Covenant Reformed News – March 2022 • Volume XVIII, Issue 23
This article provides an exegetical and theological interpretation of the four horsemen of Revelation 6:1-8, understanding them as symbols of the gospel's spiritual progress, war, economic hardship, and death across human history. The author connects these apocalyptic symbols to Reformed doctrines of human depravity, divine sovereignty, election, and reprobation, showing how grace and curse operate respectively among the elect and reprobate throughout the world's course.
The Four Horses Considered Together In the last two issues of the News, we have identified and explained the four horses of Revelation 6:1-8. The white horse speaks of the gospel, the red horse brings war, the black horse deals with the selling of food and drink, and the pale horse conveys death. One could say that the white horse treats spiritual matters in the ecclesiastical sphere, the red horse concerns military matters in the national sphere, the black horse involves economic matters in...