What causes the famine and pestilence in Revelation 6:5-6?
Following the seven-year treaty with Israel and a period of relative peace, a great invasion from the Red Horde from the north precipitates a severe demise in the food supply. That food shortage triggers the famine symbolized by the black horse of Revelation 6:5-6, along with pestilence.
Les teaches that after the seven-year treaty with Israel brings relative peace and safety, a great invasion from the Red Horde from the north will occur. That invasion precipitates a great demise in the food supply, which in turn triggers the famine, or the black horse of Revelation 6:5-6, as well as pestilence. These are the beginning days of the tribulation, the most awful seven-year period in human history. Jesus foretold in Matthew 24 that all these things were just the beginning of sorrows. Later, the fifth seal shows tribulation martyrs, and many non-Jews will experience salvation during this turmoil but will be martyred almost immediately.
And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand.
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