Revelation 6:2-8

MOUNT UP!

The horses of the Book of Revelation are pawing the ground, eager and anxious to "ride."  As the thundering hoof beats grow louder and louder, we also hear the eerie echoes of a ticking pounding clock.  We sense the four riding horses fastly approaching, and God's Church hears a resounding voice shouting to us to "Mount Up."

"... and behold a white horse...; And there went out another

                                              horse that was red...; And I beheld, and lo a black horse...

                                                            And I looked, and behold a pale horse..."

             
When the horses begin to ride, there is one with a bow and no arrow; the next one brings the emergence of war; then come the groans of famine; and finally, the stench of death.  We are so close that we can feel the earth "shaking" under the pounding grinding hooves.  It is an urgent forceful push for the Church to climb higher, reach further, seek deeper, witness stronger, and bow lower than we ever have before.  It is a call from the heavens to get up and Mount Up! 

The words "Mount Up" not only mean to climb up onto something, but they also mean, "to become greater, stronger or more intense."  We need to be so full of the Holy Ghost that we exhibit the power that when we lay hands on people, they are healed; that when we anoint with oil and baptize them, they rise from the water speaking in other tongues as the Spirit gives the utterance; and that we spread Acts 2:38 to the North, South, East and West until our straining used-up throats are hoarse and raspy.  We must "run" while it is yet day ... for the night cometh when no man can "run." 

"I saw heaven standing open and there before me

                                                     was a white horse, whose rider is called Faithful

                                                     and True.  With justice He judges and makes war."

                                                                                  (Revelation 19:11)

The word mount also means "to move upward into the air;" we're not surprised with that; we are familiar with the pep talk to venture to the edge of the nest, jump out, and fly!  We get it; we're stronger than we think we are; we have more faith than we think we do; and we are not grasshoppers, but Giants, in a world who will soon be looking up for something bigger to show them the way.  We are armed with the Name, the Blood and the Word, and that's enough!   

Come on, Church; grab your hat, your boots, your riata, and outrun the four horses.  We just need to practice our "roping" technique, beat the clock out of the chute, and race into the arena with all we've got.  This is a final round-up of eternal proportions; God just needs willing participants, a people fearless to ride the winds and handle the "dust;" it's a tough woolly job, but really not so hard, if you Mount Up!

                                                                                                                                                                                 By Sheryl Fowler

         (Visit promiselandchurch.net and theexperience238.com, PromiseLand

                                            Church, Austin, Texas, Pastor Kenneth Phillips)