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."
18. When asked by the rich young man the conditions of eternal life, to what did Jesus direct his attention?
What blessed experience follows upon the acceptance of Christ as our righteousness?
On what basis is there no possibility of justification for the sinner?
Upon what ground did Nicodemus rest his belief that Christ was a teacher from God?
How did Christ estimate the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees?
When did Christ say the good would he recompensed?
Unto whom are God's people to be gathered?
Questions & Answers are from the book Bible Readings for the Home Circle