Seals

First Seal

  • White horse
  • Rider given a crown went forth conquering and to conquer

 Second Seal

  • Red horse
  • Rider was given power to take peace from the earth
  • Man should kill one another
  • Given a great sword

Third Seal

  • Black horse
  • Rider had a pair of balances in his hand
  • A measure of wheat for a penny
  • Three measure of barley for a penny
  • See that thou hurt not the oil and the wine

Fourth Seal

  • Pale horse
  • Rider’s name is Death
  • Hell followed him
  • Given power over fourth part of earth to kill
    • With sword
    • With hunger
    • With death
    • With beasts of the earth

Fifth Seal

  • Souls under the alter that were:
  • Slain for word of God
  • Slain for the testimony they held
  • Cried to God:
    • How long does thou not judge and avenge our blood
    • On them that dwell on earth

They were given white robes and told to wait a little season

    • Until their fellow servants and brethren also be killed
    • As they were, should be fulfilled

Sixth Seal

  • Great earthquake
  • Sun became black as sackcloth of hair
  • Moon became as blood
  • Stars of heaven fell to earth
  • Heavens departed as a scroll when it is rolled together
  • Every mountain and island was moved from its place
  •  Men wanted rocks and mountains to fall on them to:
    • Hide them from the one who sitteth on the throne
    • Hide them from the wrath of the Lamb
    • Because the great day of his wrath has come

Seventh Seal

  • Silence in heaven
  • About the space of one half hour