Revelation chapter 6 verse one and two tonight, 2 verses only.
He's going to deal with certain individual.
Now I saw when the Lamb Jesus, so we're in heaven.
Remember when the Lamb opened one of the seals?
We know what the seal is scroll title deed of planet Earth and
he breaks open the seal and I heard one of the four living
creatures, the cherubim though around the throne remember
saying with a voice like Thunder.
Imagine having a voice that sounds like Thunder come and
see. Actually in the in the original
Greek it just says come, come. And I looked and behold, a White
Horse. He who sat on it had a bow and a
crown was given to him. So he was given the position to
rule and he went out conquering and to conquer.
So who is this rider on the White Horse?
There are some who've tried to tie him into that being the
second coming of Jesus Christ, who in Revelation 19 he comes
riding in on a White Horse and they go wow, see it's the same,
must be same horse, same guy. No?
And some real problems exist if you believe that firstly, the
coming of Jesus on a White Horse does not happen until chapter
19, which is at the end of the tribulation period, seven years
judgement, outpouring of God's judgement and wrath upon the
planet earth. The White Horse in chapter 6 is
followed by the red horse of war, which we'll get into on
Sunday, and then the Black Horse of famine and the White Horse of
death. Jesus doesn't bring famine,
death and war with him when he on his return.
Jesus, remember, in 19, is coming to what?
Abolish war? He's the Prince of Peace.
When he comes back, the prophet says they shall beat their
swords into ploughshares, their Spears into pruning hooks, and
they shall study war no more. Be the end of war.
There will be an agricultural surplus at the coming of Christ
when Jesus returns. Speaking of that day, the
prophet Isaiah said, and Isaiah 5155 verse one, ho everyone that
first come you to the waters, He that has no money come.
You buy and eat. Yes, come buy wine and milk
without money, without price, because during the tribulation
period, those things won't be available.
You'll only be able to buy and sell if you have the mark.
And if you have the mark, you're going to go to hell, you're not
going to go to heaven. And only the rich will be able
to delve into wine and luxurious items like that.
So the White Horse rider in chapter 6, verses 1 and 2 is
what's known as the Antichrist. The word anti means basically in
place of so he's a counterfeit, he's a pretend.
He's doing everything that he can to look like the real thing.
That's what counterfeit is, isn't it?
You know, I don't know about you, but when colour
photocopiers came out, everyone, I, I did used to get the balls
and cents and photocopy them because it came out.
Look at that, load my wallet up and go check out that baby, see
how much money's in there. And I was all counterfeit.
No one else used to do that. Well anyway.
And so it's to look like the real, but it's not the real.
And so the Antichrist, he is going to deceive.
That's his art craft. He's going to deceive the world
into thinking that he is the Messiah, Antichrist, the
counterfeit Christ, and thus it would only be fitting that he
comes with the disguise of the White Horse.
That's why he comes with a White Horse, because the White Horse,
when he first comes into rule, means he'll bring a period, only
a short period, but initially he'll bring a period of
seemingly peace, the cessation of war, not like the peace that
Christ is going to bring where he ends war completely.
So have you, as you look at the counterfeit, you see how well
that fits with the whole picture.
Now, some of you might say, well, OK, well, why are we even
looking at the Antichrist? Why are we studying the
Antichrist? I mean, we should be just
looking for the Jesus for Jesus Christ, absolutely.
But here's the deal. The Bible says in Two
Corinthians 2 Timothy 316 that all Scripture is given by
inspiration and the Bible tells us all these things about the
Antichrist. He's mentioned and Daniel he's
mentioned back back as far back as Genesis and through we have
spirits of Antichrist. We have types of all the way
through. Then we have him in great
detail. So the Bible has him here.
So that's why we study him. Why?
Because the Bible tells us to go and look at him don't know about
him. This rider on the White Horse
will have personally the power of Satan working through him and
he is given that's the crown that he has rule of the world by
Satan. Adam lost it when he disobeyed
God and he obeyed Satan. Satan then became Small G, the
God of this world in charge. When Jesus was driven into the
wilderness, 40 days and 40 nights, Satan offered him the
world because he could. He owned it.
He ran it. Gee, if you just bow down and
worship me, Jesus said, I ain't going to do that.
But he gives this power to this person, this individual who is a
man. He's not a super creature, he's
a man, but he has empowered. He's a man, but he's empowered
by the power of Satan, and the Antichrist will have a very
gifted charisma that will warm the Western world's political
leaders and the masses, the people along with them, the
world leaders will go this guy, hear him speak, listen to him.
He is amazing, he is brilliant, he is intelligent, and what he
says will work. It will it will happen and the
people of the world will go along with the governments.
He will be one of the most gifted orators the world will
have ever seen or heard. In Daniel Chapter 7 versus verse
8, Daniel is writing in his writing of this period of the
Antichrist, and he says I was considering the horns and there
was another horn a little 1 coming up among them, for whom
before whom three of the four first horns were plucked out by
the roots. This is Speaking of empires,
nations. The reformed Roman Empire, the
only empire that was not defeated.
Babylonians were defeated, Persians defeated them, and
Persians were defeated. The Greeks defeated them and the
Romans came. The Romans defeated the Greeks,
but the Romans just fell apart. And so Daniel tells us that this
world leader is going to come from a reformed.
If you read through Daniel carefully, A reformed, A
renewed, a reinvigorated Roman Empire of the European Union.
We call the Union today. You go to Europe now you can
travel across all the border. The borders are down.
You're in Europe, EU citizen. They have EU currency, they have
EU parliament. And here Daniel is saying that
three of the nations that are part of the EU as we see it
today will just surrender completely their rule.
They just say we don't need a Prime Minister, we don't need to
come you, you run us. You're just so good.
We give absolute sovereignty over to you.
So that's these horns. And then this little horn in
this horn where eyes like the eyes of a man, a mouth speaking
pompous words, pompous words. He man, he can just rattle off.
He can, he can speak. Now, you remember when Obama
came to power in the US, the gift that Obama had was his
oration. He just, he just drew people his
capacity to speak. He was a world leader.
Well, he's going to make Obama sound like a kindergarten kid
with a stutter, a mouse speaking pompous words is Daniel 7/25.
He shall speak pompous words against the Most high.
He will be speaking words saying we don't need any sovereignty or
God or whatever spirit we can I, I'll tell you what we're going
to. This is how we're going to
change the world. You speak pompous words against
the Most high. Somehow the Antichrist will
rationally also is a problem. Explain the sudden disappearance
of millions of Christians around the world because the Antichrist
is not going to come to power. The first horse rider in chapter
6, he's not coming to power because in chapter 4,
Revelation, the church is raptured.
John is in heaven. He sees the throne.
Then in chapter 5, we celebrate the church is in heaven, singing
a song that only the church can do.
We talked about that on Sunday from every tribe, tongue, and
nation. It's not the Jews, it's the
church. And then because the church is
in heaven now, the Antichrist is allowed by God to take over this
position, this rule, and he will come up with an explanation that
will describe the disappearance, Lord willing, of all of us
gathered here tonight. Somehow he'll weave it into his
propaganda. Now, propaganda.
I want to tell you I how long I went to Germany.
Last year I went to Nuremberg and I wanted to go to Germany
specifically because I wanted to know how could such a an amazing
intelligent nation, Germans turn into a Holocaust nation?
How could that happen? What drove them?
And I learnt when we learnt, when we're in Germany, in
Nuremberg in particular, the power of propaganda.
It was what drove and drove and trained and and and taught and
drilled the people until by the time, so 12 years old, you're in
part, you join the Workers Party.
So everyone's working. And the reason that we're all
working and the reason Germany has lost all their land, the
reason that they're poor, the reason that we happen to do this
is because the Jews caused World War One.
The Jews now run all the money in the world.
We're starving, we're poor and it was a Jews fault for World
War One. That's why we lost all their
land. That's why we're doing this.
And then at the age of 14, you then join Hitler Youth and the
Hitler Youth, you're becoming a paramilitary.
And it's the Jews that might have made you, your parents who
suffered and died during World War One.
And and it was the Jews that caused the conflict.
And that's why we're having to stir up, we've been just robbed,
we've been pillaged and it was the Jews fault.
And then by the age of 18, they're automatically gone into
the army. So by the time they're 18 and
they're in the army, they're ready to kill every Jew.
They have a hatred and it's propaganda.
It was Goebbels and all those crew, They actually worked at
it. The way they plan the events.
You see them in in some of the news reels and it's followed on
from the Roman Empire and they have the banners.
And they would have, yeah, a lot of Bavarians are not the blonde
headed and blue eyed people. Most of the senior officers in
the German army and the SS were not that way inclined.
They're quite large because they eat, drink, drink a lot of beer
and eat a lot of sausages and stuff like that.
Pork that was. So they were over in the dark.
And so in the front was choreographed blonde hair,
blonde hair, 6 foot, 6 foot blue eye.
Come here to the front film this film.
That's why they filmed it all. And they would at Nuremberg,
where they had this great yearly event, Hitler would then have
the lights go up around this huge area, this fear, with this
hundreds of thousands of people who've been trained in.
And they would set the lights up and done at night to make it
look like a cathedral, a church service.
So much so was the power required.
They had to actually build a powerhouse nearby just to run it
for that service. We visited the powerhouse and
and then Hitler would come out and they looked upon him and the
way the light shone. He's the Messiah.
He was the Messiah for Germany. And when John talks about the
spirit of Antichrist coming to the world, Hitler and so on and
go back and go back in time right through.
And that's the spirit of Antichrist.
But this is the Antichrist. This is the one.
They're all types and shadows, but this fella and somehow he
will convince the remaining world population after the
church has been raptured that God has judged the Christians
think about this for allegedly being and doesn't it fit in with
today's time being too intolerant?
We're not loving anymore us Christians who are in the word
of God. I mean, we don't tolerate.
We haven't adapted, we haven't changed.
We're bigots with this with that and too judge mental So God got
rid of him yeah now he has the opportunity to say with his
false prophet he is right hand man his gobbles who's going to
be gifted and be able to call fire down from heaven.
Paul tells us he will say what we'll do now in place now that
they're gone, we can start a world of faith because we don't
need that sort of religion. We'll have a world faith.
And the false prophet healed. The American people go, wow, he
is the Messiah. The false prophet will call fire
down from heaven and point to the Antichrist, and people go
and they'll worship him as the Antichrist, the Messiah, in
place of the original. Since Christians all over the
world will disappear instantaneously.
He can explain that God has punished them.
Now he must commit to one in unity and government, in
religion or faith. And also, now that they've gone
peace, the other ones, it was them that all caused all the
wars. And often have you heard that?
Secondly, his platform the White Horse brings is peace.
As I said, he doesn't come on in a harsh way.
He comes with peace, he says. And by the way, I'm going to
call Israel together, the Muslim nations, they've been at war for
years. I have a way that we can bring
them together. We can finally solve the
conflict. And isn't that what wouldn't
someone now be? You know, who's has Gaza going
to be sorted out? It's all right taking on Hamas,
but now who's going to run Gaza? What is Israel's going to have
to man it Just, you know, put sentries on, have a buffer zone,
military buffer zone. How?
How's that going to exist? And so right this moment, you
see and look at the world, it is primed for this man because
he'll bring a piece even Donald Trump can't do.
He'll have the power and the charisma and the deception to
bring peace to the Middle East. And every U.S.
President has for years tried to resolve.
That's why they have Camp David try to resolve the problem of
Israel and the Middle East. And here's the deal.
Israel's been at war since October 12th, 2021.
But they've been at war longer, haven't they?
They've had wars since 1948, since they got home, the 67 six
day war and so on and so on. They've been at war.
Read today of another poor young guy and IDF 19 year old died in
Gaza fighting for freedom just fighting he's he's part of call
out. He's 19 years of age.
He's dead today, just a young man.
He died and Israel wants peace. We see that within don't they?
We see protests, hostages in the war.
We want the hostages want them come home.
And you know what so does the rest of the world.
Doesn't the rest of the world want peace?
Isn't every nation God? Can't we just, can't we just
sort this out because no one can.
But what else does Israel desire?
It desires something that they haven't had since 70AD.
If we could rebuild the Temple, we can't even go up and prey on
the Temple Mount at the moment. So it's not allowed for Jews to
do that at that moment. At this moment when you and I go
up on the Temple Mount, when we've gone there, Muslims
control that area, that 35 acre lot, because there stands the
Dome of the Rock. It's interesting.
It's a holy site. But when you prey on the Dome of
the Rock, if you're Muslim, you know where you face Mecca, You
don't face the Dome of the Rock. So what do the Arabs and the
Muslims want? They want those in Israel.
That they feel belong to them. And you know, 2 million of the
8.5 million, 9 million Israelis are Arabs.
It's 2,000,000 Arabs of the 8 million Jews, I'm sorry, Israel,
Israelis. So you can be Arab Israelis, 2
million of them. So what do the Arabs and the
Muslims want? They want those in Israel that
they feel belong to them, areas like those in Gaza, the Golan.
And So what does the Antichrist, what will he do as he comes on
the White Horse? He says, I'll allow you to
rebuild the temple. The Jews go, really, how's that
going to happen? Or I'll sort that out.
He goes to the Muslims. He says, look, this is what
we'll do. Plenty of room on the 35 acres.
We can build the temple and that's where I believe the
original site will be as we've been there on the dime of the
tablets. Remember, we went there.
It's the place where it's open to the to the rock underneath.
It's away from the dime of the rock and it's in line with the
gate where Jesus will come in. We can build the temple there.
Revelation Chapter 11 tells us go and measure, but don't go out
to the core of the Gentiles because I've given that over.
That area's been given over. So you can build the temple,
keep the dime of the rock, put a wall down there.
But to do that, Israel, this is what you need to do.
You release your control over Gaza and better give and take
the goal. I know it's so Israel says so we
can build a temple. Go on the temple, man.
Wow, Gaza, yeah, you guys look out, but and everyone's happy.
And the Antichrist goes, look what I've done.
And the world goes someone, I'm just saying this.
The world looks at this man and thinks he truly is the Messiah,
especially the Jews, because if you talk to any Jew today,
they're waiting for the Messiah. They don't accept Jesus Christ
as the Messiah. Why?
Because their Messiah will be a man.
How will they know when their Messiah comes?
Because they'll tell you, as they have said to me.
He we will recognise our Messiah because he will be the man who
allows us to rebuild the temple word for word.
They're not looking for Jesus, they're looking for this guy and
this guy in Daniel. Daniel says he'll make an
arrangement, 7 year, We're going to have a seven year peace
agreement. Build the temple.
Doesn't take very long now to build the temple with all the
modern equipment, the Jews, you will get to it.
We get the money, up it goes. We got the priests, we go all
within, everything ready to go. It's all ready to go now.
Build the temple, 3 1/2 years, everything's just fantastic.
And then 3 1/2 years into he breaks halfway through this
covenant period, he walks into the temple, the Antichrist, he
sits down and he says stop all the sacrifices.
Now you sacrifice to me, I'm God.
And to make sure I'm going to put an image of me here in here
and now, and everyone's going to have my mark upon their hand.
And you'll worship me. And if you don't worship me as
God, you'll die. You won't be able to eat, work,
buy anything, live anywhere, travel, nothing, unless you
worship me. That's the story.
How will the world be seduced by this man, you world leader?
Well, people are growing increasingly desperate for
peace, aren't they? And they want to avoid war at
all costs. No one wants to send their kids
to war, do they? So they will quickly become
seduced by this smooth talking the Antichrist whose demonic
influence will cause people to believe his lie that he's the
false Messiah. Paul prophesied that this would
happen. He said in the last days we're
living in because people will have refused to believe the
truth of the God of the gospel, Jesus Christ.
And the church is gone and now what's left are unbelievers.
Church is out of the scene and the Antichrist comes into the
scene. They those people will be quick
to believe the lie of Satan and the strong delusion that is
coming upon the world here Paul's words of that event, 2
Thessalonians chapter 2 verse 9, the coming of the lawless one.
That's another name for him is according to the working of
Satan with all power signs and lying wonders.
And that's why I want to impress upon you watch today as the
church soon we'll get more and more looking for signs and
wonders preparing. They'll deny the word of God.
Things will happen and people go, oh, see where that's
happening? I know the Bible doesn't speak
about it. Oh well, it just happened.
I experienced it. No, the Bible doesn't say that.
That's right. I don't care.
This is what's happening. More lying signs and wonders
because any sign of wonder, we've looked at that on
Wednesday night. Remember, what's it for?
For the building up and edifying of the body of Christ.
They're the true gifts of the Spirit, but the working of Saint
with all power signs and lying wonders and with all unrighteous
deception among those who perish.
That's the non believers left after the rapture of the church
because they did not receive and here's Paul says the love of the
truth. I don't want Jesus Christ.
We don't want that religion. We want our we want what this
guy's given us that they might be saved, that they might be
saved. I want salvation.
I want to live how I want this guy let me live how I want.
And for this reason it goes on to say Paul says God will send
them a worldwide unbelievers strong delusion.
God allows this is coming from God now that they should believe
the lie. It's kind of like Pharaoh over
and over and over. He's had his chance.
Moses would come, let my people go.
Moses would come, no, let my people go.
Pharaoh's heart harden, harden hard until God said I've
hardened his heart now this is what's going to happen.
His heart's set now. And for this reason, God will
send them strong delusion that they should believe the lie that
they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth.
Jesus said I am the way, the truth and the life but had
pleasure and that's the difference in unrighteousness.
Romans chapter 1 Why do people sin and reject Jesus Christ?
Because they it says Paul says they suppress the truth.
I want to I want to I want to sleep around.
I want to just have one person I I want to, I want to do what I
want to do what I want to do it. I don't want anyone telling me
what I should do. I want to I want I love sin, I
enjoy sin. That's why they sin.
And so I've got on page two of five pages, so I'm going to have
to wrap this up. We'll do the other pages some
other time. But chapters 2 and three deal
with the church. Chapter 1 John sees Jesus in all
his glory, describing chapter 2 and three, the church period
from Pentecost until the last days.
Chapter 4 The church has raptured.
John has taken up in heaven. He sees the throne of God.
We then move into the things that will take place after these
things. After the church is taken up in
chapter 5 we find the church in heaven seeing the worthiness of
the Lamb to take the scroll. Read the words for yourself.
Chapter 5. The only people that can sing
that song are you and I, the church.
And Jesus takes the scroll of the Lamb, breaks the seal.
He's redeemed us by his blood out of every kindred tongue,
people and nation. And so now with the church in
heaven, John has been telling us what he sees in heaven because
that's where we are. And now we take a seat, and now
John turns and he begins to describe now as he, Jesus,
breaks the seal, the things that are happening upon earth.
So now from chapter 6 all the way through to chapter 19 is a
view from the stands of heaven. That's why you read this.
And the church is never mentioned once from that period
and during that period. And that's why as the
tribulation begins, it's also called the day of Jacob's
troubles. Zechariah 14 One behold, the day
of the Lord is coming, Zechariah said Jeremiah chapter 30, verse
7. Alas, for that day is great, so
that none is like it. It is the time of Jacob's
trouble. Matthew 2422 Jesus said, unless
those days, unless it was just cut down, that seven years, it
was any longer, unless there was those days was shortened no
flesh, there'd be none left saved.
But for the elect's sake, those days will be shortened.
Chapter 6 begins the events of the tribulation that shall come
upon mankind who has rebelled. Remember, didn't want the lie,
didn't want the Messiah, didn't want to be saved, like to live
in unrighteousness. So they God says, OK, you don't
want me, then I'll give you what you want.
That's the worst thing that God could ever do to you.
When God allows you to have your way, that's a horrific thing.
You always want to receive the chastisement of the Lord.
The chastisement of the Lord tells you he loves you and he
cares for you. He wants to correct you.
But when God in chapter 1 of Romans and then through the
chapter 2, it says God sees the world and they're rejecting him,
He says OK, and it says God gives them over to their
reprobate mind. He says I'll let you have your
way. That's the judgement of God.
When God lets you have your way, that's a terrible thing.
That's a terrible thing. And so chapter 6, and it's told
it's called a time of great trouble because for Israel it
will be a time of great trouble, but also a time of great
conversion.