(KJV) Revelation 61

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⥃The First Seal: The White Horse

[1] And I saw when2 the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise3 of thunder, one4 of the four beasts saying, Come and see. [2] And I saw, and behold a white5 horse: and he that6 sat on him had a bow; and a7 crown was given unto him: and he went8 forth conquering, and to conquer.

⥃The Second Seal: War

[3] And when he had opened the second seal, I heard the second beast say, Come and see.9 [4] And there went out another horse10 [that was] red: and [power11] was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another: and there12 was given unto him a great sword.

⥃The Third Seal: Famine

[5] And when he had13 opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black14 horse; and he that sat on him had15 a pair of balances in his hand. [6] And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure16 of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and [see17] thou hurt not the oil and the wine.

⥃The Fourth Seal: Death

[7] And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.18 [8] And I looked, and behold a pale19 horse: and his name that sat on him was Death20, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them21 over22 the fourth part of the earth, to kill23 with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.

⥃The Fifth Seal: The Martyrs

[9] And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw24 under the altar the souls25 of them that were slain26 for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held: [10] And they cried27 with a loud voice, saying, How28 long, O Lord, holy29 and true, dost30 thou not judge and avenge31 our blood on them that dwell on the earth? [11] And white32 robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they33 should rest yet for a little season, until34 their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they [were], should be fulfilled.

⥃The Sixth Seal: Terror

[12] And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there35 was a great earthquake; and the sun36 became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood; [13] And the stars37 of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs38, when she is shaken of a39 mighty wind. [14] And the heaven40 departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every41 mountain and island were moved out of their places. [15] And the kings42 of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid43 themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains; [16] And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall44 on us, and hide us from the face45 of him that sitteth on the throne, and from46 the wrath of the Lamb: [17] For the great47 day of his wrath is come; and who48 shall be able to stand?

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  1. Rev 6:1, The opening of the seals in order, and what followed thereupon, containing a prophecy to the end of the world. ↩

  2. Rev 5:5-7 ↩

  3. Rev 4:5, Rev 10:3-4, Rev 11:19 ↩

  4. Rev 6:3, Rev 6:5, Rev 6:7, Rev 4:6-7; Acts 4:20 ↩

  5. This seems to be a representation of the person and dignity of Christ, and the mild and beneficent triumphs of his Gospel over all the powers of paganism. Rev 19:11, Rev 19:14; Zech 1:8, Zech 6:3-8 ↩

  6. Ps 45:3-5, Ps 76:7 ↩

  7. Rev 14:14, Rev 19:12; Zech 6:11-13; Matt 28:18 ↩

  8. Rev 11:15, Rev 11:18, Rev 15:2, Rev 17:14; Ps 98:1, Ps 110:2; Isa 25:8; Rom 15:18-19; 1Cor 15:25, 1Cor 15:55-57; 2Cor 10:3-5 ↩

  9. Rev 6:1, Rev 4:7 ↩

  10. Rev 12:3, Rev 17:3, Rev 17:6; Zech 1:8, Zech 6:2 ↩

  11. Rev 13:10; Exod 9:16-17; Isa 37:26-27; Ezek 29:18-20; Dan 2:37-38, Dan 5:19; John 19:11 ↩

  12. Ps 17:13; Isa 10:5-6; Ezek 30:24-25 ↩

  13. Rev 6:1, Rev 4:6-7, Rev 5:5, Rev 5:9 ↩

  14. Zech 6:2, Zech 6:6 ↩

  15. Lev 26:26; Lam 5:10; Ezek 4:10, Ezek 4:16 ↩

  16. "The word choenix signifieth a measure containing one wine-quart and the twelfth part of a quart." ↩

  17. Rev 9:4; Ps 76:10 ↩

  18. Rev 6:1, Rev 6:3, Rev 6:5, Rev 4:7 ↩

  19. Zech 6:3 ↩

  20. Rev 20:13-14; Isa 25:8; Hos 13:14; Hab 2:5; 1Cor 15:55 *marg. ↩

  21. or, to him ↩

  22. Rev 8:7-12, Rev 9:15, Rev 9:18, Rev 12:4 ↩

  23. Lev 26:22-33; Jer 15:2-3, Jer 16:4, Jer 16:16, Jer 43:11; Ezek 5:15-17, Ezek 14:13-21 ↩

  24. Rev 8:3, Rev 9:13, Rev 14:18; Lev 4:7; John 16:2 *Gr: Phil 2:17; 2Tim 4:6 ↩

  25. Rev 20:4; 2Cor 5:8; Phil 1:23 ↩

  26. Rev 1:9, Rev 2:13, Rev 11:3-7, Rev 12:11-17, Rev 19:10; 2Tim 1:8 ↩

  27. Gen 4:10; Ps 9:12; Luke 18:7-8; Heb 12:24 ↩

  28. Ps 13:1, Ps 35:17, Ps 74:9-10, Ps 94:3-4; Dan 8:13, Dan 12:6; Zech 1:12 ↩

  29. Rev 3:7, Rev 15:3-4 ↩

  30. Rev 11:18, Rev 16:5-7, Rev 18:20, Rev 18:24, Rev 19:2; Deut 32:36-43; Judg 16:28; 1Sam 24:12; Ps 58:10-11; Isa 61:2, Isa 63:1-6; Luke 21:22; Rom 12:19; 2Thess 1:6-8 ↩

  31. This seal seems a prediction of the terrible persecution of the church under Dioclesian and Maximian, from ad 270 to 304, which lasted longer, and was far more bloody, than any or all by which it was preceded, whence it was called "the era of the martyrs." ↩

  32. Rev 3:4-5, Rev 7:9, Rev 7:14 ↩

  33. Rev 14:13; Isa 26:20-21; Dan 12:13 ↩

  34. Rev 7:14, Rev 13:15, Rev 17:6; Matt 10:21, Matt 23:34-35; John 16:2; Heb 11:40 ↩

  35. Rev 8:5, Rev 11:13, Rev 16:18; 1Kgs 19:11-13; Isa 29:6; Amos 1:1; Zech 14:5; Matt 24:7; Matt 27:54, Matt 28:2 ↩

  36. Isa 13:9-10, Isa 24:23, Isa 60:19-20; Ezek 32:7-8; Joel 2:10, Joel 2:30-31, Joel 3:15; Amos 8:9; Hag 2:6-7, Hag 2:21-22; Matt 24:29, Matt 27:45; Mark 13:24-25, Mark 15:33; Luke 23:44-45; Acts 2:19-20 ↩

  37. Rev 8:10-12, Rev 9:1; Ezek 32:7; Dan 8:10; Luke 21:25 ↩

  38. or green figs ↩

  39. Isa 7:2, Isa 33:9; Dan 4:14; Nah 3:12 ↩

  40. Ps 102:26; Isa 34:4; Heb 1:11-13; 2Pet 3:10 ↩

  41. Rev 16:20; Isa 2:14-17; Jer 3:23, Jer 4:23-26, Jer 51:25; Hab 3:6, Hab 3:10 ↩

  42. Rev 18:9-11, Rev 19:13-21; Job 34:19-20; Ps 2:10-12, Ps 49:1-2, Ps 76:12, Ps 110:5-6; Isa 24:21-22 ↩

  43. Josh 10:16-17; Judg 6:2; 1Sam 13:6; Isa 2:10, Isa 2:19, Isa 42:22; Mic 7:17; Heb 11:38 ↩

  44. Rev 10:6; Jer 8:3; Hos 10:8; Luke 23:30 ↩

  45. Rev 4:2, Rev 4:5, Rev 4:9, Rev 20:11 ↩

  46. Rev 6:10, Rev 19:15; Ps 2:9-12, Ps 14:5, Ps 21:8-12, Ps 110:5-6; Zech 1:14-15; Matt 26:64; 2Thess 1:7-9 ↩

  47. Rev 11:18, Rev 16:14; Isa 13:6-22; Jer 30:7; Joel 2:31; Zeph 1:14-18; Rom 2:5; Jude 1:6 ↩

  48. Ps 76:7, Ps 130:3-4; Joel 2:11; Mal 3:2 ↩