And one of the elders saith unto me, Weep not behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, hath prevailed to open the book, and to loose the seven seals thereof. And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth. And he came and took the book out of the right hand of him that sat upon the throne. Revelation 5 1 7. In this passage, the 7 sealed book is held by The Lord but no one is found who is worthy of to open. Verse 3 states that no one worthy was found in heaven, nor in earth, neither under the Earth. Now it is Jesus Christ who of course is worthy to open the book. So why does verse 3 say this It is because John is seeing this play out right before the resurrection and ascension of Jesus Christ. John is seeing what for him, would be going into the past. This is critical to understand. Jesus Christ, in Revelation 1, instructs John to Write the things which thou hast seen, and the things which are, and the things which shall be hereafter. This is a reference to the past, present and future. So going back to the throne room, John sees Jesus enter Heaven after His resurrection, when He conquered death and the grave and won salvation for all who believe in Him. If this was decades after the Resurrection and ascension of Christ to Heaven, why would the angel say no man could be found anywhere worthy to open the Book Jesus victory and atonement on the cross made the only man in the universe worthy to open it. And John is there to witness the scene in Heaven at the moment Jesus returns to Heaven, His earthly mission completed. The angel who is speaking to John confirms this saying Weep not behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, hath prevailed to open the book, and to loose the seven seals thereof. There can be no question that this is referring to Jesus. And His victory earned Him the role of receiving the Divine book. It is this authors contention that this seven sealed book is the same book the prophet Daniel is told to seal until the time of the end in Daniel 1. At two points an angels instructs Daniel to But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased. And he said, Go thy way, Daniel for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end. Daniel 1. 2 9 1. Now that we have the time frame and context established, the seals themselves can be examined. The Horsemen Spiritual Forces For God. The Book of Zechariah provides the Biblical explanation of the spirit realm horses. And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see. And I saw, and behold a white horse and he that sat on him had a bow and a crown was given unto him and he went forth conquering, and to conquer. Revelation 6 1 2. Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation. Peter 1 2. 0. The Bible instructs us to interpret Scripture by using other Scripture. Corinthians 2 states Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. Which things also we speak, not in the words which mans wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth comparing spiritual things with spiritual. This is critical the Holy Spirit teaches us that we are to compare Scripture which is spiritual with Scripture. So in order to divide a passage that is prophetic, there should be some confirming Scripture elsewhere in the Bible. In the case of the colored horses and their riders, we find that confirmation in Zechariah Chapter 6. And I turned, and lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and, behold, there came four chariots out from between two mountains and the mountains were mountains of brass. In the first chariot were red horses and in the second chariot black horses And in the third chariot white horses and in the fourth chariot grisled and bay horses. Then I answered and said unto the angel that talked with me, What are these, my lord And the angel answered and said unto me, These are the four spirits of the heavens, which go forth from standing before the LORD of all the earth. Zechariah 6 1 5. Throughout the book of Zechariah, the prophet encounters beings and creatures from the spirit realm. In Chapter 6, he is converses an angel. Automatic Buy Sell Signal Software Mcx Sig. And from between two mountains of brass come forth a group of chariots with horses. As is often the case when a prophet encounters an angelic being or sight that is confusing, The Lord, in His mercy, has an angel to provide the explanation for us. The chariots and their horses are spirits that stand before God. They are spirit realm beings manifesting as a chariot and horses when they come to Earth. And their appearance happens to correspond to the colors of the horses we see in the first four seals of Revelation. B E the color grisled and bay, can mean grayish, which is similar to pale in Revelation. Pale does not mean white, it means grayish or sickly looking. In the Septuagint, the fourth horse in Zechariah is called ash colored. In Zechariah Chapter 1, the prophet sees colored horses and inquires as to who they are and receives similar confirmation I saw by night, and behold a man riding upon a red horse, and he stood among the myrtle trees that were in the bottom and behind him were there red horses, speckled, and white. Then said I, O my lord, what are theseAnd the angel that talked with me said unto me, I will shew thee what these be. And the man that stood among the myrtle trees answered and said, These are they whom the Lord hath sent to walk to and fro through the earth. And they answered the angel of the Lord that stood among the myrtle trees, and said, We have walked to and fro through the earth, and, behold, all the earth sitteth still, and is at rest. Zechariah 1 8 1. The word consistency of the King James Bible is never a coincidence. Death of Osama bin Laden. Osama bin Laden, the founder and head of the Islamist group Al Qaeda, was killed in Pakistan on May 2, 2. PKT12 2. 0 0. UTC, May 1 by United States Navy SEALs of the U. S. Naval Special Warfare Development Group also known as DEVGRU or SEAL Team Six. The operation, code named Operation Neptune Spear, was carried out in a CIA led operation with Joint Special Operations Command, commonly known as JSOC, coordinating the Special Mission Units involved in the raid. In addition to SEAL Team Six, participating units under JSOC included the 1. Special Operations Aviation Regiment Airbornealso known as Night Stalkersand operators from the CIAs Special Activities Division, which recruits heavily from former JSOC Special Mission Units. The operation ended a nearly 1. Laden, following his role in the September 1. United States. The raid on bin Ladens compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan was launched from Afghanistan. U. S. military officials said that after the raid U. S. forces took bin Ladens body to Afghanistan for identification, then buried him at sea within 2. Islamic tradition. According to Carlotta Gall, a Pakistani official to whom she later clarified that she did not speak, the information coming through a friend,8 told her that a senior U. S. official had told him that the United States had direct evidence that Inter Services Intelligence ISI chief, Lt. Gen. Ahmad Shuja Pasha, knew of bin Ladens presence in Abbottabad, but ISI, Pasha and officials in Washington all denied this. Al Qaeda confirmed the death on May 6 with posts made on militant websites, vowing to avenge the killing. Other Pakistani militant groups, including the Tehrik i Taliban Pakistan, vowed retaliation against the U. S. and against Pakistan for not preventing the operation. The raid was supported by over 9. American public,1. United Nations, NATO, the European Union and a large number of governments,1. Pakistani public. Legal and ethical aspects of the killing, such as his not being taken alive despite being unarmed, were questioned by others, including Amnesty International. Also controversial was the decision not to release any photographic or DNA evidence of bin Ladens death to the public. In the aftermath of the killing, Pakistan Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani formed a commission under Senior Justice Javed Iqbal to investigate the circumstances surrounding the attack. The resulting Abbottabad Commission Report was leaked to Al Jazeera on July 8, 2. The search for bin Laden. Accounts of how bin Laden was located by U. S. intelligence differ. The White House and CIA director John Brennan stated that the process began with a fragment of information unearthed in 2. This account states that by September 2. Abbottabad compound, where the U. S. began intensive multiplatform surveillance. According to journalist Seymour Hersh and NBC News, however, the U. S. was tipped off about bin Ladens location by a Pakistani intelligence officer who offered details of where the Pakistani Intelligence Service held him in detention in exchange for a bounty. ISI walk in places bin Laden in Abbottabad. In August 2. 01. 0, a former Pakistani intelligence officer approached the U. S. embassy station chief in Islamabad and offered to reveal bin Ladens location, in return for the 2. U. S. intelligence official. This story was corroborated by two U. S. intelligence officials speaking to NBC News, and had been previously reported by intelligence analyst Raelynn Hillhouse. The Pakistani official informed U. S. intelligence that bin Laden had been located by Pakistani ISI in 2. Pakistani intelligence and military centers ever since. The official passed polygraph tests, after which the U. S. began local and satellite surveillance of bin Ladens Abbottabad residence. According to the retired senior U. S. intelligence official speaking to Hersh, bin Laden was ill at this point, financially supported by some within Saudi Arabia, and kept by the ISI to better manage their complex relationship with Pakistani and Afghan Islamist groups. According to the official, retired CIA officials emphasized the importance of bin Ladens courier to the press, because they were nervous over torture scrutiny and possible prosecution. In May 2. 01. 5 the German newspaper Bild am Sonntag reported that Germanys Federal Intelligence Service BND was aware that bin Laden was in Pakistan with the knowledge of Pakistani intelligence services. The BND informed the CIA that bin Laden was in Pakistan and Bild am Sonntag states that the CIA then found his precise location through a courier. Der Spiegel questioned the veracity of the report, produced in the midst of a scandal over BND and NSA collaboration. Identity of his courier. According to the earlier official version of his identification from a U. S. official, identification of al Qaeda couriers was an early priority for interrogators at CIA black sites and the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, because bin Laden was believed to communicate through such couriers while concealing his whereabouts from al Qaeda foot soldiers and top commanders. Bin Laden was known not to use phones after 1. U. S. had launched missile strikes against his bases in Afghanistan in August by tracking an associates satellite phone. The U. S. official had stated that by 2. Qaeda courier with the kunya. Abu Ahmed al Kuwaiti sometimes referred to as Sheikh Abu Ahmed from Kuwait. One of those claims came from Mohammed al Qahtani, a detainee interrogated for 4. November 2. 3, 2. January 1. 1, 2. 00. At some point during this period, al Qahtani told interrogators about a man known as Abu Ahmed al Kuwaiti who was part of the inner circle of al Qaeda. Later in 2. 00. 3, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged operational chief of al Qaeda, stated that he was acquainted with al Kuwaiti, but that the man was not active in al Qaeda, according to a U. S. official. 2. 7According to a U. S. official, in 2. Hassan Ghul revealed that bin Laden relied on a trusted courier known as al Kuwaiti. Ghul stated that al Kuwaiti was close to bin Laden as well as Khalid Sheik Mohammed and Mohammeds successor Abu Faraj al Libbi. Ghul revealed that al Kuwaiti had not been seen in some time, which led U. S. officials to suspect he was traveling with bin Laden. When confronted with Ghuls account, Mohammed maintained his original story. Abu Faraj al Libbi was captured in 2. Guantnamo in September 2. He told CIA interrogators that bin Ladens courier was a man named Maulawi Abd al Khaliq Jan and denied knowing al Kuwaiti. Because both Mohammed and al Libbi had minimized al Kuwaitis importance, officials speculated that he was part of bin Ladens inner circle. In 2. 00. 7, officials learned al Kuwaitis real name,3. Pakistani officials in 2. Ibrahim Saeed Ahmed, from Pakistans Swat Valley. He and his brother Abrar and their families were living at bin Ladens compound, the officials said. Since the name Maulawi Abd al Khaliq Jan appears in the JTF GTMO detainee assessment for Abu Faraj al Libbi released by Wiki. Leaks on April 2. U. S. assault on the Abbottabad compound was expedited as a precaution. The CIA never found anyone named Maulawi Jan and concluded that the name was an invention of al Libbi. A 2. 01. 0 wiretap of another suspect picked up a conversation with al Kuwaiti. CIA paramilitary operatives located al Kuwaiti in August 2. Abbottabad compound, which led them to speculate it was bin Ladens location. The courier and a relative who was either a brother or a cousin were killed in the May 2, 2. Afterward, some locals identified the men as Pashtuns named Arshad and Tareq Khan. Arshad Khan was carrying an old, noncomputerized Pakistani identification card, which identified him as from Khat Kuruna, a village near Charsadda in northwestern Pakistan.