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Question: Explain the 7 horses in Revelation.

1. The text in Revelation that deals with the subject is Rev. 6.
You will first want to note that although 7 seals are referred to
in the chapter that there are 4 horses, and not 7. 

2. Key passage: 1:1,3, the book for the most part deals with that
which would "shortly come to pass."

3. White horse: conquest, armed strength.

4. Red Horse: persecution, strife: with his sword he takes peace
from the earth.

5. Black horse: Rider has a balance to weigh wheat and barley; hurt
not the oil and wine. These were the basic food stuffs of the
ancient Near East. Dire want in the midst of luxury.

6. Pale Horse: rider is death. Judgments, trials, tribulations:
Followed by Hades, the realm of the unseen, where the soul goes
when the body dies.

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