Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

• The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse correspond to the first four seals in Chapter Six of the Book of Revelation.
• The rider on the white horse represents the Antichrist, details of whom are found in the Book of Daniel.
• The color white symbolizes peace, mirroring the Antichrist's initial act of brokering a peace treaty with Israel to rebuild the temple.
• The rider on the red horse appears when the second seal is broken.
• The rider on the red horse ushers in World War 3, as detailed in Ezekiel chapters 38 and 39.
• A rider on a black horse appears when the third seal is broken, bringing worldwide famine as an after-effect of World War 3.
• The Pale Rider, unleashed upon the breaking of the fourth seal, brings death, affecting a quarter of the earth.
• The four horsemen initiate the tribulation, starting with deceit and leading to destruction and devastation.
• The tribulation begins with the appearance of the first horseman, while the fourth horseman signifies the tribulation is in full swing.

Revelation 6:3-4 KJV

• The second horse is red, symbolizing blood and bloodshed, and it is associated with the removal of peace and the increase of slaughter.
• The rider is given power to "take peace from the earth" and instigate widespread killing.
• The rider is given a great sword, which symbolizes the unleashing of war upon the earth.

World War 3

• This "great" war will encompass the entire earth, with numerous nations involved, leading to mass slaughter.
• The scale of death will require seven months for the Jews to bury the dead.
• The Book of Ezekiel reveals the events associated with the rider on the Red Horse and the subsequent loss of peace.
• A vision foretells the rebirth of Israel as a nation, which is essential for World War 3 to occur, due to a League of Nations planning to invade Israel.
• Ezekiel's vision depicts a valley of dry bones representing a defeated army, symbolizing Israel as a nation as confirmed in Ezekiel 37:11.
• The Assyrians caused the northern tribes to go into captivity and intermarry, which resulted in them not keeping their lineage pure.
• Only the southern tribes that were taken into Babylonian captivity kept their lineage pure.
• God asks Ezekiel if the dry bones can live again, questioning if the dead and scattered nation of Israel could become a nation again.
• Ezekiel sees the bones forming skeletons, then being covered in muscle and flesh, representing Israel being restored as a nation, fulfilled in 1948.
• Even though Israel is a nation again, it is without spiritual life.
• Spiritual life will be breathed into the nation of Israel during the tribulation, leading them to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ.
• God's plan includes redeeming the earth.
• God's plan will bring the nation of Israel as a whole to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ.
• Israel becoming a nation sets the stage for World War 3.
• The battle in Ezekiel 38 and 39 is not the Battle of Armageddon, it takes place at the beginning of the tribulation instead of the end.
• Nations involved are not all nations, there are specific nations mentioned.
• The invasion comes from the north, not from every side.
• There's a protest against this invasion.
• Gog is the leader of the invasion, instead of the Beast or the Antichrist.
• The invasion is stopped by an earthquake and nuclear weapons, instead of the sword of Jesus Christ's mouth.
• The invasion in Ezekiel takes place when Israel is living securely in their land, instead of in flight and in hiding.
• The battle Ezekiel describes occurs at the beginning of the tribulation, instead of at the end.
• The battle that Ezekiel describes is World War 3, initiated by the rider on the Red Horse when the second seal is opened.
• Those involved in the invasion of Israel are Gog of Magog; the prince of Meshech and Tubal; Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya; Gomer; Beth-togarmah, and many others.
• Gog is a title, not a country.
• Magog means Russia and the Islamic southern republics of the former Soviet Union, Turkey, Iran, Sudan, Libya, and most of the Islamic Middle East nations.
• The war is said to happen during the end times or during the tribulation.
• Israel will be at peace and living securely in its land at the time of the invasion.
• Israel will be living in a land of unwalled villages, with a peaceful and unsuspecting people.
• When the first seal is open and the White Horseman comes, people will probably won't even suspect he's the Antichrist.
• If a peace treaty is negotiated with Israel, you're going to recognize this is the Antichrist.
• The Antichrist is going to establish a peace treaty of 7 years, which is the length of the Tribulation.
• After this invasion or WW3, it will take seven months to bury the dead.
• Because there are so many people killed Israel is going to set up a temporary city to bury all of the dead as a result of this war.
• It will take seven months for the people of Israel to bury the bodies and cleanse the land.
• This war is not Armageddon, it happens in the first half of the tribulation, so they cannot be burying the dead for seven months if they've gone to the wilderness.
• It will take seven years to clean up the weapons and military equipment left behind by those who invaded.
• Ezekiel described modern warfare with what he knew as shields [armored vehicles], bows and arrows [guns], javelins and spears [missiles and bombs.]
• During the peace treaty the Antichrist negotiates at the beginning of the Tribulation, Israel lets down their guard, they're living securely in their land.
• God puts a hook in Gog's jaw and Gog's going to look at Israel say, and he's going to go to the countries that hate Israel, the Muslim nations, and entice them to attack.
• During the invasion there's going to be a natural catastrophe or a large earthquake in Israel.
• The earthquake is going to be felt around the world.
• The earthquake is going to cause the nations that are invading Israel to turn on each other.
• Gog's sword will be against his brother, implying friendly fire.
• Nuclear weapons will possibly be involved.
• God will punish the invaders with disease and bloodshed, torrential rain, hailstones, fire, and burning sulfur.
• Zechariah 14:12-13 describes this war and says, the LORD will send a plague on all the nations that fought against Jerusalem. Their people will become like walking corpses, their flesh rotting away. Their eyes will rot in their sockets, and their tongues will rot in their mouths. On that day they will be terrified, stricken by the LORD with great panic. They will fight their neighbors hand to hand."
• Friendly fire in a nuclear war, they want to get out, and everyone's in their way so they kill each other according to Ezekiel.
• As they start to fire nuclear weapons, that's when the earthquake occurs- a missile pointed upwards will fall over and point at the groups doing the attacking.
• When the League of Nations gets ready to fire at Israel, God steps in and the earthquake happens, their weapons go down, they begin to fire on each other and they're wiping each other out and Israel will understand God saved them.
• This becomes a turning point for the nation of Israel and Israel's eyes are beginning to open. God has an ulterior motive, that Israel as a nation will come into a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ
• The Jews will proclaim him as Yahweh.
• Stirring them spiritually and their faith in God is restored as they see these prophecies being fulfilled right before their eyes.
• This could be the catalyst that causes one hundred and forty-four thousand of them to converted to Jesus.
• Messianic Jews are laying the foundation by witnessing for Jesus Christ, and when they disappear, 144,000 Jews during the Tribulation will convert to Christianity.
• When the Antichrist creates a peace treaty with Israel he's going to allow them to rebuild the temple- the reason we believe that is because the temple has to be rebuilt, they have to be offering sacrifices and offerings, and we know that it happens in the first half of it.
• When the Antichrist comes on the scene he negotiates a peace treaty but it doesn't say that he allows them to rebuild the temple.
• All of these Muslim nations are going to come to invade Israel and they're going to be wiped out.
• Once they're wiped out, there's no one standing in Israel's way, so that tells us that the if the temple is not allowed to be rebuilt on the first seal, it will be by the second seal.
• Before the middle of the tribulation it's already up there, there's already ministering in it and it's a done deal.
• When the second seal is opened and the rider on the red horse appears.
• Revelation 6:17 KJV states, "For the great day of His wrath has come and who shall be able to stand?"