Are We Seeing The Four Horsemen?

My series on the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse can be read in its own blog here, which is not quite finished as I still have to write on the pale green horse. However, my focus on this short article is on the red horse and his rider. In today's "featured post" I have one of the articles on the red horse. During the time of that rider's presence and work we will see global unrest, civil war. Is this what we are seeing happening in Europe now? Or, is it a mere prelude to it? The second article in the several chapters on the red horse I titled "Reign of Terror" which is an allusion to what took place in France during the French Revolution in 1793-1794. Whether or not the riots in twelve countries in Europe that are now raging (and growing too) are the beginning of the events of the red horse is yet to be fully determined. However, it very well may be the "beginning of sorrows" (Matt. 24:8) and the time when peace is taken from the earth.

Some of the scriptures I wrote about in conjunction with the red horse rider and his associates are these:

"And when he had opened the second seal, I heard the second beast say, Come and see. 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." (Rev. 6: 3-4)

"And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken." (Luke 21: 25-26)

"And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually ...The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth." (6: 5, 11-12)

"the sword of the LORD shall devour from one end of the land to the other end of the land; no flesh shall have peace." (Jeremiah 12:12) 

"For thus saith the LORD; We have heard a voice of trembling, of fear, and not of peace." (Jer. 30: 5) 

"For before these days there was no hire for man, nor any hire for beast; neither was there any peace to him that went out or came in because of the affliction: for I set all men every one against his neighbour." (Zech. 8: 10)

“there was no peace to him that went out, nor to him that came in, but great vexations were upon all the inhabitants of the countries. And nation was destroyed of nation, and city of city; for God did vex them with all adversity.” (2 Chronicles 15:3, 5.)

In the thirteenth article in my series on the red horse I cited these words of Christ:

"But when ye shall hear of wars and commotions, be not terrified: for these things must first come to pass; but the end is not by and by. Then said he unto them, Nation (or race) shall rise against nation (race), and kingdom against kingdom...and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken." (Luke 21: 9-11; 25-26)

I pointed out that "nations" denoted ethnicities, not so much political states. Is this ethnic and religious fighting in Europe and America not what Christ spoke about?