Revelation is a strange book. It’s full of angels and demons and lions and lambs and horses and dragons... "and ghoulies and ghosties and long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night." In this message, things start to get a little bizarre as we study, "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse." 1. Christians ought to refrain from making end-of-the-world predictions. 2. The "four horsemen" are riding forth, will keep riding forth and have been riding forth for two thousand years. 3. ...
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18 Oct 2020
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Revelation is a strange book. It’s full of angels and demons and lions and lambs and horses and dragons... "and ghoulies and ghosties and long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night." In this message, things start to get a little bizarre as we study, "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse."
1. Christians ought to refrain from making end-of-the-world predictions. 2. The "four horsemen" are riding forth, will keep riding forth and have been riding forth for two thousand years. 3. Let every scene of conquest, every description of war and scarcity, every gruesome picture of death, be a warning to us of greater judgment. 4. Recognize and rest in the fact that all things are under God’s sovereign control.
Text: Revelation 6:1-8
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Francis Ford Coppola directed one of the most disturbing movies about the Vietnam War with a title straight out of the book of Revelation. Anybody know it? Apocalypse Now. The movie portrayed this war as crazed mayhem in which objectives are confused and morality is impossible.
In one scene, an American officer arrives in the midst of a firefight and shells are exploding everywhere. Machine Gun Tracers fill the air and the soldiers look wide-eyed and desperate and one of the officers comes up to the group and says, "Who's in charge here?" Nobody answers, which is Coppola's point in the film.
It's a scene out of hell with no direction, purpose or solution. The book of Revelation presents exactly the opposite understanding of the chaos and barbarism of human history. We're gonna be looking at the four horsemen of the apocalypse today in Revelation 6. Now the four horsemen of the apocalypse are part of our cultural imagination. Most people don't know it or where it comes from or what it means, but they've heard the language. In fact, if you did a quick internet search, you would discover some things about the four horsemen of the apocalypse. You would realize that it's a band, a group of writers, a movie, a novel, a WWF wrestling team from the '80s, video game, a set of action figures, a toy company, a group of Washington insiders and one website called the evil telecommunication companies of AT&T, Time Warner, Comcast and Verizon. They label them as the four horsemen of the apocalypse. Now before we get into chapter six and these four horsemen, I wanna recap what we've had so far because one of the challenges in studying a book to any kind of detail that you get so close
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Revelation is a strange book. It’s full of angels and demons and lions and lambs and horses and dragons... "and ghoulies and ghosties and long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night." In this message, things start to get a little bizarre as we study, "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse." 1. Christians ought to refrain from making end-of-the-world predictions. 2. The "four horsemen" are riding forth, will keep riding forth and have been riding forth for two thousand years. 3. ...
