The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

Introduction

The premise that the Book of Revelation was a sealed prophetic book reserved for Christian believers in the end time finds support in what the Lord told Isaiah,

Remember the former things, those of long ago; I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like me. I make known the end from the beginning, from ancient times, what is still to come. I say: My purpose will stand, and I will do all that I please.

(Isaiah 46:9-10)

The maximum end time period we find ourselves in spans eighty years from 1967 to 2047. A simple explanation follows.

The year 1967 marked the fulfillment of this prophecy of Jesus Christ, "Jerusalem will be trampled on by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled" (Luke 21:24). After two thousand years Jerusalem returned to Jewish sovereignty on June 7, 1967, and that signalled the start of the "last generation" according to the lesson of the fig tree (Matthew 24:32-35).

But how many years long is a generation? The Old Testament offers different interpretations. For my part I assume that the length in years of a "generation" is its life expectancy and for biblical polestar I take the word of Moses the archetypal "man of God" who states that a man should expect to live seventy or eighty years (Psalms 90:10).

Taking Jesus and Moses as foundation stones, then, the "last generation" started in 1967 and will fade away in the year 2047.