The rider of the white horse in Rev.6:2 .... Christ or the Antichrist?

by restrangled 21 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

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  PSacramento

  Snowbird,

  I didn't knwo that some beieve that Lazarus wrote the Gosple of John, that's quite interesting.

  Revelations shows quite a different writing style than the Gospel or the letters, some argue that is because John is writing what he is being told to write and as such, he writing style is being "overwritten".

  Others simple state that John of Revelation doesn't make himself know as John of the Gospel or the letters, he doesn't "anounce" himslef as he does in the Gsopel and Letters.

  Revelation for some time was not part of the NT "canon" and even after it was there was a relcutence to "teach" it simple because it is almost all based on symbolisim and is so highly interpretive that one can easily make it mean whatever one wants it to mean.

  The apocolypes of Peter, Paul and James are intersting reads also.
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  cameo-d

  Very interesting information, Donuthole!

  Quote:

  To kill with a long sword = rider of the red horse
  To kill with food shortage = rider of the black
  To kill with deadly plague (or death) = rider of the pale horse
  To kill with the wild beasts of the earth = rider of the white horse

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  All of these riders are killers. (the pale horse has also been described as pale green.)

  Consider this:

  The White Plague is tuberculosis.

  Avian flu is a derrivative of TB.

  The ancient Greeks had a wonderful word to describe tuberculosis's ravages: phthisis, which describes a living body that shrivels with intense heat as if placed on a flame.

  "And this shall be the plague wherewith Jehovah will smite all the peoples that have warred against Jerusalem: their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth." Zech. 14:12

  Later, the Romans applied the Latin word "consumere" -- to eat up or devour -- to the malady. Indeed, when O'Neill's TB was diagnosed, the disease was still referred to as "consumption."

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  (one definition of 'consume' is "to eat". Perhaps this is how the birds "eat us".)

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  In the fall of 2006, the World Health Organization declared XDR-TB to be a global emergency ...

  Today, more than one-third of the world's more than 6 billion people have been exposed to the tuberculosis germ...

  Last year, active -- and contagious -- tuberculosis was diagnosed in more than 8.8 million people. Approximately 420,000, or 5 percent, of them have a drug-resistant strain .....

  420,000 cases are even more difficult and expensive to treat, the highly lethal XDR-TB.

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  It appears there is a link between TB bacterium and avian flu. Perhaps its a mutation(?)

  quote:

  Avian flu is a chronic and debilitating infection caused by an acid-fast bacterial rod known as mycobacterium. Tuberculosis infection in birds is most commonly associated with two strains of mycobacterium, M. avium, and M. genovense.