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Here the reader meets many of the picturesque images that are identified with Revelation—the four horses and their riders, the antichrist, the woman clothed with the sun, the beast with his number, Armageddon, the Millennium, the new Jerusalem. William Barclay helps the reader understand and interpret these and many other images drawn from Revelation that have so seized the world's imagination....

AS each of the seven seals is broken and opened, a new terror falls upon the earth. The first terror is depicted in the form of a white horse and its rider. What do they represent? Two explanations have been suggested, one of which is certainly wrong. (1) It has been suggested that the rider on the white horse is the victorious Christ himself. This conclusion is drawn because this picture is connected by some commentators with the picture in Revelation 19:11–12, which tells of a white horse and on
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