Seal 2 is opened and unleashes the red horse. This horse and rider are given a sword to divideand to remove peace from the earth, to set people against one another, so that men would literally butcher, slaughter, and maim one another. The removal of peace extends wars and to all other means of violence that occurs in our homes, neighborhoods, towns, villages, cities, states, provinces, countries, etc., whether motivated by greed, avarice, jealousy, covetousness, revenge, racial prejudice, or class prejudice, and it extends beyond slaughter to sexual violence, family violence, school violence, and-on-and-on it goes.
Seal 3 is opened, and we see a black horse with a beam in his hand. The activities of this black horse are happening even now. We are not waiting until the End Times for this event. The picture speaks of the overall value and worth which the darkness attributes to the Jew and the Christian who have been inextricably linked in “servitude” so-to-speak, to Yahweh. And with the mention of the Oil and the Wine, there is a promise for some level of protection and just treatment to those Jews and Gentiles who are now abiding in the Spirit of God.
