Revelation Study 11. Revelation 6:1- 17 pgs 79-82
1. What happens when the Lamb opens each of the first six seals? 1 A white horse 2 A red horse 3 A black horse 4 A pale horse 5 The martyrs under the altar demand justice 6 A great earthquake, sun is darkened, moon red, stars fall, sky vanishes, mountains and islands removed. Earthly peoples know that the wrath of God and the Lamb has come on them. 2. From the descriptions in 6:2-8, what do you think each of the four horsemen represents? white = militarism, conquest, ambition. possibly leading to the other 3, or false religion Unlikely to be Christ and the conquering gospel, because of - parallels with seals and trumpets - similarity to the other 3 riders - holding of a bow, not a sword red = war and violence black = famine and inflated (8-10x normal) grain prices, but limited. Perhaps the rich will not suffer. pale [' chloros ') = Death and Hades, given power over 1/4 of the earth. The riders are "given" and "permitted" - they remain under God's ...