom in order to gain its security. Once the purification process is completed…the new world order will arise.
In the movie, Avatar, by globalist James Cameron, the hero (“Jake”) comes to pray to Aiwa, the name of the mother planet the Navi live on, saying…
If Grace is with you, look into her memories, see the world that we come from. There’s no green there, they killed their mother, and they’re gonna do the same here…unless we stop them.
Humanity needs to surrender its freedom willingly, and much of the world today, through the efforts of the UN globalists, creating a world so chaotic that much of the world today is ready to sacrifice their freedoms because of the lies these elitists are spreading, in order to gain world security, which can only be achieved (we are told) by abolishing national boundaries and coming together under one banner of humanity – with them in charge. YOU are the problem, a disease upon the face of the earth, and if you do not change your ways, you will become one of those to be taken out in “the purification process” so that “the new world order will arise.”
But let us continue…
Revelation 6:3-4* When he opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature say, “Come!” And another horse came, fiery red in color, and the rider sitting upon it was given power to take away civil peace from the earth, for the purpose that people will kill one another; and he was given a great sword.
Recall that the color red in Scripture represents carnage, bloodshed, and war…the first rider fulfilled his purpose and temporarily hindered the UN’s goals; but now, after the second seal is broken, the world powers that crave to dominate the world begin to push forward again. Civil peace is taken away from practically every country in the world, why? The passage tells us why, “for the purpose that people will kill one another.” Remember the UN’s population control agenda, to curb the human population down to between 300,000 to 500,000 people world-wide. Currently, the human population of the world is around 7.8 billion; so that means those who want to be in power over the world want to kill (murder) over 7.5 billion people. They claim that it is the earth that they are trying to save…that it is better for 300,000 people and the earth to survive rather than human beings killing “mother earth” (gaia) and all life on the planet.
This is their idea on the subject – human beings are a plague upon the earth, and the only way to save the earth is to depopulate the human “disease.” Why would people kill one another in the amounts implied in the text (because people kill one another every day around the planet), what makes this different? The difference is that it is on a huge scale worldwide. For example, in order to cause America to fall to the state that most of the population can be controlled, hundreds of thousands of Americans will have to surrender…or be killed. In countries like Germany, Spain, Austria, and France (all over Europe), people are rising up and protesting their governments’ new laws making their countries marxist.
They are protesting the only way they can, by dumping manure in the middle of streets, and so-forth – because they have been disarmed…Americans have not allowed themselves to be disarmed, so when the social-marxists begin to do here what other countries have done to their citizens…the blood will flow. Right now, as we speak, UN “peacekeepers” have been shipped into the US, and videos of multitudes of military vehicles (without the US flag on the side like all US military vehicles have) are being transported across the States to specific locations. When the order comes down and those UN troops start driving down our streets in force, and war has been declared upon the United States by its own government UN-stooges…then America will fall to the same ground fighting we have witnessed in different African countries, as well as other countries that have been attacked from without (like Ukraine, Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Iraq, Yemen, Somalia, Libya, the Congo, Colombia, and Mali).
Americans have been secure from war within our national borders since the Civil War ended in 1865 (which the social-marxist democrats started because they wanted to keep their slave labor), for 158 years…in the very near future, our fight for national survival will begin, and end, in a short and bloody, violent surge against the enemies of freedom. This is one reason why I believe we do not find America – at one time the world superpower – in end-time prophecy; in order for a world superpower not to even be mentioned in Scripture means that something happened to America which changed our superpower status. America is either completely destroyed, or it falls to the conniving powers dead set upon its fall so that they can rule the world with a iron hand – something that America would fight to keep from happening if it was still a world superpower.
From my understanding, this second seal shows the UN and its flunkies doing whatever it takes in order to bring down those countries that are unwilling to “go with the flow” of what they are doing; and right now, the main country keeping the UN at bay is the United States. The next seal begins dealing with what takes place after this totalitarian-marxist New World Order becomes up and running…
Revelation 6:5-6* And when He opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, “You, come here and look.” And I saw a black horse and its rider had a pair of scales in his hand. And I heard a sound like a voice coming from the midst of the four living creatures, saying, “Cause a measure of wheat to cost a man’s daily wage, and three measures of barley to cost a man’s daily wage; but do not harm the cost of olive oil or the wine.”
Remember what the color black represents in Scripture? Scarcity, want, mourning, famine, distress, and calamity…do some research on what took place in China, Austria, Russia, Venezuela, and other countries after communists took over their countries. When the communists took over China, more people died from starvation than were killed as enemies of the State…to the tune of 76 million people. The number of tortured and killed was only 2.5 million. We can also observe the same trend today in socialist Venezuela, a country of 6.8 million people, where because of socialist policies, 78% of the population (5.3 million people) are starving to death or have already died, because of hyperinflation.
And that is what we observe in verses 5-6; hyperinflation not only because of communist policy, but because of a shortage of available food. Again, today…right now in certain European countries like Germany, France, Spain, etc., people are protesting the illegal confiscation of farms and farmlands, and ranches because these countries leaders are bowing to the UN status quo. Once the New World Order is up and running, having a refrigerator, microwave oven, frozen foods, A/C units, gas powered vehicles, and many other things that you take for granted today, will be outlawed. Today, people in Venezuela are leaving in droves because they are starving, they have roving blackouts from no electricity, no gasoline at gas stations, long lines just waiting for gas to show up, long lines at grocery stores waiting for food to arrive, and when it does, the people are only allowed to purchase one bag of selected items. This is coming to America very shortly.
This is one reason why civil peace will be striped from countries…because starving people will be breaking into your house to steal your food, clothes, blankets, medicine, and whatever else they can steal from you – including your very life. The days are coming when people will break into your house and kill you because they do not have the things that you have. This is why I write this article…because God promises to take care of His own people; if you are not walking hand in hand with God today, you had better get yourself right with Him and start spending quality time with Him in prayer and worship. I recall stories from saints gone by who grew up during the Great Depression in this country, stories of divine intervention and divine provision, by angelic visitors and so-forth. God will do it again…
A loaf of bread will cost you around $100, and any kind of meat will no longer show up at the grocery stores, having been outlawed. What will beans, potatoes, soups and other canned goods, or other veggies and fruits sell for in these days? And if you are not a good boy, they will take money from out of your account, giving you less to purchase food stuffs with. It is interesting that they will not make the price of olive oil or wine go astronomical…the olive oil has me stumped, but it is easier to manipulate and control people who are drunk; and if you are starving and cannot afford a lot of high-priced food goods, buying wine to get drunk so that you no longer feel your hunger pains is the next best way to go. These things above take place in countries where marxism takes over, the only difference between these past countries and the marxist New World Order to come, is that communism will cause these things on a grand global scale, which leads us to the fourth rider…
Revelation 6:7-8* When He opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature say, “Come!” And I looked and saw a pale horse, and the rider’s name that sat upon it was Death, and Hades followed together with him; and he was given authority over a fourth of the earth, to kill by the sword, famine, plague, and by the wild beasts of the earth.
Remember what color “pale” represents in Scripture? It symbolizes pestilence (a word for wasting diseases, that cause you to waste away physically until it kills you), famine, terror, and death. Pale is the color of a person’s face in extreme terror (they go pale), the decomposing body is pale, those starving to death are pale, and those whose body is wasting away because of deadly pestilence, turn pale. The passage says that this rider is given authority over 1/4th of the population of the earth, that is, to kill 1/4th of the human population; today that number would be 1,950,000,000 people (one billion, nine-hundred and fifty million).
It says that he will be allowed to use sword, famine, plague, and wild beasts of the earth to do all of this killing…how can we see that playing out? People will kill one another for food still, and shelter; domesticated dogs will have to be let loose by those who owned them because they will have no food to fed them with (they will be too busy trying to feed their own families). Domesticated dogs will turn feral just like cats do, and they will try to kill whatever they can so that they can eat…and that will include humans. People will starve to death, mostly because of the New World Order’s policies that they institute under the guise of “saving the planet.” And it is not hard to imagine the UN releasing other man-made plagues upon the world (since they have already done it at least once). And with all of this genetic manipulating taking place, it is also not hard to imagine something mixing with something else unintentionally in the wild, to form something that could potentially destroy practically all life on earth.
It is these days that I believe Jesus addressed in Matthew 24 when He said “unless those days were cut short, no flesh would survive.” Most people think Jesus’ comment speaks to salvation from sin, but in context and from the Greek, He means exactly what He says here…things will get so bad that unless He comes back in the Second Coming, NO life will continue on planet earth. Men and their power-hungry greed and will to dominate all life, will eventually destroy this planet with toxins, pollution, and other gross human behavior when it is unchecked. Another scenario that could be played out regarding wild beasts killing people, is that people will get so desperate to get out of cities where most of the killing will be taking place (both by UN troops hell-bent upon upholding the UN’s New World Order, and by their starving, desperate neighbors), that they will begin heading out for the mountains and forests to get away from all of the senseless violence. There, they may well meet their grizzly end (no pun intended) at the hands of wild animals, such as bears, snakes, mountain lions, wolves, etc. Again, this is not a plague, judgment, or wrath of God…this is the direct result of a world-wide marxist regime and what has followed suit every time a country falls to communism. The only difference here, is that it is on a global scale.
It is not the world as we know it today that the man who will become the antichrist, who seemingly has all of the answers to the world’s problems, will step out into the global spotlight and save the world…no, it will be the mess that the new marxist world-wide government has created that the antichrist will save the world from. How do I know that? Some people think that it will be UFO’s and interstellar aliens that he will save us from, but when we use our brains and think about that, it is not really plausible. Jesus said that these days would be unlike any other since the beginning of creation, and I find it interesting that communism as an actual governing body, did not exist in the world until 1917 in Russia, and since the fall of communism in Russia, five other countries are now under its totalitarian rule: China, Cuba, Laos, North Korea, and Vietnam.
As I stated earlier, if you look at all of the 190+ delegates that make up the UN, practically every one of them are either a globalist, socialist, or full blown marxist. So, it is only logical that when they come into power in this one world government, that government will be communist in nature, and no other type of governing philosophy results in the mass killings and deaths through starvation that communism has demonstrated itself to cause. What does Scripture tell us…
Daniel 2:43* and as you saw the iron mixed with soft clay, so the peoples of this kingdom will mingle among one another, but will never adhere with one another; just as iron does not adhere to soft clay.
Daniel 7:23* And he said, “The fourth beast will be a fourth kingdom upon the earth, but this kingdom will be different from all of the previous kingdoms that came before it; this kingdom will consume and destroy the whole earth, and it will trample down the earth, and it will crush all other kingdoms into pieces.”
This verse describes the kingdom that will become the antichrist’s just before the Great Tribulation period. They tell us that the one world government will be made up of “peoples” meaning not just one people of a certain nation, but peoples spanning many ethnic groups or nationalities (Pilipino, Greek, Mexican, Chinese, Samoan, etc.). However, what is the dividing factor, why do these peoples not mix, why do they not adhere together as a single nation? One possible answer is found within marxist nations – there are usually only two classes, the rich and powerful ruling class, and (essentially) the peasant class. These two classes are always at odds with one another because the ruling class does whatever it wants to with, or to, the peasant class.
There are some exceptions, apparently North Korea has concocted about 50 different classes, all based upon what your ancestors did in the past (military, cook, janitor, shoe repair, etc.). The verse says that this kingdom “will be different from all of the previous kingdoms that came before it,” speaking of the other kingdoms in Daniel’s vision, not every kingdom that has ever populated the earth that came before this last one. The one element that makes this kingdom different from the previous ones, taken from all of the descriptions about it from various places in Scripture, will be that it is a marxist (totalitarian dictatorship) kingdom. There were no kingdoms fashioned in the order of marxism in world history until after 1888, when the communist manifesto was published. No national kingdoms before then ever treated their own peoples so badly, and oppressed them into the dirt like communism does.
The other elements that make this kingdom different, is that its rulers will consume and destroy the whole earth, trample the earth down under their power, and destroy (crush) every other kingdom in the world. What does the angel mean by these descriptions? According to past history, these very same words can be directly applied to how communism treats those under its rule; it is oppressive, murdering, consuming until there is nothing left for the peasant class. Those in power live like kings in plush living, feeding their own sinful desires in abundant luxury while their people are starving in the streets…and the leadership does not care.
During this time many millions will suffer and die because of marxist UN policies, particularly one class of people in the world – Christians. If you do even a cursory search on your computer today, you will find that most of the world hates Christianity, and the UN is on the top of the list. No other group of people in the world raise the alarm about what the UN and its flunkies are doing because we see it as prophecy working its self out before our very eyes. The New World Order has to come into being, and it will ultimately be led by ten men…this is the world government that will be in place when the man who will become the antichrist steps out into the spotlight. Scripture says that these ten men will give that world government over to the antichrist (presumably because he ‘saves the world’ and has all the answers)…
Revelation 17:9-13 This calls for a mind with wisdom: the seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman is seated; they are also seven kings, five of whom have fallen, one is, the other has not yet come, and when he does come he must remain only a little while. As for the beast that was and is not, it is an eighth but it belongs to the seven, and it goes to destruction. And the ten horns that you saw are ten kings who have not yet received royal power, but they are to receive authority as kings for one hour, together with the beast. These are of one mind, and they hand over their power and authority to the beast.
Therefore, everything that the UN is doing today in order to get their one world government up and running, is part and parcel of what leads up to the Tribulation period. People have been saying for the last hundred years that the Rapture and Tribulation could come at any time, but that is not according to what Scripture says…
II Thessalonians 2:1-8 Now concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered together to him, we ask you, brothers, not to be quickly shaken in mind or alarmed, either by a spirit or a spoken word, or a letter seeming to be from us, to the effect that the day of the Lord has come. Let no one deceive you in any way. For that day will not come, unless the rebellion comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction, who opposes and exalts himself against every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, proclaiming himself to be God. Do you not remember that when I was still with you I told you these things? And you know what is restraining him now so that he may be revealed in his time. For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work. Only that which now restrains him will do so until it is out of the way. And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will kill with the breath of his mouth and bring to nothing by the appearance of his coming.
In verses 1-2 Paul addresses the Rapture of the church, as he speaks about “the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ,” and “our being gathered together to Him,” and “the day of the Lord” all as one and the same day. Some people think the day of the “Lord” equals the “Day of Yahweh” from the OT prophecies (written out in English translations as the Day of the LORD, where LORD stands in place of God’s name, Yahweh), but Paul never uses the phrase to mean the Day of Yahweh – which is always attributed in the OT prophecies to a time of God’s wrath poured out upon a specific people, city, nation, or the “time of Jacob’s trouble” (the Tribulation period in the NT).
Paul goes on in verse 3 to say that the Rapture of the church will not come until “the rebellion comes first,” which straight from the Greek is “the apostasy.” The emphasis in the phrase in the Greek is upon the definite article…this is not just any apostasy (or falling away), this is THE apostasy, so emphasized that it is the great abandonment of Christianity. Paul also says that the man who will become the antichrist will be revealed to the world…the great apostasy has been taking place now over the last 12 years or so with the democrats in the white house, stirred into commotion by all of their pro-choice, pro-homosexual, pro-gender nonsense for just starters.
The liberal “church” has grown by leaps and bounds while the church of God shrinks, pretty soon the direct influence of the Holy Spirit through the church will have shrunk so much that it will no longer be able to hold back the “man of sin” from coming upon the scene. Most Bible teachers I have listened to ignore this key fact of Scripture because they do not like what they think it means, yet there it is. They think it means the church will be here during the Tribulation period, but Paul does not say the antichrist will be manifest to the world, he says that the “man” of lawlessness will be revealed. I understand this to mean (in the face of the facts of when the Rapture will take place) that the man who will become the antichrist…before he becomes the antichrist. Scripture says that the antichrist (dragon) will have been killed by a wound to his head, and then days later he comes back to life. This is none other than satan possessing this man’s body after he has been most likely assassinated by a bullet to the head; he takes over this man’s body completely, making it seem like he resurrected himself – this is satan’s mock resurrection of Christ.
Therefore, before the Rapture can take place, this guy who will become the full-blown antichrist after he is assassinated (I am assuming assassination), must be revealed to the world, this is the only thing left (aside from the last Gentile getting saved in this world as we know it) that must take place before the Rapture event. My point here, is that all of these things are “falling into place” with events happening in the world today, all coming to a head within the last 6 years or so…
1. The UN’s plans to dominate the world.
2. The World Economic Forum, headed by Klaus Schwab…whose father was a Nazi.
3. The World Bank (part of the UN) and the Great Reset and digitalized “money.”
4. Farmland being taken away or bought up by globalists.
5. The shutting down of ranches and farms that produce food, not just meat but also apple farms and other fruit farms where farmers have been told not to harvest their crops – “or else.”
6. The release of covid…
7. Making Ivermectin and Hydrochloroquine illegal to use for covid…
8. Antifa and BLM and others causing havoc…
9. Homosexual rights nonsense, gender assignment/identity nonsense, the border nonsense…
10. The Club of Rome (UN) planning to use disasters to make the world feel insecure.
11. UN “peacekeeper” troops here in the United States…
12. All of the stupidity from the present Administration…
13. People on social media posting videos of military vehicles transported all over the country (we are not currently at war with anyone, does the government know something that we do not? Or are these vehicles not for our military, but for the UN soldiers that are already here?).
All of these things just happened to start taking place around 2015, and some getting worse and then stopping while others have slowly boiled to a head within the last six months…that is just way too much of a ‘coincidence’ for my tastes. The verified “Deep State” has demonstrated to have far-reaching tentacles from the UN and their UN masters…but all of the gender nonsense and other localized stupidity here in the States continues to keep more simpler minds from seeing the things that are going on around them.
Let us continue…
Revelation 6:9-11 When he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain for the word of God and for the witness they had borne. They cried out with a loud voice, “O Sovereign Lord, holy and true, how long before you will judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?” Then they were each given a white robe and told to rest a little longer, until the number of their fellow servants and their brothers should be complete, who were to be killed as they themselves had been.
Revelation 6:9-11* When He opened the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of those who had been killed because of the Word of God, and because of the witness they had testified about. And they cried out with a loud voice, saying, “Master, holy and true, how long will You wait before You judge and execute justice upon those who dwell on the earth, for spilling our blood?” And they were each given a stately white robe and told to rest a little longer until the full number of their fellow servants and brothers came to fulfillment, who would be killed as they were killed.
In chronological order here, we have John given a glimpse of Christians who have been martyred, killed because they preached the Word of God, and presumably testified in witnessing to people about Jesus so that they could get saved. Again, we must pay close attention to the wording here, because some teach that this is a picture of the Tribulation saints…however, the Tribulation saints do not come on the scene until chapter seven (7:9-17) and they are clearly articulated as martyred Tribulation saints. No, here John sees the pre-rapture martyrs who have been murdered from the opening of the very first seal until now – four seals later. The Rapture has not taken place yet otherwise these folks would not be martyrs; neither has the Tribulation period begun yet. By this time in the chronology, I believe the person who will become the antichrist has made his appearance in the global scene, and because of that (II Thess. 2:1-3) the Rapture of what remains of the church will take place any time now (as far as the context is concerned).
Again, in this time line, the Rapture event can take place anytime between Rev. 6:12 to 7:1…but this can be better understood in continuing to what takes place after the opening of the sixth seal.
Revelation 6:12-17 When he opened the sixth seal, I looked, and behold, there was a great earthquake, and the sun became black as sackcloth, the full moon became like blood, and the stars of the sky fell to the earth as the fig tree sheds its winter fruit when shaken by a gale. The sky vanished like a scroll that is rolled up, and every mountain and island was removed from its place. Then the kings of the earth and the great ones and the generals and the rich and the powerful, and everyone, slave and free, hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains, calling to the mountains and rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of Him who is seated on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb, for the great day of Their wrath has come, and who can stand against Them?”
Again, there is no discernable amount of time that elapses between the opening of the seals; while they seem to take place one immediately after another, that just cannot be according to what each seal releases. Between each seal is discernable time…time for plagues to kill people…time for people to starve to death, etc. It takes a person at least 40 days (give or take) before he starves literally to death, depending upon his weight at the point where he no longer had food to eat. We are given no hints as to how much time elapses between each seal, and I doubt there is a uniform amount of time (for example, each seal is opened every four years).
With this in mind, we do not know how much time elapses between the fifth and sixth seal, and I say that because with the opening of the sixth seal, we see terminology that seems to indicate that the Tribulation period begins with the natural disasters that take place after it is opened (“for the day of Their wrath has come…”).
The purpose of this article, as stated earlier, is so that the church can see where we are in the Biblical time line and get our affairs in order, because the end is quite near. However, we are not to think that life between here and there will be a bed of roses…no, particularly we here in America, are about to face unprecedented times that none of us would ever believe that we would suffer. War has not touched our native soil for over 150 years – but it is coming, perhaps even before I can post this article. When it does come, the church needs to be ready, because Christian or not, if we are not ready for it, we will not survive.
Christians need to stop doing all of the stupid nonsense that we do on a daily basis…spending hours watching TV, doing nonsense things that do not matter, like gardening, washing your vehicle, playing video games, and all of the other things that have become distractions from spending time with God. The average Christian only spends about 15 minutes in prayer a day (if they pray at all), and that simply will not do. The only way Christians survived during the Great Depression in this country, was by spending hours with God in prayer and worship, to the point that God supernaturally took care of them by providing food and clothes sometimes out of thin air.
The days ahead of us are going to be just as bad as they have been in other countries right up to today, like in Africa where warlords systematically torture and kill hundreds of people in one day in order to take over a village. I do not relish the idea of what is coming, but it is coming; and from what Scripture seems to indicate…it is coming fairly quickly. Again, I urge you, Christian, make God your priority today like He should have been already. Cease filling your days with distractions that keep you from spending time with God and coming to know Him on a personal basis – because in the days to come, the only way you will survive is if you are walking with Him so that He takes pains to supernaturally sustain your physical life.
Far too many Christians today believe that they are on their way to heaven just because they got saved 30 years ago…saved is one thing, walking with God is quite another, which is why we read:
John 3:36* Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever does not obey the Son will never know life, because the wrath of God remains abiding upon him.
Again, just getting saved and nothing else is false calvinistic doctrine, because Jesus says a number of times that if you do not spend time with Him in order to get to know Him personally, then you will be shut outside the ark of safety…
Matthew 7:21-23 “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only those who do the will of My Father who is in heaven. On that day many will say to Me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and cast out demons in Your name, and do many mighty works in Your name?’ And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you workers of lawlessness.’
Matthew 25:12 But He answered, “Truly, I say to you, I do not know you.”
Luke 13:24-27* Strive to enter through the narrow door. For many, I tell you, will seek to enter and will not be able. When the Master of the house has risen and shut the door, and you begin to stand outside and knock at the door, saying, “Lord, open to us,” then He will answer you, and say, “I do not know you, where have you been?” Then you will begin to say, “We ate and drank in Your presence, and You taught in our streets.” But He will say, “I say to you, I do not know you, where have you been? Depart from Me all you workers of iniquity!”
When Jesus says in the passage above, “I do not know you, where have you been?” which is how the original Greek reads, what He is saying is that you were not spending time with Him in order to get to know Him personally. Where have you been lately? Spending time with God in prayer and worship…or participating in distractions that will cost your soul dearly in the days to come?
Until next time, blessings!
New Covenant Understanding 