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Thursday, November 30, 2017

The Black Horse of Mourning in Revelation



Rev 6:5  And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand. 

The black horse is one of the four spirits which stand before the Lord and represents mourning. Dozens of scriptures interpret black to mean mourning which is often accompanied by fasting, weeping, ripping of clothes, wearing sackcloth, shaving the head bald and falling to the ground. The black horse of mourning precedes the green horse of death.

Jer 4:27 For thus hath the LORD said, The whole land shall be desolate; yet will I not make a full end. 
Jer 4:28  For this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above be black: because I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and will not repent, neither will I turn back from it. 
Jer 14:2  Judah mourns, and the gates thereof languish; they are black unto the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up. 

Gen 37:34  And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days. 

Est 4:3  And in every province, whithersoever the king's commandment and his decree came, there was great mourning among the Jews, and fasting, and weeping, and wailing; and many lay in sackcloth and ashes. 

Isa 22:12  And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth: 

Jer 6:26  O daughter of my people, gird you with sackcloth, and wallow yourself in ashes: make you mourning, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation: for the spoiler shall suddenly come upon us. 

We read in Revelation that sackcloth is made from black hair, probably of goats.

Rev 6:12  And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood; 

G4526  σάκκος
Sakkos   sak'-kos
Of Hebrew origin [H8242]; sackcloth, that is, mohair (the material or garments made of it, worn as a sign of grief): - sackcloth.
H8242   שַׂק
Śaq   sak
From H8264; properly a mesh (as allowing a liquid to run through), that is, coarse loose cloth or sacking (used in mourning and for bagging); hence a bag (for grain, etc.): - sack (-cloth, -clothes).
H7838   שָׁחוֹר    שָׁחֹר
shâchôr    shâchôr   shaw-khore', shaw-khore'
From H7835; properly dusky, but also (absolutely) jetty: - black.

Heb 11:37  They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented; 

Great God Almighty mourns for his children before they die in the flesh. King David mourns before his son dies.

2Sa 12:16  David therefore besought God for the child; and David fasted, and went in, and lay all night upon the earth. 
2Sa 12:19  But when David saw that his servants whispered, David perceived that the child was dead: therefore David said unto his servants, Is the child dead? And they said, He is dead. 
2Sa 12:20  Then David arose from the earth, and washed, and anointed himself, and changed his apparel, and came into the house of the LORD, and worshipped: then he came to his own house; and when he required, they set bread before him, and he did eat. 
2Sa 12:21  Then said his servants unto him, What thing is this that you have done? you didst fast and weep for the child, while it was alive; but when the child was dead, you didst rise and eat bread. 
2Sa 12:22  And he said, While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept: for I said, Who can tell whether GOD will be gracious to me, that the child may live? 
2Sa 12:23  But now he is dead, wherefore should I fast? can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me. 

Father God Almighty Jahavah mourned for three hours for his only begotten son before he died in the flesh.

Luk 23:44  And it was about the sixth hour, and there was a darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour
Luk 23:45  And the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was rent in the midst. 
Luk 23:46  And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said, Father, into your hands I commend my spirit: and having said thus, he gave up the ghost. 

Instead of a man’s clothing being torn, the veil of the temple is torn in two.

Mat 27:51  And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent

The word mourning used in this verse of scripture is also interpreted black.

Psa 38:6  I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning H6937 
all the day long. 
H6937   קָדַר
qâdar   kaw-dar'
A primitive root; to be ashy, that is, dark colored; by implication to mourn (in sackcloth or sordid garments): - be black (-ish), be (make) dark (-en), X heavily, (cause to) mourn.

Psa 42:9  I will say unto God my rock, Why have you forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?


The Rider on black horse weighs all the people in the balance dwelling upon the earth before the time of great tribulation begins with the opening of the fourth seal. The purchase is made for the bodies of the righteous  to be killed for Christ sake.

Rev 6:5  And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand
Rev 6:6  And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a denarion, and three measures of barley for a denarion; and see you hurt not the oil and the wine. 

Job 31:6  Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity. 
Psa 62:9  Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity. 
Isa 40:15  Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he takes up the isles as a very little thing. 
Dan 5:27  TEKEL; You are weighed in the balances, and are found wanting. 

Zec 11:12  And I said unto them, If you think good, give me my price; and if not, forbear. So they weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver. 

The apostate chief priests valued the betrayal of Jesus to be thirty pieces of silver.

Mat 26:14  Then one of the twelve, called Judas Iscariot, went unto the chief priests
Mat 26:15  And said unto them, What will you give me, and I will deliver him unto you? And they covenanted with him for thirty pieces of silver

Jesus our High Priest, the Lamb of God is whose voice comes from the midst of the throne and the four beasts and makes the purchases and the redemption of the bodies from the rider on the black horse of mourning.

Rev 6:6  And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see you hurt not the oil and the wine. 

Rev 5:6  And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth. 
Rev 5:7  And he came and took the book out of the right hand of him that sat upon the throne. 
Rev 5:8  And when he had taken the book, the four beasts and four and twenty elders fell down before the Lamb, having every one of them harps, and golden vials full of odors, which are the prayers of saints. 
Rev 5:9  And they sung a new song, saying, You are woryour to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for you wast slain, and have redeemed us to God by your blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation; 

Heb 3:1  Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus; 
Heb 4:14 Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession.

Jeremiah was a priest and prophet whose writings disclose many of these same words in this passage also used in Revelation. Jesus, our high priest buys his field, has the money weighed, the seal of the book was opened and the 24 elders are the witnesses

Jer 32:9  And I bought the field of Hanameel my uncle's son, that was in Anathoth, and weighed him the money, even seventeen shekels of silver. 
Jer 32:10  And I subscribed the evidence, and sealed it, and took witnesses, and weighed him the money in the balances
Jer 32:11  So I took the evidence of the purchase, both that which was sealed according to the law and custom, and that which was open: 
Jer 32:12  And I gave the evidence of the purchase unto Baruch the son of Neriah, the son of Maaseiah, in the sight of Hanameel mine uncle's son, and in the presence of the witnesses that subscribed the book of the purchase, before all the Jews that sat in the court of the prison. 

The Law and many of the acts of the Old Testament were foreshadows or rehearsals of greater things to come in the future. Pentecost which means 50 is the feast of Weeks which was celebrated every year, Jubilee occurred only once every 50 years.

Lev 25:8  And you shall number seven sabbaths of years unto you, seven times seven years; and the space of the seven sabbaths of years shall be unto you forty and nine years. 
Lev 25:9  Then shall you cause the trumpet of the jubilee to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall you make the trumpet sound throughout all your land. 
Lev 25:10  And you shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubilee unto you; and you shall return every man unto his possession, and you shall return every man unto his family. 
Lev 25:11  A jubilee shall that fiftieth year be unto you: you shall not sow, neither reap that which grows of itself in it, nor gather the grapes in it of your vine undressed. 
Lev 25:12  For it is the jubilee; it shall be holy unto you: you shall eat the increase thereof out of the field. 
Lev 25:13  In the year of this jubilee you shall return every man unto his possession. 
Lev 27:16  And if a man shall sanctify unto the LORD some pare of a field of his possession, then your estimation shall be according to the seed thereof: an homer of barley seed shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver. 
Lev 27:17  If he sanctify his field from the year of jubilee, according to your estimation it shall stand. 
Lev 27:18  But if he sanctify his field after the jubilee, then the priest shall reckon unto him the money according to the years that remain, even unto the year of the jubilee, and it shall be abated from your estimation

Jesus the Lamb of God is the priest, purchaser and possessor of the field of seed which returns to him in that glorious day.

Lev 27:21  But the field, when it goes out in the jubilee, shall be holy unto the LORD, as a field devoted; the possession thereof shall be the priest's. 
Lev 27:23  Then the priest shall reckon unto him the worth of your estimation, even unto the year of the jubilee: and he shall give your estimation in that day, as a holy thing unto the LORD. 
Lev 27:24  In the year of the jubilee the field shall return unto him of whom it was bought, even to him to whom the possession of the land did belong. 

Lord Jesus explains the parable of the seed of produce in the field which shall be harvested.

Mat 13:23  But he that received seed into the good ground is he that hears the word, and understands it; which also bears fruit, and brings forth, some an hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty. 
Mat 13:24  Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field: 
Mat 13:37  He answered and said unto them, He that sows the good seed is the Son of man; 
Mat 13:38  The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one; 
Mat 13:39  The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels. 

Numerous scriptures were written and spoken by our Lord Jesus Christ which symbolically uses the produce of the earth such as wheat, barley and grain in an analogy with the human body.

1Co 15:20  But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept. 

1Co 15:22  For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. 
1Co 15:23  But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ's at his coming. 

1Co 15:35  But some man will say, How are the dead raised up? and with what body do they come? 
1Co 15:36  You fool, that which you sow is not quickened, except it die
1Co 15:37  And that which you sow, you sow not that body that shall be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain: 
1Co 15:38  But God gives it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body. 

Joh 12:24  Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a grain of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abides alone: but if it die, it brings forth much fruit. 

All of this was foreshadowed in the Old Testament Law.

Exo 34:22  And you shall observe the feast of weeks jubilee, of the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the year's end. 
Lev 23:10  Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When you be come into the land which I give unto you, and shall reap the harvest thereof, then you shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest unto the priest

Mat 13:30  Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather you together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn. 
Mat 13:38  The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one; 
Mat 13:39  The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels. 

Rev 14:15  And another angel came out of the temple, crying with a loud voice to him that sat on the cloud, Thrust in your sickle, and reap: for the time is come for you to reap; for the harvest of the earth is ripe. 
Hos 14:7  They that dwell under his shadow shall return; they shall revive as the grain, and grow as the vine: the scent thereof shall be as the wine of Lebanon

Tithing is not practiced in the New Testament because God’s people who do his will are the tithe.

Jer 2:3  Israel was holiness unto the LORD, and the firstfruits of his increase: all that devour him shall offend; evil shall come upon them, said the LORD. 
Deu 14:22  You shall truly tithe all the increase of your seed, that the field brings forth year by year. 
Deu 14:28  At the end of three years you shall bring forth all the tithe of your increase the same year, and shall rest within your gates: 

Mar 4:26  And he said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground; 
Mar 4:27  And should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knows not how. 
Mar 4:28  For the earth brings forth fruit of herself; first the blade, then the head of grain, after that the full wheat in the head of grain.
Mar 4:29  But when the fruit is brought forth, immediately he puts in the sickle, because the harvest is come. 

Jas 1:18  Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures. 
Jas 5:7  Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waits for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain. 

Psa 126:5  They that sow in tears shall reap in joy. 
Psa 126:6  He that goes forth and weeps, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him. 

Jer 31:11  For the LORD hath redeemed Jacob, and ransomed him from the hand of him that was stronger than he. 
Jer 31:12  Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow together to the goodness of the LORD, for as wheat, and for wine, and for oil, and for the young of the flock and of the herd: and their soul shall be as a watered garden; and they shall not sorrow any more at all. 
Isa 65:8  Thus said the LORD, As the new wine is found in the cluster, and one said, Destroy it not; for a blessing is in it: so will I do for my servants' sakes, that I may not destroy them all. 
Isa 65:9  I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah an inheritor of my mountains: and mine elect shall inherit it, and my servants shall dwell there. 

Yes it is true that we have already been redeemed by the blood of Jesus. This purchase documented in the book of Revelation is for the final redemption of the bodies of those who serve Jesus Christ.. We shall receive a new spiritual heavenly body but somehow the DNA or marrow of these bones is used in the new formation. 

Eze 37:5  Thus said the Lord GOD unto these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and you shall live: 
Eze 37:6  And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and you shall live; and you shall know that I am the LORD. 
Eze 37:11  Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our pares. 
Eze 37:12  Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus said the Lord GOD; Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel. 
Eze 37:13  And you shall know that I am the LORD, when I have opened your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves, 
Eze 37:14  And shall put my spirit in you, and you shall live, and I shall place you in your own land: then shall you know that I the LORD have spoken it, and performed it, said the LORD. 

We who have received the firstfruits of the Holy Spirit still await the redemption of our bodies.

Rom 8:23  And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body

Eph 1:4  According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love: 
Eph 1:5  Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, 
Eph 1:6  To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved. 
Eph 1:7  In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace; 
Eph 1:13  In whom you also trusted, after that you heard the Word of Truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that you believed, you were sealed with that Holy Spirit of promise, 

The down payment was made but the final purchase has not yet taken place.

Eph 1:14  Which is the earnest promise our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory. 
Eph 4:16  From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplies, according to the effectual working in the measure of every pare, makes increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love. 

Eph 4:30  And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby you are sealed unto the day of redemption. 
Luk 21:28  And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draws nigh. 
Hos 13:14  I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be your plagues; O grave, I will be your destruction: repentance shall be hid from mine eyes. 

Orders are given not to hurt the oil and the wine whose fleshly bodies are refined even further and shall not die during this time but be changed at the Lord’s return.

Rev 6:6  And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see you hurt not the oil and the wine. 
Rev 7:3  Saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads. 
Rev 9:4 And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads. 

The sealing is the down payment of redemption. The virgins, the wine of Israel are sealed in Revelation 7 and shown redeemed in with their new bodies in Revelation 14.
Rev 7:4  And I heard the number of them which were sealed: and there were sealed an hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel
Rev 14:3  And they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders: and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth. 
Rev 14:4  These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goes. These were redeemed from among men, being the firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb. 

The remaining living oil of Jerusalem are sealed in Ezekiel 9 and they are redeemed when they come out of mystery Babylon, ascending up into the air to be with the Lord in their new bodies.

Eze 9:4  And the LORD said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof. 
Eze 9:5  And to the others he said in mine hearing, Go you after him through the city, and smite: let not your eye spare, neither have you pity: 
Eze 9:6  Slay utterly old and young, both maids, and little children, and women: but come not near any man upon whom is the mark; and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the ancient men which were before the house

Apostate Jerusalem and its people is Mystery Babylon. True Jerusalem and its remnant of people are the olive oil.

Rev 18:4  And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that you be not partakers of her sins, and that you receive not of her plagues. 

Num 18:12  All the best of the oil, and all the best of the wine, and of the wheat, the firstfruits of them which they shall offer unto the LORD, them have I given you. 

Hos 2:22  And the earth shall hear the grain, and the wine, and the oil; and they shall hear Jezreel. 
Hos 2:23  And I will sow her unto me in the earth; and I will have mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy; and I will say to them which were not my people, You are my people; and they shall say, You are my God. 

Deu 18:4  The firstfruit also of your grain, of your wine, and of your oil, and the first of the fleece of your sheep, shall you give him. 

Isa 4:2  In that day shall the branch of the LORD be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and comely for them that are escaped of Israel. 
Isa 4:3  And it shall come to pass, that he that is left in Zion, and he that remains in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, even every one that is written among the living in Jerusalem
Isa 4:4  When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning. 

Eze 14:21  For thus said the Lord GOD; How much more when I send my four sore judgments upon Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the noisome beast, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast? 
Eze 14:22  Yet, behold, therein shall be left a remnant that shall be brought forth, both sons and daughters: behold, they shall come forth unto you, and you shall see their way and their doings: and you shall be comforted concerning the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, even concerning all that I have brought upon it. 

Joe 2:32  And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the LORD shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the LORD hath said, and in the remnant whom the LORD shall call. 

The apostle Paul read the books of the Old Testament and it was revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that a remnant which survives in the flesh from Jerusalem  would be saved at the last trumpet. For those who would categorize it as such it is a post-tribulation rapture.

1Th 4:16  For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: 
1Th 4:17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. 

The virgins who are represented by the wine and remnant of Jerusalem represented by the oil do not die in the body but shall require a new body for heaven, thus all bodies shall be redeemed whether they die or not.

1Co 15:51 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed
1Co 15:52  In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed
1Co 15:53  For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. 
1Co 15:54  So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory. 

Jerusalem shall be surrounded by armies.

Psa 118:10  All nations compassed me about: but in the name of the LORD will I destroy them. 
Psa 118:17  I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the LORD. 
Psa 118:18  The LORD hath chastened me sore: but he hath not given me over unto death. 
Psa 118:22  The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of the corner. 
Psa 118:26  Blessed be he that comes in the name of the LORD: we have blessed you out of the house of the LORD. 

Luk 13:34  O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which kills the prophets, and stones them that are sent unto you; how often would I have gathered your children together, as a hen doth gather her brood under her wings, and you would not! 
Luk 13:35 Behold, your house is left unto you desolate: and verily I say unto you, You shall not see me, until the time come when you shall say, Blessed is he that comes in the name of the Lord. 
Luk 19:41  And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it, 
Luk 19:42  Saying, If you had known, even you, at least in this your day, the things which belong unto your peace! but now they are hid from your eyes. 
Luk 19:43  For the days shall come upon you, that your enemies shall cast a trench about you, and compass you round, and keep you in on every side, 
Luk 19:44  And shall lay you even with the ground, and your children within you; and they shall not leave in you one stone upon another; because you knew not the time of your visitation.


The 144000 virgins of Israel who never believed or practiced the false doctrines preached by apostate Jerusalem belong to the church of Philadelphia.

Rev 3:10  Because you have kept the word of my patience, I also will keep you from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth. 
Rev 12:6 And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days. 
Rev 12:14 And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent

God mourns for the wicked before he judges them.

Eze 32:7  And when I shall put you out, I will cover the heaven, and make the stars thereof dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give her light. 
Eze 32:8  All the bright lights of heaven will I make dark over you, and set darkness upon your land, said the Lord GOD. 

Joe 2:10  The earth shall quake before them; the heavens shall tremble: the sun and the moon shall be dark, and the stars shall withdraw their shining: 
Joe 3:15  The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining. 

Amo 5:20  Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it

The knowledge which increases in the last days is helped along by computers and Bible programs which save time and make it easier to put the pieces of the book of Revelation together. Little about prophecy is simple or easy to understand without the guidance of the Holy Spirit and the Word of God. Even then it is difficult and must be studied often. Simple analogies, proverbs, types, similitudes or parables are given for complex issues, only to confuse those whom the Lord has not chosen and does not invest the time to understand. The prophet Daniel understood the judgment against Jerusalem by studying the books of the Law written by Moses and the writings of Jeremiah. Daniel mourned and fasted three whole weeks before being given knowledge and understanding of the end days. His great wisdom and understanding were not just handed to him without any effort on his part.

Dan 9:2  In the first year of his reign I Daniel understood by books the number of the years, whereof the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem. 
Dan 9:3  And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes: 
Dan 9:4  And I prayed unto the LORD my God, and made my confession, and said, O Lord, the great and dreadful God, keeping the covenant and mercy to them that love him, and to them that keep his commandments; 
Dan 9:5  We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from your precepts and from your judgments: 
Dan 9:6  Neither have we hearkened unto your servants the prophets, which spoke in your name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land. 
Dan 9:10  Neither have we obeyed the voice of the LORD our God, to walk in his laws, which he set before us by his servants the prophets. 
Dan 9:11  Yea, all Israel have transgressed your law, even by departing, that they might not obey your voice; therefore the curse is poured upon us, and the oath that is written in the law of Moses the servant of God, because we have sinned against him. 
Dan 9:12  And he hath confirmed his words, which he spoke against us, and against our judges that judged us, by bringing upon us a great evil: for under the whole heaven hath not been done as hath been done upon Jerusalem. 
Dan 9:13  As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil is come upon us: yet made we not our prayer before the LORD our God, that we might turn from our iniquities, and understand your truth. 
Mat 5:18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. 

King David was also a prophet who wrote many of the psalms which is nearly all prophecy beginning with the birth of Christ all the way to the unification of all believers in New Jerusalem.

Luk 24:44 And he said unto them, These are the words which I spoke unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me. 

Yes there will be a great famine for consumable food upon the earth but it begins at the opening of the fourth seal which I believe is the beginning of the time of great tribulation upon the whole earth.

Rev 6:7  And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see. 
Rev 6:8  And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth pare of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth. 

The great famine for the hearing of the Word of God has been upon the earth for some time.

Amo 8:10  And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day. 
Amo 8:11  Behold, the days come, said the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD: 
Amo 8:12  And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the LORD, and shall not find it. 

It is obvious to many that Laodicea is the dominant church of the days we live in today. Symbolically they are not an edible or consumable fruit or grain which the Lord could eat and dine with so he shall spew them out of his mouth into great tribulation so they can be refined and suitable for consumption. Those who have truly received the Holy Spirit and study the Word of God know that the churches err, looking for one to attend which teaches the truth but they do not find it. The Holy Bible is still available for all to read freely but the gospel of the people is being heard and believed by the masses of the deceived.

Amo 8:13  In that day shall the fair virgins and young men faint for thirst. 

Jesus is the true bread, dine with him.

Joh 6:32  Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Moses gave you not that bread from heaven; but my Father gives you the true bread from heaven. 
Joh 6:33  For the bread of God is he which comes down from heaven, and gives life unto the world. 
Joh 6:34  Then said they unto him, Lord, evermore give us this bread. 
Joh 6:35  And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that comes to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst. 

Joh 4:13  Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinks of this water shall thirst again: 
Joh 4:14 But whosoever drinks of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life. 
Joh 4:21  Jesus said unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour comes, when you shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father. 
Joh 4:22  You worship you know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews. 
Joh 4:23  But the hour comes, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeks such to worship him. 
Joh 4:24  God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. 
Joh 7:37  In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. 
Joh 7:38 He that believes on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. 

Rev 21:6 And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely. 

Jer 2:13 For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water
Jer 2:21  Yet I had planted you a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then are you turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me

Every person coming to Christ belongs to one of the seven churches listed in Revelation. The majority of five of the seven are found guilty and wanting. Most of the people of these churches do not know they are guilty.

Jer 2:23  How canst you say, I am not polluted, I have not gone after Baalim? see your way in the valley, know what you have done: you are a swift dromedary traversing her ways; 
Jer 2:35  Yet you say, Because I am innocent, surely his anger shall turn from me. Behold, I will plead with you, because you say, I have not sinned

The answer to what our Lord Jesus wrote in the sand in front of those who accused the woman of adultery is right here in this verse from the book of the prophet Jeremiah.

Jer 17:13  O LORD, the hope of Israel, all that forsake you shall be ashamed, and they that depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken the LORD, the fountain of living waters. 

This spiritual message below is difficult to understand but one cannot deny that Jesus was the whole staff of bread broken in Jerusalem, whose people and offspring of churches would rather eat the polluted doctrines of men mixed with small parcels of truth rather than the pure true Word of God.

Eze 4:10  And your meat which you shall eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time to time shall you eat it. 
Eze 4:11  You shall drink also water by measure, the sixth pare of an hin: from time to time shall you drink. 

Eze 4:12  And you shall eat it as barley cakes, and you shall bake it with dung that comes out of man, in their sight. 
Eze 4:13  And the LORD said, Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their defiled bread among the Gentiles, whither I will drive them. 
Eze 4:14  Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! behold, my soul hath not been polluted: for from my yeth up even till now have I not eaten of that which dieth of itself, or is torn in pieces; neither came there abominable flesh into my mouth. 
Eze 4:15  Then he said unto me, Lo, I have given you cow's dung for man's dung, and you shall prepare your bread therewith. 
Eze 4:16 Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight, and with care; and they shall drink water by measure, and with astonishment: 
Eze 4:17  That they may want bread and water, and be astonied one with another, and consume away for their iniquity. 

Lev 26:26 And when I have broken the staff of your bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver you your bread again by weight: and you shall eat, and not be satisfied. 

Isa 3:1 For, behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water
Isa 3:24  And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet smell there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle a rent; and instead of well set hair baldness; and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth; and burning instead of beauty. 
Isa 3:25  Your men shall fall by the sword, and your mighty in the war. 
Isa 3:26  And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she being desolate shall sit upon the ground

Hos 9:4  They shall not offer wine offerings to the LORD, neither shall they be pleasing unto him: their sacrifices shall be unto them as the bread of mourners; all that eat thereof shall be polluted: for their bread for their soul shall not come into the house of the LORD. 
Isa 24:4  The earth mourns and fadeth away, the world languishes and fadeth away, the haughty people of the earth do languish. 
Isa 24:5  The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant. 
Isa 24:6  Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left. 
Isa 24:7 The new wine mourns, the vine languishes, all the merryhearted do sigh. 
Isa 24:11  There is a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone. 

The opening of the fourth seal begins the time of great tribulation and at the opening of the fifth seal all the slain servants of the nations promised to Abraham are brought under the altar.

Rev 6:9  And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held: 
Rev 6:11  And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled. 

Rev 7:9  After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands; 
Rev 7:13  And one of the elders answered, saying unto me, What are these which are arrayoud in white robes? and whence came they
Rev 7:14  And I said unto him, Sir, you know. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. 

Some wrongfully believe that the seven seals coincide with the seven trumpets and seven bowl judgments because the seals may seem to be a summary or mini version of the rest of Revelation. The gentile peoples go through a shorter version of great tribulation because they were not inheritors of the promises and curses written in the Law attributed to Israel and Judah. But still all true believers who have faith in Christ must be persecuted and tried in the fire; therefore we see all the nations of gentiles which were promised to Abraham come forth before the first trumpet judgment. The rest in Christ of the seed of Abraham not found faithful from Israel, Judah and Jerusalem must go further into the time of great tribulation because of their apostasy toward God after receiving his truth and blessings so they are currently blinded and their eyes shall not be opened until that time. The 144000 virgins of Israel shall be found faithful to the Word and shall be exempted from the time of great tribulation.

Gen 17:5  Neither shall your name any more be called Abram, but your name shall be Abraham; for a father of many nations have I made you. 
Gen 17:6  And I will make you exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations of you, and kings shall come out of you. 


Gal 3:7  Know you therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham. 
Gal 3:8  And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In you shall all nations be blessed. 
Gal 3:9  So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham
Gal 3:14  That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith. 

The reasons for the black horse of mourning and black darkness in the heavens and the earth is because of the coming opening of the fourth seal revealing the pale green horse whose rider is death with Hades following him along with the wrath of the dragon serpent and of course the opening of the sixth seal the entire heavens and earth mourn because of the great day of the Lord and the wrath of the Lamb has come upon the whole world to judge the wicked and fulfilling all the curses written in the Old Testament books of the Law. But the faithful righteous in Christ have been paid for by his blood and their bodies redeemed in the balances and have not been found wanting; they are to wear clean, spotless white clothing having overcome the world and its current ruler Satan.