Sat.’s Devo - The Seals

Read: Micah 1:1-4:13; Revelation 6:1-17; Psalm 134:1-3; Proverbs 30:1-4
We have one more prophet saying the same thing that the other prophets have all said. Micah got a word for Samaria, the capital of Israel and Jerusalem, the capital of Judah. Because both were the places of worship and both had been turned over to idolatrous worship and sin, they would both be brought to nothing. Micah listed the infractions against them. They planned iniquity and plotted evil on their beds. When judgment came, they would call out to the Lord and he would not listen to their cries until their sentence was over. Then, in the last days, God will reestablish his temple on the temple mount and their will be peace on the earth. A great harvest will be reaped from the earth and the wealth of the wicked will be the Lords.
In Revelation, the six seals were opened. Each seal coincided with that church age. The first seal opened with a rider on a white horse who had a bow with no arrow. He was given a crown but his goal was to conquer. All the riders of the first three seals stand for the spirt of the antichrist. He began as a teacher who taught the false doctrine of the Nicolatians. This was the enemy of the first church age and all the church ages to come. The next horse was red and power was given to him to take peace from the earth. He had a great sword. This was the age where Constantine made Christianity the world religion and enforced his religion on the people. The pope stood as the false prophet of the ages. The third seal opened with a black horse and his rider held a pair of balances in his hand. The spiritual food and money was measured out in meager amounts to the people. But the true church still had the oil of the Holy Spirit and the Wine. On the earth during that time there were many wars and famines. The fourth seal was opened with its rider riding a pale horse. His name was Death and Hell was with him. Constantine gave the false church power over to politics and religion. We find that the false doctrine is revealed as death which leads to hell not heaven. He is the mixture of the first three horses.
The fifth seal opens with the souls of the martyrs of the Reformers that gave their lives for the truth. The fifth seal coincides with the Church of Philadelphia which was the only church that wasn’t rebuked. The sixth seal opens tribulation on the earth. We have been living through this for a while. We refer to them as birth pains. They are to awaken the Bride to her identity. The Bride will be taken before the Great Tribulation begins.
Lord, help us to have discernment in these last days.