Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble and I'm your host for the Bible Recap.

Yesterday when we left off, John was in a vision of God's throne room and Jesus

had just taken the seven sealed scroll from the Father's right hand because

Jesus was the only one worthy to open it.

Today he begins opening the seals one by one.

As he opens a seal, it releases more of the scroll so more of the story can be read.

It would be kind of like if a piece of paper were folded up seven times and each time you

unfold it you see more of what's written. With the first four seals we see four

horses and four horsemen. These are commonly referred to as the four horsemen of the apocalypse.

By the way, the word apocalypse in Greek is the English word revelation.

So these could also be called the four horsemen of the revelation.

They are all enemies of God and even though one is on a white horse don't let that fool you. He's a counterfeit of Jesus who also rides a white horse later in this book. They bring death, disease, and destruction. But notice that these enemies of God still only

operate under his jurisdiction. They come out when his serifim give the command. They bring

destruction, but any authority they have is tightly held by God and is only

temporarily given to them for accomplishing his purposes of judgment on the earth.

They are never in control, and God's reign is never in question.

The three final seals pertain to God's people.

Seal number five gives us a glimpse of the martyrs.

Seal number six is the great day of the Lord we've been reading about

throughout scripture.

Then after this, we see the 144,000, which is probably

a symbolic number that represents a much larger multitude. Some believe this represents

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