Revelation 6
v.1
I watched as the Lamb opened the first of the seven seals. Then I heard one of the four living creatures say in a voice like thunder, “Come!”
The opening of the seven seals (6:1-8:1) is paralleled by the blowing of the seven trumpets (8:2-11:19) and the pouring out of the seven bowls (chs. 15-16). It must not be supposed that the events symbolized by these three series are intended to be subsequent one to another. Rather, each series is a symbol for the whole course of Christian history. Each series apparently begins at the beginning and continues to the end. There is indeed progress, but it is a progress not of time but of the plainness of the revelation. The great facts of divine wrath and mercy are revealed in even bolder symbols.
v.2
I looked, and there before me was a white horse! Its rider held a bow, and he was given a crown, and he rode out as a conqueror bent on conquest.
Page 126-127 Therefore, our conclusion is that the first rider represents a satanic force attempting to defeat and oppress believers spiritually either through deception (the color white alluding to the attempt to deceive by imitating Christ and to appear as righteous, as in 2 Cor 11:14), or persecution, or both (so 11:7; 13:7). This first destructive rider, however, ..
v.11
Then each of them was given a white robe, and they were told to wait a little longer, until the number of their fellow servants and brothers who were to be killed as they had been was completed.
v.13-14
and the stars in the sky fell to earth, as figs drop from a fig tree when shaken by a strong wind. 14The heavens receded like a scroll being rolled up, and every mountain and island was removed from its place.
v.17
For the great day of their wrath has come, and who can stand?”
Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom also we have access by faith into this grace in which we stand. (Romans 5:1-2)
I declare to you the gospel which I preached to you, which you also received and in which you stand. (1 Corinthians 15:1)
Testifying that this is the true grace of God in which you stand. (1 Peter 5:12)
The believer can stand in the face of this great wrath of God because Jesus already bore the wrath the believer deserved.