Study
10 From the Book of Revelation is: Revelation 6
1-
As the book of future events is opened seal by seal, what points
of correspondence do you find with Mt. 24:4-14? Cf.., e.g, verses 4, 6, and 9
with Mt. 24:6, 7, and 9. (For the meaning of the white horse, see Note 1
below.) What does this teach about the present course of world history?
2-
To what climax of Judgment do all these things mount up? See
verses 12-17 and Note 3 below. Cf. Mt, 24:29, 30. What is more to be dreaded
than death? Cf. Is. 2:19-21
3-
For what were the martyrs willing to lay down their lives? Are
those right who think that God takes no action either for their reward or their
vindication? May similar sacrifice still
be called for?
Notes
1-
Verse 2. Two principal interpretations have been given of the
white horse and his rider. Many take it to be a picture of Christ going forth
in the conquests of the gospel. Cf. Mt. 24:14; Ps. 45:3-5. Others regards it as
a picture of invasion and lust of conquests, leading to the miseries of war,
famine, pestilence and death. The letter seems more likely. The four horses, as
in Zc. 6, form a series whose mission is to execute judgment.
2-
Verse 6. Such was the scarcity that a day’s wage (Mt. 20:2)
would suffice to buy only a small measure of wheat.
3-
Verses 12-14. The imagery of these verses is such as is
frequently used in Is. 13:9-11, 13; Ezk. 32:7-9; Na. 1:5.
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