Bow means 'bow and arrows' in Scripture
Genesis 48:22 I took from the hand of the Amorites with my sword and with my bow.”
Joshua 24:12 And I sent the hornet before you, which drove them out before you, the two kings of the Amorites; it was not by your sword or by your bow.
Ps. 44:6 ..not in my bow do I trust, nor can my sword save me.
“BOW” MEANS “BOW AND ARROWS” IN THE SCRIPTURE
Just as saying ‘the robber had a gun’ automatically implies ‘bullets,’ so bow implies arrows. The white horse rider of Revelation 6:2 has a bow meaning he has a bow and arrows. This is the only sense of ‘bow’ throughout the Scripture. To assert that “bow” without the specific mention of arrows means the absence of arrows is a faulty idea. With this understood; interpreting the 1st seal to be “the Anti-christ”—“a bluffer” with “no arrows,” is Scripturally baseless and simply not true. It goes against the very context of the verse itself where the rider went out “conquering, and to conquer.” He certainly is not a bluffer.
True to William Branham’s manner, he gave his own version by reading into the text what is not there or implied and thus altering the narrative:
“He [John] sees him come down, his white horse, got a bow in his hand, and the—the rider has no arrows with it.”
—William Branham - 1963-0320 - The Third Seal
“The rider has no arrows for his bow. Did you notice? He had a bow, but there’s nothing said about having any arrows, so he must be a bluffer.”—William Branham - 1963-0318 - The First Seal
Joshua 24:12 And I sent the hornet before you, which drove them out before you, the two kings of the Amorites; it was not by your sword or by your bow.
Ps. 44:6 ..not in my bow do I trust, nor can my sword save me.
“BOW” MEANS “BOW AND ARROWS” IN THE SCRIPTURE
Just as saying ‘the robber had a gun’ automatically implies ‘bullets,’ so bow implies arrows. The white horse rider of Revelation 6:2 has a bow meaning he has a bow and arrows. This is the only sense of ‘bow’ throughout the Scripture. To assert that “bow” without the specific mention of arrows means the absence of arrows is a faulty idea. With this understood; interpreting the 1st seal to be “the Anti-christ”—“a bluffer” with “no arrows,” is Scripturally baseless and simply not true. It goes against the very context of the verse itself where the rider went out “conquering, and to conquer.” He certainly is not a bluffer.
True to William Branham’s manner, he gave his own version by reading into the text what is not there or implied and thus altering the narrative:
“He [John] sees him come down, his white horse, got a bow in his hand, and the—the rider has no arrows with it.”
—William Branham - 1963-0320 - The Third Seal
“The rider has no arrows for his bow. Did you notice? He had a bow, but there’s nothing said about having any arrows, so he must be a bluffer.”—William Branham - 1963-0318 - The First Seal