8th Episode - The Seven Seals from Revelation 6:1-17; 8:1-2

 Private Jones was assigned to the Army Induction Center. His job was to advise new recruits about their benefits, especially Serviceman’s Life Insurance (SLI), which could be upgraded for an annual premium. It wasn’t long before his Officer noticed that Jones had a near 100% sales record. This had never happened before. So his Officer decided to listen in. Jones explained SLI’s basic coverage to the recruits, and then said, “If you have SLI Upgrade and go into battle and are killed, the government has to pay $70,000 to your beneficiaries. If you don’t, they only pay $6,000.” “Now,” he concluded, “which ones do you think they are going to send into battle first?” 

In Revelation chapters two and three, we saw things in the churches. In four and five, we saw things in heaven. Now from chapter six onwards, Christ shows “His servants the things that must soon take place.” These are the things in the Seals, Trumpets and Bowls, the prophetic content of Revelation. The Seals begin with the famous ‘Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse’ who ride into battle. But who do you think rides into battle first? Who is the White Horse Rider? That is a big question for interpreting the Seals. Interpreters go, like horses, in different directions to answer.  Some say the White Horse is the anti-Christ! But God sent His only Son into the world to overcome death by dying to save all who believe. We provide an abundance of evidence that Christ rides first from Heaven.