Insight from Revelation 6:<\/p>\n
In this chapter the Lamb begins opening the seals in the scroll. The scroll, again, is the plan by which God will forever end the rebellion on earth and cause worship to take place on earth as it takes place in heaven. As the Lamb opens the seals, God begins pouring his wrath out on the earth! Mankind is being punished for its rebellion! However, even in the midst of this wrath being poured out, the reader can see mercy. The judgments in this chapter are limited. People are being given a chance to repent. The chapter ends with humans on earth crying out to the mountains, \u201cFall on us and hide us from the face of him who is seated on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb, for the great day of their wrath has come, and who can stand?\u201d. The day of the Lord has come! This is a reference to the time period when everything is brought low and God alone is exalted. The Old Testament prophets spoke many, many times about the day of the Lord. For the saints, this is a day of great hope and expectation. For the world, it should bring great dread, for all who do not repent will be crushed.<\/p>\n
This chapter speaks of four different horses and riders. Each of these brings disaster of one kind or another to the earth. In the same way that the reader of the Exodus story is not to focus too heavily on any one plague, the reader of Revelation shouldn\u2019t focus too heavily on any one horse or rider. These are symbols that are meant to be considered together. They are a picture of the destruction coming upon the earth because of its rebellion against God.<\/p>\n
As is clear from 6:9\u201311, the church is still on earth at this time. For this reason, Christians need assurance that God has not forgotten about his church. How is he protecting the church during this time period of wrath? Will they, like the world, be destroyed by God\u2019s wrath? This very important question about the protection of the church is answered in Revelation 7.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"give_campaign_id":0,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_crdt_document":""},"class_list":["post-4743","reading-plan","type-reading-plan","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/handstotheplow.org\/om\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reading-plan\/4743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/handstotheplow.org\/om\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reading-plan"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/handstotheplow.org\/om\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/reading-plan"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/handstotheplow.org\/om\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}