THE BLACK HORSE

8. What were the features of the vision that followed the opening of the third seal?

⁸ After the ride of the horseman on the fiery-colored horse, what does the vision present to us? “And when he opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say: ‘Come!’ And I saw, and, look! a black horse; and the one seated upon it had a pair of scales in his hand.

Revelation 6:5, 6.

9. What do the features of that vision plainly denote, and why was the color of the horse appropriately black?

⁹ Plainly, that denotes food shortages, scarcity of eatables. And did not these come along with World War I “in one place after another”? With the taking away of farmers from their farms and gardens in order to draft them into the fighting forces of millions of men, would not hunger prevail over wide areas, with little or nothing to satisfy it? Logically so! No wonder that millions of humans died of hunger.