How Long Sovereign Lord!                                                  -The Seven Seals (1)

Revelation 6
Key vs. 6:10 “They called out in a loud voice, ‘How long, Sovereign Lord, holy and true, until you judge the inhabitants of the earth and avenge our blood?’"

 

  1. Read vs. 1. As Christ opens the first four seals, the world events are dramatized with the horses. What do these horses symbolize? (Zec6:3)  What does it show that God has a plan for all the world events?

 

 

 

 

 

  1. Read vs. 2-4. What are the outfits of the rider on a white horse? (2)  How does he ride out?  What does he represent? How does the rider on a red horse take peace from the earth? (4)  What does he represent? 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  1. Read vs. 5-8. What does the rider on a black horse hold in his hand? (5)  How do the living creatures express about the scarcity of staples? (6) What does he represent?  How does the rider on a pale horse kill a fourth of the earth? (8)  What does he represent? How does God reveal his wrath upon this world?

 

 

 

 

 

  1. Read vs. 9-11. As Christ opens the fifth seal, what does John see under the altar in heaven? (9)  Who do they represent?  What do they plead and how does God answer? (10,11)  What does it indicate that even persecution is in God’s control?  In light of Jesus’ end-time teaching, how will these events occur? (Mt24:4-14)

 

 

 

 

 

  1. Read vs. 12-17. The cosmic calamity of the sixth seal ushers us to the final judgment upon this world.  What happens to the earth and the heavenly bodies? (12-14, Mt 24:29)  What do they symbolize?  How do the people panic in response to the cosmic calamity? (15,16)   How do they view such calamity? (17,Lk23:30)