Likely the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse will not appear until after the rapture the church; however, if you really listen you can almost hear the hoof beats of their horses charging onto planet earth. The first horseman will be an actual person, the antichrist. The remaining three are symbolic of future horrors.
For centuries it was assumed that the antichrist would come out of the Western Roman Empire. However, the Eastern Roman Empire lasted about a thousand years longer than the Western. Recently there's been more and more talk that the antichrist could be Islamic, case in point, Islam is known for beheading non-Muslims.
After the departure of the church in the Rapture there will be a near spiritual blindness on the earth lending to the acceptance of the antichrist. The antichrist is shown riding a white horse and carrying a bow with no arrows. The implication is that he will come into power promoting world peace rather than through war. Again, he will start out as a peacemaker and quickly show his true demonic nature. The antichrist will create a seven-year covenant with Israel ushering in the tribulation. Midway through the tribulation he will break his covenant with Israel and slaughter a pig in the temple. This will usher in the final three and a half years of the great tribulation.
As for the second horseman riding the red horse of war, it is just incredible what's going on out the world today. Presently it is not just wars between countries, between ethnic groups, the Islamic countries coming against Israel with the good wishes of the United Nations; now it is also the war on our children as recently witnessed in the state of Connecticut.
On the heels of war comes pestilence and famine. It will take a day’s work to buy enough food to support one person for a day. This is a strong indication of worldwide inflation. You don’t have to be a financial genius to see this coming to the United States. With all the talk about quantitative easing which is printing paper money with nothing behind it. Inflation basically is more and more dollars chasing less and less goods. As for pestilence, there are some deadly epidemics throughout the world. There is AIDS, Ebola, bird flu and more plus the ever present threat of a pandemic.
Then comes the pale horse of death with Hades writing at its heels.
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