The Destroyer, Apollyon,
The Rider From Abaddon (Rev. 9:11)
Neal Frisby, The Destroyer, Apollyon, The Rider from Abaddon| BK 15 | July 2, 1973
The following notes and excerpts are taken from the message delivered by Evangelist Neal Frisby. These excerpts do not represent all pertinent statements from the message.
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Do you remember the letter I wrote about what Daniel saw when the personage appeared then and the ground quaked and they fled! "Daniel looked at him and the Bible says that His eyes were like lamps of fire and His face was like cosmic light and it was just flashing before him like that! His body was like the beryl and it set up in the gold wrapped around Him then! Very dramatic figure -- a pre-incarnate state of Christ was glorified and seen on the Isle of Patmos.
He [Daniel] fell on the ground, he was like dead -- he couldn't stand to look upon Him! What kind of figure was this, when Danield had already been before the throne and saw the Books open and the Lord's hair was white as snow and He was there with His garment like this and the flame issued before the throne -- it was moving out like this, and the thing was just moving. See, things there move in a fluid spirit like this -- they just move!
Those little cherubim at the throne they just -- holy, holy -- they're part of God and they're ancient and ancients and He's in them in that Light! The seraphim are up above them and the cherubim are below. One's up high pulsating softly "Holy, Holy, Holy" and the others are down here and the whole throne is just moving and the smoke is just rolling out and the Almighty there! He saw Him there! Daniels said they brought near one unto him like the son of Man [Jesus] -- which was the figure that God would come in, when He got in and come to man and visit them upon the earth!
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But Daniel saw Him sitting as white as snow there and He was looking at the flame of fire that issued before Him and He just stood there and watched that. But this is another time later, when it was at the end of Daniel's ministry. (Dan. 10:5,6) After he had finished his ministry and he was at the very end -- God saluted him and Gabriel came down to the ground swiftly then! He said, he was greatly beloved and he told him all about how heaven loved him and then suddenly this figure appeared like lightning and His eyes were rubies just coals like the fire coming out of Him and He was a cosmic like look -- read it yourself in the Bible there! He was very mystical! Daniel just fell out! It was something that he had never seen before, although he had seen God at the White Throne!
But, he saw another unusual form of God, a creative form -- I believe that God appears only once maybe in thousands of years like that! He had already been and saw the White Throne, so I kind of figure this personage that appeared to him -- besides Gabriel, it was another one appeared -- and really got him at the time.
The Lord can visit us just like He did Daniel, just like He did John on the Isle of Patmos. In fact in the Bible He reveals at the last time it'll be greater than even in the beginning.
He'll end it -- now He might not [appear] as far as the nations are concerned -- but as far as the children of the Lord are concerned, the First Fruits of God, He is going to visit them in a powerful manner. Something they have never seen the likes and He's beginning to do it now! We're only in the waters edge, it's just barely a spray from it. He's going deeper each time and when He does, it'll be a quick work -- like that! He'll visit us!
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We've had every denomination, I guess, in the world including Pentecostal here, and every one of them is Pentecostal really --...
But every one of them are acting the same, you see. I'm not organized, but that is, I believe in being organized in God's Spirit so that people are under the Spirit of God. You have to have where it's done according to the Word of God and the Word of God is organized into Spirit.
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But the organization of the human spirit is Balaamism and Nicolaitanes -- that's no good! You have to have the Spirit of God! In other words, everything is working according to the Spirit of the Lord and then it's right!
Organizations -- although the Lord is against them, we know that, some of it is a permissible thing because some will come out of great tribulation and we know many more will come out of Tribulation, from another standpoint. Nevertheless, they have left their mark on the world and we know it. So, the best thing for us to do, is to keep unorganized and let the Spirit of God be in us!
It's only a warning. God's warning them! You know in Laodicea -- He said, I give you a warning, He said. And they told Him -- we're rich, we're full, we have need of nothing -- in Laodicea, that's the last giant church age on the face of the earth, and they said, we have no need!
The Lord told them, He said -- because you're neither cold nor hot, I'll spew you out of my mouth! And it said this -- they apostatized and God was on the outside knocking at the door, one more time like that. Because they failed to see it. He's given them a warning and He said, behold He gave them a warning and He warned them, so we know plagues will fall upon the earth because of man's systems!
Now, we're going to lay a little foundation in these three series we've got here. I've wrote about it, through history on these horse riders of the apocalypse here. I believe it's one rider who's riding on those horses. Man in past and future -- the horses who go out here, really in the Tribulation they play a vital role in the prophetic picture.
And then before this in history -- those horses are in a type of drama that the Lord was revealing when He pulled back each one of them -- "they were in a drama and it's past history and it's future history!"
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"Because the Book of Revelations is future, yet it turns back the pages that happened in history too in a minor way and then in the major way it goes through the Tribulation!" It means it rolls back and it rolls forward. But it's prophetic events from the Lord. Where He's minor one way, He comes back in a major way the other way. He gives a compound purpose -- even the Book of Revelations -- there's a compound purpose to us.
There are two witnesses in the Book of Revelations! The beginning up to about the twelfth chapter, then it witnesses all over again in following chapters. Also the Book of Daniel up to a certain part -- then it turns around and witnesses a double witness! Joseph went before Pharaoh -- "it was double to him, a double witness". So the bible itself -- the Old Testament and the New Testament -- there's your two witnesses there! The Old Testament is really the New Testament concealed and the New Testament is the Old Testament revealed!
Sure, the Old Testament is concealed and the New Testament is revealing the Old Testament -- what is has said about it. -- So men in history have written about these horses and we'll take a minute and we'll go through them. We'll see if we can ride our way towards Armageddon. Because the world is fixing to get in a wheel and they're beginning to spin and it's going to be in a system. The false prophet and the beast and the antichrist. The three frogs in Revelation 16:13-16, I believe it is that they begin to gather together toward the battle of the great day!
It said they went before the people and giving them lies and delusions the way, they went. We'll begin to go into this just a little bit because we have to lay this foundation and when we come back this Fall we'll understand the minor parts that when I go into the major part, I will go into the two witnesses who come to those Jews. Plus many deep -- much deeper secrets than this and we'll go right on through and we'll see some things man has never seen and say some things that, I don't believe have ever been spoken.
We're going to the first one, it's the white horse rider. Some men in history have said that was Christ, some men in history said it was the antichrist. But we know this -- it's the antichrist because he's bluffing, and it's the antichrist because it's really not bluffing only but he's an imitator -- he is trying to be true because -- the Lord comes too, but He comes with the Word of God with Him not just an empty bow, He comes with the Word of God! (Rev. 19:11)
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Now we'll begin to read here in Revelation 6:1-8 -- "and I saw when the Lamb had opened one of the Seals and I heard as it were the noise of a thunder and one of the four beasts saying, come and see!"
See, altogether they were four revelations of them here. And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat upon him had a bow and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.
Now, the white horse rider. The first thing we see is that he had no arrows to go with hi bow! In other words, in starting he looked harmless, he was innocent looking. He had no arrows, clearly shows false peace!
He had a religious spirit, a false message! And without arrows, he was without the true word of God to back him up! He didn't have any power to back him up. It shows he depended upon impersonating, he was only imitating -- he was a lie! He was trying to back up a false doctrine. He had a weapon -- a bow, denoting religious conquest.
White denotes -- white denotes religion, But Christ is not the rider of the horse. Because He stands there with the book and He rolls it back and in His hand revealing this, Rev. 5:7. "in the next verse, (Rev. 6:4) we see the rider and the horse change colors and we can really see how sinister he turns out. This rider had no name -- Christ has a name, in Rev. 19:11 & 13.
Now there went the white horse and he had a bow and he was given a crown and to find out how diabolical and creul this was, now watch -- it is really cunning and slick because some in history have called him Christ! Others have said it was definitely the antichrist. Another prophet in our age confirmed it was the antichrist. Nevertheless as God gave it to me, (Scroll 38) I'll bring it here.
Now the next thing, the white horse changes colors, now the same rider but look at this horse -- he's changing. You can take and start mixing those colors, when you mix white, red and black then he rides at the end on that pale horse because you mix those colors together and watch him come out. It's all the same thing! You see Christ didn't ride up here and then another rider start -- No! This one started right here! And the rider and as the colors began to change you begin to see what kind of figure came here.
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Then it says, and there went out another horse and he was red and power was given unto him to take peace from the earth that they should kill one another and a great sword was given unto him! Now you see, the red horse -- war, murder, martyrdom -- killing the saints. This shows after deceiving the people, what the rider really was! A murderous villain, in the name of religion. During the Dark Ages, sixty-eight million people were killed in the name of religion under the Roman Babylon church.
It shows satan the rider, killed with a mighty slaughter, a great sword was given to him to cause death down through all the ages and also to cause war upon the earth. A great sword also prophesies at the end massive death at Armageddon -- the atomic-hydrogen bomb "a great sword" of destruction! Past and present history, as they ride along it gets greater.
Then step forth, and a spirit came out on a black horse -- and he was the black horse rider. Rev. 6:5 "and I beheld, and lo, a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand. And a voice spoke and said a measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine."
Famine! Mobilizing for war! Food is short! They begin to weigh it, because there wasn't as much -- they were preparing for war and all of those that were not on the antichrist's hand -- were marked. The food was becoming short because they were stock piling it and it was getting short because of famine upon the earth.
Now immediately this shows famine would continue down through the ages -- not just here at the beginning of the Tribulation, but through the ages we've had famine depicted back and forth.
UIt shows a famine for the Word of God also -- through the Dark Ages. At times the Spirti of God was so very scarce because of the false church and Babylon system had complete power during those ages -- and will again at the end! Watch this measure of wheat for a penny -- mark you for your bread, mark you for your work. It shows that Rome actually charged money for forgiveness of sins and offering a measure of wheat and then too, the bread of life. But it also denotes famine! Famine for food, famine for the Word of God -- famine, because they don't have it like they had it.
The Translation of the Church is gone! A famine sets in.
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At the opening of those seals the apocalyptic rider start off -- ushering in the Great Tribulation upon the face of the earth and everything begins to mobilize and get ready. The black horse. Notice, you would take a mark or starve.
And he was commanded not to hurt the oil or wine. Now that also is a type of the Holy Spirit in Revelation, it is also a type of thing in the world. Wine is the revelation of the Holy Spirit oil and this was getting scarce and was ordered not to hurt it -- those that had it. Because during Great Tribulation the Bible says there'll be some saints that come through the Great Tribulation. We know that. (But the Bride won't).
Then when we get down here, now notice the first three horses -- rider -- they had no name, they had just titles. But God give it a name -- shortly on another horse which we will speak of later. Also notice the colors of the horses, white, red, black -- if you mix these colors together you will come out with a pale horse -- which God named the pale horse rider, and his name was DEATH and he came from Abaddon and Apollyon in the Greek and by Tartarus down in the prison house and he had a hold of -- riding on death -- the spirit of death was upon him, from the pits of hell and it said the beast arose out of the pit -- (and that's where those locust demons are ) Rev 9:3, 16, 17 they call them, and the infernal horsemen that are going to be cut loose during the Great Tribulation when the earth opens up like a canyon and it said they come out until the whole air was smoking black with them and they covered the sun and the moon.
It said the locusts came out of the pit down below from Abaddon and Apollyon when they turn them loose! The Bible states this, that they just blackened the earth up but they were unusual they didn't hurt anything but men and they stung like scorpions and looked like locusts and men fell sick and they could seek death and couldn't find it and they stung them for months and this is during the Great Tribulation.
The next thing you know He rolled that back and another one there -- and it said the pits opened up and the infernal horsemen were cut loose, about two hundred million of them, said they had heads like lions and bodies like horses and there was fire and brimstone coming out of them and they come out of that pit by the millions until it was just all over the earth and these creatures.
See, things are beginning to set up -- God's beginning to release these things upon the earth. Great judgment -- the world. Now the Lord will bring true everything that He wrote in the Book of Revelations. If you've never understood it and some of them happen to go through Tribulation -- You'll understand it then! Or unless you're in great delusion then.
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When they follow the horse -- that's death! It causes eternal -- eternal separation from God! It's mixed with all organized false religion -- cults and politics, ending in the battle of Armageddon. So Satan finishes his job of deceiving all through the ages on the horses -- climaxing with the pale horse of death! Thus saith the Revelation of the Lord! God has spoken it, before any man knew it! It's the Lord!
Now here's a short summary I wrote. Rev. 6:1 thru 8 -- so there will be no doubt. The white horse reveals how Satan deceived the people in every age using religion as a front and impersonating the truth to get things in his hand. Then when he got things in his hand it was like Judas -- he inaugurated a savage reign of terror!
After he conquers through the white, false impersonations and his false doctrines -- then he rides the red horse and slaughters all who disagree. it said upon the earth he slaughtered them and the blood ran in every direction -- the book of Martyrs will tell you about it they died by the millions and millions. And look at Adolf Hitler - by the millions, six million -and there they go. He's the killer horse. And now the red horse shows how Satan took peace from the earth and every age through wars and also mainly through martyring many Christians in the Dark Ages.
The black horse not only reveals famine for food down through the ages but again at the end -- but shows a famine for the Word of God through the ages. And how Satan received wealth for prayer through the false church.
This will repeat again under the antichrist -- at the end for food and religion you will have to receive a mark to receive food and have to receive a mark to preach -- you'll have to receive it to be in a church because it will be all conglomerated and mixed together! The pale horse shows that all finally culminates, unties -- all three horse spirits together in a pale horse -- Rev. 6:8