(The rider on the fourth horse:)

Revelation 6:8 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.

(The rider, in this case, is named, and his name is Death.

So, is there really a created being, named Death?

Is he hinted to, by other scriptures, which personified death?)

Job 28:22 Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame thereof with our ears.

Revelation 20:14a And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire.

(Here, Death is the rider on the pale horse, and it also says that Hell followed with him.

Is not Hell, in line 8, also capitalized as a proper name?

Is this not personifying hell, like in Revelation 20:14, shown above.

So, when it says that Hell followed with him, does that mean,

that he also is riding on the horse, or is he walking behind?

So, with what is said next, “And power was given unto them”,

is the word, “them”, referring only to Death and Hell, mentioned in the same line?

Or does the word, “them”, is refer to the riders on the four horses?

Does it appear to be applying to the four horsemen, because of what is said afterwards,

and what happens with those horsemen?

Is not power given unto them to kill by four different ways?

Does to kill with the sword line up with the second horseman, on the red horse?

Does to kill with hunger line up with the third horseman, on the black horse?

Doesn’t to kill with death, line up with the fourth horseman,

on the pale horse, whose name is even Death?

Then, doesn’t power to kill with the beasts of the earth,

appear to line up with the first horseman?

Doesn’t the sword point to murder & war, hunger point to famine,

and death point to pestilence & plague?

Can the beasts of the earth possibly point to the two beasts of Revelation 13?

If so, then couldn’t that help identify the rider on the first horse,

as the 1st beast, the antichrist?

Also, couldn’t beasts of the earth also point to vicious or rabid animals?

Are not these four different ways of killing seen before, in the old testament?)

Ezekiel 14:21 For thus saith the Lord GOD; How much more when I send my four sore judgments upon Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the noisome beast, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast?

(Is not then, the power to kill with these four sore judgments,

given to the four horsemen, and announced by the four beasts?

Also, doesn’t it say that these four horsemen are given this power,

of the four sore judgments, over the fourth part of the earth?

Early on, I heard that this meant that they killed ¼ of the world’s population,

and I believed that for many years.

However, couldn’t the phrase, by power over ¼ part of the earth,

mean that what they do is not completely worldwide?

But, rather, that their power is limited in scope to only parts of the earth?

e.g. the Middle East & Africa together, are about ¼ of the world’s land mass,

and about ⅕ of the world’s population.

So, if they have power, but only power over a fourth of the earth,

then isn’t that power of their’s limited?

Also, simply because they have power over the fourth part of the earth, 

that doesn’t necessarily mean that they kill ¼ of the world?

But, rather, that they have power in that part of the world,

to kill by the four sore judgments?

If that is the case, then is it possible that the number killed is not known?

But could that mean that necessarily don’t they kill almost 2 billion people?

The world is not being destroyed by Jesus opening the seals, right?

Rather isn’t he thus beginning to be revealed to the world, as its true King?

Also, doesn’t Jesus desire for people to repent, rather than to be destroyed?)

II Peter 3:9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

(Didn’t Nineveh repent at the preaching of Jonah,

and that generation not destroyed?

Perhaps the judgments and plagues upon the earth in the tribulation,

are to also provoke people to repent, but many will still refuse?