The 4 Apocalyptic Horsemen
God has a plan for the world. That plan is written down in a scroll sealed with 7 Seals.
The description of the contents of this scroll can be found in the "Book of Revelation"
No one could strip and open this Scroll except Jesus Christ.
Through the opening of the scroll God's plan with the world is set in motion.
The breaking of every Seal announces a world event as we shall see.
Every Seal, after being opened, continues to work in the world until Jesus Christ establishes the 1000-year Kingdom on earth...
The description of the events during the opening of the first 6 Seals is found in the Book of Revelation chapter 6.
We think we have discovered that Christ has opened some of the Seals in the meantime !
Could it be that the attitude of the Vatican is the reason for the opening of each Seal ?
Are there certain historical figures, people therefore, each connected to a supernatural power, involved in the opening of the first 4 Seals ?
The first 4 Seals relate to the 4 apocalyptic Horsemen who must cross the world one by one.
They are supernatural entities, which circulate in the invisible on earth, and have a human counterpart in our physical world.
When Christ breaks the 1st Seal the text reads:
"I saw, and behold, a white horse, and he that sat on it had a bow, and a crown was given him, and he went forth, conquering and to conquer."
From this description, it is clear that this is an entity from the army of God.
White in the Bible is the color of purity and righteousness.
The Rider on the white horse achieves Christian victories. The Archangel Michael is associated with victory in the Bible.
The human counterpart of the Rider on the white horse is, we think, the Roman Emperor Constantine.
He began his victories in the name of and under the sign of Jesus Christ in 312 AD.
Therefore we think, that the 1st Seal was opened in that same year.
Under his reign, the persecution of Christians came to an end and the Council of Nicea was held (AD 325).
He had the first version of St. Peter's built in Rome on the Vatican Hill.
This definitively laid the foundation of the later Vatican as a place and institution of power.
Is the creation of the Vatican therefore a direct result of the opening of the 1st Seal ?
After Christ opens the 2nd Seal the text reads:
"A second, a reddish horse, came, and him that sat on it was given to take away the peace of the earth,
and that they should slaughter one another, and to him was given a great sword."
A Seal of bloody wars, violent bloodshed and slaughter in which the god of war Mars is a specialist !
In 1095 Pope Urban II called for the first crusade.
Spreading Christianity by fire and sword is not the task Jesus gave to His disciples.
Evangelization must happen through preaching it says in Mark, chapter 16.
Biblically-prophetically, this could have been the direct reason for the opening of the 2nd Seal in 1187 AD.
The human counterpart of the Rider on the red horse resembles the Muslim leader Saladin.
In 1187, a Crusader army was crushed by Saladin's army at Hattin, near Jerusalem.
Jerusalem then immediately fell to Saladin and remained in the hands of the Muslims until the 20th century.
Peace had been taken away from the world !
An endless series of wars, conflicts and massacres, which only increased over the centuries, then flooded the world to this day.
Christ opens the 3rd Seal and it says:
"I saw, and behold, a black horse, and he that sat on it had a scale in his hand.
And I heard as a voice in the midst of the four animals saying, One measure of wheat for a shilling and three measures of barley for a shilling;
and be pure and commit no fraud concerning the oil and the wine."
Is the 3rd Seal characterized by a false scale, money sigh, fraud, corruption and exploitation?
The Rider on the black horse closely resembles the supernatural power Mercury, known as the god of commerce, list and deception..
We suspect that Columbus may be the human counterpart of this Horseman.
Could it be that the 3rd Seal was opened in 1492 ? In that year Columbus discovered America.
Since then, the colonization and exploitation of many countries and peoples and the introduction of (Western) slavery have been fully under way.
Indeed, by the end of the 15th century, there was a growing world-wide exaltation of the Church of Rome and of the Vatican as a leading institution.
Corruption, simony (think of the trade in indulgences) and the desire for money and gold were commonplace.
Columbus was in fact sent out by the Vatican simply as a gold-seeking explorer.
The effects of this Seal are also lasting and unmistakable to this day.
The 4th Seal is opened by Christ and it says:
"I saw, and behold, a pale horse, and he that sat thereon, his name was death, and the kingdom of death followed behind him.
And to them was given power over the fourth part of the earth to kill, with the sword, with hunger, with black death, and by the wild beasts of the earth."
As means of killing are mentioned: The sword (war and violence), famine, the black death (plague and infectious diseases), and wild animals.
In the Bible, the wild animals are also often symbols of the powers of evil.
Was the 4th Seal opened by Jesus in 1933 ?
The Horseman on the pale horse and his helper (Death and the Kingdom of the Dead) resemble the supernatural powers Thanatos and Hades.
The human pendants of them could indicate the Nazi leaders Hitler and Himmler.
Both were extremely interested in occult matters, such as spiritualism.
From the middle of the 19th century there was a huge revival of spiritualism in the West. Also in Germany.
Hitler and Himmler managed to get the entire German people to participate in a spiritist/pagan ritual on November 9, 1933:
"The Night of Death." This was repeated every year thereafter on November 9.
Also in 1933, the Vatican made a pact with Nazi Germany.
They wanted to embrace Hitler as an "outstanding" new patron of the R.K. Church.
The Vatican therefore did not oppose the establishment of concentration camps and the conduct of raids by the Nazis during WW II.
WWII was extremely destructive and deadly (70 million dead), of which 11 million were in death camps.
This came to an ultimate climax when the US dropped two atomic bombs on Japan in 1945.
This is a Seal of Death on a grand scale which also includes genocide (for example the Jews).
Abortion and euthanasia, once started in Nazi Germany, are today legalized in many countries and most certainly fall under the 4th Seal.
The 5th Seal is different from the previous 4 Seals.
This is the Seal of the Martyrs and Worldwide Christian persecutions.
There is no supernatural power and therefore no human counterpart.
When this Seal is broken, a very large group of already murdered Christians in Heaven complain:
How long must we wait, before we are avenged ?
After all, they have just witnessed the great numbers of victims of WWII.
They get the answer, that they still have to wait a certain time, until the number is full of their fellow brothers, who like them are going to be killed because of their faith.
In Croatia, the Vatican supported the fascist leader Ante Pavelic, who ordered massacres of Orthodox Christian Serbs.
He had concentration camps established, where Jews, Gypsies, Communists and Orthodox Christian Serbs were beastly treated and murdered.
And exactly this Pavelic had been received at a private audience by Pope Pius XII on May 18, 1941, and had even received the papal blessing.
Such a papal blessing, if it does not serve God, can turn into a curse !
We suspect that this active role of the Vatican, was the reason for the opening of the 5th Seal in 1948...
We arrived at 1948 because that is when structurally severe Christian persecution broke out in North Korea.
The Christian persecution then went worldwide and continues to this day.
This started the countdown to the return of Christ !
We have summarized the opening of the 6th Seal in the chapter " The 6th Seal."