They call the Rider on the White Horse the Antichrist. Joan Holland believes Scripture points to Christ - riding forth "conquering, and to conquer."
For eight years, one question would not let go: Why do so many Christians struggle to understand the Book of Revelation? Not because its message is beyond understanding, but perhaps because we have stopped reading it through the world in which the apostles lived and proclaimed the Gospel.
In The Man on the White Horse, Bible teacher and prophecy researcher Joan Holland takes readers back to Scripture and the Early Church to examine the First Seal of Revelation. Her case is challenging and clear: the first rider is not a future deceiver, but represents Christ and the victorious advance of His Gospel - carried by ordinary believers who confronted the power of Rome not with swords, but with faith, sacrifice, purity and the Word of God.
Bringing Scripture together with the history and testimony of the Early Church, this book explores:
Why the symbolism of white points to purity, righteousness and victory.How the apostolic Church carried the Gospel from Jerusalem to Samaria, the Gentile world and eventually across the Roman Empire.The persecutions under Decius and Diocletian, and the believers who refused to deny Christ.How Christian doctrine and worship were defended, challenged and gradually transformed as the Church moved toward the age of Constantine.What the crown and bow of Revelation 6:2 may reveal about the identity and mission of the Rider.This is not another prophecy chart.
It is an invitation to place Scripture and history side by side and examine the evidence for yourself.
Book 1 of The Seven Seals Series, The Man on the White Horse is written for believers who have opened Revelation searching for answers and closed it with even more questions.
Return to the First Seal. Follow the Early Church. And discover why the Rider on the White Horse may change the way you read Revelation.