The Mystery of the Four Horses and their Riders

References: Revelations 6: 1 – 8; Zechariah 6: 1 - 8

Source: http://blogs.jamaicans.com/gwgraeme/2011/12/16/coming-soon-the-four-horsemen-of-the-apocalypse/

Reading the above reference in the Book of Revelations, you will observe that when the Lamb opened the first four seals, John saw four Horses in the following order:

1^st ------------------- White horse (White symbolizes ‘Peace’)

2^nd --------------------Red Horse (Red symbolizes ‘Blood’ or ‘War’)

3^rd ---------------------Black Horse (Black symbolizes ‘Darkness’ or ‘Austerity’ or ‘Hardship’)

4^th ---------------------Pale Horse (Pale symbolizes ‘Death’ & ‘Hell’)

  

These four horses have eluded me for a long time as I prayed for understanding and searched what they meant by the Spirit of the Scriptures(the Holy Spirit), until today as God guided me into the book of Zechariah 6: 1 – 8.

Zechariah the Prophet of the Old Testament saw “Four Chariots”, in the following order:

1^st --------------------Red Horses

2^nd -------------------Black Horses

3^rd -------------------White Horses

4^th -------------------Grisled (i.e. Grey) & Bay (brown with black points) horses

From the Book of Zechariah, I understood that these ‘Horses’ are four spirits of the heavens, which go forth from standing before the Lord of all the earth. Zech. 6: 5

 

Now the Clues.

Clue#1: 

According to Zechariah, the black & white horses went into the North country and the grisled(grizzled) horses went into the South country. Zech. 6: 6

I have already treated “Kings of the North & Kings of the South” in a separate blog.

The King of the North represented Greece, while the King of the South represented Persia.

The North also refers to today’s ‘West’, while the South represents today’s ‘East’.

From what I see here, God said that the North country will produce peace on the earth as he declared to Prophet Zechariah that ‘…these that go toward the north country have quieted my spirit in the north country’. Zech.6: 8

 

These are very significant. 

It appears from Revelations 6 & Zechariah 6, that while the North (Greece or the West or Europe) will bring some Peace to the World, the South (Persia or the East) would bring about War and much Calamity. The North also signifies ‘Babylon’. See another treatise I have called ‘Babylon the Great’ in a separate blog. 

Also, out of the North (aka West) will break out famine and Austerity. Hence, the Black horses.

“…a measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny, and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.” Rev. 6: 6

The Pale horses had no geographical coverage. They walk to and fro through the earth. Zech.6:7. But they portend evil for the whole world.

“…power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with the beasts of the earth.” Rev. 6: 8

  

Hence, the next time you sit in your living room watching the news reeling out of your popular news stations and they highlight global issues from the West and East, then let him who reads understand....

To be continued...