REVELATION’S FOUR HORSEMEN

THE FUTURE OF CHRISTIANITY REVEALED

A HORSE REPRESENTS SPIRITUAL WARFARE

Seal 1: White Horse “Pure Faith” (AD 31-100)

Revelation 6:2 He rides ‘a white horse.’
a. The rider has ‘crown upon his head’ denoting kingship.
b. Rides a white horse denoting purity and righteousness.
c. Bow in his hand. The purpose of a bow is to shoot arrows.
d. Arrows represent the Word of God. Habakkuk 3:9
He ‘went forth conquering and to conquer’ the first horseman was faithfully fulfilled in the
history of the church of the first century A.D.
FULFILLED IN APOSTOLIC CHURCH

Seal 2: Red Horse “Blood-stained Faith” (AD 100-313)

What a sad experience for the apostle. After all that they had endured in proclaiming the
gospel and raising up churches, finally in the midst of these very churches would come false
teachers and apostasy. They would “speak perverse things.” In fulfilment of this prediction
false teachers did arise and apostasy gradually entered the church.

“These apostate Chistians uniting with their half-pagan companions, directed their warfare
against the most essential features of the doctrines of Christ… the doctrine of religious
freedom was termed heresy and its upholders were hated and prescribed.” Great
Controversy, page 44-45.

Seal 3: Black Horse “Compromised Faith” (AD 313-538)

Black is the opposite to white, indicating that it is opposite to purity and righteousness. Here
is pictured the third period of the orthodox Christian church. It suggests a period of
unrighteousness-of moral darkness, of error and of apostasy. Was this correct? Did this
condition befall the established church of the day? Did the orthodox church, the official
church, sink deeper into apostasy?

What would the balance represent?

The old fashioned balances were scales. In scripture they have three applications:
1. They denote commerce.
2. They denote corrupt dealing.
3. They denote judgment.
All three fittingly apply to the period of the black horse.

COMMERCIALIZATION OF RELIGION
The Papal church now began to engage in the commercialization of religion. People were
led to believe that it was essential.
1. To pay for the benefits of salvation.
2. If you were baptized you had to pay.
3. Confirmation of the faith you had to pay.
4. If you want to marry, you have to pay.
5. If you confess your sins to the priest you have to pay.
6. When you burned your loved one, you had to pay.
 7. When masses were said, to get him out of purgatory you had to pay.
This commerce became a source of tremendous income for the church.

BIBLE DOCTRINES WERE REPLACED BY THE PAGAN TRADITIONS FOR MONEY

GENERATING
Salvation is obtained by having the following requirements:
1. Church Donation
2. Paying for daily holy Mass
3. Paying to the church for Indulgences
4. Paying for the infant baptism

Seal 4: Pale Horse “A Dead Faith” (AD 538-1798)

Death rode the horse. In that dark apostate period, spiritual death reigned supreme. The
church was revealed in all the corruption and repulsiveness. In 538 A.D., when it is
suggested that this appalling period began the church leaders assumed a new order.

Steps to Compromise
Traditions
Penances
Indulgences
Images
Church hierarchy
Human dogmas

CHRISTIAN CHURCH BECAME APOSTATE CHURCH UNDER THE LEADERSHIP OF

PAPACY
Dark Ages—-
AD 538 —-------------------------------------------------------------- AD 1798
(1260 years)

Deep within every human heart

there is a pilgrimage for freedom…

Seal 5: Period of Reformation (14th-18th Century) - Martin Luther

Revelation 6:9,10
And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were
stain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held;
And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not
judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?

Revelation 6:11
And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they
should rest yet for a little season, until their fellow servants also and their brethren, that
should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled.