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."
Of whom was Christ to be born?
What is said of Christ's childhood and early life?
6. Until what time were the saints, times, and law of the Most High to be given into the hands of the little horn?
What power is there in the blood of this covenant?
Why are we exhorted to patience?
To what Old Testament promise did Peter evidently refer?
19. When this city becomes the metropolis of the new earth, what will be the condition of God's people?
Questions & Answers are from the book Bible Readings for the Home Circle