The Bible Study Podcast, episode 189. Today, the Bible Study podcast continues the study of Revelation

with Revelation 6.

Welcome to the Bible study podcast. I'm your host, Chris Christensen.

You may recall at the end of Revelation 5,

we had a scroll that was presented that had seven seals on it, and the question was, who was

worthy to break these seals and open this scroll? And the answer was the lamb who was slain,

who was now alive again, or Jesus. And so Jesus came forth, and we start breaking these seals here in Revelation 6. I watched as the

lamb opened the first of the seven seals, but I heard one of the four living creatures say in a voice

like thunder, come. I looked and there was before me a white horse. It's rider held a bow and he was given

a crown, and he rode out as a conqueror bent on conquest. "'When the lamb opened the second seal, "'I heard the second living creature say, come. "'Then 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. "'When the lamb opened a third seal, I heard the third living creatures say, come. I looked, and there before me was a black horse. Its rider was holding a pair of scales in his hand, that I heard what sounded like a voice among the four living creatures say, a quart of wheat for a day's wages, and three quarts of barley for a day's wages and do not damage the oil and the wine when the lamb opened the fourth seal i heard the voice of the fourth living creatures say come i looked and there before me was a pale horse its rider was death and hades was following close behind 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.

So these are the four writers of the apocalypse, or the four writers of Revelation.

Apocalypse and Revelation are the same word, just from different root.

Apocalypse means to lift the veil or to reveal something.

And they're also known as the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

And they may sound familiar for those of you who like Clint Eastwood movies.

You may recognize the reference to the pale horse, because that was the movie

Pale Rider, comes from that particular verse. And at this point, we start to get a series of

calamities released on the earth. And in these particular four riders, we get war and we get famine

and we get plague.

Which horse is which doesn't matter quite as much.

We've got, it seems, a couple different horses that are war or conquest or whatever.

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