7 When he opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature say, “Come!”
8 And I looked, and behold, a pale [pale green = chloros in Greek] horse!
And its rider’s name was Death, and
Hades followed him.
(Revelation 6:7–8, ESV)
Note that some of the research below is supplementary to the book and will be added to Section 4.2.
Color Variations
Depending upon your Bible version, there are different English descriptions of color for the Fourth horse. These interpretations include the following:
“Pale” horse,
English Standard Version (ESV), King James Version (KJV)
“Pale green” horse,
Lexham English Bible (LSV)
“Ashen” horse
New American Standard Bible 1995 (NASB95), which has a footnote to “sickly pale”, and Zechariah 6:3
“Dappled” horse is used to describe the 4th horse in Zechariah’s vision
“The first chariot had red horses, the second black horses, the third white horses, and the fourth chariot dappled horses—all of them strong.”
The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Zec 6:2–3). (2016). Crossway Bibles.
The horses in Zechariah do not exactly match the Revelation 6 horsemen:
1st Horse
Red in Zechariah 6
White in Revelation 6
2nd Horse
Black in Zechariah 6
Red in Revelation 6
3rd Horse
White in Zechariah 6
Black in Revelation 6
4th Horse
Dappled in Zechariah 6
Pale, pale green, and ashen in Revelation 6
It is not clear whether Zechariah's horses pulling chariots and Revelation’s horses carrying horsemen can be linked, especially if the color orders are important.
Let’s look at the Logos Interlinear view of Revelation 6:8 below and drill in on the Greek word for pale, or chloros.
The Greek word chloros is translated as green. Did John mean to say a “green” horse?
(Logos Software)
χλωρός chlōros green
5514. Χλόη Chlŏē, khlŏ´-ay; fem. of appar. a prim. word; “green”; Chloë, a Chr. female:—Chloe.1
5515. χλωρός chlōrŏs, khlo-ros´; from the same as 5514; greenish, i.e. verdant, dun-colored:—green, pale.2
Chloros Usage in the Bible
There are only four verses where the Greek word chloros is used. Three out of four times, it refers to green. The word is interpreted as “pale” only once.
John himself uses the word three times in Revelation, where it is translated as green in context to grass and plants. Only once is it translated as “pale, pale green, or ashen” when describing the fourth horse. Let’s review the four verses using the English Standard Version of the Bible:
Mark 6:39 Then he commanded them all to sit down in groups on the green grass.
Revelation 6:8 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 8:7 The first angel blew his trumpet, and there followed hail and fire, mixed with blood, and these were thrown upon the earth. And a third of the earth was burned up, and a third of the trees were burned up, and all green grass was burned up.
Revelation 9:4 They were told not to harm the grass of the earth or any green plant or any tree, but only those people who do not have the seal of God on their foreheads.3
The ESV translation uses “pale” to describe a horse. But what if John really meant “green”? What if John was looking at the Heavens?
Capricorn is in a Dusty Halo of “Pale Green.”
Capricornus is positioned in the Heavens along a dust cloud of pale green. Note the green arrows below. The image has been adjusted to enhance the green band of dust that follows the green arrow from the lower left to the top of the screen. The night sky, with no light pollution, would have been more vibrant. The Capricornus dust cloud band would glow green in comparison to the Milky Way, glowing white in Sagittarius.
(Stellarium iPad App, colors adjusted to bring out greens)
This screenshot is from Stellarium on December 20th, 2020, the day Jupiter and Saturn are in conjunction near the muzzle of the sea goat. On December 20th, 2020, the WHO launched its injection campaign upon Israel, as the “World’s Laboratory”.
Not far from the conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn is 3I/ATLAS as it wanders in from Sagittarius (the First Horseman that conquers with a bow and crown).
3I/ATLAS will not be discovered until 2025.
From 2020 to 2025, 3I/ALTAS travels through the First, Second, to Third Horsemen (Sagittarius, Scorpius, and Libra, respectively).
3I/ATLAS currently resides in Virgo, at the Seed of the Woman.
Next week I’ll be posting an early message before Thanksgiving which correlates the Last Supper with a Heavenly sign of the New Covenant.
Review:
Linked below are the podcast posts to date for The Signs of the Four Horsemen.
Prologue, Introduction
Chapter 1 - The First Horseman
Chapter 2 - The Second Horseman
Chapter 3 - The Third Horseman
Chapter 4 - The Fourth Horseman
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Strong, J. (2009). In A Concise Dictionary of the Words in the Greek Testament and The Hebrew Bible (Vol. 1, p. 78). Logos Bible Software.
Strong, J. (2009). In A Concise Dictionary of the Words in the Greek Testament and The Hebrew Bible (Vol. 1, p. 78). Logos Bible Software.
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