6:5-6 What does the opening of the third seal here signify?
6:5-6 What does the opening of the third seal here signify?
Here famine is personified as the rider of the black horse.
The exorbitant price of grain and the scales for weighing it symbolizes the scarcity of food and the economic hardship the world will undergo during Antichrist's reign (cp Eze 4:16-17; Mt 24:5-8).
It is not clear what the command not to hurt the oil and the wine means. Knowing is not fundamental to salvation so it serves no purpose to speculate.