6:7-8 What does the opening of the fourth seal here signify?
6:7-8 What does the opening of the fourth seal here signify?
Death and hell are personified here as two horsemen. Together with the previous two horsemen - the sword, and famine - and the beasts of the earth, they will kill a quarter of the earth's population.
There will be an intensification of war, famine, pestilence, evil beasts, and death (cp Lev 26:22; Eze 5:16-17; 14:21; 33:27-29). The four horsemen involved symbolically in these judgments are known in Christendom as "the four horsemen of the apocalypse".