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The End Time Riders Pale Horse – Week 38 / September 15th
” Come and see………….”
Revelation 6:7-8
Over the last three weeks we have examined the significance and importance of three End a Time Riders. These “Riders” go out into the world as instruments of God’s judgment because of blasphemy, sin, rebellion and rejection of His love for them in Christ. This judgment involves deception, war, famine and financial failure. Matthew twenty-four gives us an almost identical picture as Jesus spoke of these things in His Olivet Discourse. We should heed these things and respond appropriately, which for Jesus, meant being filled with the Spirit and ready and waiting for His coming. This is the abiding message of His parable of the Ten Virgins. We, knowing these things must not become foolish virgins!
Our devotional for this week examines:
The Pale Horse of Death. ( Revelation 6:7-8) As with the previous horses and their riders John is invited to “come and see.” What he sees is a “shadowy horse” with a rider who in every way is a “grim reaper.” The horse and its rider mediates death to the world on a scale that is horrifying to say the least. A quarter of humanity dies in the wake of its journey through the earth! That is, one and a half billion people and they die at the hands of war, famine, disease and wild beasts. This reality brings into focus the awful condition of the human race and the issue of death. That is, what is it and how is it defeated? The truth is:
1. Death is the consequences of rebellion against God. (Romans 6:23 )
2. Death is not annihilation but eternal separation from God. (2 Thessalonians 1:9-10)
3. Death is not the end of the matter but just the beginning. We are eternal beings and death means being cut off from God our creator for all eternity. (1 John 5:12)
4. Death should not be a human condition as the abode of death, called hell in the scriptures, was prepared for the Devil and his angels. (Matthew 25:41)
5. Death is followed by judgment and therefore it is vital that every human being face this issue squarely before their physical demise. (Hebrews 9:27)
6. Death has been defeated by what Jesus did for each one of us on the cross. That is, His death for our sins on the cross has purchased forgiveness and reconciliation to God our Father for all the world; but what He did for us has to be personally appropriated by repentance and faith. (John 3:16; Acts 2:22-40; Romans 5:1)
7. Death has no power over the true believer in and follower of Christ; it has been defeated! It may claim our physical bodies at the end of our days, however that end may be, but we will reclaim our bodies in the resurrection when Jesus comes again and then we shall forever be with the Lord. (1 Corinthians 15:50-58; 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18)
The sad truth is that the vast majority of the human race will reject God’s love in Jesus and thereby fall under the sword, in this way and that, of the rider of the Pale Horse. Jesus put it this way, many will travel the broad road to destruction and few will find the narrow road to life. (Matthew 7:13) Not because the narrow road is hidden but because it requires humility, repentance and the call to own Jesus as one’s Lord and Savior to travel by it. For many, too many, this is a price in life too high to pay; consequently the “grim reaper” will harvest them! Come and see…………..
Malcolm Hedding.
©Malcolm Hedding Ministries
2014Devotional