Sun.’s Devo - The Six Seals

Read: Micah 1-4:13; Revelation 6:1-17; Psalm 134:1-3; Proverbs 30:1-4
Micah’s name means “who is like Jehovah?” He was the prophet who identified as the Lord. He came from the town of Moresheth which was taken by the Philistines for a time. He lived and prophesied during the reigns of Jotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah when Israel and Judah were in spiritual decay. Samaria had set up golden calves and idols which competed with true worship of Yahweh. He began by addressing the earth to witness what God was saying against his people. God was coming down to judge the mountains (leaders) and the valleys (the lowly) for their sins.
God was going to bring disaster upon the ones who plotted evil against others, but he would gather his remnant as a shepherd gathers his sheep into the sheepfold. The false prophets and those who ministered to the people for money but had no heart for God would be plowed like a field.
In the last days, God would establish his kingdom above all the other kingdoms of the earth. God’s people will know who they are and walk in authority and power. We will be redeemed out of the hand of the enemy and the wealth of the earth will be the Lord’s.
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 Nicolaitians. 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 on a pale horse. His name was Death and Hell was with him. Constantine gave the false church power over politics and religion. The false doctrine was 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.