THE FIVE HORSEMEN
Pastor J. C. O’Hair
This is the study of the Five Horsemen of the Apocalypse - the Five Horsemen of Revelation 6:1 to 5 and Revelation 19:11 to 21. Four of these Horsemen are going to bring awful judgments and plagues upon humanity when this world will be, as it was in the days of Noah. (Matthew 24:38 - Luke 17:26). The awful wrath of God was sent upon the human race and the earth in the days of Noah. But the judgment of Revelation 19:11 to 21 will perhaps be worse.
The apostles asked of Christ a question which should be of vital interest to every human being, “What shall be the sign of Thy coming and of the end of the world (age)?” (Matthew 24:3). After Christ mentioned some of the signs He said, “He that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.” (Matthew 24:13).
No one who has died since the apostle Paul went out with the gospel of the grace of God has lived in days described in some of the verses of the 24th chapter of Matthew. Paul described his personal tribulation in II Corinthians 4:8 to 12 and II Corinthians 11:24 to 33; and in the world God’s saints have tribulation, but the great tribulation is yet to come on this earth.
The Jews, who suffered with the destruction of Jerusalem, in the year 70 A. D., had the touch of the tribulation mentioned in Luke 21:20 to 24. And after that intense suffering at the hands of the Roman army the apostle John wrote: “Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time.”
When asked for the signs of His coming and the end of the age, Christ mentioned in Matthew 24:5 to 9:
1. Antichrists.
2. Wars.
3. Famines.
4. Pestilences.
5. Earthquakes.
6. Intense suffering.
Some one may ask, have there not been “antichrists,” and “wars,” and “famines,” and “Pestilences,” and “earthquakes,” and “religious persecution” in every generation? Has there been any more of any of these than during our recent horrible world war, which was preceded by a world-wide sweep of Christianized agnosticism, called “Modernism” by the so-called Christian Liberals, who should know that a Christian infidel is an impossible paradox?
But much of the 24th of Matthew has not been fulfilled. The end of this, another age and dispensation (of grace) will be climaxed, as described in Ephesians 4:13, before the end, described in Matthew 24:13, comes. After the present age of grace, which had not begun at the time Christ spoke in Matthew 24, will appear the Four Horsemen of Revelation 6. The other terrible things of that chapter will come to the human race. Note how the order in Revelation 6 agrees with the order in Matthew 24:
1. The White Horse - Antichrists,
2. The Red Horse- War,
3. The Black Horse - Famine,
4. The Pale Horse - Pestilence,
5. A Great Earthquake,
6. Great Tribulation and intense Suffering.
In this connection read II Thessalonians 2:3 to 12 and Revelation 19:11 to 21. In these Scriptures we learn that two men are coming, the antichrist, and Christ, the Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse.
As the First Horseman is restrained during this present age of grace, none of the Four Horsemen will appear on earth until after the consummation of Ephesians 4:13 and Titus 2:13.
It is significant that the First Rider of Revelation 6 is to be on a white horse and the Fifth Rider, the Lord Jesus Christ of Revelation 19:11 to 13 is to be on a white horse. There have been a number of white horse riders, but it seems that the beginning and the end of the coming great tribulation are marked by these two white horse Riders. Christ will not be on His white horse when He comes for His Church; but when He comes according to II Thessalonians 1:7 to 9 - Jude and Luke 21:27 to 33.
What is the Gospel?
Believing Christ died, that’s
HISTORY.
Believing Christ died for YOUR sins
and rose again, that’s SALVATION.
Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel
which the preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand;
By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you,
unless ye have believed in vain. For I delivered unto you first of all
that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the
scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day
according to the scriptures. 1. Corinthians 15:1-4
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