"Now I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals....and I heard one of the four living creatures saying with a voice like thunder....'Come and see'....and I looked....and behold....a white horse....and he who sat on it had a bow....and a crown was given to him....and he went out conquering and to conquer." Revelation 6:1,2....NKJV
If you go back one chapter you see that this is a very momentous thing that is happening....the Lamb takes the scroll...."out of the right hand of Him who sat on the throne." The "four living creatures" and the "twenty-four elders" then fall down before the Lamb....and praise is given to the Lamb to the end of the chapter that concludes with...."And the twenty-four elders fell down and worshiped Him who lives forever and ever." (verses seven and fourteen)
And then it begins! But what begins? Well we know this...that all kinds of judgments follow....beginning with the four horses and the riders thereon....that we have come to label....the four horsemen of the Apocalypse.
The war and the famine and the death that comes from the riders on the red and the black and the pale horses are easily identifiable. It is the rider on the white horse that is not so easily identifiable.
The rider is given a bow....with no mention of arrows. Some interpret this to signify a man of peace? And then a crown is given to the rider. Some interpret this to mean that he becomes the leader of the whole world?
The pandemic has become nothing but politics today....and for evangelicals that was....keeping church doors open. The bad vaccination people are gone. John MacArthur once stood before his congregation and said...."There is no pandemic." I saw that with my own eyes....and heard that with my own ears. We....evangelicals....believed that Trump just had to stay in office....and no pandemic was going to keep him from it. It turned out to be a disaster upon a disaster. We are still fighting that battle today. Whatever way you might look at this....you must at least concede that the coronavirus upended the entire world....and just as it took Trump out of office in January of 2021....it helped put him back in office in January of 2025.
I posted the following in January of 2024...."So what is a....corona? The Merriam-Webster definition for corona is...."something suggesting a crown." OK....that could be the 'crown'...but what about the 'bow'? As I wrote in a previous post....(a post from January of 2023)...."The ancient Greek fighters would put poison on their arrows. They called this....toxikon pharmakon....the archery drug. The evolution of this whole thing has given us the word....toxic. Oxford's Word of the Year for 2018....before the pandemic....was....toxic. According to the Oxford website....'the Latin word itself....(toxicus)....came from the Greek term....toxon....meaning....bow.' So....coronavirus revolves around the word....crown....and the word....bow....basically means poison."
The white horse and its rider....can and should at least be looked at....as possibly pointing to the pandemic....which is the single biggest catastrophe in my lifetime of 75 years....and of which Donald Trump is tied to as Captain Ahab was tied to the white whale. Ahab previously had part of his leg severed by that white whale....and revenge drove him to kill that whale....just like Trump possibly had his second term severed by that white horse....and is now going out...."conquering....and to conquer." (verse two)
The real issue for us should not be in identifying the white horse.....as much as discerning that the seals of Revelation six....whether the white horse is the coronavirus or not....are being opened right now by the Lamb!
