What was the color of the symbol under the third seal?
Answer
"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." Verse 5.
NOTE - The "black" horse fitly represents the spiritual darkness that characterized the church
from the time of Constantine till the establishment of papal supremacy in AD. 538. Of the condition of
things in the fourth century, Wharey (page 54) says: "Christianity had now become popular, and a large
proportion, perhaps a large majority, of those who embraced it, only assumed the name, received the rite of
baptism, and conformed to some of the external ceremonies of the church, while at heart and in moral
character they were as much heathen as they were before. Error and corruption now came in upon the
church like a flood."
In what way is this comparison further explained?
By what is this cleansing from sin and fitting for God's service accomplished?
When was the papal head of the first beast of Revelation 13 wounded?
6. In His reply, how did Christ indicate that neither the end of the world nor of the Jewish nation was immediately at hand ?
How visible is His coming to be?
What has this firm trust in Jesus led many to do?
Who is the seed to whom this promise was made?
Questions & Answers are from the book Bible Readings for the Home Circle