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THE BOOK OF REVELATION: M. M. NINAN THE FOUR HORSES AND ITS RIDERS The general approach in interpreting the four horsemen and their riders is to explain it as released by the lamb as the various seals are broken. Hence it is the result of Jesus’ action. As the gospel is proclaimed it releases oppositions or these are what is intentionally released by the gospel. War and famine and persecutions are the direct result of the gospel But there is an alternate approach possible. There is only one scroll which are sealed with seven seals. These seven seals represents seven occupiers of the earth taken over from Adam. So we should realize that the breakage of the seal releases the earth from the occupiers of earth. The horses and the riders that are released at the breaking of each seal represent each of those occupiers who refuse to yield the heritage of Adam to his descendants. I have not come across this approach anywhere else. However this interpretation has greater implication in the character of God and Jesus. While God allows evil and people and groups of people may be characterized as the demons or devils or even Satan, because God has created the cosmos to be filled with free beings. While every evil has its evil consequences it is not God who causes it to happen. All creation is interconnected and acts as one living being with God himself as the crown. If one part turns cancerous the creation along with God pains. The function of God in all this is the process of recreation and redemption the best possible way with the least damage. The basic reality is that sin and evil destroys itself. This is very much the Karma Theory that everything has its consequence. But there is a law above the Karma, the grace of God and the love of God which redeems even the greatest sinner by God by giving Himself. God suffers with his creation is something we rarely find elsewhere. It is not a play for God because He is involved in the physical, mental and spiritual pain of the creation itself. In my approach the riders of the horses are the people and tribes and nations that have taken the initiative to subjugate and keep all men in slavery. As long as one person has this selfish initiative, there will be damage to every one each in its order of nearness to the evil ones. My interpretation hence is that as the lamb opens the seal, that evil person or the evil in its abstractness takes offence and goes over to defend itself to keep mankind in its slavery mode. Thus we have the four seals broken corresponding to four forms of slavery and sickness within the body of God and the Cosmic beings. 122
THE BOOK OF REVELATION: M. M. NINAN First seal (6:1) a white horse, its rider holds a bow – the intellectual overlords. Second seal (6:3) a red horse, its rider holds a sword – the aggressive lordship Third seal (6:5) a black horse, its rider holds a pair of scales – the economic control Fourth seal (6:7) a pale horse, its rider is called Death – the actual physical subordination and famishing. I would not like to place these into definite historic periods as the historicist or preterist try to do. These subjugation of man in its fallen nature will continue to exert itself along side of the Gospel of the Kingdom. 123
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