Following Biblical precedent will provide both insight into the events contained in Revelations, and a functional understanding of the prophetic process behind these same events.
The events contained within Revelations are mostly based on the old testament;
1. Rolls are consumed by prophets(Ez 3)
2. Rolls are sealed with wax, and the armed messenger is sent under pain of death to deliver his message with its seal intact, the seal being unique to the official that sends it.
3. The prophetic clock starts once the roll is handed over to the lamb, the lamb then hands each opened roll to an angel that then delivers it to those that will execute each phase. The rolls are both stacked and concentric, making it possible to see the number of rolls without opening them.
5. Following the originating text in Zechariah, the horses are sent by God, each of which initiate different facets of the end-times scenario.
6. There is one rider with balances, the days wage is mentioned as being enough to buy two pounds. A lot of commentary is devoted to the assumed economic collapse that this represents. Even at minimum wage you can buy plenty of wheat flour... the situation described is not that of collapse, but prosperity as in the warehouses built by Pharaoh and the economic recovery that bankrolled Nazi Germany's rearming before the Holocaust.
7. The concept of those resting in hope come from the words of Jesus where he states that God is the god of the living, a concept that had already been well-established by this time. the old testament also relates the concept where it states "in the roll written about me"(Heb 10) a concept the re-defines the concept behind what God sees when he looks at us, our deeds and prayers are present and we are look at as innocent without blame and as martyrs as per the death of Zechariah.
They are told to wait until the number of martyrs are complete, a concept alluded to before the fall of Sodom and Gomorrah.
8. The resulting imagery that follows the end of this same chapter comes straight from IS 2.

Sorry,

I could not get past the first sentence.  The book is called Revelation, it is not plural.

Hag

The Book of Revelation is seeing the day of the Cross made as 7 time periods, shown as 3 pictures. God doubles twice to ESTABLISH His words as seen in Genesis 41:32 with Pharaoh’s dream.

Only the day of the Cross will fit Isaiah 30:26 when God heals:

Isaiah 30:26 Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound.

God takes the day of the Cross which is from Sunset when the Last Supper began, Till Sunset when Jesus had just been placed in the Sepulchre.

God first shows the day as 4 6-hour periods, Seen as 4 beasts with 6-wings in Revelation.

Revelation 4:7 And the first beast was like a lion, and the second beast like a calf, and the third beast had a face as a man, and the fourth beast was like a flying eagle.

Sunset to Midnight as a lion, Jesus showing who He is, what He will do.

Midnight to sunrise, with the face of a Calf, Seen as the face of a Ox in Ezekiel 1:10. As Jesus is lead to Slaughter. God multiplies Visions and uses Similitudes (Hosea 12:10) They are both looking at the day of the Cross, But through different eyes.

Ezekiel 1:10 As for the likeness of their faces, they four had the face of a man, and the face of a lion, on the right side: and they four had the face of an ox on the left side; they four also had the face of an eagle.

Sunrise to noon, As the Face of a Man, as Jesus is judged.

Noon to sunset as Jesus dies on the Cross, as a flying Eagle as Jesus commends His spirit to God.

The day as 4 6-hour periods, 1=Old Heaven, 2=Old Earth, Heaven and earth flee from His Face seen as the Face of a Man on the third beast with 6-wings. New Earth is Sunrise to noon, New Heaven is noon to Sunset.

Jesus takes all sin, He is all things which offend, There are 144 with Judas, seen as a wall in Revelation 21:17. They added the Cubit or reached angel status, They are the angels given Charge over Jesus, In their hands they bear Him up. They are multiplied by 1,000 in Deuteronomy 1:11 or the 144,000 in Revelation chapter 14. They are Virgins, they are seen in Jeremiah as men travailing with Child (Through Jeremiah’s eyes).

The Body of Christ born the day of the Cross seen in Psalms 2:6/7, Given the heathen in 2:8. Jesus takes sins away, Now God can dwell with mankind, or Immanuel or “GOD with us.”

First seal is the White Horse, As Jesus says who He is, what He will do. Now Jesus has to go and do it, so the Rider on the White Horse goes forth conquering and to conquer as Jesus has to battle sin, death, and hell. White horse coming in clouds is Jesus taking sins during that time, Sin seen as clouds in Isaiah 44:22.

Second seal is the Red Horse as Jesus is lead to slaughter. The Second is the Sacrifice, So the law or white horse with Jesus saying what He must do will kill the Sacrifice or red Horse, and the Sacrifice will kill the law in fulfilling it. Part of the law was “And the law is no more.”
Adding the Red Horse, to the Face of a Calf, is forming the Red Heifer, the day as 3 pictures or for a day, a week, a month and a year. God likened those above to the Head, Those beneath to the Tail, Jesus is the Head of the first 6-hours, Judas and the 144 with Him the Head of the Second 6-hours, So the Calf or Red Heifer is BEHEADED, God’s word like as a fire in Jeremiah 23:29 makes for the Ashes of the Red Heifer needed to cleans the House.

The House is Built the day of the Cross as 7 time periods, the name of the House found in the book of Job is the “Wilderness” Where Jesus was taken after the Baptism and shown the Revelations, then given 42 Months to continue and go back and show the Disciples (Servants) things which must shortly come to pass.

Proverbs 9:1 Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars:

2-Samuel 7:13 He shall build an house for my name, and I will stablish the throne of his kingdom for ever.
14 I will be his father, and he shall be my son. If he commit iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men:

The Third seal is Sunrise to noon. Black Horse with Balances. The Time Jesus was Judged. Third angel sounds and the Star Wormwood falls to the Earth, Jesus made all things cursed, He has to be as the Earth cursed also, Earth destroyed by fire is God’s word like as a fire as Jesus dies. Stars are for signs, it is a sign of the Judgment falling on Christ from sunrise to noon.

Amos 5:7 Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,

The Fourth seal is the Pale Horse. Death followed by hell as Jesus died and descended into hell.

Fourth angel sounds as a third of the Sun, and a third of the Moon is smitten, or one of the three pictures is completed, The two great lights made on the fourth day in Genesis is from Noon to Sunrise. The Creation story is also looking at the day of the Cross, the BEGINNING of the New World, Old World had no recorded beginning, New World has no end.

Sun seen as the Throne in Psalms 89:36 is darkened as Jesus died and they think that is the end. Moon seen as the establishment of the Throne in Psalms 89:37 is turned to blood as the Blood of Jesus establishes the throne.

The Nation of Israel is the Woman in Revelation Chapter 12, the Moon is under her feet, as She has to offer the Sacrifice under the law.

First angel sounds, “Fire, Hail, Mingled with Blood.” God’s word like as a fire in Jeremiah 23:29 is poured out by Jesus at the Last supper between Sunset and Midnight, Hail is Judas as He greets Jesus and kisses Him “Hail Master” Mingled with blood is as Peter cuts off the ear.

Sunset to Midnight, “Let there be Light.” I am the True Vine, I am the Good Shepherd, I am the Way, the Truth and the Life, In My Father’s House are many Mansions, I go to prepare a place for you, as Jesus pours out the Light.

Those who trust in the Lord are as Mount Zion, Jesus is that Mountain, Burning with God’s word or fire, Second angel sounds at Midnight, Great Mountain burning with fire is cast into the Sea or the Gathering together of the People as water, The Disciples have Faith like a mustard seed, NO FAITH at all. Jesus is reaching for Non-Jews also, That does not set well with the Disciples.

Parable of building Bigger barns, is Jesus reaching for all, Not just the lost sheep of the House of Israel.
Second day in Genesis, People as waters, 144 with Judas above Jesus which is as the Firmament, sinners as waters under the Firmament, Disciples flee as Islands. Those cold to Jesus as the Snow “Let the Snow be upon the earth”

Job 38:22 Hast thou entered into the treasures of the snow? or hast thou seen the treasures of the hail,
23 Which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war?

Third day in Genesis the waters are gathered together, or all in Christ “With His stripes we are healed.”

Psalms 69:Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul.


The Second picture is as 2 12-hour periods seen as 2 witnesses in Revelation. Because God double twice, the day is made as a week, Each of the pictures of the day is also then made a week as it is doubled, So they see the dead bodies of the Witnesses three days and a half or half a week for each. Life enters into them when it is fulfilled.

Ken