ZECHARIAH 5:1-11
Judah's 70 year great tribulation
Judah's first 23 years (the Red Horse)
Then I turned, and lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and behold a flying roll. 2 And he said unto me, What seest thou? And I answered, I see a flying roll; the length thereof is twenty cubits, and the breadth thereof ten cubits. 3 Then said he unto me, This is the curse that goeth forth over the face of the whole earth: for every one that stealeth shall be cut off as on this side according to it; and every one that sweareth shall be cut off as on that side according to it.
4 I will bring it forth, saith the LORD of hosts, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him that sweareth falsely by my name: and it shall remain in the midst of his house, and shall consume it with the timber thereof and the stones thereof.
The people of Judah had forsaken their Lord especially their leadership, the king. This curse is from God, His spirit seeks out and knows every person, every household that has gone astray.
Deuteronomy 11:26-27 Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse; A blessing, if ye obey the commandments of the LORD your God, which I command you this day: And a curse, if ye will not obey the commandments of the LORD your God, but turn aside out of the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods, which ye have not known.
Judah's 2nd part (the Black and White Horses)
The Black Horse = the Holy Spirit with the ephah
The White Horse = God's people whom obeyed the command to leave
5 Then the angel that talked with me went forth, and said unto me, Lift up now thine eyes, and see what is this that goeth forth. 6 And I said, What is it? And he said, This is an ephah that goeth forth. He said moreover, This is their resemblance through all the earth.
There now goes forth an ephah. An ephah is a measure, used as a measure for grain. In this sense it represents a measure of spiritual food to the people. If this ephah is now released we know that it was not present during the previous 23 years. Lets compare this to Revelation 6 with the Black Horse...
Revelation 6:5-6 And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand. And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, 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.
7 And, behold, there was lifted up a talent of lead: and this is a woman that sitteth in the midst of the ephah. Lead was considered a precious metal and was one of the metals that symbolized God's people. This lead is identified as a woman. God commonly describes His people as a whole as a woman, in this case it was Israel.
Ezekiel 27:12 Tarshish was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of all kind of riches; with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they traded in thy fairs.
Ezekiel 22:18 Son of man, the house of Israel is to me become dross: all they are brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the midst of the furnace; they are even the dross of silver.
8 And he said, This is wickedness. And he cast it into the midst of the ephah; and he cast the weight of lead upon the mouth thereof. 9 Then lifted I up mine eyes, and looked, and, behold, there came out two women, and the wind was in their wings; for they had wings like the wings of a stork: and they lifted up the ephah between the earth and the heaven.
The Lord is making a reference of the wickedness of Israel and how one woman became two.
Jeremiah 3:8 And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also.
10 Then said I to the angel that talked with me, Whither do these bear the ephah? 11 And he said unto me, To build it an house in the land of Shinar: and it shall be established, and set there upon her own base.
Scripture says that both Israel and Judah were captives that were brought to the land of Shinar. In Israel's time it was controlled by the Assyrians. In Judah's time it was controlled by the Babylonians. The ephah did not follow into the land of Shinar until both Israel and Judah were within. This was during Judah's exile which continued their 70 year great tribulation. This was Judah's 2nd part. The Holy Spirit was measuring out knowledge and understanding only to those whom left the holy land during this time of affliction. This "ephah" or measure from the Holy Spirit was "established, and set there upon her own base" outside of the holy land.
ZECHARIAH 6:1-8
The colored horses of Judah's 70 year (840 month) GT
Under the authority of the Lord
And I turned, and lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and, behold, there came four chariots out from between two mountains; and the mountains were mountains of brass.
The 4 chariots come from 2 mountains of brass. Mountains have a few representations... strength, kingdoms and the Lord. Brass promotes the strength even higher. The examples of mountains and the Lord are too plentiful to list. Please research for yourself. So we know the 4 chariots are coming from the Lord under His authority.
The colored horses come forth
2 In the first chariot were red horses; and in the second chariot black horses;
Notice the order of the colored horses. Judah's GT starts with the Red Horse (23 years) as did our FGT begin with the Red Horse (2300 Days). Then it states the Black Horse came forth next. This represented Judah's second part outside the holy land matching our second part with our Black Horse outside the Church.
3 And in the third chariot white horses; and in the fourth chariot grisled and bay horses.
We will see later that the White Horse pares up with the Black Horse during Judah's second part outside the holy land. This leaves the final horses of Grisled & Bay charging out from between the mountains.
4 Then I answered and said unto the angel that talked with me, What are these, my lord? 5 And the angel answered and said unto me, These are the four spirits of the heavens, which go forth from standing before the Lord of all the earth.
As stated in verse one, these horses are under the authority of God Himself representing His plan of Judah's 70 year (840 months) great tribulation.
Judah's time in Babylon outside the holy land
6 The black horses which are therein go forth into the north country; and the white go forth after them; and the grisled go forth toward the south country.7 And the bay went forth, and sought to go that they might walk to and fro through the earth: and he said, Get you hence, walk to and fro through the earth. So they walked to and fro through the earth.
These Horses all represent separate people groups in different locations during Judah's 2nd part of their GT. We now are told where these Horses all go forth to. We must pay special attention as with all scripture. We read that there were 5 Horses that came forth from the brass mountains and yet verse 4 only describes 4 of these horses as 4 spirits of the Lord. That is because the Black Horse is not one of them, it is representative of the Holy Spirit... we also see this in Revelation 6's four Horses. For it is only He that measures out knowledge, understanding and salvation as we see with the ephah in Zechariah 5 and the scales of measurement in Revelation 6.
The Black Horse (the Holy Spirit) goes forth to the north country (Babylon), as does the White Horse (God's people). The Grisled Horse proceeds to the south country which is the holy land (Judah). Why? Remember that there was a remnant that stayed behind along with a large number of scattered soldiers. The Hebrew word for grisled is "barod" (H1261) which means "spotted". These are they whom stayed within the holy land. They did not adhere to the command to leave Judah.
Jude 1:12 These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots
The Bay Horse went forth and walked to and fro throughout the earth. This can only mean the rest of the world.
The Black and White Horse together
8 Then cried he upon me, and spake unto me, saying, Behold, these that go toward the north country have quieted my spirit in the north country.
Those 2 Horses that went to the north country (Babylon) were the Black Horse which was the Holy Spirit and the White Horse which was God's people that followed the command to leave Judah. By following the Lord's command and enduring the rest of the 70 year great tribulation outside the holy land, it allowed the holy land to complete its rest.
2 Chronicles 36:21 To fulfil the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her sabbaths: for as long as she lay desolate she kept sabbath, to fulfil threescore and ten years.
CONCLUSION
The colored horses of Judah's great tribulation pertained to their 840 months (70 years). Judah's 2nd part shows that while His people left the holy land (White Horse), they were not alone because He was with them as the Holy Spirit (Black Horse) measuring out knowledge and understanding during a time of tribulation. The Lord gave us additional information here to better understand our FGT Horses. Our Black Horse also measured out (scales) knowledge and understanding only to His people outside the Church (6100 Days). But it also shows that the White Horse was with the Black Horse during the 6100 Days... God's people.
