Seal #3- Famine Strikes the World, Part 2 (TMF:1304)

Thursday, February 13, 2020
Peace to Live By: Seal #3- Famine Strikes the World, Part 2 (TMF:1304) - Daniel Litton
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       We can recall that a denarius was a day’s wages back during the time of the New Testament, as Jesus has told us. A quart of wheat then isn’t very much food, and would be little for a person to live on in a single day. The three quarts of barely then might be what is given to a family. But God tells the hearers not to “harm the oil and wine!” because those things will likely be more scarce. Both these items are obviously used for cooking and wine used to used to make water drinkable. The fourth Seal Judgment: “When he opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature say, “Come!” And I looked, and behold, a pale horse! And its rider's name was Death, and Hades followed him. And they were given authority over a fourth of the earth, to kill with sword and with famine and with pestilence and by wild beasts of the earth” (Revelation 6:7, 8, ESV). A fourth angel here tells John to “Come.” The Lord Jesus Christ in opening the fourth seal shows us a rider with a pale horse. Based off the rest of the passage here, the pale color of the horse represents the paleness of a human corpse.