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 does God delight?
13. After the accumulation of the sins of the year in this way, what service took place on the tenth day of the seventh month of each year?
10. What definite period of time was allotted to this great persecution of God's people under papal Rome?
What has been one great characteristic of the Papacy?
What definite period is mentioned under this trumpet?
Where are the dead when they hear the voice of Christ calling them to life?
Did angels exist before the death of any of the human family?
Questions & Answers are from the book Bible Readings for the Home Circle