Fourth Seal
When the Fourth Seal is broken, a seraph calls out an ashen horse whose rider ominously was named Death.
Wherever Death went, Hades followed, which indicates that many non-Believers will be dying. The ashen horse
rider is given the authority to see to the death of 25% of the world's population by conflict, famine, disease,
and wild animals.
If we assume that there is 8 billion people on earth, the death of 25% is 2 billion or
2,000 million. In context, the Covid pandemic (2020-23) took roughly 8 million lives.
This is not the first mention of colored horses and their riders.
What Zechariah describes in his first vision (Zech 1:7-11)
as sorrel colored horses may possibly be the ashen colored horse in John's account here. In Zechariah's vision,
the sorrel colored horses follow a red horse while patrolling the earth and their riders were angels.
In Zechariah's eighth vision (Zech 6:1-8), he sees four
chariots, which are the four spirits of heaven. These four chariots / spirits of heaven are angels
(2 Ki 6:15-17; Ps 68:17;
Isa 66:15). Going forth between standing before God and patrolling the
earth, the fourth chariot, being pulled by "strong" dappled horses go forth to the south country. In this
instance the dappled description is more closely related to ashen.
Without much detail, it is difficult to understand Zechariah' prophecies; however, one can gain a better
understanding of the colored horses and their riders who emerge with the breaking of the first four seals, and
they all work in concert.