Understanding the Seven Seals of Revelation

Four Horses
The Seal Judgements

1st Seal (Revelation 6:2)

  • White Horse
    • Many believe that the Antichrist is the rider
    • has a bow
    • crown given
    • went forth to conquer
2nd Seal (Revelation 6:3-4)
  • Red Horse
    • power to take peace
      • war
    • given a great sword
    • people kill one another
3rd Seal (Revelation 6:5-6)
  • Black Horse
    • pair of scales in hand
    • famine
    • inflation
4th Seal (Revelation 6:7-8)
  • Pale Horse
    • name is death
    • Hades followed
    • 1/4 killed by sword, hunger, death, and beasts
5th Seal (Revelation 6:9-11)
  • Altar with souls under it
    • the martyred souls are crying out
    • rest
    • white robes given
    • # of martyrs completed
6th Seal (Revelation 6:12-17)
  • earthquake
  • sun turns black
  • moon becomes as blood
  • stars fall
  • sky recedes
  • Mountains, islands, move
  • men hide and/or flee the wrath of the Lamb
Pause (Revelation 7:1-17)
  • Angels says with a loud voice – hurt not the earth neither the sea, nor the trees till we have sealed the servants of God in their foreheads
    • 114,000 people from the tribes of Israel
  • Great number which no man could number
7th Seals (Revelation 8:1-6)
  • Silence in heaven for 1/2 hour
  • 7 angels given the 7 trumpets
  • incense with the prayers of the saints ascended up before God out of the angel’s hand
    • angel took the censer, filled it with fire from the altar, and cast it into the earth
      • there were voices
      • thunderings
      • lightnings
      • an earthquake
    • the seven angels prepare to sound


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