(Revelation) Book of the Great Revealing 6

A WHITE HORSE AND ITS RIDER

1I watched as the Lamb broke open the first of the seven seals. Then I heard the first of the four spirit animals speak.

“Come forth!” it said with a voice of thunder.

2And when I looked, I saw a white horse with its rider holding a bow. He was given a headdress, and he rode out as a conqueror to conquer again.

A RED HORSE AND ITS RIDER

3When the Lamb broke open the second seal, I heard the voice of the second spirit animal.

“Come forth!” it said.

4Another horse came forth—fiery red. Its rider was permitted to take away peace from the land, so that war and violence would break out among the people. And he was given a great and powerful long knife.

A BLACK HORSE AND ITS RIDER

5When the Lamb broke open the third seal, I heard the voice of the third spirit animal.

“Come forth!” it said.

I looked, and there before me was a black horse. Its rider had balancing scales in his hand.

6From the center of the four spirit animals, I heard a sound like a voice.

“A small basket of wild rice#6:6 Lit. a liter of wheat or three small baskets of corn#6:6 Lit. barley to trade for a day’s work,” the voice said. “But do no harm to the olive oil and the wine.”

A PALE HORSE AND ITS RIDER

7When the Lamb broke open the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth spirit animal.

“Come forth!” it said.

8I looked, and there before me was a sickly pale-green horse. The name of its rider was Death. Following close behind him was the Dark Underworld of Death (Hades). They were given power over a fourth of the land, to kill with the long knife, hunger, deadly disease, and by the wild beasts of the land.

THE VOICE OF THE HONORED DEAD

9When the Lamb broke open the fifth seal, I looked under the sacred altar and saw the souls of the ones who had been killed for remaining true to the message Creator had given them.

10They cried out with a loud voice, “O Honored One, who is holy and true! How long will it be before you right the wrong done against us by the people in the land who have shed our blood?”

11Then each of them was gifted with white regalia and told to rest for a little while longer. For there were still a number of their brothers and sisters—who also serve the Great Spirit—who must be killed in the same manner they were.

THE DAY OF FIERCE ANGER HAS COME

12When the Lamb broke open the sixth seal, I looked, and there was a great earthquake. The sun became as dark as a black cloth, the full moon became blood red, 13and, like wild figs flung from a tree shaken by a fierce wind, the stars in the sky fell down on the land. 14The sky went away like a scroll being rolled up and set to the side. And every mountain and island was moved from its place.

15The chiefs who ruled the land, the headmen and the war chiefs, the rich and powerful, and everyone, slave or free, hid themselves in caves and behind the rocks in the mountains.

16“Fall on us!” they said to the mountains and rocks. “Hide us from the face of the one who sits on the seat of honor and from the anger of the Lamb. 17For the great day of their fierce anger has come, and who is able to stand against them?”

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