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THE MYSTERIOUS HORSEMAN, MR. "X"

      In the sixth chapter of the Revelation of Jesus Christ (Rev.
1:1), a gentleman comes trotting by who calls for some attention and
recognition. You will find him in the second verse of chapter six; he
is said to wear a crown, and he comes to "CONQUER." Now a "conquering
king" in the Bible is never a secondary or minor character.
Nebuchadnezzar, Pharaoh, Cyrus, Darius, Artaxerxes, Caesar Augustus,
and Alexander are the type of men whom the Bible mentions as
conquerors. When the Holy Spirit, speaking through the absolute
authority of the Holy Scriptures, says, "A crown was given unto
him: and he went forth conquering and to conquer," you can be
certain the man so described is a star in the production; he is first
violinist in the orchestra, he is not playing right field on the
diamond. Certainly a man of such prominence can be identified.

      Now remembering our first chapter in Bible orientation, let us
approach the subject of interpreting Revelation 6:2 seriously,
carefully, and above all, with a reverent eye open to what the
scriptures themselves SAY about this mysterious king on the white
horse. Never forget that the final interpreter of the Bible is the
Author Himself, and His method of interpretation is "scripture-with-
scripture." Before any lexicons, systems, traditions, or "original
Greek" are called upon, and before any scholar, bishop, priest, or
commentator is dragged in for an opinion, let us see "what saith
the scriptures?" The scriptures say plenty. They say so much,
as a matter of fact, that "Mr. X" on the white horse is completely un-
horsed in the description.

      "Behold a white horse." It is not hard to find another
white horse in the same book--in Revelation 19:11 we find him, with a
rider in the salle. The rider is described thoroughly; He is the Lord
Jesus Christ.

      The rider in Revelation 19:11 is called "Faithful and True."
He judges "in Righteousness," and His name is called "The
Word of God" (Rev. 19:13, John 1:1-3). He is "KING OF KINGS AND
LORD OF LORDS" (Rev. 19:16), and His armies are heavenly armies,
and they are cloted in "the righteousness of the saints." (Check
Rev. 19:8,14.) In all this, no one has to lean on anything other than
the scriptures themselves to get the "interpretation." Nothing of an
"extra-canonical" nature has to be resorted to in order to unravel the
"hidden meaning." What is written is clear. The rider of Revelation 19
is obviously the Lord Jesus Christ. The objections to the
interpretation come only from those who are so ignorant of the
contents of scripture that they fail to see the connection
between the comparative verses. Concordances are published to remedy
this defect in the reader, but what rejector of the word of God ever
spent much time in a concordance?

      Now, "scripture-with-scripture," are the riders of the two white
horses (Rev 6 and Rev 19) identical? They appear to be so.
Unfortunately appearances are deceptive (John 7:24), and this is
as scientific a statement as Millikan's prize-winning statement on
atomic structures. The wall appears to be solid, but it is not. The
two riders on the two white horses appear to be identical, but are
they? Here we have an opportunity to exercise our eyes and our
minds on what is written, and determine from the scriptures alone
the homogeneity of the two horsemen.

      1. The rider in Rev. 6 has a crown (vs. 2).
         The rider in Rev. 19 has many crowns (vs. 12).

      2. The rider in Rev. 6 has a bow, but no sword (vs
         The rider in Rev. 19 has a sword, but no bow (vs. 15).

      3. The rider in Rev. 6 is followed by war, famine, Death, and
         Hell (vs. 3-8).

The rider in Rev. 19 is followed by heavenly armies (Rev. 19:14) and
1000 years of peace on earth! (Rev. 20:1-6).

      Conclusion? They are not the same rider.

      This shows, in the clearest way possible, the difference between
Bible-believing "Christian interpretation" of a passage, and the
traditional method of Bible-corrupting interpretation. The Bible-
believer will take the time out to carefully examine every
detail of a passage, believing that since he is reading the absolute
word of God, it deserves careful and reverential attention. The Bible-
corrupter, having assimilated 1900 years of perversion and
putrefication, does not look for anything other than a general truth
that will fall in line with the religious teaching of his own
denomination or church. More than this, the corrupter will accuse the
Bible-believer of "crass literalism" or "Bibliolatry" if he
prayerfully and devotedly examines every detail of a passage. Can't
you see what the trouble is? The decline of Biblical Christianity has
allowed a veritable galaxy of preachers, teachers, and scholars to
take over the job of Bible exegesis with not one-out-of-ten of them
believing that what they are reading is of any more importance than
a means of making a living!

      Why bother with "crowns" and "bows" and "fine linen"; after all,
isn't the whole thing symbolical? Is it not "highly figurative" and
"apocalyptic" in its "IMAGERY"? Is it? Where did you get that idea
from? Ah, I know! You got it by believing the ideas set forth by the
"woman with the leaven," of whom we spoke in Chapter One. God never
told you it was "highly figurative." You already "shot your wad" when
you refused to identify the woman of Revelation 17,18. Now it is
impossible for you to identify the white horseman of Revelation 6:2,
for you have lost the key to interpretation, which is--believe what
you read, as you find it, where it is.

      The two horsemen are not the same. They are not the same because
they are different. If two things are different, then they are not the
same. One must resort to childish rudiments and fundamental maxims
when dealing with Bible corrupters, for their minds run so fast and so
eagerly to problems and reasons for not believing, that they
have to be strait-jacketed about once every other paragraph so they
will not let the truth, so far acquired, slip. Instead of leaping
ahead and yelling, "What are you trying to prove now?" or, "Well, I
was taught it meant this...." or, "So what does that prove?" or, "What
difference does a detail like that make; the general picture is still
there," try standing still for a minute and letting this great truth
penetrate you to your innermost being--the riders are NOT
identical. By the information given in the passages, where you find
them in the A.V., without perverting their meaning, structure,
wording, or context, they plainly state that the two riders are NOT
the same.

      This is the cue for the versions to obscure the plain
facts.

      Immediately the Amplified Version inserts cross-references on
the rider in Revelation 6:2 which run to Psalm 45 where the Lord Jesus
is presented. Now why was this done? The Amplified forces the reader
to accept an interpretation that is not found in the verses that
interpret their own meaning. Why would anyone make the riders the
same by a system of cross-references, when a white horse is
given in both references in Revelation 6 and Revelation 19, and
different information is given concerning their riders? Shades
of Rome!! The ruse is all too apparent. The Amplified has not inserted
cross-references to give you the Bible's system of interpreting
itself; the Amplified has violated an obvious reference which
interprets the verse, and has inserted an obscure reference which will
force Revelation 6 to agree with Revelation 19, even though they do
NOT agree, as written. We are back in Chapter One of this
dissertation. The Amplified revisers have produced a denominational
farce to supersede the authority of the word of God, and they have
perverted Revelation 6:2 to make it agree with the amillennial or
postmillennial position that the Kingdom of Christ is here now,
and is spreading. Their motive was Satanic. They found a verse they
didn't like, and they adopted a method to eliminate it--in this case
the method was to refer it to a verse that would give the reader the
wrong interpration. This is the same motive for the Catholic rejection
of Revelation 17,18. It does not concern interpretations at all;
it is simply that when scholars find verses in the A.V. that they
object to, they change them so that they will line up to what
the scholars agree is correct. In this respect the Amplified Version
(from the Roman Catholic Vaticanus--Westcott and Hort Greek text) is
as fraudulent a piece of work as ever hit the "bible" market. Running
exactly neck-and-neck with Roman traditionalism, the scholars have
deliberately, with intentional malice aforethought, rejected the plain
English of the plain A.V. 9where they were plainly told that the
riders differ), and have inserted their own private opinion by
Revelation 6:2 so a reader who checked it could accept their own false
doctrine on the millennial issue. How do we know it is false?
Because, silly, they had to pervert the Bible to get it across!!
If it were true, what is the necessity of leading the reader
astray? There is no answer to that question.

      Now, whatever may be said about the rider of Revelation 6:2,
there is one thing that is certain. It is certain that he is a "dead
ringer" for Jesus Christ, and so much so that for fifteen centuries he
successfully deceived six major denominations (Catholic, Lutheran,
Presbyterian, Episcopalian, Methodist, and Greek Orthodox) into
thinking that he was! You must admit that he is so startlingly like
the Lord Jesus that he could pass off as the Lord 90% of the time,
and no one would know the difference. This opens up another whole
avenue of thought and research in regards to the mysterious "Mr. X"
and that is this: "Who, IN THE BIBLE, is the perfect imitation of
Christ?" (Remember that war, famine, Death, and Hell will follow him!
Rev. 6:4-8.) Did you notice the insertion of "in the Bible"? It is
no time, now, to go outside the Bible to identify the man, until
you know what the Bible says about him. Stay in the cover till you are
sure of your footing.

      Search the scriptures. Read them carefully, as the Lord
commanded (John 5:39), and mark the differences in dispensations, as
Paul commanded (2Tim 2:15). It is absolutely certain, if you do, that
you will come out at Revelation knowing that the greatest imitator
of Jesus Christ was not David, Paul, Joseph, Moses, Thomas A
Kempis, Sheldon ("In His Steps"), or Schweitzer. The greatest
imitator of Jesus Christ is a spiritual being called Lucifer or
Satan (Rev. 12:9). Examine the evidence:
      1. Jesus is the "King of Kings" (Rev. 19).
         Satan is "king over all the children of pride" (Job 41).
      2. Jesus is the "Angel of the Lord" (Gal. 4:14).
         Satan appears as an "Angel of Light" (2Cor 11:11-14).
      3. "God is light," and in Him there is no darkness (1John
         1:5). Satan appears as an Angel "of light" (2Cor. 11:11-13).
      4. Jesus is "God manifest in the flesh" (1Tim. 3:16).
         Satan is the "god" of this world (2Cor. 4:4).
      5. Christ has a bride, who is a city (Rev. 21:9).
         Satan has a bride, who is a city (Rev. 17:1-9).
      6. Jesus cites the scripture in conflict (Luke 4:1-10).
         Satan cites the scripture in conflict (Luke 4:10).
      7. Christ preaches 42 months (Luke 3:23, John 2:13; 5:1; 6:4;
         12:1).   The Beast preaches 42 months (Rev. 13:5).
      8. Christ means "Anointed" (Christos, Messiah) (Acts 4:26,
         Ps. 2:2). Satan is "anointed" as a "christ" (Eze. 28:14, Matt. 24:5).
      9. God desires worship (John 4:23-26).
         Satan desires worship (Matt. 4:8-10).

      If you wanted to locate the white horse rider of Revelation 6:2,
you certainly could do better than a cross-reference to the "marriage
of the Lamb" in Psalm 45!!

      Since "The entrance of thy words giveth light," the
student has here stumbled on another great Christian truth revealed
only in the word of God. This tremendous truth is that the greatest
force in the universe, opposing righteousness, is a spiritual being
who desires religious worship. This brings to desolation a dozen
or more religious systems, for they are erected on the flimsy platform
that "since all worship or believe in some God, therefore God must
exist." This naive and disastrous approach is the approach of modern
science. It assumes that any God is the right one, and that
there is only one. But Paul corrects this inaccurate guesswork
in 1Corinthians 8:5. The "god of this world" is primarily
religious. Hence, his sphere of activity would not be found
primarily in road-houses, juke-joints, beer-alls, taverns, pool-halls,
gambling-dens, dance-halls, and dope-pads. His primary sphere of
activity and influence would be in Church Councils, formation of
catechisms, Bible translations, rituals and sacramental acts, prayer
meetings, and ecumenical movements!!

      Someone has made a horrible mistake! They have been teaching
that Satan is either not there (as Christian "Science" or
physicists teach), or that if he is there, he is a big, bad
"boogie-man" like Hitler or Kruschev. Perish the thought! The Satan of
Bible revelation is so far superior to Hitler or Jruschev, he wouldn't
even waste time to deal with them. They couldn't fool anybody.
Satan's job, as revealed in scripture, is to counterfeit by
imitation (see Matt. 13:23-30,36-42). The RSV, incidentally, fails
to see this basic, primary truth of Bible doctrine, and failing to see
it, they do a fantastic thing in translation the parable of the wheat
and the tares. They translate (this is hard to believe!) the word
"tares" as "weeds"! This, of course, destroys the entire sense
of the parable, for the whole teaching is based on the similarity
between the tares and the wheat that was undiscernible until
the fruit came! By translating "tares" as "weeds," the RSV has
produced a "devil" (see the tare-sower in Matt. 13:39) that does not
have enough sense to fool anyone! The RSV translators thus "show
their hand." They are obviously gullible, deluded, foolish men who are
in total ignorance of the methods of operation in the spirit
realm (Eph. 5:10-15). Paul said, "We are not ignorant of his (the
Devil's) devices" (see 2Cor 2:11). The sower of the good seed
(Matt. 13:37) knows exactly what was sowed and who sowed it, but the
servants of the household couldn't spot it--it was too cleverly done.
The same situation is found in Revelation 6:2. The man is cleverly
disguised as the Lord Jesus Christ. However, upon close examination in
the searching light of the "word," he appears for what he is--a
tare, not an ear of wheat. He is an imitator who obeys
implicitly the RSV's admonition in 1Corinthians 11:1 to be
"imitators of Christ." (The Greek, by the way, is "follow," as
in the A.V.: but the RSV crowd always did teach salvation by works, so
little more than this corruption could be expected from them.)

      The mysterious rider on the white horse in Revelation 6:2
becomes less and less mysterious the more we ride him into the
spotlight of that light that is called "a lamp unto my feet, and a
light unto my path" (Ps. 119:105). Mr. "X" is a king, but he is
not the "King of Kings and Lord of Lords"; he is a counterfeit.
It might be added that he is such an excellent counterfeit that he
escaped the detection of Augustine, Origen, Jerome, Eusebius, Pope
Gregory, Cardinal Spellman, Fulton Sheen, Pope Pius, Pope John,
Berkhof, Hodge, Dabney, Kuyper, Calvin, Trench, Alford, A.T.
Robertson, Aquinas, Spinoza, Kant, Hegel, James Joyce, Kagawa, Norman
Vincent Peale, Earl Stanley Jones, Dean Weigle, and the archbishop of
Canterbury. Pretty good counterfeit job, eh what?

      The rider of Revelation 6:2 is a King; the Latin for "king" is
"Rex." He comes to imitate Christ and to pass off as Christ
Himself (2Thes 2:2-6). Thus he becomes one of the central fitures of
Bible revelation. One may say that he is the second most important
figure in scripture outside of the Lord Jesus Himself. This Mr. "X"
is actually a hoax. He is typified by 18 men in the Old
Testament: Cain, Nimrod, Pharaoh, Sennacherib, Balak, Sisera,
Abimelech, Ahab, Goliath, Saul, Absalom, Haman, Nabal, Jeroboam,
Judas, Herod, Solomon, and Nebuchadnezzar. Eighteen, count them--3
times six. (The Greek for "six" is "hex.") The rider under
surveillance, then is a Rex who is a hoax, and he is spotted by a
number--six (hex). Did you ever study words that END in "X"?

      This King with the crown and the bow is the main subject of
revelation, exclusive of the person and work of Jesus Christ. He is so
powerful and deceptive in conceiling his own person and work, that to
this day, there are not twenty books in print that give the
information on him found in the Bible (A.V. 1611).

      1. He is a prince (Dan. 9:26, John 16:11).
      2. He is a king (Dan. 8:21,23).
      3. He is called a "he-goat" (Dan. 8:21).
      4. He is called a "little horn" (Dan. 7:8).
      5. He is called "the King of the north" (Dan. 11).
      6. He is called "a king of fierce countenance" (Dan. 8:23).
      7. He is called "the antichrist" (1John 4:3). (Note the
         singular--not "antichrists" as in 1John 2:18.)
      8. He is called the "man of sin" or "son of perdition" (2Thes
         2:2-4).
      9. He is called the "beast" out of the pit (Rev. 17:5-9).
      10. He has A NUMBER, A NAME, A SIGN, and A MARK (Rev. 13:15-18).

      To sum it up, he is the gentleman for whom we are looking in
this thesis, and when he is revealed, we shall look for his mark.
"X" marks the spot. Have you ever studied words that end in "X"?

      The mysterious "X" on the white horse is a bowman. That is
a very important thing to note. Only two hunters are found in the
scriptures; two of them are named, and the others are non-descript
(Job 10:16, Prov. 6:26, Mic. 7:2, and Ps. 140:11). The only two named
are Esau and Nimrod. Nothing good is said anywhere in the
scripture about these men, but a great deal bad is said about
them (see Gen. 24:23, Mal. 1:3, Heb. 12:15-17, Isa. 10:5-10, Mic.
5:5,6, Isa. 23:13). Nimrod is a Hamite (Gen. 10) trying to
integrate the world (Gen. 11:1) in Shemite territory (see Gen.
10,11). Legends about him are numerous, and an exhaustive treatment
will be found in Hislop's "The Two Babylons."

      Now a bowman uses two fingers to pull his bow string. He
uses three if he is weak or if the bow has a hard pull (say 90-100
pounds). However, from time immemorial, the sign of a bowman has
been the forefinger and the index finger raised and slightly bent.
This gesture (in 1960) is the infantry signal for a bayonet
assault. It is the assault signal for armored tanks, and it is the Boy
Scout sign of a salute. It is a bowman's sign. The gesture is
remarkable in its catholicism. When a man or woman smokes, they have
the fingers in the exact position. When a drunk asks for a jigger, the
standard is "two fingers." These two fingers placed behind and
against the upper teeth, and thrust forward, makes the most derisive
and insulting gesture that an Italian knows. The same two fingers plit
make Churchill's "V for Victory" sign so publicized by the press
in World War II.

      Now somewhere down the line somebody has failed to notice an
amazing coincidence. The coincidence is that the Roman Catholic
pontiff has ordained this two-fingered gesture as the identifying mark
of his CHURCH'S BLESSING!

      From the first Catholic paintings of "baby Jesus" with His two
fingers uplifted, to the last Pope on the front of Life Magazine with
the same two uplifted, history bears record that the sign of the
bowman is the sign of the papal blessing. It is the Latin method of
a Catholic crossing himself. (By the way, the word for "cross"
in Latin is "crux." Did you ever study words that end in "X"?)

      I have, in my "doomsday books," clippings covering a period of
twenty years. In these pictures, which are photos from newspapers and
magazines, you can observe how the AP, INS and UP photographers have
unconsciously (or with previous instructions) caught, in the act,
every public figure that ever raised the two fingers in the papal
salute. I have photos of Eisenhower, Churchill, Roosevelt, Barkley,
Pope John, Pope Pius, and twenty Kennedy "democrats" caught in the
act. I have Eddy Arnold outside an unnamed "country" church with the
fingers obediently raised for the act of crossing. A cross is
made by two opposing and intersecting lines. It is an "X". There
are variations of this "X," but "X" it is--exactly as an arrow lies
crossing and perpendicular to the bow. Try as he may, no Catholic can
explain the symbol of the two raised fingers, for it was the sign of a
drawn and released bow-string 3000 years before the first Catholic
ever drew a breath of air. The armed forces today inherit and
understand the meaning of the sign from the mighty hunter (Gen.
10:9,10). They know what it means; it means "KILL 'EM!"

      We may naturally expect the rider of Revelation 6:2 to be
followed by war (6:4) and Death (6:8), for he is a bowman. One
of the Hebrew roots for Baal, incidently, is "hairy, archer, or
horseman." The antichrist is referred to 13 times in Revelation, and
there are 13 Baals mentioned in the Old Testament.

      Let us corral the horse and rider of Revelation 6:2 and look a
little closer yet. This "sign of the cross" that the heathen "cross
themselves" with--what is it?

      The cross is the instrument of a CURSE in the New Testament
(Gal. 3:13), and it is the instrument of death, not of life (Gal.
6:14). The "cross" that Paul glories in, in the passage, is certainly
not some little molten image hanging around his neck! The
passage is an additional explanation of Romans 6, which describes in
detail the death of the Christian in Christ, and his identification
with a dead, buried, and risen Saviour. To make this an image
hung on the neck is equivalent to walking around with a little
electric-chair hung on your shoulders, for the CROSS was the
instrument of capital punishment for a criminal. To CROSS yourself, in
view of the Bible information on the subject, is the equivalent of
putting yourself under a curse. Hence, "cross my heart and hope
to die." (You probably will! Go to the church of your choice while you
can!!) "I told a lie, but I had my fingers CROSSED." "He gave me the
double cross." "He better hadn't CROSS me!"

      The rider, then, has some further identification on his person.
He is a king--REX. He is an imitation, therefore a HOAX. He uses the
bowman's signs of two fingers, with which the heathen cross
themselves--CRUX. He has no arrows and therefore conquers peaceably
(Dan. 8:25), the Latin being--PAX. His number is six, six, six--
Greek: HEX. And he is such a perfect imitation of Christ that he fools
many--he is a PARADOX. Did you ever study words that end in "X"?
The man speaks with the voice of God (Rev. 13:6, 2Thes. 2:3-6). Latin:
VOX. He speaks from "the seat" (Rev. 2:13) which is "EX-cathedra," and
as any good Christian, he will undoubtedly observe (with fervor)
Christmas--Latin: "X" MASS. Did you ever study words that end in "X"?
How about jinx, tax, jax, sax, or ax?

      There is no mistaking the man's religious affiliation. In
Revelation 17, he is called "THE BEAST," and as such, his bride is
"MYSTERY BABYLON." Now you know why Revelation 17,18 was picked as a
test-case sampling in chapter one when discussing matters of gradual
Bible-corruption! Once any reader admits that he understands
Revelation 17:18,9,3,4,5, and 6, the "dirty work" is done. Never again
can that reader honestly believe in the sincerity or in the
"Christianity" of Roman Catholicism. He is "ruined for life." The only
hope the priest has to deceive him is to keep him out of the Bible,
or make him think he doesn't dare interpret it if he starts to
understand it; and of course, this is the standard method taught
(as Christian doctrine) to the Catholic adherent.

      Rome suddenly looms ominously in all her ghoulish glory.

      Here we have a rider who is found in 18 types in the Old
Testament. He is religious and desires worship, and is so thoroughly
like Jesus Christ that it is impossible to detect one from the
other without the aid of the Holy Spirit. He shows up with a two-
fingered salute taking over a kingdom with talk of peace. This kingdom
is a direct off-shoot of the ancient Roman Empire (see the material
exactly in Dan. 2 and Dan. 7). He is jointly ruling with the "Woman"
of Revelation 17, and there can be no doubt about her identity
whatsoever, for she is the original corrupter whose leaven is destined
to leaven the entire lump of Christian doctrine (Matt. 13:33). We have
followed her course in chapter one from the time that she added seven
books to the Bible (in spite of Jesus' canonical statements) to the
time where she declared her "holy papa" to be infallible when he spoke
"X" CATHEDRA. Her Roman holiday is "X" MASS, and every heresy in the
Protestant church can be traced to her manipulations and refutations
of the Holy Scriptures.

      We are back at that place where the motive of Bible
corrupters is clearly set before us. We have discovered the real
reason why men hate the word of God and why they are determined to
destroy it (while professing to believe it!). It is because the
book places the Roman Catholic system as the root and trunk of
apostasy, and the Mother of the greatest blasphemer who will ever
appear on the stage of human history--THE ANTICHRIST.

      This is cause enough for a prolonged, sustained, murderous,
concentrated, and unmitigated attack on the Textus Receptus, which
Rome has never abandoned and never will abandon. Unable to destroy the
authority of the A.V. from 1611 to 1811, Rome went underground into
the Revision Committees and spawned forth five dozen "Bibles"
between 1884 and 1965, that are all dark-age, Catholic versions of
the original Christ-defying "Vaticanus." Unable to burn the A.V.
openly since 1700, Rome changed armour and destroyed it one page at a
time by using the seminaries of the Protestants (Fundamental and
Liberal like), and convincing their professors that the Vatican
Manuscript (minus Hebrews 10, yet containing "Bel and the Dragon") was
the authoritative source of Revelation. No institution on the face of
this earth would have done a thing like that without sufficient
cause. The cause is apparent when one reads the passages in
Revelation 17-19 and the passages that deal with the white-horse rider
of Revelation 6:2. The cause is that the Bible has, from the start,
openly attacked the Roman system as a Satan-inspired, man-made, hell-
bound system of Bible perversion seeking nothing but self-exaltation
and supreme control over the lives of every human being on the face of
the earth. (In the name of Christ, of course! BUT WHICH CHRIST?)

      In the next chapter, we shall take up a study of the verses that
bear on the number, name, sign, and mark of this "Christ" who is not
the "Lord's Christ" (Luke 2:26). He comes, not to bless the earth, but
to VEX. His followers receive not only a mark, but a sore (Rev. 16:2),
which, as anyone knows, is a POX. Have you ever studied words that
end with "X"?