In this week’s study, we continue our study in Chapter 6 with the 4th Seal. The pale horse.
7. fourth beast = this living creature was that which was like an eagle, and was on the north side of the throne, answerable to the standard of Dan, which was on the north of the camp of Israel, and had the figure of an eagle upon it.
8. pale horse = “khlo-ros'” greenish that is, verdant, dun-colored: - green, pale. Death and hell. Death being Satan. Another explantion of the pale it is originally and properly grass-green, when used of flesh implies that greenish paleness which we know as livid: the color of the corpse in developing decay, or of the complexion extremely pale through disease. I find this very interesting, in Scriptures we always think of green as symbolic of everlasting. Is this the negative side of the flesh?
and his name that sat on him was Death = not Satan, who has the power of death, but death itself; who is represented as a person, as he elsewhere is, sometimes as a king, Romans 5:14; and as an enemy, 1Corin. 15:25; read Isa. 5:14, 28:15-18
and hell followed with him= “hades” resting place of the souls, that is, the grave, which attended on death, or followed after him, and was a sort of an undertaker, to bury the dead killed by death; so these two are put together, Rev. 1:18.
With = “meta” means association and companionship with. With the Accusative it means after, always in connection with time.
Power = “ex-oo-see'-ah” (in the sense of ability); privilege, that is, (subjectively) force, capacity, competency, freedom, or (objectively) mastery (concretely magistrate, superhuman, potentate, token of control), delegated influence: - authority, jurisdiction, liberty, power, right, strength.
unto them = to death and hell, or the grave, or rather to death only
To kill = The passage is another example of the influence of the prophecy of Ezekiel upon the composition of the Apocalypse. In Ezkiel 14:21we read,‘For thus saith the Adonai Yahweh; How much more when I send my four sore judgments upon Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the noisome beast, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast?’
Sword = remember the words of Yahshua Messiah in Matthew 10:28, and the words of Paul in Hebrews 4:12
Hunger = famine. Even today with the prices of food going up, people can’t seem to afford groceries.
Death = of course death always follows famine. Famine leads to death. Now here is the 2-part kicker. We can have a fleshly death or a spiritual death. There will be many people that will never taste hunger, however that doesn’t mean they won’t be able to escape the spiritual death.
Beasts = “thay-ree'-on” a dangerous animal. Occurs 38 times in Rev., 37 time of “the beast”. And here it may indicate the nations supporting “the beast”. Rev. 13!
"Pestilence," thus personified, is followed by the grave (Gr. Hades), also personified. The two words occur together because the latter depends on the former. See 1:18; 6:8; 20:13; 1 Corin. 15:55; and Isa. 27:15, 18. Hades follows in the train of Death, because Death ends in the Grave. Therefore, the authority is given to them jointly.
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