What Happens When The Third Seal is Opened?

Ankerberg: Yes. Take those last two. You’ve got the black horse, “So I looked, and behold, a black horse, and he who sat on it had a pair of scales in his hands. And I heard a voice in the midst of the four living creatures saying, ‘A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius; and do not harm the oil and the wine’” (6:5-6), which means the food costs have gone way up, okay? And yet there’s some people that are rich enough that will hold onto that wine because they can still pay for it. So you’ve got the rich, but most of the world is poor and in famine and dying. Now, take it from there. Hindson: Well, the end result of war is always going to bring people into devastation. Ankerberg: Right. Hindson: And that leads to famine; that leads to death. And then you have this sad picture of “death and hell followed after him.” It’s almost like he pictures death coming along and picking up the corpses and throwing them on the wagon, so to speak. He’s cleaning up the mess afterwards. People are dying. And that’s one of the tough things in the book of Revelation. People say, “Well, it scares me to read these things.” Well, it’s not written to scare us, it is written to prepare us to be ready to meet Jesus at any time. Make sure you know that you’re ready to go, because you don’t want to be left behind. It’s only bad news for the unbelievers. It’s good news for the believer; it’s bad news for the unbeliever.