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SEAL 1
Come! Rider on the White Horse with a Bow. . .
Revelation 6: 1-2
1 I
watched as the Lamb opened the first of the seven seals. Then I
heard one of the four living creatures say in a voice like thunder,
"Come!" 2I looked, and
there before me was a white horse! Its rider held a bow, and he was
given a crown, and he rode out as a conqueror bent on conquest.
SEAL 2
Come! Rider on the Red Horse with a Sword. . .
Revelation 6: 3-4
3When the Lamb opened the
second seal, I heard the second living creature say, "Come!"
4Then 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.
SEAL 3
Go! Rider on the Black Horse with Scales. . .
Revelation 6: 5-6
5When
the Lamb opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say,
"Come!" I looked, and there before me was a black horse! Its rider was
holding a pair of scales in his hand. 6Then
I heard what sounded like a voice among the four living creatures, saying,
"A quart[a]
of wheat for a day's wages,[b]
and three quarts of barley for a day's wages,[c]
and do not damage the oil and the wine!"
SEAL 4
Go! Rider on the Pale Horse with Death and Hades. . .
Revelation 6: 7-8
7When the Lamb opened the fourth
seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature say, "Come!"
8I looked, and there before me
was a pale horse! Its rider was named Death, and Hades was following close
behind him. 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.
SEAL 5
The Souls under the Alter asking if it's time. . .
Revelation 6: 9-11
9When he opened the fifth seal, I
saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain because of the
word of God and the testimony they had maintained.
10They called out in a loud
voice, "How long, Sovereign Lord, holy and true, until you judge the
inhabitants of the earth and avenge our blood?"
11Then each of them was given a
white robe, and they were told to wait a little longer, until the number of
their fellow servants and brothers who were to be killed as they had been
was completed.
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SEAL 6
The Great Earthquake and the Sky Recedes like a Scroll. . .
Revelation 6: 12-17
2I watched as he opened the sixth
seal. There was a great earthquake. The sun turned black like sackcloth made
of goat hair, the whole moon turned blood red,
13and the stars in the sky fell
to earth, as late figs drop from a fig tree when shaken by a strong wind.
14The sky receded like a scroll,
rolling up, and every mountain and island was removed from its place.
15Then
the kings of the earth, the princes, the generals, the rich, the mighty, and
every slave and every free man hid in caves and among the rocks of the
mountains. 16They called to the
mountains and the rocks, "Fall on us and hide us from the face of him who
sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb!
17For the great day of their
wrath has come, and who can stand?"
SEAL 7
Silence in Heaven for Half an Hour. . .
Revelation 8: 1
1When
he opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about
half an hour. 2And I saw
the seven angels who stand before God, and to them were given seven
trumpets. 3Another
angel, who had a golden censer, came and stood at the altar. He was
given much incense to offer, with the prayers of all the saints, on
the golden altar before the throne.
4The smoke of the
incense, together with the prayers of the saints, went up before God
from the angel's hand. 5Then
the angel took the censer, filled it with fire from the altar, and
hurled it on the earth; and there came peals of thunder, rumblings,
flashes of lightning and an earthquake.6Then
the seven angels who had the seven trumpets prepared to sound them.
Artist:
Devi Anne Moore
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