seekeroftruth
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Revelation 6:3 When the Lamb opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature say, “Come!” 4 Then another horse came out, a fiery red one. Its rider was given power to take peace from the earth and to make people kill each other. To him was given a large sword.
Here's the link to the commentary I use.Another horse, fiery red, went out. And it was granted to the one who sat on it to take peace from the earth: This rider didn’t need to bring war and destruction. All he needed to do was take peace from the earth. Once this peace — God’s gift to man — was taken, men quickly rush in with war and destruction.
Peace between men and among nations is a gift from God. It is not the natural state of relations between men.
That people should kill one another: Our modern age is marked by war and conflict. Since World War II, there have been more than 150 wars of some kind in the world, and at any given time there may be some three dozen armed conflicts taking thousands of lives yearly. The nations of the world often spend more than $1 trillion on military expenditures a year.
As I write this, there are people dying due to actions of war. In Gaza, Ukraine, and even on the Seas, there are bombings, drones, and bullets. Innocent children are singing Disney songs of encouragement in fallout shelters. Others are being pulled from the rubble left of their homes, not to sing or smile ever again. These are children, babies.... and they are falling [yep] like dominos.... while we debate the financial burden. Back in 1962 I was in Puerto Rico. My dad was Navy. I was attending a school on the Army Base at Fort Bucanan. That's when I first heard of the "Dominio Theory". My class watched a "movie" about what was going on in Vietnam and how if we didn't intervene, the nations would fall like dominos and we would all be "communists".
How long have we been "peacekeeping" around the world? Will it be different when the guy on the Red Horse "takes away our peace"? I googled it [binged it] and we [humans] have been "keeping the peace" since 1948. Isn't that about 76 years? I'm 73... It's been going on for my whole life. Economists are considering how much "keeping the peace" and holding the dominos in place costs.
While the economists fight over the value of "keeping the peace" in Ducketts, dollars, and cents, children are suffering.
That doesn't even include the violence here at home with the "Six Flags" attacks or the school shootings or the gang violence or the homeless and hungry children.
If the rider on the Red Horse hasn't arrived.... How much peace will we have left for him to take away?
Is this peace? Even if we negotiate a "Cease Fire", can there ever be "peace" again?
Is this what all the chaos about back at the end of chapter 5? When all the dogs, horses, birds, whales and dolphins start backing, nickering, cowling, and singing there will be chaos... people will actually come out to see what all the noise is about.... and then the White Horse... and then.... our peace will be stolen!
Has the rider on the Red Horse already stolen our peace? How much peace do we have left?
Do we have peace now?
Saving children across the world from their adults is an endless job and one that no nation should even consider taking on - it's a tar baby and no good comes of it. Plus "saving" children has different meanings in different cultures. Some cultures see children as a mere commodity, not a living creature with human rights. Sure, I suppose you could go on a crusade to wipe out those cultures you don't agree with, but another one will just take its place so your effort is pointless.