What does the pale horse symbolize? (Revelation 6:8)


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And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.

Revelation 6:8 - King James

 

 

⚪ The ghastly and horrible teachings that God's true people must be exterminated

And I looked, and behold a pale horse.—The ghastly and horrible teachings that God's true people must be "exterminated." "The ghastly green of terror and of death. The word Is used of grass in Rev. 8:7; 9:4; Mark 6:39."—Cook. And his name that sat on him was Death.—Still the same rider, the Papacy; [...]

Source : 🇺🇸 1917 - Studies in the Scriptures, Vol 7, The finished mystery, page 114 + Cover

 

⚫ Pestilence and death

"A pale horse" appears with its rider, which literally means a horse of pallid hue or sickness, representing pestilence and death; and the name of the rider is Death.

Source : 🇺🇸 1930 - Light, vol 1, page 77 + Cover