For an overall interpretation of the seals, see below
| Breaking the code | Why did the souls need to wait? | ||
| Four-part judgment | Judgment | ||
| Choose the right horse | Sixth seal in context | ||
| Symbols for the four horses | Seeking divine guidance in study | ||
| Thunder | Signs in the sky | ||
| First seal - white horse | - | - | |
| Second seal - red horse | Tribulation ends with signs | ||
| Third seal - black horse | Why celestial signs? | ||
| Fourth seal - pale horse | Heaven rolled up like a scroll | ||
| Where are the souls? (5th seal) | Mountains and islands displaced | ||
| Souls, dead or alive? | Running from God | ||
| Crying souls | Who can stand? | ||
| After 2300 days | Mt.24 & other bks; trib (table) |
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I see Satan as the “strong angel”
of Rev. 5:2. He knows all our sins and thus challenges God. He does not
know who has been forgiven. The Lamb is found worthy in 5:9. Because Christ
comes with rewards for good and evil people 22:13, the decisions or judgment
will have already happened.
Also at the coming of Christ, the
graves of the “dead in Christ” will be opened. And the righteous who are
alive “in Christ” will join them being taken to heaven (1
Thess. 4:16, 17). The other two classes, wicked living and wicked dead,
will not be raised then. All these will have been judged when Christ comes.
Thus four classes in the judgment. Four horses appear in order in Rev.
6. These, too, represent the four classes.
Ted Wade