Revelation 6 Symbols

Revelation 6  •  1 min. read  •  grade level: 11
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2. White Horse: Conquering aggressive power in providential action (Zech. 6).
Crown: Imperial authority.
Red Horse: Power with frightful carnage.
Sword: War. Slaughter.
5. Black Horse: Sorrow and mourning.
6. Oil and Wine: The luxuries of the rich.
8. Pale Horse: Excessive mortality by sword, famine and pestilence (Ezek. 5:16-17; 14:12-2116When I shall send upon them the evil arrows of famine, which shall be for their destruction, and which I will send to destroy you: and I will increase the famine upon you, and will break your staff of bread: 17So will I send upon you famine and evil beasts, and they shall bereave thee; and pestilence and blood shall pass through thee; and I will bring the sword upon thee. I the Lord have spoken it. (Ezekiel 5:16‑17)
12The word of the Lord came again to me, saying, 13Son of man, when the land sinneth against me by trespassing grievously, then will I stretch out mine hand upon it, and will break the staff of the bread thereof, and will send famine upon it, and will cut off man and beast from it: 14Though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they should deliver but their own souls by their righteousness, saith the Lord God. 15If I cause noisome beasts to pass through the land, and they spoil it, so that it be desolate, that no man may pass through because of the beasts: 16Though these three men were in it, as I live, saith the Lord God, they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters; they only shall be delivered, but the land shall be desolate. 17Or if I bring a sword upon that land, and say, Sword, go through the land; so that I cut off man and beast from it: 18Though these three men were in it, as I live, saith the Lord God, they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters, but they only shall be delivered themselves. 19Or if I send a pestilence into that land, and pour out my fury upon it in blood, to cut off from it man and beast: 20Though Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, as I live, saith the Lord God, they shall deliver neither son nor daughter; they shall but deliver their own souls by their righteousness. 21For thus saith the Lord God; 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? (Ezekiel 14:12‑21)).
Fourth Part of the Earth: A limited portion of the Roman earth.
9. Under the Altar: As having been as sacrifices to God; their lives offered up.
12. Earthquake: Convulsion of the whole structure of society. Darkening and subversion of established authorities.
Sun Black as Sackcloth: Alienation from God and Satanic darkening of the ruling power.
Moon as Blood: All derived authority in a state of death morally.
13. Stars Fallen from Heaven: Open apostasy of subordinate authorities.
14. Heaven Departed as a Scroll: General convulsion and overthrow of all governmental order.
Mountains: Seats of authority in stability.