Mike,

I have been learning a great deal by reading your paper , “How is the lake of fire administered”. Thank you for all your hard work, I am greatly blessed by the insight the Lord chooses to give you. I have a question:
In the passage of revelation below, the fire comes out of the mouth of the horses, which is the head of a lion. The fire is God’s word which comes out of the mouth of the elect. Then Isaiah says that the tail is a prophet that teaches lies. What does the horse represent in Revelation? It seems to be something that connects the elect and the false prophet. I understand that we live by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God, so the elect at certain times in their lives teach false doctrine. As you can see I’m struggling here, can you help please?
So when it is all seen for what the scriptures reveal about the fires of the lake of fire we find that that fire is Joseph himself, typifying Christ and those who are in Christ. These are those who are used of God to purge the dross, the “two hundred thousand thousand” false doctrines, from the hearts and minds of God’s called but not chosen “sons of the bondwoman” (Gal 4: 22-31). 

Rev 9:16  And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand: and I heard the number of them.
Rev 9:17  And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and  out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.
Rev 9:18  By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.
Rev 9:19  For their power is in their mouth, and in their tails: for their tails were like unto serpents, and had heads, and with them they do hurt.

“Their power is in their mouth, and in their tails: for their tails were like unto serpents…” And what does “the tail” represent in God’s word?

Isa 9:15  The ancient and honourable, he is the head; and the prophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail

But of God’s elect we are told, “We will be like Him…” and what is He?

Heb 12:29  For our God is a consuming fire.

M____

Hi M____,
It is good to hear from you. You ask about the horses of Rev 9, and I thank you for your question.
You ask:

What does the horse represent in Revelation

In modern terms a horse would be a tank or a fighter jet or some awesome powerful implement of warfare. The only books that mention them in the New Testament are James, Jas 3:3, and they are mentioned six other times in the book of Revelation. They always appear as symbols of the warfare which are the judgments of the words of this prophecy. It is in the Old Testament that we learn about the spiritual significance is that is given to the words used in the New Testament. In the Old Testament horses were an integral part of the armies of Egypt which tried to destroy God’s people, and that is what they portend in this prophecy in Rev 9. These horses are powerful instruments for our destruction.

Deu 11:4  And what he did unto the army of Egypt, unto their horses, and to their chariots; how he made the water of the Red sea to overflow them as they pursued after you, and [ how] the LORD hath destroyed them unto this day;

Horses were considered such a powerful tool of war in ancient Israel, that God forbade Israel to own horses lest they place their faith in their own strength and not in Him.

Deu 17:16  But he [ the king of Israel] shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he should multiply horses: forasmuch as the LORD hath said unto you, Ye shall henceforth return no more that way.
Deu 20:1  When thou goest out to battle against thine enemies, a nd seest horses, and chariots, and a people more than thou, be not afraid of them: for the LORD thy God is with thee, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
Isa 31:1  Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help; and stay on horses, and trust in chariots, because they are many; and in horsemen, because they are very strong; but they look not unto the Holy One of Israel, neither seek the LORD!

This whole prophecy here in Revelation is a prophecy about the spiritual warfare that is taking place in our heavens as the process of judgment is first beginning at the house of God. That war involves two million horses with hair like women,  tails like scorpions and serpents, and mouths like the mouths of lions, from which come fire and brimstone.

1Pe 4:17  For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?

How we get both lies and truth from the same horses we will discuss later. Now let’s read the verses you reference.

Rev 9:16  And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand: and I heard the number of them.
Rev 9:17  And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses [ were] as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.
Rev 9:18  By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.
Rev 9:19  For their power is in their mouth, and in their tails: for their tails [ were] like unto serpents, and had heads, and with them they do hurt.
Rev 9:20  And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk:
Rev 9:21  Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.

I included verses 20 and 21 to demonstrate what the effect is of these horses on our lives.
You say this about those verses:

In the passage of revelation below, the fire comes out of the mouth of the horses, which is the head of a lion. The fire is God’s word which comes out of the mouth of the elect. Then Isaiah says that the tail is a prophet that teaches lies. What does the horse represent in Revelation? It seems to be something that connects the elect and the false prophet. I understand that we live by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God, so the elect at certain times in their lives teach false doctrine. As you can see I’m struggling here, can you help please?

Yes, I can see that you are struggling here, but you say, “I understand that we live by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God, so the elect at certain times in their lives teach false doctrine,” and with that foundation, your struggles will pay you great dividends. If you are given to remain faithful to that very Biblical principle that we “live by every word” and we “keep the things written therein”, both of which principles are given to us directly from the mouth of our Savior Himself, then you will see things that natural eyes cannot see, and you will hear things that natural ears cannot hear. You will see and understand the spiritual things that are given to us “which none of the princes of this world… can see or hear” (1Co 2:8-14).
You are doing well in your struggle because you are aware that God’s elect were not always in His service. You know and realize that we are all first the “first Adam” who, as the apostle Paul did, first must “breathe out slaughter against the church” before we become the “last Adam” who is willing to “fill up in my body what is behind of the afflictions of the Christ for His body’s sake, which is the church” (Col 1:24).
That sounds contradictory to the natural man. Are you the first Adam, or are you the last Adam? The natural man cannot comprehend how you can be both. He cannot see how you can be both the beast that blasphemes God and the angel who is your fellow servant and of your brothers the prophets” (Rev 19:10 and 22: 9).
So yes, you are exactly right. There really is “something that connects the elect and the false prophet”, and that something is “the first Adam”. If we use Saul of Tarsus as an example of ourselves, we are all, as you are grasping, the false prophet before we become “of your brothers the prophets, and your fellow servant” who show the things of this prophecy to others (Rev 19:10 and 22:9).
If we deny that we ourselves are this beast and this false prophet, spoken of in this “revelation of Jesus Christ”, then we are doing nothing less than denying that the first Adam is a figure of Him that was to come, and we are denying that we must be the first Adam before we can ever become the last Adam with and in Christ. It is Christ Himself who tells us that He is the first and the last.

Rom 5:14  Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam’s transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.
Rev 1:11  Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: and, What thou seest, write in a book, and send it unto the seven churches which are in Asia; unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamos, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea.

Christ really wants us to get hold of the fact that He is the first and the last. This prophecy begins and ends with that reminder.

Rev 22:13  I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.

That statement occurs two more times in the first two chapters, for a total of four times in this revelation of Jesus Christ. Christ could never have made that statement had He not emptied Himself and come to this earth in a body of flesh and blood just like ours.
But there is fire and brimstone coming out of the mouth of the lion’s head on this horse’s body. How is it possible for lies to come out of the tail and fire and brimstone to come out of the mouth of the same horse? It sounds and it seems like a contradiction, and hence your dilemma.
But you answer your own question when you make the statement ” It seems to be something that connects the elect and the false prophet.”

Christ makes this statement…:

Luk 19:22  And he saith unto him, Out of thine own mouth will I judge thee, thou wicked servant. Thou knewest that I was an austere man, taking up that I laid not down, and reaping that I did not sow:

This is the parable of the talents, and Christ is speaking to the man who said His Lord was a hard man who reaped where he had not sown. That servant knew fully well that his master had indeed sown his talents with His own servants. He was in possession of one of His master’s talents, and yet, to this servant his master was a hard man who reaped where he had not sown. So our Lord answers this man “according to the idols of his own heart” (Eze 14:2-9). So while it appears like a contradiction to the natural man, this “wicked and slothful servant” was speaking the truth and was judging himself, even as he was lying about and maligning the good name of his master. The consequence is that to this servant his master becomes a hard man who reaps where he had not sown, and he condemns himself (“fire and brimstone”) for not acting accordingly.
But we have another example of being judged out of our own mouth and breathing fire and brimstone, even as we lie. It is the same seemingly impossible and contradictory situation where we have a man who God Himself labels “a man after mine own heart” who condemns himself for the vilest of sins.

Act 13:22  And when he had removed him [ King Saul], he raised up unto them David to be their king; to whom also he gave testimony, and said, I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after mine own heart, which shall fulfil all my will.

King David, in that way, is a type of the revelation of Jesus Christ. We are all familiar with the story of King David, and how even after being established on the throne of all Israel, he committed adultery and killed the woman’s husband to cover up his own sin. But look at the “fire and brimstone” that came from the very mouth of the man who was living the lies of “the tail.”

2Sa 12:5  And David’s anger was greatly kindled against the man; and he said to Nathan, As the LORD liveth, the man that hath done this thing shall surely die:
2Sa 12:6  And he shall restore the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing, and because he had no pity.

How easy it is to become so indignant at the evil deeds of others, and apply every judgment and all the evils and plagues of the prophecy of this book to that evil man ‘over there’ somewhere, who deserves to die, and who deserves to experience the seven last plagues, and who deserves to restore the lamb fourfold, and not realize that this very truth is true of the man of sin that lies within our own flesh.
So these also are words which we must live, and which these seven trumpets reveal we will live.

2Sa 12:7  And Nathan said to David, Thou art the man. Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, I anointed thee king over Israel, and I delivered thee out of the hand of Saul;
2Sa 12:8  And I gave thee thy master’s house, and thy master’s wives into thy bosom, and gave thee the house of Israel and of Judah; and if that had been too little, I would moreover have given unto thee such and such things.
2Sa 12:9  Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the LORD, to do evil in his sight? thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.
2Sa 12:10  Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thine house; because thou hast despised me, and hast taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be thy wife.
2Sa 12:11  Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will raise up evil against thee out of thine own house, and I will take thy wives before thine eyes, and give [ them] unto thy neighbour, and he shall lie with thy wives in the sight of this sun.

The fact that God used King David’s own family to punish him demonstrates that our problems are not ‘that evil man over there’, but it is our own flesh and blood within each of us. Whenever we catch ourselves allowing the outward application of the sayings of the prophecy of this book to become our primary focus, and we do not see King David as you and me, we must bring ourselves back to remembering Mat. 4:4 and Rev 1:3; 22:7 and 22:18-19 and remember the words of the prophet, “Thou art the man.”

Mat 4:4  But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.
Rev 1:3  Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and  keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand.
Rev 22:7  Behold, I come quickly: blessed is he that keepeth the sayings of the prophecy of this book.
Rev 22:18  For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book:
Rev 22:19  And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.

Like King David we all want someone else to “keep the sayings of the prophecy of… the revelation of Jesus Christ,” and as long as we are of that mind, “our part in the things that are written in this book will be taken away from the words of the book of this prophecy”, and we will live them out in another, less desirable resurrection.

Rev 20:6  Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: over these the second death hath no power; but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.

As the scriptures make so clear, God’s Words never fail to have within them these five qualities. God’s words always are…:
1) … Both light and darkness. They reveal truth to those who God wants to see and hear the mysteries of the kingdom of God, while at the very same time, by placing the letter before the spirit, they hide the true spiritual meaning being given to those who are given eyes to see and ears to hear.

Exo 14:19  And the angel of God, which went before the camp of Israel, removed and went behind them; and the pillar of the cloud went from before their face, and stood behind them:
Exo 14:20  And it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel; and it was a cloud and darkness to them [ the Egyptians], but it gave light by night [ to these [ God’s people]: so that the one came not near the other all the night.

Here is that same message in the New Testament:

1Co 2:8  Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
1Co 2:9  But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.
1Co 2:10  But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.
1Co 2:12  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.
1Co 2:13  Which things also we speak, not in the words which man’s wisdom teacheth, but [ in words] which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
1Co 2:14  But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

2) … God’s Words are to be taken only as a whole, and will never be understood by pitting one verse against another.

Psa 119:160  The sum of thy word is truth; And every one of thy righteous ordinances endureth for ever.
2Pe 1:20 knowing this first, that no prophecy of scripture at all is becoming its own explanation.

3) …Christ’s Words are spirit, and this entire book of Revelation is Christ’s Words. So they “are not words that man’s wisdom teaches, but [ they are words with] which the holy spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual.”

Joh 6:63  It is the spirit that giveth life; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I have spoken unto you are spirit, are are life.
1Co 2:13  Which things also we speak, not in the words which man’s wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.

4) …God’s Words are words by which all mankind will live, and which we are all to read, hear and keep if we are given to understand these verses.

Mat 4:4  But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.
Rev 1:3  Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand.

5) …Christ and His Words have the unusual character of always being applicable in an is, was and will be, “shall never pass away”, manner, and God’s words are never to be understood as being only one of those three tenses, even though the present, the is, is always prominent and primary. The scriptures are clear about this Truth:

Mat 24:32  Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh:
Mat 24:33  So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.
Mat 24:34  Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.
Mat 24:35  Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.

“Know that it is near, even at the doors” tells us that the present application of God’s Words is always primary, even as we realize that they will be just as applicable tomorrow as they were yesterday.
When we first begin to understand the principles that govern God’s words, which are revealed in the scriptures listed above, we have a much less mature and outward application of these words. I myself have been guilty of applying much if not most of these words in this book of the revelation of Jesus Christ, to that wicked Babylonian system ‘out there’, acting as if I myself had come completely out of Babylon and had never really experienced much if any of these words in my own life. Nothing could be further from the Truth. These words are not addressed to those who have not been given to understand and apply them. These are words which each of us are to live and keep, according to Mat 4:4 and Rev 1:3 and 22:7. We dare not add to them or take away from their application to ourselves.

Mat 4:4  But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.
Rev 1:3  Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: f or the time is at hand.
Rev 22:7  Behold, I come quickly: blessed is he that keepeth the sayings of the prophecy of this book.

The “is”, the present application, is emphasized at every opportunity. In Mat 24 Christ says “it is near, even at the door.” In Rev 1:3 He says “for the time is at hand…” and in chapter 22 He says “I come quickly…” and this prophecy concludes with this dire warning:

Rev 22:18  For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book:
Rev 22:19  And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.

These plagues are as universally applicable as the stripes which Christ explains to us.

Luk 12:47  And that servant, who knew his lord’s will, and made not ready, nor did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes;
Luk 12:48  but he that knew not, and did things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. And to whomsoever much is given, of him shall much be required: and to whom they commit much, of him will they ask the more.
Luk 12:49  I came to cast fire upon the earth; and what do I desire, if it is already kindled?

We will all experience and “keep [“every word” of] the things written therein… every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.” But if we add to these words, “God shall add to us the plagues that are written in this book,” and if we take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God will take away our part out of the book of life, the holy city, and our part out of the things which are written in this book.”
What is “our part?” Our part is “the things written therein” (Rev 1:3). Our part is “Every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God” (Mat 4:4). Our part of “the things which are written in this book [ is] the saying of the prophecy of this book” (Rev 22:7). Our part is all “the sayings of the prophecy of this book.”
So when we look at these verses in question we must realize that these verses are part of “the things written therein” which we ourselves will keep.
So let’s just do what we know to do with what we have been told by the scriptures above, and let God’s own words tells us what they are saying.
We know from scripture that horses are always a symbol of war. Nowhere in scripture are horses ever shown to be animals that were used to work or to pull a plow as they are bred to do today. The scriptures make it clear that all such work as plowing was the work of the ox.

Pro 14:4  Where no oxen [ are], the crib [ is] clean: but much increase is by the strength of the ox.

Horses in scripture symbolize warfare. Like every word, they have both a positive and a negative application. There are horses in God’s army of evil men, and there are the horses on which the armies in heaven ride.

Eze 23:23  The Babylonians, and all the Chaldeans, Pekod, and Shoa, and Koa, [ and] all the Assyrians with them: all of them desirable young men, captains and rulers, great lords and renowned, all of them riding upon horses.
Eze 23:24  And they shall come against thee with chariots, wagons, and wheels, and with an assembly of people, which shall set against thee buckler and shield and helmet round about: and I will set judgment before them, and they shall judge thee according to their judgments.
Eze 23:25  And I will set my jealousy against thee, and they shall deal furiously with thee: they shall take away thy nose and thine ears; and thy remnant shall fall by the sword: they shall take thy sons and thy daughters; and thy residue shall be devoured by the fire.
Rev 19:14  And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.

God uses the “evil men” within us to judge us.

Psa 17:13  Arise, O LORD, disappoint him, cast him down: deliver my soul from the wicked, which is thy sword:
Pro 5:22  His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.
Pro 16:4  The LORD hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked [ within] for the day of evil [ within].

Here in Joel God is showing us what our own sins bring us. Here is God’s judgment upon us as those judgments are being displayed in these seven trumpets in the book of Revelation.

Joe 2:1  Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the LORD cometh, for it is nigh at hand;
Joe 2:2  A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, even to the years of many generations.
Joe 2:3  A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land [ is] as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
Joe 2:4  The appearance of them is as the appearance of horses; and as horsemen, so shall they run.
Joe 2:5  Like the noise of chariots on the tops of mountains shall they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devoureth the stubble, as a strong people set in battle array.
Joe 2:6  Before their face the people shall be much pained: all faces shall gather blackness.
Joe 2:7  They shall run like mighty men; they shall climb the wall like men of war; and they shall march every one on his ways, and they shall not break their ranks:
Joe 2:8  Neither shall one thrust another; they shall walk every one in his path: and [ when] they fall upon the sword, they shall not be wounded.
Joe 2:9  They shall run to and fro in the city; they shall run upon the wall, they shall climb up upon the houses; they shall enter in at the windows like a thief.
Joe 2:10  The earth shall quake before them; the heavens shall tremble: the sun and the moon shall be dark, and the stars shall withdraw their shining:
Joe 2:11  And the LORD shall utter his voice before his army: for his camp [ is] very great: for [ he is] strong that executeth his word: for the day of the LORD [ is] great and very terrible; and who can abide it?

“A great people and strong.” Christ made it abundantly clear, that the greatest and strongest enemy any of us will ever face is the one that is “within a man.” These Old Testament verses are from whence the verses we are discussing get their force and meaning. Our Lord uses our own mouth and our own sins to judge us, because our words and our sins are all foretold in His Word.

Psa 139:16  Thine eyes did see mine unformed substance; And in thy book they were all written, Even the days that were ordained for me, When as yet there was none of them.

As Eze 23 tells us, we have all been given to Babylon, and Babylon has judged us, and it is all by God’s own design, just as the Jews and Romans judged and killed our Lord. Christ had to die, just as we must die. Flesh and blood simply cannot inherit the kingdom of God. Not even the flesh of Christ was found worthy to enter the kingdom of God.

1Co 15:50  Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.

But it does not matter how well we understand that Truth, our flesh is still flesh, and it resents its necessary destruction. Even as we grow in grace and knowledge, our flesh will sweat great drops of blood, resisting its own demise. That is what these seven trumpets, culminating in the seven last plagues upon our flesh, is all about.
We need not literally kill anyone to be guilty of murder, and we need not literally blaspheme the name of God to recognize that all of this is within Adam, and Adam is within us all. If we can just recognize the truth of these words, we will have “lived by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.

Rom 7:17  Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
Rom 7:18  For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but [ how] to perform that which is good I find not.
Rom 7:19  For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.
Rom 7:20  Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
Rom 7:21  I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.

There is but one lawgiver, and that means that even our sins are beyond our will. They too, were all predestined “for Himself, yes, even the wicked for the day of evil.”

Pro 16:4  The LORD hath made all [ things] for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.

They have a glorious ending, but the vast bulk of this prophecy concerns itself with the process of judgment that brings us to the blessings which are the fruit of that process.

Rev 22:1  And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.
Rev 22:2  In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, [ was there] the tree of life, which bare twelve [ manner of] fruits, [ and] yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree [ were] for the healing of the nations.
Rev 22:3  And there shall be no more curse: but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall serve him:
Rev 22:4  And they shall see his face; and his name [ shall be] in their foreheads.
Rev 22:5  And there shall be no night there; and they need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God giveth them light: and they shall reign for ever and ever.

There is much more that can be said of the verses you reference in Rev 9. That is the next chapter we will be covering. So please be patient, and we will be covering this in much greater depth. I hope this has given you the answer to what horses are in God’s Word, and I hope you can see more clearly how the things that seem so confusing and contradictory to the natural man are intended to be just that until he is given to understand that this whole entire book, with all of its symbols, is about nothing more than two men, and both of those men are within us. They are the old and the new man, and in God’s own appointed time we will all have “lived by every word… that is written therein.”

Your brother in Christ,
Mike