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"The Rider on the White Horse" Revelation 6 Verse 1 & 2 (Midweek)

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  1. Revelation chapter 6 verse one and two tonight, 2 verses only.

    Revelation 6 chapter mention

  2. He's going to deal with certain individual.

  3. Now I saw when the Lamb Jesus, so we're in heaven.

  4. Remember when the Lamb opened one of the seals?

  5. We know what the seal is scroll title deed of planet Earth and

  6. he breaks open the seal and I heard one of the four living

  7. creatures, the cherubim though around the throne remember

  8. saying with a voice like Thunder.

  9. Imagine having a voice that sounds like Thunder come and

  10. see. Actually in the in the original

  11. Greek it just says come, come. And I looked and behold, a White

  12. Horse. He who sat on it had a bow and a

  13. crown was given to him. So he was given the position to

  14. rule and he went out conquering and to conquer.

  15. So who is this rider on the White Horse?

  16. There are some who've tried to tie him into that being the

  17. second coming of Jesus Christ, who in Revelation 19 he comes

  18. riding in on a White Horse and they go wow, see it's the same,

  19. must be same horse, same guy. No?

  20. And some real problems exist if you believe that firstly, the

  21. coming of Jesus on a White Horse does not happen until chapter

  22. 19, which is at the end of the tribulation period, seven years

  23. judgement, outpouring of God's judgement and wrath upon the

  24. planet earth. The White Horse in chapter 6 is

  25. followed by the red horse of war, which we'll get into on

  26. Sunday, and then the Black Horse of famine and the White Horse of

  27. death. Jesus doesn't bring famine,

  28. death and war with him when he on his return.

  29. Jesus, remember, in 19, is coming to what?

  30. Abolish war? He's the Prince of Peace.

  31. When he comes back, the prophet says they shall beat their

  32. swords into ploughshares, their Spears into pruning hooks, and

  33. they shall study war no more. Be the end of war.

  34. There will be an agricultural surplus at the coming of Christ

  35. when Jesus returns. Speaking of that day, the

  36. prophet Isaiah said, and Isaiah 5155 verse one, ho everyone that

  37. first come you to the waters, He that has no money come.

  38. You buy and eat. Yes, come buy wine and milk

  39. without money, without price, because during the tribulation

  40. period, those things won't be available.

  41. You'll only be able to buy and sell if you have the mark.

  42. And if you have the mark, you're going to go to hell, you're not

  43. going to go to heaven. And only the rich will be able

  44. to delve into wine and luxurious items like that.

  45. So the White Horse rider in chapter 6, verses 1 and 2 is

  46. what's known as the Antichrist. The word anti means basically in

  47. place of so he's a counterfeit, he's a pretend.

  48. He's doing everything that he can to look like the real thing.

  49. That's what counterfeit is, isn't it?

  50. You know, I don't know about you, but when colour

  51. photocopiers came out, everyone, I, I did used to get the balls

  52. and cents and photocopy them because it came out.

  53. Look at that, load my wallet up and go check out that baby, see

  54. how much money's in there. And I was all counterfeit.

  55. No one else used to do that. Well anyway.

  56. And so it's to look like the real, but it's not the real.

  57. And so the Antichrist, he is going to deceive.

  58. That's his art craft. He's going to deceive the world

  59. into thinking that he is the Messiah, Antichrist, the

  60. counterfeit Christ, and thus it would only be fitting that he

  61. comes with the disguise of the White Horse.

  62. That's why he comes with a White Horse, because the White Horse,

  63. when he first comes into rule, means he'll bring a period, only

  64. a short period, but initially he'll bring a period of

  65. seemingly peace, the cessation of war, not like the peace that

  66. Christ is going to bring where he ends war completely.

  67. So have you, as you look at the counterfeit, you see how well

  68. that fits with the whole picture.

  69. Now, some of you might say, well, OK, well, why are we even

  70. looking at the Antichrist? Why are we studying the

  71. Antichrist? I mean, we should be just

  72. looking for the Jesus for Jesus Christ, absolutely.

  73. But here's the deal. The Bible says in Two

  74. Corinthians 2 Timothy 316 that all Scripture is given by

  75. inspiration and the Bible tells us all these things about the

  76. Antichrist. He's mentioned and Daniel he's

  77. mentioned back back as far back as Genesis and through we have

  78. spirits of Antichrist. We have types of all the way

  79. through. Then we have him in great

  80. detail. So the Bible has him here.

  81. So that's why we study him. Why?

  82. Because the Bible tells us to go and look at him don't know about

  83. him. This rider on the White Horse

  84. will have personally the power of Satan working through him and

  85. he is given that's the crown that he has rule of the world by

  86. Satan. Adam lost it when he disobeyed

  87. God and he obeyed Satan. Satan then became Small G, the

  88. God of this world in charge. When Jesus was driven into the

  89. wilderness, 40 days and 40 nights, Satan offered him the

  90. world because he could. He owned it.

  91. He ran it. Gee, if you just bow down and

  92. worship me, Jesus said, I ain't going to do that.

  93. But he gives this power to this person, this individual who is a

  94. man. He's not a super creature, he's

  95. a man, but he has empowered. He's a man, but he's empowered

  96. by the power of Satan, and the Antichrist will have a very

  97. gifted charisma that will warm the Western world's political

  98. leaders and the masses, the people along with them, the

  99. world leaders will go this guy, hear him speak, listen to him.

  100. He is amazing, he is brilliant, he is intelligent, and what he

  101. says will work. It will it will happen and the

  102. people of the world will go along with the governments.

  103. He will be one of the most gifted orators the world will

  104. have ever seen or heard. In Daniel Chapter 7 versus verse

    Daniel 7 chapter mention

  105. 8, Daniel is writing in his writing of this period of the

  106. Antichrist, and he says I was considering the horns and there

  107. was another horn a little 1 coming up among them, for whom

  108. before whom three of the four first horns were plucked out by

  109. the roots. This is Speaking of empires,

  110. nations. The reformed Roman Empire, the

  111. only empire that was not defeated.

  112. Babylonians were defeated, Persians defeated them, and

  113. Persians were defeated. The Greeks defeated them and the

  114. Romans came. The Romans defeated the Greeks,

  115. but the Romans just fell apart. And so Daniel tells us that this

  116. world leader is going to come from a reformed.

  117. If you read through Daniel carefully, A reformed, A

  118. renewed, a reinvigorated Roman Empire of the European Union.

  119. We call the Union today. You go to Europe now you can

  120. travel across all the border. The borders are down.

  121. You're in Europe, EU citizen. They have EU currency, they have

  122. EU parliament. And here Daniel is saying that

  123. three of the nations that are part of the EU as we see it

  124. today will just surrender completely their rule.

  125. They just say we don't need a Prime Minister, we don't need to

  126. come you, you run us. You're just so good.

  127. We give absolute sovereignty over to you.

  128. So that's these horns. And then this little horn in

  129. this horn where eyes like the eyes of a man, a mouth speaking

  130. pompous words, pompous words. He man, he can just rattle off.

  131. He can, he can speak. Now, you remember when Obama

  132. came to power in the US, the gift that Obama had was his

  133. oration. He just, he just drew people his

  134. capacity to speak. He was a world leader.

  135. Well, he's going to make Obama sound like a kindergarten kid

  136. with a stutter, a mouse speaking pompous words is Daniel 7/25.

  137. He shall speak pompous words against the Most high.

  138. He will be speaking words saying we don't need any sovereignty or

  139. God or whatever spirit we can I, I'll tell you what we're going

  140. to. This is how we're going to

  141. change the world. You speak pompous words against

  142. the Most high. Somehow the Antichrist will

  143. rationally also is a problem. Explain the sudden disappearance

  144. of millions of Christians around the world because the Antichrist

  145. is not going to come to power. The first horse rider in chapter

  146. 6, he's not coming to power because in chapter 4,

  147. Revelation, the church is raptured.

  148. John is in heaven. He sees the throne.

  149. Then in chapter 5, we celebrate the church is in heaven, singing

  150. a song that only the church can do.

  151. We talked about that on Sunday from every tribe, tongue, and

  152. nation. It's not the Jews, it's the

  153. church. And then because the church is

  154. in heaven now, the Antichrist is allowed by God to take over this

  155. position, this rule, and he will come up with an explanation that

  156. will describe the disappearance, Lord willing, of all of us

  157. gathered here tonight. Somehow he'll weave it into his

  158. propaganda. Now, propaganda.

  159. I want to tell you I how long I went to Germany.

  160. Last year I went to Nuremberg and I wanted to go to Germany

  161. specifically because I wanted to know how could such a an amazing

  162. intelligent nation, Germans turn into a Holocaust nation?

  163. How could that happen? What drove them?

  164. And I learnt when we learnt, when we're in Germany, in

  165. Nuremberg in particular, the power of propaganda.

  166. It was what drove and drove and trained and and and taught and

  167. drilled the people until by the time, so 12 years old, you're in

  168. part, you join the Workers Party.

  169. So everyone's working. And the reason that we're all

  170. working and the reason Germany has lost all their land, the

  171. reason that they're poor, the reason that we happen to do this

  172. is because the Jews caused World War One.

  173. The Jews now run all the money in the world.

  174. We're starving, we're poor and it was a Jews fault for World

  175. War One. That's why we lost all their

  176. land. That's why we're doing this.

  177. And then at the age of 14, you then join Hitler Youth and the

  178. Hitler Youth, you're becoming a paramilitary.

  179. And it's the Jews that might have made you, your parents who

  180. suffered and died during World War One.

  181. And and it was the Jews that caused the conflict.

  182. And that's why we're having to stir up, we've been just robbed,

  183. we've been pillaged and it was the Jews fault.

  184. And then by the age of 18, they're automatically gone into

  185. the army. So by the time they're 18 and

  186. they're in the army, they're ready to kill every Jew.

  187. They have a hatred and it's propaganda.

  188. It was Goebbels and all those crew, They actually worked at

  189. it. The way they plan the events.

  190. You see them in in some of the news reels and it's followed on

  191. from the Roman Empire and they have the banners.

  192. And they would have, yeah, a lot of Bavarians are not the blonde

  193. headed and blue eyed people. Most of the senior officers in

  194. the German army and the SS were not that way inclined.

  195. They're quite large because they eat, drink, drink a lot of beer

  196. and eat a lot of sausages and stuff like that.

  197. Pork that was. So they were over in the dark.

  198. And so in the front was choreographed blonde hair,

  199. blonde hair, 6 foot, 6 foot blue eye.

  200. Come here to the front film this film.

  201. That's why they filmed it all. And they would at Nuremberg,

  202. where they had this great yearly event, Hitler would then have

  203. the lights go up around this huge area, this fear, with this

  204. hundreds of thousands of people who've been trained in.

  205. And they would set the lights up and done at night to make it

  206. look like a cathedral, a church service.

  207. So much so was the power required.

  208. They had to actually build a powerhouse nearby just to run it

  209. for that service. We visited the powerhouse and

  210. and then Hitler would come out and they looked upon him and the

  211. way the light shone. He's the Messiah.

  212. He was the Messiah for Germany. And when John talks about the

  213. spirit of Antichrist coming to the world, Hitler and so on and

  214. go back and go back in time right through.

  215. And that's the spirit of Antichrist.

  216. But this is the Antichrist. This is the one.

  217. They're all types and shadows, but this fella and somehow he

  218. will convince the remaining world population after the

  219. church has been raptured that God has judged the Christians

  220. think about this for allegedly being and doesn't it fit in with

  221. today's time being too intolerant?

  222. We're not loving anymore us Christians who are in the word

  223. of God. I mean, we don't tolerate.

  224. We haven't adapted, we haven't changed.

  225. We're bigots with this with that and too judge mental So God got

  226. rid of him yeah now he has the opportunity to say with his

  227. false prophet he is right hand man his gobbles who's going to

  228. be gifted and be able to call fire down from heaven.

  229. Paul tells us he will say what we'll do now in place now that

  230. they're gone, we can start a world of faith because we don't

  231. need that sort of religion. We'll have a world faith.

  232. And the false prophet healed. The American people go, wow, he

  233. is the Messiah. The false prophet will call fire

  234. down from heaven and point to the Antichrist, and people go

  235. and they'll worship him as the Antichrist, the Messiah, in

  236. place of the original. Since Christians all over the

  237. world will disappear instantaneously.

  238. He can explain that God has punished them.

  239. Now he must commit to one in unity and government, in

  240. religion or faith. And also, now that they've gone

  241. peace, the other ones, it was them that all caused all the

  242. wars. And often have you heard that?

  243. Secondly, his platform the White Horse brings is peace.

  244. As I said, he doesn't come on in a harsh way.

  245. He comes with peace, he says. And by the way, I'm going to

  246. call Israel together, the Muslim nations, they've been at war for

  247. years. I have a way that we can bring

  248. them together. We can finally solve the

  249. conflict. And isn't that what wouldn't

  250. someone now be? You know, who's has Gaza going

  251. to be sorted out? It's all right taking on Hamas,

  252. but now who's going to run Gaza? What is Israel's going to have

  253. to man it Just, you know, put sentries on, have a buffer zone,

  254. military buffer zone. How?

  255. How's that going to exist? And so right this moment, you

  256. see and look at the world, it is primed for this man because

  257. he'll bring a piece even Donald Trump can't do.

  258. He'll have the power and the charisma and the deception to

  259. bring peace to the Middle East. And every U.S.

  260. President has for years tried to resolve.

  261. That's why they have Camp David try to resolve the problem of

  262. Israel and the Middle East. And here's the deal.

  263. Israel's been at war since October 12th, 2021.

  264. But they've been at war longer, haven't they?

  265. They've had wars since 1948, since they got home, the 67 six

  266. day war and so on and so on. They've been at war.

  267. Read today of another poor young guy and IDF 19 year old died in

  268. Gaza fighting for freedom just fighting he's he's part of call

  269. out. He's 19 years of age.

  270. He's dead today, just a young man.

  271. He died and Israel wants peace. We see that within don't they?

  272. We see protests, hostages in the war.

  273. We want the hostages want them come home.

  274. And you know what so does the rest of the world.

  275. Doesn't the rest of the world want peace?

  276. Isn't every nation God? Can't we just, can't we just

  277. sort this out because no one can.

  278. But what else does Israel desire?

  279. It desires something that they haven't had since 70AD.

  280. If we could rebuild the Temple, we can't even go up and prey on

  281. the Temple Mount at the moment. So it's not allowed for Jews to

  282. do that at that moment. At this moment when you and I go

  283. up on the Temple Mount, when we've gone there, Muslims

  284. control that area, that 35 acre lot, because there stands the

  285. Dome of the Rock. It's interesting.

  286. It's a holy site. But when you prey on the Dome of

  287. the Rock, if you're Muslim, you know where you face Mecca, You

  288. don't face the Dome of the Rock. So what do the Arabs and the

  289. Muslims want? They want those in Israel.

  290. That they feel belong to them. And you know, 2 million of the

  291. 8.5 million, 9 million Israelis are Arabs.

  292. It's 2,000,000 Arabs of the 8 million Jews, I'm sorry, Israel,

  293. Israelis. So you can be Arab Israelis, 2

  294. million of them. So what do the Arabs and the

  295. Muslims want? They want those in Israel that

  296. they feel belong to them, areas like those in Gaza, the Golan.

  297. And So what does the Antichrist, what will he do as he comes on

  298. the White Horse? He says, I'll allow you to

  299. rebuild the temple. The Jews go, really, how's that

  300. going to happen? Or I'll sort that out.

  301. He goes to the Muslims. He says, look, this is what

  302. we'll do. Plenty of room on the 35 acres.

  303. We can build the temple and that's where I believe the

  304. original site will be as we've been there on the dime of the

  305. tablets. Remember, we went there.

  306. It's the place where it's open to the to the rock underneath.

  307. It's away from the dime of the rock and it's in line with the

  308. gate where Jesus will come in. We can build the temple there.

  309. Revelation Chapter 11 tells us go and measure, but don't go out

    Revelation 11 chapter mention

  310. to the core of the Gentiles because I've given that over.

  311. That area's been given over. So you can build the temple,

  312. keep the dime of the rock, put a wall down there.

  313. But to do that, Israel, this is what you need to do.

  314. You release your control over Gaza and better give and take

  315. the goal. I know it's so Israel says so we

  316. can build a temple. Go on the temple, man.

  317. Wow, Gaza, yeah, you guys look out, but and everyone's happy.

  318. And the Antichrist goes, look what I've done.

  319. And the world goes someone, I'm just saying this.

  320. The world looks at this man and thinks he truly is the Messiah,

  321. especially the Jews, because if you talk to any Jew today,

  322. they're waiting for the Messiah. They don't accept Jesus Christ

  323. as the Messiah. Why?

  324. Because their Messiah will be a man.

  325. How will they know when their Messiah comes?

  326. Because they'll tell you, as they have said to me.

  327. He we will recognise our Messiah because he will be the man who

  328. allows us to rebuild the temple word for word.

  329. They're not looking for Jesus, they're looking for this guy and

  330. this guy in Daniel. Daniel says he'll make an

  331. arrangement, 7 year, We're going to have a seven year peace

  332. agreement. Build the temple.

  333. Doesn't take very long now to build the temple with all the

  334. modern equipment, the Jews, you will get to it.

  335. We get the money, up it goes. We got the priests, we go all

  336. within, everything ready to go. It's all ready to go now.

  337. Build the temple, 3 1/2 years, everything's just fantastic.

  338. And then 3 1/2 years into he breaks halfway through this

  339. covenant period, he walks into the temple, the Antichrist, he

  340. sits down and he says stop all the sacrifices.

  341. Now you sacrifice to me, I'm God.

  342. And to make sure I'm going to put an image of me here in here

  343. and now, and everyone's going to have my mark upon their hand.

  344. And you'll worship me. And if you don't worship me as

  345. God, you'll die. You won't be able to eat, work,

  346. buy anything, live anywhere, travel, nothing, unless you

  347. worship me. That's the story.

  348. How will the world be seduced by this man, you world leader?

  349. Well, people are growing increasingly desperate for

  350. peace, aren't they? And they want to avoid war at

  351. all costs. No one wants to send their kids

  352. to war, do they? So they will quickly become

  353. seduced by this smooth talking the Antichrist whose demonic

  354. influence will cause people to believe his lie that he's the

  355. false Messiah. Paul prophesied that this would

  356. happen. He said in the last days we're

  357. living in because people will have refused to believe the

  358. truth of the God of the gospel, Jesus Christ.

  359. And the church is gone and now what's left are unbelievers.

  360. Church is out of the scene and the Antichrist comes into the

  361. scene. They those people will be quick

  362. to believe the lie of Satan and the strong delusion that is

  363. coming upon the world here Paul's words of that event, 2

    2 Thessalonians 2:9

  364. Thessalonians chapter 2 verse 9, the coming of the lawless one.

  365. That's another name for him is according to the working of

  366. Satan with all power signs and lying wonders.

  367. And that's why I want to impress upon you watch today as the

  368. church soon we'll get more and more looking for signs and

  369. wonders preparing. They'll deny the word of God.

  370. Things will happen and people go, oh, see where that's

  371. happening? I know the Bible doesn't speak

  372. about it. Oh well, it just happened.

  373. I experienced it. No, the Bible doesn't say that.

  374. That's right. I don't care.

  375. This is what's happening. More lying signs and wonders

  376. because any sign of wonder, we've looked at that on

  377. Wednesday night. Remember, what's it for?

  378. For the building up and edifying of the body of Christ.

  379. They're the true gifts of the Spirit, but the working of Saint

  380. with all power signs and lying wonders and with all unrighteous

  381. deception among those who perish.

  382. That's the non believers left after the rapture of the church

  383. because they did not receive and here's Paul says the love of the

  384. truth. I don't want Jesus Christ.

  385. We don't want that religion. We want our we want what this

  386. guy's given us that they might be saved, that they might be

  387. saved. I want salvation.

  388. I want to live how I want this guy let me live how I want.

  389. And for this reason it goes on to say Paul says God will send

  390. them a worldwide unbelievers strong delusion.

  391. God allows this is coming from God now that they should believe

  392. the lie. It's kind of like Pharaoh over

  393. and over and over. He's had his chance.

  394. Moses would come, let my people go.

  395. Moses would come, no, let my people go.

  396. Pharaoh's heart harden, harden hard until God said I've

  397. hardened his heart now this is what's going to happen.

  398. His heart's set now. And for this reason, God will

  399. send them strong delusion that they should believe the lie that

  400. they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth.

  401. Jesus said I am the way, the truth and the life but had

  402. pleasure and that's the difference in unrighteousness.

  403. Romans chapter 1 Why do people sin and reject Jesus Christ?

    Romans 1 chapter mention

  404. Because they it says Paul says they suppress the truth.

  405. I want to I want to I want to sleep around.

  406. I want to just have one person I I want to, I want to do what I

  407. want to do what I want to do it. I don't want anyone telling me

  408. what I should do. I want to I want I love sin, I

  409. enjoy sin. That's why they sin.

  410. And so I've got on page two of five pages, so I'm going to have

  411. to wrap this up. We'll do the other pages some

  412. other time. But chapters 2 and three deal

  413. with the church. Chapter 1 John sees Jesus in all

  414. his glory, describing chapter 2 and three, the church period

  415. from Pentecost until the last days.

  416. Chapter 4 The church has raptured.

  417. John has taken up in heaven. He sees the throne of God.

  418. We then move into the things that will take place after these

  419. things. After the church is taken up in

  420. chapter 5 we find the church in heaven seeing the worthiness of

  421. the Lamb to take the scroll. Read the words for yourself.

  422. Chapter 5. The only people that can sing

  423. that song are you and I, the church.

  424. And Jesus takes the scroll of the Lamb, breaks the seal.

  425. He's redeemed us by his blood out of every kindred tongue,

  426. people and nation. And so now with the church in

  427. heaven, John has been telling us what he sees in heaven because

  428. that's where we are. And now we take a seat, and now

  429. John turns and he begins to describe now as he, Jesus,

  430. breaks the seal, the things that are happening upon earth.

  431. So now from chapter 6 all the way through to chapter 19 is a

  432. view from the stands of heaven. That's why you read this.

  433. And the church is never mentioned once from that period

  434. and during that period. And that's why as the

  435. tribulation begins, it's also called the day of Jacob's

  436. troubles. Zechariah 14 One behold, the day

  437. of the Lord is coming, Zechariah said Jeremiah chapter 30, verse

    Jeremiah 30:7

  438. 7. Alas, for that day is great, so

  439. that none is like it. It is the time of Jacob's

  440. trouble. Matthew 2422 Jesus said, unless

  441. those days, unless it was just cut down, that seven years, it

  442. was any longer, unless there was those days was shortened no

  443. flesh, there'd be none left saved.

  444. But for the elect's sake, those days will be shortened.

  445. Chapter 6 begins the events of the tribulation that shall come

  446. upon mankind who has rebelled. Remember, didn't want the lie,

  447. didn't want the Messiah, didn't want to be saved, like to live

  448. in unrighteousness. So they God says, OK, you don't

  449. want me, then I'll give you what you want.

  450. That's the worst thing that God could ever do to you.

  451. When God allows you to have your way, that's a horrific thing.

  452. You always want to receive the chastisement of the Lord.

  453. The chastisement of the Lord tells you he loves you and he

  454. cares for you. He wants to correct you.

  455. But when God in chapter 1 of Romans and then through the

  456. chapter 2, it says God sees the world and they're rejecting him,

  457. He says OK, and it says God gives them over to their

  458. reprobate mind. He says I'll let you have your

  459. way. That's the judgement of God.

  460. When God lets you have your way, that's a terrible thing.

  461. That's a terrible thing. And so chapter 6, and it's told

  462. it's called a time of great trouble because for Israel it

  463. will be a time of great trouble, but also a time of great

  464. conversion.