Earlier we saw how the apostles submitted first to the Spirit of Truth, and then to one another in that Spirit. By giving themselves over completely to the Spirit of Truth, the apostles could serve as an apostolic foundation that bore the weight of the rest of the living temple.
The Christians also receive a kind of Holy Spirit, but their Holy Spirit is Babylonian in nature, and it bears different fruit. While the apostles served the people in a bottom-up living-tree fashion, the Christians (and Messianics) only know how to organize according to top-down Babylonian/Egyptian hierarchies.
In this chapter we will see how Revelation’s four horses impact us today. However, first let’s take a closer look at Israel’s history. This will show us how the four horses have actually been at work for a very long time.
In Nazarene Israel we show how the sale of Joseph into Egypt was a prophetic foreshadow of how the house of Israel (Ephraim) would be scattered throughout the nations, fulfilling the prophecies given to Avraham. We also show how the nation of Israel split into two separate kingdoms.
King Solomon took slaves of the Ephraimites to build the temple and his palace. After Solomon died and his son Rehoboam sat on the throne, the Ephraimites came and asked him to ease the heavy burden Solomon had laid on them. In response, Rehoboam acted like Pharaoh, promising to add to the Ephraimites’ yoke.
Melachim Aleph (1 Kings) 12:13-14
13 Then the king answered the people roughly, and rejected the advice which the elders had given him;
14 and he spoke to them according to the advice of the young men, saying, “My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke; my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scourges!”
When the Ephraimites saw that the king did not listen to them (and behaved more like a tyrant than a servant), they rebelled.
Melachim Aleph (1 Kings) 12:16
16 Now when all Israel [Ephraim] saw that the king did not listen to them, the people answered the king, saying: “What share have we in David? We have no inheritance in the son of Jesse. To your tents, O Israel! Now, see to your own house, O David!” So Israel departed to their tents.
The Ephraimites anointed their own king (Jeroboam). He instituted a new priesthood that was not of the lineage of Levi. He established golden calf worship in Dan and Beit El (Bethel), and told the people to go there, rather than going up to Jerusalem. He also moved the feast of Tabernacles from the seventh month to the eighth month, and changed the wording of the Torah to make it seem like this is what Yahweh wanted. These are all foreshadows of what the Catholic Church would later do.
The Catholic Church established the bishop of Rome (the pope) as both the king and spiritual leader of the Catholic Church. The pope instituted a new priesthood that was not of the lineage of Levi, he removed the second of the Ten Commandments (against idol worship) from Catholic Bibles, and he brought idols into their places of worship. He told the people to go to these cathedrals (not Jerusalem), and he moved the feasts of the seventh month to December (changing it to Christmas). In every way, he made it sound as if he had the power to change the appointed feast times and the Torah. All of these things took place in fulfillment of Daniel 7:25, which tells us that a ruler (the pope) will oppress the saints for “a time, times, and half a time.”
Daniel 7:25
25 “And he [pope] shall speak words against [contrary to the words of] the Most High; and shall wear out the saints of the Most High; and he intends to change the appointed [feast] times and Torah. And they [saints] shall be given into his hand for a time, and times, and half a time.”
In Nazarene Israel we saw how this time, times, and half a time corresponds to the approximate 1,260 years between the solidification of Christian doctrine in the late 200s, and the Protestant breakaway in 1517. (For more details, see Nazarene Israel.)
In Revelation and the End Times we saw that there are four Babylonian spiritual forces which influence our world. These four forces are portrayed as four horses, each of a different color.
| Color | Spiritual principle | Manifestation |
| White | Torahless love | Papal Christianity |
| Black | Legalism, money | Judaism, banking |
| Red | Populist rule | Democracy |
| Green | Corporate discipline | Islam, Sharia |
While Yeshua rides a white horse in Revelation 19, the white horse of Revelation 6 is the anti-messiah’s white horse, because it went forth conquering and to conquer.
Hitgalut (Revelation) 6:2
2 And I looked, and behold, a white horse. He who sat on it had a bow; and a crown was given to him, and he went out conquering and to conquer.
As the Roman legions went forth to conquer, the Roman church followed closely behind, winning converts to the worship of the pope. The people’s loyalty to the pope grew so strong that many centuries after the Roman legions had withdrawn, all kings still had to pay homage to the pope, or they would lose the hearts of their people. This is why the pope was often considered the King of Europe, and the Christian kings his vassals.
When Martin Luther realized the papacy fulfilled the prophecies over the anti-messiah, he asked the papacy to reform (just as the Ephraimites asked Rehoboam for reforms). After the papacy tried to kill Luther, he broke away from Rome (like the Ephraimites broke away from King Jeroboam). And after the 1,260 year rule of the white horse, the people saw that the pope did not listen to Scripture; therefore they broke away from the papacy, anointed their own “king,” and began studying Scripture for themselves. If we look at this deeper, we can see even more parallels.
Satan is a master deceiver, and he loves to create false faiths (to serve as counterfeits for the original). That is why, when the 1,260 years of the white horse’s dominion ran out, the red horse (the rule of the people) began to turn the Ephraimites away from the white horse.
Hitgalut (Revelation) 6:4
4 Another horse, fiery red, went out. And it was granted to the one who sat on it, to take peace from the earth, and that people should kill one another; and there was given to him a great sword.
It was both good and bad that the Ephraimites turned away from the white horse to follow the red horse. It was good that the Ephraimites realized they needed to seek truth in Scripture, but it was bad because it created a spectrum of beliefs which confused many believers (and still does).
The name Babylon refers to confusion, and Babylon seeks to create confusion. If she can confuse people, she can divide them—and if she can divide them, she can conquer them. The Spirit serves to dispel the kind of confusion Babylon preaches. That is why submission to the Spirit of Truth is so essential.
If we look at history, we can see how the spiritual world impacts the material world. The white horse lost his monopoly in 1517, and the red horse began to lead the Ephraimites away from the papacy. Not long after this, the Protestants began asking why they should obey any king that the pope had appointed.
About a century later, in 1619, the Enlightenment began. A French philosopher named Renee Descartes had a series of dreams in which he felt he had communicated with a spiritual (i.e., demonic) force. After these dreams, he created his famous maxim, “I think, therefore I am.” However, in Scripture it is Elohim who says, “I am.”
Yochanan (John) 8:58
58 Yeshua said to them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I AM.”
What Descartes was really claiming was that we exist (and we are Elohim) simply because we think. Yet as we explain elsewhere, thinking without listening in the Spirit of Truth is the same as partaking of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Such thinking, apart from listening in the Spirit, is to do whatever seems good in our own eyes; and this path leads only to death.
Mishle (Proverbs) 14:12
12 There is a way that seems right to a man,
But its end is the way of death.
Since the red horse teaches men to think for themselves (rather than listen to Yahweh), endless confusion is the result. When men are confused, Babylon can divide and conquer them. Not surprisingly, this is the goal of all red horse democracies (and National Socialism, or Nazism).
By 1776, America’s Protestants were ready to break from England’s King George. Although King George was a Protestant king, his kingship was viewed as a relic of an illegitimate white horse papacy (which, in a sense, was true). Most (if not all) of the founding fathers were Freemasons, so it was argued that government should have no rights except those granted by the people. This is the foundation of red horse democracy everywhere—and by 1948 the United Nations stated in its Universal Declaration of Human Rights that “The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government.”
As we show in Revelation and the End Times, the black horse controls the money supply, thus it is able to control both the governments and the courts (through the Freemasons), and also the media (which it owns outright). The black horse uses the red horse as a tool for misleading the people. The name Rothschild means, “Red Shield,” indicating that the black horse hides behind red horse democracy, using it as a shield for its actions. By manipulating public opinion through the government (including schools), the courts, and the media, the black horse can manufacture the consent of the governed.
Even though it caused confusion, death, and destruction, the red horse had to lead Ephraim away from the papacy, and get them to study Scripture for themselves. Now it is up to us to come back to the original faith.