The Green Horseman

Obviously, the translators could not imagine a green horse, so gave us the word "pale" instead. The Hebrew word that is translated "bay" here is not used anywhere else in the Bible. It is an uncertain term that more accurately means "strong or courageous. The universally identifiable color of Islam is green. Mohammed's banner was green. It was written that Mohammed, gazing out upon a vast prospect of fields, said: What purports to be the actual standard of Mahomet Mohammed is preserved in the Eyab Mosque of Constantinople now Istanbul.

It is called the Sinjaqu 'sh sharif. It is made of four layers of silk, the top-most being green, embroidered with gold. In times of peace it is guarded in the hall of the 'noble vestment' as the dress worn by the prophet is styled. In the same hall are preserved the sacred teeth, the holy beard, the sacred stirrup, the sabre and bow of Mahomet. It is a summons to an anti-Christian crusade, a challenge of every believer in the Prophet to arms; a war-signal in fact, which, like the fiery cross of Scotland, would flash its dread command through the domain of Islam. In the interests of humanity, however, we may hope that the "commander of the faithful" will never utter the dreadful word; for then indeed would the whole soul and strength of Christendom turn against the enemy of all civilized laws, human and divine.

Six times, Isaiah called Messiah an ensign a banner or flag. God "will lift up an ensign to the nations from far, and Jesus Christ is the true flag of God, and when He returns, His presence will be infinitely more significant than the flag of Mohammed. The "diaspora" dispersed Jews began immigrating to Israel around Jesus' return will signal worldwide "aliyah," the second and final immigration! At that time, Jesus will establish His global kingdom on earth, ruling from Jerusalem, Israel. All the scriptures attest to it.

And he shall set up an ENSIGN for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth," Isaiah Jesus will rule His earthly kingdom for 1, years according to the prophets, and then heaven and earth will pass away. Jesus said, "Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away," Matthew At the end of that time, " At that time, God will introduce a new heaven and a new earth.

Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness. Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless," 2 Peter 3: Mohammed will never again be seen on this earth, nor will he ever have a kingdom for himself. But Jesus Christ will rule and reign over the entire world for 1, years from Jerusalem, Israel. Can anyone question the accuracy of that prophecy when Islam today is associated around the world with the nearly deaths in the World Trade Center attack of , and over 8, subsequent Muslim bombings around the world since that time.

Where is this so-called "religion of peace"?? Mohammed founded Islam in Mecca, in what is now called Saudi Arabia.

Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

Look at its flag. In the middle of that seven years, Antichrist will impose the Mark of the Beast with Roman Catholic Church endorsement. I expect that Islam will, at the end of the seven years, finally rise up to take control of Europe and simultaneously destroy the Roman Catholic Church. A September article, WorldNet Daily. This figure is nearly the exact amount for one quarter of the world population.

It is clear that from many events that we are very near the beginning of the great tribulation right now. If the fourth pale-green horse rider is the presence resurgence of Islam, the timing is absolutely perfect!

The Green Horseman

The Sword of Death! Death is the trade mark of the pale-green horse, just as death is the trade mark of Islam. Almost daily we read reports of deadly suicide attacks in Israel, France, Kenya, Iraq, and many other countries. Many of the nations in Europe today are being overrun by an Islamic presence such as France, Germany, the Netherlands and England and many have more mosques than they do churches.

In fact over churches in the UK have been converted into mosques! It isn't hard to foresee Islam possibly getting the upper hand in Europe sometime in the near future. Whenever Islam takes over a nation they immediately implement Shariah Law and along with their Islamic calendar. If Turkey gets its way and becomes an EU member things could change in Europe drastically and quickly. Revelation 6 says that "hell" follows the rider of death. Islam teaches their suicide bombers that paradise with 72 virgins follows their act of "martyrdom.

The pale-green death horse rider was to "kill with a sword, hunger and death. Islamic countries are known for the spreading and increasing violence, poverty and disease. Beheading was practiced by the founder of Islam, the prophet Muhammad himself during the 7th century period of Islam and by most Islamic rulers thereafter. The Koran not only commands this as a specific method of killing ones enemies but it was also a favoured method of killing by Muhammad and his followers: It is quite undeniable that beheading is a tradition that stretches throughout Islamic history. Islam itself has thoroughly documented the fact that Muhammad and his immediate successors practiced beheading as the specific means to kill "the enemies of Islam.

The Koran itself actually encourages beheading, or at a bare minimum, "smiting the necks" of "idolaters" and any "prisoners of war. The Green Horse is also going to initiate the global ecological movement in the wake of World War III - a series of regional nuclear confrontations that are largely brought about in various areas through religious conflict initiated by the Islamic strongholds of planet earth.

The Green Crescent is the recognized symbol of Islam and marks that hideous spirit of death that has historically animated the Moslem faith. That ancient evil is now riding at full gallop. They will not be satisfied until the entire world is bowing down to Allah. This will never change.

That is why they will be a force to reckon with as we edge further and further into the last days.

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There is the burden against Egypt Isaiah 19 ; the burden against Babylon Isaiah 13 ; the burden against Edom Isaiah The word "burden" means "a duty or misfortune that causes hardship, anxiety or grief. Do we not see this in all of these nations today? Sure other nations are going through troubles too but they are NOT listed in the Bible and that is for a reason.

The reason being is that the Bible is outlining the nations that are specifically against God or shall we say "anti" against Christ.

Is ISLAM the Green Horse of Revelation?

We would like to finish with a story that demonstrates the subtle takeover of Islam in the West. Few Christians in the West are familiar with the Arabic word Da'wah. Many other words such as Jihad, Allah, Koran and Ramadan are now accepted words in many English language dictionaries, but Da'wah remains unknown. One of the reasons is that it is the quiet way that Muslims are attempting to make new converts to Islam especially in the West. During the day the heat can be scorching, but at night it can get bitter cold. On one especially cold night, the Arab was in his nice warm tent where fire kept the environment warm.

As the man began to go to sleep, he noticed a large camel nose sticking in under the tent! The Arab thought it over and allowed him to keep his nose in. A little later the man awoke and saw that the camel now had his whole head in the tent. You said you only wanted your nose in the tent! I can sleep the whole night through. At his back swung the brass quiver filled with poisoned arrows, containing the germs of all diseases. One interpretation held by evangelist Billy Graham , casts the rider of the white horse as the Antichrist , [14] or a representation of false prophets, citing differences between the white horse in Revelation chapter 6 and Jesus on the white Horse in Revelation chapter In Revelation 6, the rider has just one; a crown given, not taken.

This indicates a third person giving authority to the rider to accomplish his work. According to Edward Bishop Elliott 's interpretation, that the Four Horsemen represent a prophecy of the subsequent history of the Roman Empire, the white color of this horse signifies triumph, prosperity and health in the political Roman body. For the next 80 or 90 years succeeding the banishment of the apostle John to Patmos covering the successive reigns of the emperors Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian and the two Antonines Antoninus Pius and Marcus Aurelius , a golden age of prosperity, union, civil liberty and good government unstained with civil blood unfolded.

The agents of this prosperity personified by the rider of the white horse are these five emperors wearing crowns that reigned with absolute authority and power under the guidance of virtue and wisdom, the armies being restrained by their firm and gentle hands. This interpretation points out that the bow was preeminently a weapon of the inhabitants of the island of Crete and not of the Roman Empire in general.

The Cretans were renowned for their archery skills. The significance of the rider of the white horse holding a bow indicates the place of origin of the line of emperors ruling during this time. This group of emperors can be classed together under one and the same head and family whose origins were from Crete. According to this interpretation, this period in Roman history, remarkable, both at its commencement and at its close, illustrated the glory of the empire where its limits were extended, though not without occasional wars, which were always uniformly triumphant and successful on the frontiers.

The triumphs of the Emperor Trajan, a Roman Alexander, added to the empire Dacia, Armenia, Mesopotamia and other provinces during the course of the first 20 years of the period, which deepened the impression on the minds of the barbarians of the invincibility of the Roman Empire. Roman war progressed triumphantly into the invader's own territory, and the Parthian war was successfully ended by the total overthrow of those people. Roman conquest is demonstrated even in the most mighty of these wars, the Marcomannic succession of victories under the second Antonine unleashed on the German barbarians, driven into their forests and reduced to Roman submission.

In some commentaries to Bibles, the white Horseman is said to symbolize ordinary War, which may possibly be exercised on righteous grounds in decent manner, hence the white color, but still is devastating. The red Horseman see below then rather more specifically symbolizes Civil War. The rider of the second horse is often taken to represent War [2] he is often pictured holding a sword upwards as though ready for battle [18] or mass slaughter.

The color red, as well as the rider's possession of a great sword, suggests blood that is to be spilled. In military symbolism, swords held upward, especially crossed swords held upward, signify war and entering into battle. The second Horseman may represent civil war as opposed to the war of conquest that the first Horseman is sometimes said to bring. According to Edward Bishop Elliott's interpretation of the Four Horsemen as symbolic prophecy of the history of the Roman Empire, the second seal is opened and the Roman nation that experienced joy, prosperity and triumph is made subject to the red horse which depicts war and bloodshed — civil war.

Peace left the Roman Earth resulting in the killing of one another as insurrection crept into and permeated the Empire beginning shortly into the reign of the Emperor Commodus. Elliott points out that Commodus , who had nothing to wish and everything to enjoy, that beloved son of Marcus Aurelius who ascended the throne with neither competitor to remove nor enemies to punish, became the slave of his attendants who gradually corrupted his mind.

His cruelty degenerated into habit and became the ruling passion of his soul. Elliott further recites that, after the death of Commodus, a most turbulent period lasting 92 years unfolded during which time 32 emperors and 27 pretenders to the Empire hurled each other from the throne by incessant civil warfare. The sword was a natural, universal badge among the Romans, of the military profession.

The apocalyptic figure indicated by the great sword indicated an undue authority and unnatural use of it. Military men in power, whose vocation was war and weapon the sword, rose by it and also fell. The unrestrained military, no longer subject to the Senate, transformed the Empire into a system of pure military despotism. The third Horseman rides a black horse and is popularly understood to be Famine as the Horseman carries a pair of balances or weighing scales , indicating the way that bread would have been weighed during a famine.

Of the Four Horsemen, the black horse and its rider are the only ones whose appearance is accompanied by a vocal pronunciation. John hears a voice, unidentified but coming from among the four living creatures , that speaks of the prices of wheat and barley, also saying "and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine ". This suggests that the black horse's famine is to drive up the price of grain but leave oil and wine supplies unaffected though out of reach of the ordinary worker.

One explanation for this is that grain crops would have been more naturally susceptible to famine years or locust plagues than olive trees and grapevines , which root more deeply. The statement might also suggest a continuing abundance of luxuries for the wealthy while staples, such as bread, are scarce, though not totally depleted; [21] such selective scarcity may result from injustice and the deliberate production of luxury crops for the wealthy over grain, as would have happened during the time Revelation was written.

According to Edward Bishop Elliott's interpretation, through this third seal, the black horse is unleashed — aggravated distress and mourning. The balance in the rider's hand is not associated with a man's weighing out bits of bread in scanty measure for his family's eating but in association with the buying and selling of corn and other grains. The balance during the time of the apostle John's exile in Patmos was commonly a symbol of justice since it was used to weigh out the grains for a set price.

The balance of justice held in the hand of the rider of the black horse signified the aggravation of the other previous evil, the bloodstained red of the Roman aspect into the darker blackness of distress. In history, the Roman Empire suffered as a result of excessive taxation of its citizens. During the reign of Emperor Caracalla , whose sentiments were very different from the Antonines being inattentive, or rather averse, to the welfare of the people, he found himself under the necessity of gratifying the greed and excessive lifestyle which he had excited in the Army.

During his reign, he crushed every part of the empire under the weight of his iron scepter. Old as well as new taxes were at the same time levied in the provinces. In the course of this history, the land tax, the taxes for services and the heavy contributions of corn, wine, oil and meat were exacted from the provinces for the use of the court, army and capital.

This noxious weed not totally eradicated again sprang up with the most luxurious growth and going forward darkened the Roman world with its deadly shade. In reality, the rise to power of the Emperor Maximin , whose cruelty was derived from a different source being raised as a barbarian from the district of Thrace, expanded the distress on the empire beyond the confines of the illustrious senators or bold adventurers who in the court or army exposed themselves to the whims of fortune.

This tyrant, stimulated by the insatiable desires of the soldiers, attacked the public property at length.

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Every city of the empire was destined to purchase corn for the multitudes as well as supply expenses for the games. By the Emperor's authority, the whole mass of wealth was confiscated for use by the Imperial treasury — temples stripped of their most valuable offerings of gold, silver and statues which were melted down and coined into money. Authority was given to them over a fourth of the earth, to kill with sword and with famine and with pestilence and by the wild beasts of the earth.

The fourth and final Horseman is named Death. Unlike the other three, he is not described carrying a weapon or other object, instead he is followed by Hades the resting place of the dead. However, illustrations commonly depict him carrying a scythe like the Grim Reaper , sword, [27] or other implement. Based on uses of the word in ancient Greek medical literature, several scholars suggest that the color reflects the sickly pallor of a corpse.

The verse beginning "they were given power over a fourth of the earth" is generally taken as referring to Death and Hades, [21] [34] although some commentators see it as applying to all four horsemen. This fourth, pale horse, was the personification of Death with Hades following him jaws open receiving the victims slain by Death.

Its commission was to kill upon the Roman Earth with all of the four judgements of God — with sword, famine, pestilence and wild beasts. The deadly pale and livid appearance displays a hue symptomatic of approaching empire dissolution. According to Edward Bishop Elliott, an era in Roman history commencing within about 15 years after the death of Severus Alexander in AD [35] strongly marks every point of this terrible emblem. Edward Gibbon speaks of a period from the celebration of the great secular games by the Emperor Philip to the death of Gallienus in AD [36] as the 20 years of shame and misfortune, of confusion and calamity, as a time when the ruined empire approached the last and fatal moment of its dissolution.

Every instant of time in every province of the Roman world was afflicted by military tyrants and barbarous invaders — the sword from within and without. According to Elliott, famine, the inevitable consequence of carnage and oppression, which demolished the produce of the present as well as the hope of future harvests, produced the environment for an epidemic of diseases, the effects of scanty and unwholesome food.