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White Horse Rider Questions
Q. USA: I have just a few thoughts and questions when you have the time on the Revelation series. By the way I have been having extreme dreams during the night, I just can’t get the things we discuss out of my head. I have put together a little flow chart of what we have discussed. This helps me visualize the seven seals better. By no way is it complete since we are just getting into the fifth seal.

A. That is intense, when you are dreaming about the message! A flow chart is a great idea. Please share that with me when it is complete.

Q. One item has been nagging me for quite sometime and that is: of all the riders the white horse rider is the only one that is a person. Why is that? Why would Yah have the first seal be a person (forerunner) and still be called a rider?

A. He does stuff like that so that you can't create a systematic code to decipher prophecy with your natural mind. You can only get it by the Holy Spirit illuminating the Scriptures. In this case the victorious rider with a bow is from the Psalms and is the friend-of-the-Bridegroom/forerunner, an actual person [Psalm 45/Tsiyon Program #131]. The other riders have no verses identifying them as actual persons. In fact, we are told the 4th rider is 'Death' personified - not therefore an actual person at all. The riders of seals 2 and 3 are not named as specific persons anywhere in Scripture since they too are figurative.

Q. I looked for the Hebrew definition of the number four then I looked for the definition of horsemen and then I went to Genesis to recall what Yah created on the fourth day. The number four is creation of the world in this time, which makes sense because Yah is dealing with creation and how the world is at the present time. The four horsemen are dealing with creation in some form. In Genesis Yah made the distinction between evening and morning …..darkness and light. I see the four horsemen doing the same distinguishing between light and darkness.

A. Very interesting study ..good job!

Q. Question, is horseman the right translation in revelation or should it be charioteer? It may not make a difference as pertaining to what they do but in my mind a charioteer is more of a warrior type than a horseman or a man riding a horse. But then again the scriptures mention “He who sat on it, or one who sat on it…etc." So yes I understand "sat" but in Hebrew could that sat be really sat in? Just something in my head.

A. The word is 'hippos' which means horse. They are definitely riding horses. The Greek word for chariot is harmah. This word is not in the Revelation verses.

Q. Okay, okay one more then I am done for now. What is your best answer to why the angels in Revelation are not named and are just mentioned as angels?

A. The book is called "Revelation" for a reason. It is written this way so the "good guys" will get the answers but the "bad guys" won't get it.

Daniel 12:9 He said, Go your way, Daniel; for the words are shut up and sealed until the time of the end.
10 Many shall purify themselves, and make themselves white, and be refined; but the wicked shall do wickedly; and none of the wicked shall understand; but those who are wise shall understand.
 

Conclusion

Shalom in Messiah,

Eliyahu ben David
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