98 Iwan M. Whiteley Zechariah 1-2 Revelation 6-8:1 1:8-10 Four horses, ‘They are the ones the 1st seal: 1st horse LORD has sent to go throughout the earth.’ 2nd seal: 2nd horse 3rd seal: 3rd horse 1:11-12 ‘How long will you withhold mercy 4th seal: 4th horse from Jerusalem?’ 5th seal: ‘How Long?’ 1:13-17 ‘I am very angry with the nations that 6th seal: ‘Hide us from the face of Him who feel secure.’ sits on the throne.’ 2:1-2 The measuring of Jerusalem 7:1-8 The measuring of the people of God 2:3-4 ‘Jerusalem will be a city without walls 7:9 People without number because of the great number of livestock and men in it.’ 2:10 Call to praise God 7:10-12 People praise God 2:13 ‘Be silent before the Lord, all mankind, 7th seal: Silence in heaven for half an hour because He has roused Himself from His holy dwelling.’ Rogers noticed certain aspects of this structure.30 This proposal is significant in that it explains what appear to be the radical shifts in scenes in Rev 6-8:1. The four horsemen in Revelation introduce the reader to John’s presupposition pool, namely he is establishing a relationship between his text and Zech 1. Therefore, as the reader continues through the rest of Rev 6, Zechariah is still in their mind. When the fifth seal is opened and the cry “How long?” goes out, the reader explores the possibility that John is continuing to refer to Zechariah. The sixth seal does not frustrate this proposition and then the departure from the seal structure in chapter 7 can only be explained in light of Zech 2. In both passages, the people of God are either being or about to be counted as if they could be restricted to a discrete number and in both passages the reader is informed that the people of God will be without number. Zechariah, like Revelation, appears to be contradictory because in 2:10, the people are called to “shout and be glad” and yet in 2:13, all mankind are called to be silent. According to current approaches to the study of allusions in Revelation, the language of chapter 7 appears to be too deviant from Zech 1-2 for there to be an allusion. However, an investigation in the underlying flow of Rev 6 may help in the solution of the issue. Jauhiainen provides an 30 R. Rogers, “An Exegetical Analysis of John’s use of Zechariah in the Book of Revela- tion: The Impact and Transformation of Zechariah’s Text and Themes in the Apocalypse”, (Ph.D diss., Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2002), 101; see also M. Jauhiainen, The Use of Zechariah in Revelation (Tübingen 2005) 73.