Fellowship Hall

In reply to the third living creature's command to "Come", a rider on a black horse emerged. He carried a pair of scales. The color black suggests starvation and death, and the scales suggest something was going to be weighed, judged, or measured. It is clear that the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse—the first four seals—parallel Jesus' prophecy in Matthew 24:4-8 which ends with the words, "All these are the beginning of sorrows." Our Savior is letting us know that lies, murderous people, starvation, and disease usher in the catastrophic events of the last days.