Revelation 6

Which worship songs are based on Revelation 6?

Left Behind (Kirk Cameron) — Seventh Day Slumber (2025) Revelation 6:1-8
The imagery of 'the seals have been broken' directly references the apocalyptic events described in the Book of Revelation, where the breaking of seals signifies the unfolding of God's judgment and the end times.
End of the World — Kutless (2022) Revelation 6:1-17
The opening of the seals, summons to behold, blood-colored moon, falling stars, divine wrath, and futile attempt to hide closely follow the sequence of judgments associated with the sixth seal.
Through the Sky — Saint (2010) Revelation 6:1-17
The song explicitly combines Revelation’s opening of seven seals with its seven final plagues and seven bowls of divine wrath. Its depiction of futile concealment also corresponds to people seeking shelter from divine judgment in Revelation 6:15-17.
Hell to Pay — Saint (2019) Revelation 6:1-17
The broken seal and sounding trumpets unmistakably invoke Revelation’s successive cycles of end-time judgment. The song combines these images into the onset of tribulation and divine wrath.
End of Days — Stryper (2024) Revelation 6:1-17
The broken seals, trumpet judgments, cosmic disturbances, and approaching judgment unmistakably draw on Revelation's successive seal and trumpet visions.
Life in the Last Days — ApologetiX (2009) Revelation 6:1-8
The song recounts the four horsemen in their biblical order, preserving their colors and associations with conquest, war, famine, and death. Death’s accompanying Hades and authority over one-quarter of the earth make the reference unmistakable.
The Red Horse Is Upon Us — Corpus Christi (2010) Revelation 6:3-4
The song directly reproduces John's vision of the opening of the second seal, including the second living creature, the red horse, and its armed rider empowered to bring warfare to the earth. The supplied lyrics also explicitly identify the passage.
How Long, O Lord - Live — Sovereign Grace Music (2017) Revelation 6:10
The repeated appeal asking the Lord how long closely echoes the cry of the martyrs awaiting God's final judgment. The song's focus on delayed vindication and Christ's decisive return strongly supports this context.
The Faded Coat of Blue — Tennessee Ernie Ford (2012) Revelation 6:11
The promise that the deceased soldier will receive white heavenly clothing echoes the white garments given to departed martyrs in Revelation. The song adapts this image as consolation without explicitly identifying the soldier as a martyr.
Never Have I Found — Josh Garrels (2008) Revelation 6:12
The opening lunar image echoes the moon’s bloodlike appearance at the opening of the sixth seal. The connection is to this distinctive apocalyptic imagery, not to a retelling of the surrounding events.
miserabile visu {ex malo bonum} — Anberlin (2008) Revelation 6:12-14
The combined imagery of darkened sunlight, a blood-colored moon, an earthquake, and disrupted heavens closely follows the opening of the sixth seal. This cluster makes Revelation the strongest reference rather than other passages containing individual signs.
Stars Will Fall — Aaron Shust (2009) Revelation 6:12-14
The chorus combines falling stars, cosmic upheaval, and the displacement of every mountain, closely matching the imagery accompanying the opening of the sixth seal. The song adapts this apocalyptic scene to express Jesus’ overwhelming authority.
Farther Along — Josh Garrels (2011) Revelation 6:14
The sky rolling back during the final unveiling evokes Revelation's depiction of the sky withdrawing like a rolled scroll. The surrounding contrast between human responses to divine judgment reinforces this connection.
It Is Well With My Soul — Chris Rice (2007) Revelation 6:14
The final verse's image of the heavens being rolled away like a scroll closely follows the apocalyptic scene accompanying the opening of the sixth seal.
It Is Well With My Soul — Keith & Kristyn Getty & The Getty Girls (2021) Revelation 6:14
The final verse adopts Revelation's distinctive apocalyptic image of the sky withdrawing like a rolled scroll.
Wrath of the Lamb — Chaotic Resemblance (2022) Revelation 6:15-17
The opening depicts the nations pleading for concealment from God's presence and the Lamb's judgment, closely reproducing the sixth-seal response of humanity in Revelation.
Sinnerman (Sofi Tukker remix) — Nina Simone (2022) Revelation 6:15-17
The condemned sinner's appeal to a rock for refuge on the day of judgment evokes Revelation's portrayal of people seeking concealment among mountains and rocks from divine wrath.

Revelation 6 (King James Version)

¹ And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see.

² And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.

³ And when he had opened the second seal, I heard the second beast say, Come and see.

⁴ And there went out another horse that was red: and power was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another: and there was given unto him a great sword.

⁵ And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand.

⁶ And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.

⁷ And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.

⁸ And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.

⁹ And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held:

¹⁰ And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?

¹¹ And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled.

¹² And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood;

¹³ And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind.

¹⁴ And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places.

¹⁵ And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains;

¹⁶ And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:

¹⁷ For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?