What were the colour and character of the fourth symbol?
Answer
"And when He had opened the fourth seal, . . . behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was
Death, and Hell [Greek, Hades, the grave] followed with him. And power was given unto them over the
fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the
earth." Verses 7, 8.
NOTE - This is an unnatural color for a horse. The original denotes the pole or yellowish color
seen in blighted plants. The symbol evidently refers to the work of persecution and death carried on by the
Roman Church against the people of God from the time of the beginning of papal supremacy in AD. 538 to
the time when the Reformers commenced their work of exposing the true character of the Papacy, and a
check was placed upon this work of death.
What question did others raise in opposition to this view?
What course on the part of children is well pleasing to the Lord?
What is the character of this new power?
What great separation will then take place?
How many of these beings did John see around the throne?
Why is it better to go to the house of mourning than to the house of feasting?
In bereavement, like whom should we not sorrow?
Questions & Answers are from the book Bible Readings for the Home Circle