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IT<\/strong> doesn’t seem that long ago that I stood on a prairie field as a storm began to roll in. The words spoken in my heart then became the defining “now word” that would form the basis of this apostolate for the next 18 years:<\/p>\n There is a Great Storm coming upon the earth like a hurricane.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n That was 2006. Shortly after, another interior word pointed to the dimensions<\/em> of this Storm as being the seven seals of Revelation\u00a0<\/em>as described in its sixth chapter<\/a>. The first seal is a rider on a white horse who went out “conquering and to conquer.” Various interpreters have given this rider a nefarious intent. However, Pope Pius XII saw it differently:<\/p>\n He is Jesus Christ. The inspired evangelist [St. John] not only saw the devastation brought about by sin, war, hunger and death; he also saw, in the first place, the victory of Christ.<\/strong> \u2014POPE PIUS XII, Address, November 15, 1946; footnote of The Navarre Bible<\/em>, “Revelation”, p.70 <\/span>[1]<\/sup><\/a>In the Haydock Catholic Bible Commentary<\/em> (1859) following the Douay-Rheims Latin-English translation, it says: “A white horse, such as conquerors used to ride upon at a solemn triumph. This is commonly understood as our Saviour, Christ, who, by himself and by his apostles, preachers, martyrs, and other saints, triumphed over all the adversaries of His Church. He had a bow in his hand, the doctrine of the gospel, piercing like an arrow the hearts of the hearers; and the crown given him, was a token of the victory of him who went forth conquering, that he might conquer… The other horses that follow represent the judgments and punishment, that were to fall on the enemies of Christ and his Church…”<\/span><\/span>\n
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