{"id":484,"date":"2015-07-31T19:15:53","date_gmt":"2015-07-31T19:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianitybeliefs.org\/revelation-timeline-decoded\/?page_id=484"},"modified":"2015-07-31T19:25:09","modified_gmt":"2015-07-31T19:25:09","slug":"the-fourth-seal-of-revelation-6","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/christianitybeliefs.org\/revelation-timeline-decoded\/the-fourth-seal-of-revelation-6\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fourth Seal Of Revelation 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><p><strong>This <a title=\"Revelation Timeline Decoded Bible study\" href=\"http:\/\/christianitybeliefs.org\/revelation-timeline-decoded\/\">Revelation Timeline Decoded Bible study<\/a> focuses on the fourth seal of Revelation 6. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Revelation 6:7-8, \u201c<em>And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see. And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a short summary of the fulfillment of the 4th seal of Revelation 6, then a video will give more details, followed by a verse by verse explanation.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Pale horse represents 1\/4th of Romans <em>dying<\/em> from\u00a0famine, plague, pestilence and violence, from 250-300 A.D.\u00a0 The word \u2018<em>earth<\/em>\u2018 means land, not the whole Earth.\u00a0 The Roman Empire is the land\/earth of prophecy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aT9havnMWOA\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The fourth seal is in Revelation 6:8, \u201c<em>I looked, and behold, a pale horse. And the name of him who sat on it was Death, and Hades followed with him. And power was given to them over a fourth of the earth, to kill with sword, with hunger, with death, and by the beasts of the earth<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Remember that the Lord Jesus is judging the pagan Roman Empire because they killed millions of Christians.\u00a0 He is avenging justice for their deaths.<\/p>\n<p>The color of the horse represents the condition of the Roman people at that time, and the description of the rider represents the cause of their condition.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The pale horse represents an era of death in the Roman Empire.\u00a0 Again, it\u2019s not speaking of the whole Earth, just the Roman Earth.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cHell\u201d or \u201cHades\u201d is better translated as the grave, as many people died.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Acts 2:27 says \u201c<i>For You will not leave my soul in Hades, Nor will You allow Your Holy One to see corruption,<\/i>\u201d meaning Jesus was in the grave.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>\u2018<i>Helling your potatoes<\/i>\u2018 means a farmer was going to dig a hole and bury them in the ground.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The pale horseman rode force and the Roman Empire crumbled into the most dreadful state of disorder and chaos, where their society had almost completely broken down.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>At one time\u00a0 5,000 people were dying every day.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Historian Edward Gibbon recorded that one quarter (<i>a fourth of the earth<\/i>) of the population of the entire Roman Empire died of famine, plaque, pestilence, and of the violence.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So you can see the Jesus was talking about 1\/4 of the Roman Empire dying, and it\u2019s not about the end times.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Next Revelation Timeline Decoded Bible Study: <a href=\"http:\/\/christianitybeliefs.org\/revelation-timeline-decoded\/the-fifth-seal-of-revelation-6\/\">Revelation 6 &#8211; 5th Seal Martyrs<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-facebook\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-facebook-484\" class=\"share-facebook sd-button share-icon\" href=\"https:\/\/christianitybeliefs.org\/revelation-timeline-decoded\/the-fourth-seal-of-revelation-6\/?share=facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Facebook\"><span>Facebook<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-484\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon\" href=\"https:\/\/christianitybeliefs.org\/revelation-timeline-decoded\/the-fourth-seal-of-revelation-6\/?share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Twitter\"><span>Twitter<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Revelation Timeline Decoded Bible study focuses on the fourth seal of Revelation 6. 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And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-facebook\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-facebook-484\" class=\"share-facebook sd-button share-icon\" href=\"https:\/\/christianitybeliefs.org\/revelation-timeline-decoded\/the-fourth-seal-of-revelation-6\/?share=facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Facebook\"><span>Facebook<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-484\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon\" href=\"https:\/\/christianitybeliefs.org\/revelation-timeline-decoded\/the-fourth-seal-of-revelation-6\/?share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Twitter\"><span>Twitter<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"spay_email":""},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P5PB9O-7O","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianitybeliefs.org\/revelation-timeline-decoded\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/484"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianitybeliefs.org\/revelation-timeline-decoded\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianitybeliefs.org\/revelation-timeline-decoded\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianitybeliefs.org\/revelation-timeline-decoded\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianitybeliefs.org\/revelation-timeline-decoded\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/christianitybeliefs.org\/revelation-timeline-decoded\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":494,"href":"https:\/\/christianitybeliefs.org\/revelation-timeline-decoded\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/484\/revisions\/494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianitybeliefs.org\/revelation-timeline-decoded\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}