Christ is Triumphant

Eugene Peterson regarding Revelation 6:2's rider on the white horse:

"Biblical Christians do not sentimentalize Christ. There is a fierceness and militancy here. The world is in conflict; our Christ is the first on the field of battle. High issues are decided every day. Christ is not only worshiped each Sunday, he is triumphant each week day. That, of course, is not the way the newspapers report it; that is not the way our own emotions respond to it; but that is what the preached revelation proclaims." Reversed Thunder, 75.