Christians, during the End Times, will experience these horsemen. They will know death, disease, famine, and many trials. The antichrist, after all, will cut off food supplies from those who do not have the Mark of the Beast Revelation , and he will kill and persecute many followers of Christ. During that time, Christians can rest in the hope that Jesus will restore all things and make them right. That the Faithful and True will ride upon His white horse, and conquer death, famine, disease, and every pestilent thing.
Share this. Who Are the Four Horsemen in Revelation? Their Meaning and Significance These four horsemen appear to symbolically portray four disastrous occurrences that will take place before the second coming of Jesus Christ. The Four Horsemen in Revelation 6 "Now I watched when the Lamb opened one of the seven seals, and I heard one of the four living creatures say with a voice like thunder, "Come!
Their Meaning and Significance. Should We Fear the End Times? Today on Christianity. About Christianity. All rights reserved. Clearly, and happily for us, that does not happen, nor does it happen for all the other species — including us. Nonetheless, we are suffering a population explosion, just as lemmings and other species do from time to time. The human population has more than tripled in the past 70 years, from 2. Why are we not controlled?
Is there a fifth horseman that will cause our populations to crash at some point, as lemmings do? Crocodiles kill about 1, humans each year. Our main predators are crocodiles about a thousand deaths a year, according to the online World Atlas , lions about , tigers and other big cats, and occasionally wolves, some sharks about 10 each annually , and a few other species such as bears. The most important large animal that kills humans is us, largely through homicide and war.
The World Health Organization WHO estimated in that almost half a million people died from homicide in and another , or so directly from war in , with many more dying because of the hunger and diseases that result from war. There is, of course, a wider meaning of pestilence — animals, plants and micro-organisms that harm us indirectly by attacking our crops or herds.
Think of locusts famously called plagues , rats, potato blight and many others, against which we routinely deploy pesticides. In some parts of the world, these have and still can cause famines.
It turns out the most dangerous animals to humans are insect pests. Altogether, WHO estimates that vector-borne diseases chiefly via insects caused by either parasites, bacteria or viruses kill about , people a year and sicken hundreds of millions more.
But it is plagues that have been and potentially still are the really big killers of humans. Plagues are still with us. The WHO reports that 1. The annual influenza epidemics cause , to , respiratory deaths, while in , there were more than , measles deaths globally.
And of course we are in the midst of a Covid pandemic, and even though mortality is relatively low compared to previous serious plagues, it has killed at least 1. On the other hand, we have become reasonably adept at controlling most plagues, especially through basic sanitation, hygiene and immunization. So it seems unlikely plagues will control our population, unless we get a pandemic as lethal as the Black Death; imagine, for example, an air-borne version of something like Ebola.
We have one horseman left — food supply: How effective will this be in controlling the human population? So far, food supply has more than kept pace with population growth. A report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change IPCC notes that there has been more than a 30 per cent increase in the amount of food per person since This in spite of a growth in global population and growing demand for animal products in middle-income countries.
Perhaps more troubling is the potential loss of seafood as we hoover up the oceans fisheries. Climate change is undermining the most fundamental ecological determinants of our health. However, this requires increased economic development in low-income countries as it takes a certain amount of national wealth to fund the clean water, universal education and other factors that increase social and human development.
Of course, what low-income countries need is not four planets but a fair share of this one small planet. And that means that we in high-income countries have to take less. But even with the overall global ecological footprint being only 1. In doing so, we are undermining the most fundamental ecological determinants of our health — water, food, materials and fuels being chief among them — and vital ecosystem services; a stable climate, UV protection, waste decomposition and recycling, and the cycling of nitrogen and phosphorus being some key examples.
And our intrusion into nature increases the risk of encountering and spreading new infectious diseases, as we have seen with Ebola, COVID and other diseases. Yes indeed. The beginning of wisdom is the fear reference of the Lord.
The Bible has the answers. When we are in the Lord, we need not fear. Jesus discussed this in Matthew When Euripides, the Greek playwright wished to depict warfare on the stage, he did not bring on an army with banners.
He brought on a bent and bewildered old woman leading a weeping child by the hand who had lost her parents. That is war. Revelation : When the Lamb opened the third seal I looked, and there before me was a black horse! Its rider was holding a pair of scales in his hand… Saying, "A quart of wheat for a day's wages, and three quarts of barley for a day's wages, and do not damage the oil and the wine!
In these future days, the price of food will skyrocket while millions have no access to food anyway. Worldwide famine is not hard to imagine. Witness it now in Central and Eastern Africa. In the event of serious crop failure, no part of the world is more than one year away from critical starvation and the rich U. Revelation : … And I looked, and there before me was a pale horse! Its rider was named Death, and Hades was following close behind him.
They were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill by sword, famine and plague, and by the wild beasts of the earth. The word "Pale" is the Greek word for "green. In the science fiction movie, Soylent Green, the world is running out of food. The elites are given green blocks of food to eat and survive. Later in the movie, we discover that the green blocks are human remains dressed up for consumption. This is the pale horse. This is an incredible amount of death.
It sounds impossible to kill so many in such a short time. This couldn't be done in the days of the American Revolution. But that all changed on August 6, , in Hiroshima, Japan. Remember, as awful as this is, it is just a preview of coming attractions. Its rider held a pair of scales in his hand.
But do not damage the olive-trees and the vine-yards! The third horseman, described as riding a black horse and wielding a set of scales represents famine. The color of the horse indicates death and disease and the scales held by the rider signify the scarcity of food and the coming famine.
Its rider was named Death, and Hades followed close behind. The first horseman, described as riding a white horse and wielding a bow is thought to represent the false prophet. The color of the horse indicates victory in war and the crown worn by the rider signifies their service in war. One of the horsemen, Famine, deceives Satan with the intention of working for the side of good. The four horsemen are traditionally named War, Famine, Pestilence and Death.
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