White Horse Of The Apocalypse
The Book of Revelation in the Bible is a mystery to most people. Some think it is just allegory. Others say it is all about past events. Did you know that Revelation gives the outline of end-time prophecy? Yes, the last book in the Bible can let the people of Yahweh know how end-time events will unfold—and how we can be ready for them! You need to understand the seven seals of Revelation. In Revelation 6, we read the description of six of those seals. The Bible shows the first four seals are known as the four horsemen of the Apocalypse. In today’s message we are going to share with you the meaning of the white horse of the Apocalypse. You really don’t want to miss out on this very important message as the implications for all of humanity are so staggering! Does this white horse foretell a coming wave of calamity for the earth’s inhabitants? Let’s look and see. As always, we ask the Holy Spirit of Yahweh for holy guidance and wisdom in teaching you this crucial subject matter. We hope you will pay full attention to this.
In Revelation the apostle John describes the Lamb (Yahshua the Messiah) opening the first seal. “Now I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals; and I heard one of the four living creatures saying with a voice like thunder, “Come and see. And I looked, and behold, a white horse. He who sat on it had a bow; and a crown was given to him, and he went out conquering and to conquer” (Revelation 6:1-2). What do the white horse and its rider represent? Many mistakenly say that these represent the Savior Yahshua, because the imagery appears similar to the description of Messiah given in Revelation 19. But when we compare the Revelation 19 description to the first horseman, we find notable differences. Notice! Yahshua the Messiah comes with many crowns (Revelation 19:12), not just one crown! And He (Yahshua the Messiah) comes with a sword (Revelation 19:15), not a bow as in Revelation 6! Savior Yahshua is the Revelator. He reveals the meaning of this white horse. Yahshua describes the signs of His second coming, and the sequence of events, that coincide with the seals of Revelation. Notice! “And Yahshua answered and said to them: “Take heed that no one deceives you. For many will come in My name, saying, “I am the Messiah,” and will deceive many” (Matthew 24:4-5). Did you grasp it? The white horse, and its rider, represent false messiahs, false religions, false biblical teachings! The Savior of mankind Yahshua called the truth a narrow and difficult way that few find (Matthew 7:13-14). We hope you’ve found the truth as we did.
You see, it didn’t take long after Yahshua’s death for a “different gospel” (Galatians 1:6) to invade the Church or Assembly, causing division and confusion! The early apostles were forced to deal with this problem, as evidenced by their writings to the Assembly or Church. The apostle Paul warned the elders of the congregation at Ephesus to beware of false teachers: “Therefore take heed to yourselves and to all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of Elohim which He purchased with His own blood. For I know this, that after my departure savage wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock. Also from among yourselves men will rise up, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after themselves” (Acts 20:28-30). The apostle Peter also gave a powerful rebuke to those who would bring false teaching into the Church or Assembly. Notice! “But there were also false prophets among the people, even as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, and bring on themselves swift destruction” (2 Peter 2:1). He went on to say, “Many will follow their destructive ways, because of whom the way of truth will be blasphemed” (2 Peter 2:2). Peter calls the Church’s doctrine the “way of truth” in which all the faithful to Yahweh have always walked.
It’s very sad the truth of Yahweh was gravely corrupted by false teachers of Bible. The result was Bible teachings that no longer resembled the gospel brought by Yahshua the Messiah. We read in biblical texts above the early apostles warning of the corruption of the true faith brought by our Savior Yahshua. The apostle John knew it was easy to claim divine authority and thereby deceive people into following ideas that were spiritually false and destructive. He warned: “Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of Elohim; because many false prophets have gone out into the world” (1 John 4:1). Here it shows the apostle John saw a rapid escalation in the heresy and persecution that was plaguing the Assembly or Church! Meanwhile, as already noted in paragraphs above the apostle Paul had to reprimand the Galatians for “turning away…to a different gospel” (Galatians 1:6). Notice! The apostle Jude summed it up perfectly when he wrote of the need to “contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints” (Jude 3). Did you grasp what this means? It means the early apostles knew the teachings of these fake gospel teachers evolved a church bearing Yahshua’s name, but vastly different in doctrines and practices from the Church we see in the New Testament! These corrupt Bible teachers spiritually tarnished the true gospel of Yahshua the Messiah! These false, evil prophets promotes and teaches a counterfeit Christianity! Savior Yahshua’s prophecy of false Scripture teachers coming in His name, claiming they teaches for Messiah but deceiving many, truly came to pass.
Today those who strive to practice the teachings that Yahshua put into His Assembly are few in comparison to the thousands of churches that call themselves Christian but are in fact descendants of the counterfeit Christianity started in the first century. Again, Savior Yahshua’s Olivet prophecy sternly warned true Christians about this false Christian movement. He said, “For false messiahs and false prophets will rise and show great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect” (Matthew 24:24). Did you grasp that? Even the elect (the people of Yahweh) who “keep the commandments of Yahweh and have the testimony of Yahshua Messiah” (Revelation 12:17) will be susceptible to this great deception! What is this talking about? Here we find the description of Satan the devil’s final attempt to engineer a system based on his lying words of deceit and confusion. That it involves false religion is obvious from all the markers we have seen in the New Testament Scriptures. This end-time deception is led by a figure “who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called Elohim or that is worshiped” and who will even sit “in the temple of Yahweh, showing himself that He is Elohim.” This figure have two horns like a lamb and speaking like a dragon (Revelation 13:11), and will cause the people to worship the first beast with great adulation (Revelation 13:12). He performs great signs, so that he even makes fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men. And he deceives those who dwell on the earth by those signs which he was granted to do in the sight of the beast, telling those who dwell on the earth to make an image to the beast who was wounded by the sword and lived” (Revelation 13:13-14). This is a man claiming to be Elohim, in the temple of Yahweh, performs signs with the intent of persuading peoples to worship a system that appears to be doing good for the world! This is the last and final resurgence of Satan’s evil system the Almighty Father Yahweh calls “Mystery, Babylon the Great, the mother of harlots and of the abominations of the earth” (Revelation 17:5).
In closing, the white horse of the apocalypse, representing false prophets, false religions and false biblical teachings, will continue to expand and gain more and more popularity in the last days before the return of the Savior of mankind, Yahshua the Messiah. In Matthew 24 of Bible, Yahshua continues describing the sequence of events prior to his second-coming to earth: war, famine, pestilence and tribulation. Yahshua is the One who interprets the seals of Revelation. He tells us: “And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not troubled; for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be famines, pestilences, and earthquakes in various places. All these are the beginning of sorrows. Then they will deliver you up to tribulation and kill you, and you will be hated by all nations for My name’s sake” (Matthew 24:6-9). Yes, genuine peoples of Yahweh will know the signs of times before the return of Yahshua! And yes, nations and peoples around the world will hate them and even kill them for “keeping the Commandments of Yahweh and for having the testimony of Yahshua the Messiah” (Revelation 12:17). But woe to peoples and nations who do not observe the Ten Commandments and do not properly follow the true teachings of our Savior Yahshua in the Bible! Make no mistake as Bible instruction is clear on what you have to do: “…Come out of her, My people, lest you share in her sins, and lest you receive of her plagues” (Revelation 18:4). Did you grasp that? Our loving Father Yahweh wants you to get out of the false systems in order to avoid eternal damnation! And to those people and nations faithfully keeping the Commandments of Yahweh and having the faith of our Savior Yahshua, listen to this: “Now when these things begin to happen, look up and lift up your heads, because your redemption draws near” (Luke 21:28). We hope our readers are blessed by this true and faithful message. May the Father in heaven Yahweh keep you and bless you, brethren. All this things we humbly ask and pray in the name of our coming Master and King, Savior Yahshua the Messiah, Amen. Shalom, Halleluyah!