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The Revelation of Jesus Christ Their judgment may be a bit delayed, but it will come! How ever, the famine which follows the opening of the third seal will evidently be a famine that will affect the working-class in particular. 4. The Fourth Seal-The Pale Horse and Death (verses 7, 8 ). "And there shall be ... pestilences" (Matt. 24: 7). Long before John was given his glimpse of "the things which shall be hereafter," our Lord spoke the words just quoted. Perhaps John remembered those words. as he beheld the pale horse, with Death sitting upon his back, followed by Hades. ..And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth." Pestilence! What a chill the very word produces! First war, then pestilence, following each other as naturally as the night follows the day. During the World War we had.a taste of that, too. The deadly influenza, baffling the doctors' skill, broke out over the earth, and three times as many peo ple succumbed to it as fell upon the field of-battle. Those who felt themselves to be safe from it fell victims along with the rest. While people were dying from it daily in this coun try, my people, who were living in Australia, were not touched by it at first. The heads of the government over there got together and said, "We will search every boat that comes to Australia, and we will put_into quarantine any who have the disease before they get within the twenty-five mile limit of the coast of Australia." They were seemingly immune from the influenza. Then, as it were out of a clear sky, the people began to die by the hundreds. My own mother was among them. Dreadful pestilences this world has seen, but they are as nothing when compared with what it will see when the church has been taken from the earth, and the seals are opened! 5. The Fifth Seal-The Martyred Remnant (verses 9-11 ) . Following "the four horsemen of the apocalypse," John saw "under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held: And
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