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Unveiled! Breaking the Seals…Revelation 6
Revelation 6:1-17 CSB
1] Then I saw the Lamb open one of the seven seals, and I heard one of the four living creatures say with a voice like thunder, "Come!"
2] I looked, and there was a white horse. Its rider held a bow; a crown was given to him, and he went out as a conqueror in order to conquer.
Chapters 4 & 5 set the platform for the only One worthy to finish h__________ as we know it. He break the s________ then open the s___________.
Some see God in the OT as vengeful and wrathful and God in the NT as gracious, forgiving, and loving. God is always the same. He does not change. Grace in the OT and righteous wrath in the NT.
Numbers 23:19, I Samuel 15:29, James 1:17, Hebrews 13:8
Who is the rider on the white horse?
3] When he opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature say, "Come!" 4] Then another horse went out, a fiery red one, and its rider was allowed to take peace from the earth, so that people would slaughter one another. And a large sword was given to him.
Who does the rider on the red horse represent?
5] When he opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, "Come!" And I looked, and there was a black horse. Its rider held a set of scales in his hand. [6] Then I heard something like a voice among the four living creatures say, "A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius, but do not harm the oil and the wine."
What does the rider on the black horse represent? What do the scales represent? What does the saying about food products represent?
I_________________ and I__________________.
7] When he opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature say, "Come!"
8] And I looked, and there was a pale green horse. Its rider was named Death, and Hades was following after him. They were given authority over a fourth of the earth, to kill by the sword, by famine, by plague, and by the wild animals of the earth.
What does the rider on the green horse represent? The rider is named and so is someone following him.
9] When he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slaughtered because of the word of God and the testimony they had given.
10] They cried out with a loud voice, "Lord, the one who is holy and true, how long until you judge those who live on the earth and avenge our blood?"
11] So they were each given a white robe, and they were told to rest a little while longer until the number would be completed of their fellow servants and their brothers and sisters, who were going to be killed just as they had been.
The fifth seal opening is a significant shift from the first four seals.
Who is the focus of the opening of this seal?
What is their cry or question?
What were they given and what were they told to do?
Don’t miss the sovereignty that there is a sovereign number of believers who will be k_______________ before God finishes history.
12] Then I saw him open the sixth seal. A violent earthquake occurred; the sun turned black like sackcloth made of hair; the entire moon became like blood;
13] the stars of heaven fell to the earth as a fig tree drops its unripe figs when shaken by a high wind;
14] the sky was split apart like a scroll being rolled up; and every mountain and island was moved from its place.
This seal being broken is the most i____________ seal so far and has not yet happened.
15] Then the kings of the earth, the nobles, the generals, the rich, the powerful, and every slave and free person hid in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains. 16] And they said to the mountains and to the rocks, "Fall on us and hide us from the face of the one seated on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb,
17] because the great day of their wrath has come! And who is able to stand?"
What kind of people is the focus in vs. 15-17?
What did these people do? What did they say?
What does what they say reveal about their heart and soul?
What is the contrast between these two groups of people in this chapter?
Vs 1-2 seals scroll
Vs 5-6 inflation inequity
Vs 12-14 intense