What happens after the seven-year treaty is signed in end-times prophecy?
After the seven-year treaty is signed with Israel, there is relative peace and safety, then a great invasion from the Red Horde from the north. That invasion precipitates a great demise in the food supply, triggering famine—the black horse—and pestilence. Jesus foretold these events as the beginning of sorrows and the beginning days of the tribulation.
Les explains that after the treaty is signed with Israel, it gives them relative peace and safety. Then he expects a great invasion from the Red Horde from the north, which precipitates a great demise in the food supply, triggering the famine or black horse of Revelation 6:5-6, as well as pestilence. He ties this to Matthew 24, where Jesus foretold these things were just the beginning of sorrows, the beginning days of the tribulation—the most awful seven-year period in human history. In Revelation 6, the fifth seal shows souls at the altar slain for the word of God and their testimony, which Les feels refers to tribulation martyrs. He notes multitudes of non-Jews will have a salvation experience during this turmoil but will not live long, being almost martyred 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.
And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.