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Originally posted by DISRAELI
But what they're really looking for is the completion of God's justice.
That would mean the full destruction of evil power on the earth, and that's when they'll be satisfied.
We can see that as an advance warning of what happens at the beginning of ch7, when angels come out and hold back the destructive "four winds of the earth", which have been blowing on the earth all through ch6.
In other words, the process of destruction has been "put on hold". This opens up a time of "truce" in God's relationship with the world. This is the same "truce" which I was discussing in the thread "Silence in heaven".
Originally posted by AlreadyGone
pale-green horse=death.
Originally posted by SevenThunders
I think your difficulty is trying to make all the events of Revelation occur in chronological order. In fact many of the events overlap.
The seal judgements, bowl judgements and trumpet judgments are all clearly overlapping events. You can relate them via the clear descriptions of each type of event.
Originally posted by AlreadyGone
Please note that one idea on Revelation is that the events not so much overlap, as much as occur at the same time, BUT from two different perspectives...one is from the Earth, the other coinciding view is Heaven.
these are also the first 4 signs Jesus gives of His return....white horse=false christ/conquerer, red horse=wars and rumours of war, black horse = famine/disease/pestilence, pale-green horse=death.
Ironically, these are the exact cycles of a major conflict...cause and effect...but on a global level.
Keep up the good work.
Originally posted by Alethea
The angels who have been holding back the winds are evil angels.