By THE SPIRIT, the Beloved Disciple wrote what he saw and heard in the Revelation of Jesus Christ chapter 6:
7 When He opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature saying, “Come and see.”
8 So I looked, and behold, a green horse. And the name of him who sat on it was Death, and Hades followed with him. And power was given to them over a fourth of the earth, to kill with sword, with hunger, with death, and by the beasts of the earth.
The four horsemen of Revelation chapter 6 have been interpreted by most to specifically deal with worldwide calamity. However I continue to believe this Revelation is most applicable at the personal level to those who are called and determined to align themselves with our Elder Brother Jesus Christ. Mankind continues on a path toward moral and physical self destruction whereas we who have chosen Love continue on a path to life and restoration. In order to do that we must die to self.
The fourth horse is green not pale as many have interpreted the Greek word chlōros. This word is defined as green in all its other usages in Scripture. Green stands for life not death thus the mandate of this horse and its rider is to bring forth life. By living life according to HIS SPIRIT, we are dealing with the source of death, aka the ego thus life swallows up death.
In Matthew chapter 10, Jesus spoke:
34 “Do not think that I came to bring peace on earth. I did not come to bring peace but a sword.
35 For I have come to ‘set a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law’;
36 and ‘a man’s enemies will be those of his own household.’
37 He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me. And he who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me.
38 And he who does not take his cross and follow after Me is not worthy of Me.
39 He who finds his life will lose it, and he who loses his life for My sake will find it.”
As we take up or cross and follow Jesus Who has provided us the path to eternal life, our former life will die and we will “lose” it. Little by little we continue to take on FATHER’S Divine Intent of Love in our lives. The words out of our mouths promote life and Love to those around rather than division and destruction. There are those close to us that might attempt to keep us in the proverbial “box” of our former self but we must resist their attempt to maintain the past status quo.
The sword divides the spirit and soul so that the soul can be cleansed of any and all attributes of death. As each layer is peeled back and exposed, life springs forth in a greater degree and our walk becomes even more productive and pleasant. We must starve the old man by fasting what food the old man needs to maintain itself. As we spend more time with FATHER, the old man withers away. As we realize this transformation is taking place and becomes apparent in our lives, we want to yell out in great joy “Come and see!”, not in boasting but in a humbling manner of overcoming the old man… finally. It is no different than a child watching a seed sprout after days of patiently waiting for something to visibly take place.
Paul spoke by THE SPIRIT in 1 Corinthians chapter 15:
51 Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed—
52 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
54 So when this corruptible has put on incorruption, and this mortal has put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written: “Death is swallowed up in victory.”
55 “O Death, where is your sting?
O Hades, where is your victory?”
We are all moving quickly toward a day of reckoning. The world is and we are at a personal level. It is bad news for the world but it is great news for us as we by THE SPIRIT swallow up death and we bring forth victory over the old man. The world is desperate in its search for answers to the problems plaguing it on all fronts for the blindness among the people is great. However the Light from Above is even greater than the blindness and as our lights burst out in the darkness by the shedding of the old man, we will bring forth the long awaited Kingdom to earth. And all the inhabitants will shout out to those in outer darkness- “Come and see!”