The Great Ribulation
David Chilton
David Chilton
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THE FOUR HORSEMEN ~<br />
logical order. For example, in the Fifth Seal-after<br />
all the havoc wreaked by the Four Horsemen – the<br />
martyrs calling for judgment are told to wait. But<br />
the judgment is immediately poured out in the Sixth<br />
Seal, the entire creation %nseam’d from the nave to<br />
the chaps.” Yet, after all this, God commands the<br />
angels to withhold judgment until the servants of<br />
God are protected (7:3). Obviously, the Seals are not<br />
meant to represent a progressive chronology. It is<br />
more likely that they reveal the main ideas of the<br />
book’s contents, the major themes of the judgments<br />
that came upon Israel during the Last Days, between<br />
.4.m 30-70.<br />
Several commentators have observed the close<br />
structural similarity between the six Seals of this<br />
chapter and the events of the so-called Little Apoca-<br />
@e-Jesus’ discourse recorded in Matthew 24,<br />
Mark 13, and Luke 21– which, as we have already<br />
seen, foretells the fall of Jerusalem in A.D. 70 (see<br />
Chapters 1 and 2, above). As the outlines below<br />
demonstrate, all these passages essentially deal with<br />
the same basic subjects:<br />
Revelation 6<br />
1. War (w. 1-2)<br />
2. International strife (w. 3-4)<br />
3. Famine (w. 5-6)<br />
4. Pestilence (w. 7-8)<br />
5. Persecution (w. 9-11)<br />
6. Earthquake; De-creation (w. 12-17)