Revelation 6 Insights: From Conqueror to Terror

The book of Revelation Chapter 6-Amplified Version-Thoughts after the verses

The First Seal—The Conqueror

¹Then I saw as the Lamb (Christ) broke one of the seven seals [of the scroll initiating the judgments], and I heard one of the four living creatures call out as with a voice of thunder, “Come.”²I looked, and behold, a white horse [of victory] whose rider carried a bow; and a crown [of victory] was given to him, and he rode forth conquering and to conquer.

The Second Seal—War

³When He (the Lamb) broke the second seal, I heard the second living creature call out, “Come.” ⁴And another, a fiery red horse [of bloodshed], came out; and its rider was empowered to take peace from the earth, so that men would slaughter one another; and a great sword [of war and violent death] was given to him.

The Third Seal—Famine

⁵When He (the Lamb) broke open the third seal, I heard the third living creature call out, “Come.” I looked, and behold, a black horse [of famine]; and the rider had in his hand a pair of scales (a balance). ⁶And I heard something like a voice in the midst of the four living creatures saying, “A quart of wheat for a denarius (a day’s wages), and three quarts of barley for a denarius; and do not damage the oil and the wine.”

The Fourth Seal—Death

⁷When He (the Lamb) broke open the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature call out, “Come.”⁸So I looked, and behold, an ashen (pale greenish gray) horse [like a corpse, representing death and pestilence]; and its rider’s name was Death; and Hades (the realm of the dead) was following with him. They were given authority and power over a fourth part of the earth, to kill with the sword and with famine and with plague (pestilence, disease) and by the wild beasts of the earth.

The Fifth Seal—Martyrs

⁹When He (the Lamb) broke open the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of those who had been slaughtered because of the word of God, and because of the testimony which they had maintained [out of loyalty to Christ]. ¹⁰They cried in a loud voice, saying, “O Lord, holy and true, how long now before You will sit in judgment and avenge our blood on those [unregenerate ones] who dwell on the earth?” ¹¹Then they were each given a white robe; and they were told to rest and wait quietly for a little while longer, until the number of their fellow servants and their brothers and sisters who were to be killed even as they had been, would be completed.

The Sixth Seal—Terror

¹²I looked when He (the Lamb) broke open the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth [made] of hair, and the whole moon became like blood; ¹³and the stars of the sky fell to the earth, like a fig tree shedding its late [summer] figs when shaken by a strong wind. ¹⁴The sky was split [separated from the land] and rolled up like a scroll, and every mountain and island were dislodged and moved out of their places. ¹⁵Then the kings of the earth and the great men and the military commanders and the wealthy and the strong and everyone, [whether] slave or free, hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains; ¹⁶and they called to the mountains and the rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of Him who sits on the throne, and from the [righteous] wrath and indignation of the Lamb; ¹⁷for the great day of their wrath and vengeance and retribution has come, and who is able to [face God and] stand [before the wrath of the Lamb]?”

Let’s Talk

I think Chapter 6 is where many people start to get a little scared as we start to see the things that are going to happen to the earth. The seals are starting to be broken. Starting with the first-the conquerer. Then the second-war. This one would take peace from the earth and there will be even more war and death than there is now. Which is very scary. Then the third, famine; and the fourth, death. Everything just sounds so scary. The next is the Martyrs which was not scary like the others. Those who had been killed for the Lord’s sake were given a white robe and told to rest. And the last of this chapter-terror. This one is scary to think about. A great earthquake, mountains and islands moved out of their places, the moon becoming like blood and the starts falling from the sky. Woah.

What kind of revelations did you get from this verse? Is it starting to get scary yet?