Revelation 4:5
"And out of the throne came lightnings and thunderings and voices. And seven lamps of fire were burning in front of the throne, which are the seven spirits of God."
THE SEVEN EYES OF THE LORD ARE THE SEVEN SPIRITS OF GOD.
Revelation 5:6
"And I looked, and lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four living creatures, amidst the elders, a Lamb stood, as if it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth."
Zechariah 4:2-3, 10
"And he said to me, What do you see? And I said, I see, and behold, a lampstand, all of it gold, and a bowl on its top, and its seven lamps on it, and seven pipes to the seven lamps on its top; and two olive trees beside it, one on the right of the bowl, and the other on the left of it.
10 For who has despised the day of small things? For they shall rejoice, and shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel. These seven are the eyes of the LORD which run to and fro through the whole earth.
THE HEADSTONE
Matthew 21:42; Ephesians 2:20; 1 Peter 2:6).
Zechariah 4
7 Who are you, O great mountain? before Zerubbabel you shall become a plain: and he shall bring forth the headstone thereof with shoutings, crying, Grace, grace unto it.
Zechariah 4
8 And the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
9 The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house. His hands shall also finish it; and you shall know that the LORD of hosts has sent me to you.
Jesus' hands laid the foundation of His house. His hands shall also finish it, and we shall know that the LORD of hosts has sent Him to us.
The gates of hades shall not prevail against the Church Matthew 16:18
The weapons of the witnesses of Christ are spiritual:
"And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God." (Ephesians 6:17)
"Then he answered and spoke to me, saying, This is the word of the LORD to Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by My Spirit, says the LORD of hosts." (Zechariah 4:6).
TWO WITNESSES
Zechariah 4:2-6
"And he said to me, What do you see? And I said, I see, and behold, a lampstand, all of it gold, and a bowl on its top, and its seven lamps on it, and seven pipes to the seven lamps on its top; and two olive trees beside it, one on the right of the bowl, and the other on the left of it.
And I answered and spoke to the angel who talked with me, saying, What are these, my lord?
Then the angel who talked with me answered and said to me, Do you know what these are? And I said, No, my lord.
Then he answered and spoke to me, saying, This is the word of the LORD to Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by My Spirit, says the LORD of hosts.
"And I will give power to My two witnesses, and they will prophesy a thousand, two hundred and sixty days, clothed in sackcloth. These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands standing before the God of the earth." (Revelation 11:3-4).
Zechariah 4:11-14
"Then answered I, and said unto him, What are these two olive trees upon the right side of the candlestick and upon the left side thereof?
And I answered again, and said unto him, What be these two olive branches which through the two golden pipes empty the golden oil out of themselves? And he answered me and said, Know you not what these be? And I said, No, my lord.
Then said he, These are the two anointed ones, that stand by the LORD of the whole earth."
It could be translated as "anointed sons", because this is a more literal translation of the Hebrew yitshâr bên (anointed sons).
THE GOSPEL GOING OUT IN POWER, WITH A DIRE WARNING
Leading up to the harvesting of the earth (which we read about in Revelation 14:14-20), John sees a vision of three angels going out into all the earth with three messages (Revelation 14:6-12). The first is going out "having the everlasting gospel to preach to those dwelling on the earth, even to every nation and kindred and tongue and people" (Revelation 14:6-7).
The second angel is going out with an announcement: Babylon the Great has fallen. The the third is going out with a dire warning not to worship the beast or his image.
IMO, this tells us that Revelation 14 belongs with Revelation 13:11-18 (and, of course, the beast of Revelation 13:11-18 is called the false prophet in Revelation 19:20). It also seems to me that the two witnesses are the ones going forth "having the everlasting gospel to preach to those dwelling on the earth, even to every nation and kindred and tongue and people".
And because the two witnesses prophesy for 1,260 days and are killed by the beast that ascends out of the abyss when they complete their testimony, and that beast is given authority to continue for 42 months, this is referring to the same 3.5 year period which immediately precedes the return of Christ.
For all the reasons I already put in this thread, I believe that there is no reason not to take the significance provided in the Revelation to mean that the first horseman of the Apocalypse signifies the two witnesses, the power behind them being Christ, and the rider of the red horse signifies the Antichrist, the power behind him being the dragon.
The content of your post is very important and must LITERALLY be fulfilled at this present end-times. I would like to share in your study bringing some more details for your meditation and also for the readers, which may lead us to the most perfect interpretation and revelation of this biblical enigma: -The two witnesses-
But first I would like to say that your conclusion that the whitehorse rider is NOT the Antichrist, that is absolutely TRUE. But who is him? JESUS? No, absolutely no.
To say or to preach that the whitehorse rider is the Antichrist, it is a blasphemy, because the whitehorse rider is a messenger of the LORD. He is a Warrior of the LORD. The three others horseriders are of the Devil, and the whitehorse rider fights against those three satanic horseriders. The Scriptures reveal who is the whitehorse rider, evidently, but it is by revelation, not by speculation. By the way, JESUS is a SAVIOR, not a WARRIOR.
I would like to say here that there is only and only one white horse, not two. The Warrior of the LORD is a Prince since the beginning, he was together with the LORD in the house of Abraham. He is one of the three in Abraham's house, and after was sent to Sodom and Gomorrah to destroy that land as a whole, except Lot and his family.
Later he was sent to meet Moses in the mount Sina, and he was with Moses until his death, and was sent to meet Joshua after Mose's death, here we know who he is: Joshua 5:v.13-15 reveals:
13 And it came to pass, when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted up his eyes and looked, and, behold, there stood a MAN over against him with his Sword drawn in his hand: and Joshua went unto him, and said unto him, Art thou for us, or for our adversaries?
14 And he said, Nay; but as CAPTAIN of the host of the LORD am I NOW come. And Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and did worship (John wanted to do the same before him, but he did not permitted John to do it-Revelation 22:v.8-9), and Joshua said unto him, What saith my Lord unto his servant?
15 And the CAPTAIN of the Lord's host said unto Joshua, Loose thy shoe from off thy foot; for the place whereon thou standest is holy. And Joshua did so.
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