THE FOUR HORSEMEN OF THE APOCALYPSE AND THE BLOOD MOON

Today's Reading: Revelation 6

Key Verse: Revelation 6:12b, 16-17

The moon became like blood… And [they] said to the mountains and rocks, "Fall on us and hide us from the face of Him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb! For the great day of His wrath has come, and who is able to stand?"

The Lamb opens the first seal, releasing the first of seven plagues upon the earth. The imagery of the first four is powerfully vivid: horses of different colours and their riders, all symbolizing war and its tragic results.

A white horse appears rides out to conquer. Then a red horse follows, whose rider holds a large sword and the power to take peace from the earth. Next, a black horse enters, its rider holding scales in his hand. This rider announces an exorbitant price for wheat, indicating famine prices, the sorrowful result of war. The fourth is a pale horse, ridden by Death itself, symbolizing the disease and casualties of war and famine. The fifth seal reveals the multitudes slain in war because of their "testimony" (verse 9). The opening of the sixth seal introduces ominous cosmic disaster: a great earthquake, a blackened sun, a blood-red moon, falling stars, and a vanishing sky (verses 12-14). The "great day of God's wrath has come."

PRAYER FOR TODAY:

Lord, we realize that You are a God of perfect love, but also perfect justice and You punish all sin. We repent of all sin and evil in our lives and ask that we will be cleansed through the shed blood of Your Son, our Saviour, Jesus Christ. Amen!

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