129 - Les Feldick Bible Study Lesson 3 - Part 1 - Book 11 - Revelation 6, Continued

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 3 * PART 1 * BOOK 11 REVELATION 6, CONTINUED After our last taping, I got home and picked up the mail and Time magazine was there. Here the writer was degrading the fact that from time immemorial the human race has always been looking forward to catastrophic events. An apocalypse of sorts. The easiest way to understand Revelation is to take it on a chronological basis rather than chapter by chapter. In verse 3 of Revelation Chapter 6, we come to the red horse. I like to look at the red horse as a reference to the only military power on earth that has been known as red. And that is the red army of Russia. And so I like to think that I can tie the red horse of Revelation to Ezekiel 38. At the beginning, we see the Anti-christ signing the treaty with Israel. Before we go back to Ezekiel, let's stop at Matthew 24 once again. Remember, this Chapter is totally dealing with the Tribulation. We studied up through verse 5 in our last lesson, so now in verse 6: Matthew 24:6 Now in verse 7, I think we see the red horse: "For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:..." I'll stop there with the red horse. I think almost everyone is agreed that Gog and Magog are the nations we now recognize as the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, etc. Let's start with verse 2: Ezekiel 38:2,3 "Son of man, set thy face against Gog, the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him, And say, `Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal:'" Never lose sight of the fact that God is Sovereign. There are some things we can't understand that God does. Again, God is declaring prophetically, that the day is coming when He is going to bring this consortium of nations, headed up by the Russians. Now verse 4: Ezekiel 38:4a "And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws, and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army,..." Like literally turning a horse, He will change their direction. All during the cold war, we know that our allied leaders were deathly afraid of a great Russian invasion of Western Europe. The red army was facing our forces there in East Germany and so forth. That all of a sudden, contrary to the world's general thinking, the Russian forces will not concern themselves with Western Europe, because that will be the domain of the Anti-christ. That power has to be in place for the battle of Armageddon. There is nothing at the very end that concerns Russia, or the Western Hemisphere. There is nothing in prophecy that would involve those two great areas in that last great battle. God is going to turn the Russians away from Western Europe and bring them down into the Middle East. But not Russia alone. That here we have a consortium, especially before communism fell apart, that all of these nations listed here were either already communist or right on the verge of becoming so, and here they are in verse 5. Ezekiel 38:5 Ezekiel 38:6a "Gomer, and all his bands;..." Almost all Bible scholars are agreed this is Eastern Europe. When General Patton was racing across Europe back in World War II, we thought he would be all the way to Warsaw before we knew it, but then the news came that he had stopped at the Elbe river for seemingly no reason. When Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill met at Yalta, they divided Europe and, consequently, we had to stop at the Elbe river. But the Elbe river was for the most part the eastern border of the old Roman Empire. It's still a viable military force. I do know from what I've read that the Russian army is east of the Ural Mountains. It's not dead. Here again, just a few weeks ago, Time magazine had a little article that every single ballistic missile that Russian had several years ago are still in place; they're still loaded; and they're still pointed toward American targets. Gomer, East Germany or Eastern Europe and all his bands. As we're seeing in the news, these are all ethnic groups of people. Never lose sight of that. Ezekiel 38:6a Turkey up until now has never been in the Russian orbit, per se. So watch this group of nations. So now verse 7: Ezekiel 38:7 "Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them." Ezekiel 38:8 Now watch the language carefully) thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations,..." Present day Israel. Since Israel is back in the land, everyone wants it. The production is unbelievable, both farm, agricultural, dairy and fruit farms. From almost every nation under heaven. And not only is the nation alive, but they have resurrected their dead language. #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible