Why the Black Horse of Revelation 6:5 Is Soon To Be Fulfilled in the United States
Dr. Allen M. Barber
March 20, 2009
Revelation 6:5-6 NASB
5 And when He broke the third seal, I heard the third living creature saying, "Come." And I looked, and behold, a black horse; and he who sat on it had a pair of scales in his hand. 6 And I heard as it were a voice in the center of the four living creatures saying, "A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius; and do not harm the oil and the wine."
Before I get into the meat of this article, we need to look at meaning of the Greek text as it will help to understand the theology behind the Black Horse. The word "seal" (Gk. sphragis) means to close in and to protect from misappropriation; to stamp or impress with a signet such as an ancient king would do with his ring); therefore, the word implies the Seal judgments were codified in symbolic language to prevent unspiritual people from mishandling the message. This is why we must understand what the symbolism conveys. All of the symbolic language of Revelation is found in many passages of the Old Testament with a current application; therefore, if we want to know what they mean, we must first begin in the Old Testament. Now for the purpose of this article, I am not going to get into or attempt to prove all the symbolism - that is reserved for a study of Revelation. Instead, I will point out the basic meaning of the Greek text.
Sphragis has the Greek definite article before it, which means the subject is a particular or specific action, not a general kind. This is why I know the Seals are not necessarily to be interpreted as chronological or in sequential order, that is, one must be fulfilled the next one commences. Pretrib takes this approach to prove their pretrib rapture theory, but the Seals are not to be understand that way. In fact, the Trumpet and Bowl Judgments are actually the same as the Seals except with more details. They overlap to a degree. The Four Horses occur simultaneously all over the earth and it is my studied opinion, they have been open since the last generation began in 1897. The Greek words in the Lord's Olivet Discourse as recorded by Matthew, Chapter 24 (I taught the O.D. in seminary) imply a simultaneous action - the signs Jesus gave in Verses 3-15 are global events that take place close together and lead to the Great Tribulation - last 3 1/2 years).
The third living creature (beast in KJV) is one of four around the throne of God (it is not clear exactly what these are; I have read some fanciful attempts to explain who and what they are). Since their number is "four," they are given authority to call the Four Horses to action. He commands the third rider to mount his horse, which is black. The horse's color combined with what he has in his hand and the results of his action give us insight into what this horse is. A horse in the bible symbolizes power and mobility. It is quite amazing that up until the automobile was invented in the late 19th century, the horse was the principal mode of land transportation. When I was a boy growing up in rural East Texas in the late 1940's and early 1950's, the horse and buggy were still being used. In fact, hitching posts were on the town square in front of all the retail stores. Horses were vital to ancient warfare. They are really amazing animals and quite beautiful. Do you know that horses have no fear of battle; that is why they were the chosen beast for ancient warfare in addition to their speed and mobility? Exploding ordinance and the sounds of war (being an ex-combat Marine, the sounds of battle can be quite nerve-racking and some guys could not handle it) do not faze a horse. They seem immune to the horrors of battle. Therefore, all four horses of Revelation 6 imply great power and authority. Their judgment derives from the great powers of the earth.
Black is the color of money (not green) as well as the scale and balance. 
It is also the symbol of capitalism; therefore, we know the rider on this horse has something to do with capitalism, but in a negative way. A quart of wheat and three quarts of barley for a denarius imply very high prices - hyper-inflation; it also connotes stagflation - inability to purchase goods due to short supply of money. Wheat and barley in the Bible are the sources for bread and bread is the symbol for physical provision or the main-stay for the food supply. A denarius was equal to a day's wages in the first century A.D. Obviously, the third horse stands for super high inflation (prices) whereby it takes a day's wages to buy enough food. That means the currency to buy the food will be greatly devalued, as well as the price of food will be out the ceiling.
What this seal is teaching us is that capitalism will be used by the world powers to destroy free market capitalism (would who have thunk it?). The rider on the third horse is not hard to identify. What one entity controls the money that is centered in capitalism? The international banking cartel (the Central Banks founded by the House of Rothschild). In the United States it is the Federal Reserve Bank and since WWII the major central bank establishing world monetary policy. That is changing and shifting back to Europe where the Central Banking system originated.
Before 1913 when the Federal Reserve was established, there was no Central Bank in the United States. The Rothschild and Warburg bankers (All English Freemasonry) attempted to establish a Central Bank in the United States soon after we became an independent nation, but the U.S. presidents and Congress resisted such efforts. In fact, President Andrew Jackson (1829-1837) strongly opposed any effort to establish a Central Bank and was the only American president to pay off the national debt (reduced it to only $33,000). He hated the Central Banks for he knew what they were about - control of the money supply and thereby control of the nation. The first American president to be assassinated by the Freemasonry international banking cartel for opposing the Central Banks was Abraham Lincoln. Three more would have the same fate - Garfield, McKinley and John Kennedy. President Harrison's death was also suspect. The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Sion state succinctly they will kill and remove anyone who stands in their way of a New World Order via control of the money supply. There is one source for that - the Central Banking system. In the United States that is the Federal Reserve and the Federal Reserve Banks. There are 12 Federal Reserve Banks with member banks in each state. They are in full control of the money supply not Congress or the American people.
The way the Federal Reserve was established should have signaled to Congress and the American people that it was a wicked organization. During the winter of 1910 a group of bankers and one U.S. Senator met in secret at Jekyll Island off the coast of Georgia to plan and plot the Federal Reserve Bank. The fact that it was done in secret underlies its esoteric purpose. Of the seven participants at Jekyll Island, five were bankers - three from J.P. Morgan bank (now Chase - Morgan); one, Paul Warburg, represented the Rothschild banking dynasty in England and France; and one from the National City Bank of New York - at the time the most powerful of the banks. The other two attendees were Republican Senator Nelson Aldrich associated with both the Morgan's and the Rockefeller's and the Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Treasury, Abraham Piatt Andrew. Of significance is that all were either Jewish or crypto-Jews (Jews hiding behind Gentile names). While many get their Anti-Semitic dandruff up every time I mention it, but the United States government is run and controlled by Kabbalistic Masonic Jews. What we see on television and in the news media is the cosmetic government, but what we do not see is the real government behind the scenes - the Shadow Government. It is in control of the United States of America and the arch enemy of the American people. The Shadow government's political arm is the Central Bank, which by the way is run and controlled by Kabbalistic Jews. Have you ever wondered or thought why all the Chairmen of the Federal Reserve are Jews - Paul Volcker; Alan Greenspan; and Ben Bernanke, etc? Simple answer; Masonic Kabbalistic Jews make-up the hierarchy of the English Freemasonry international banking cartel.
The only body or entity that can presently fulfill Revelation 6:5 is the Federal Reserve Banks (a global system controlled principally by the U.S. Federal Reserve and the Central Bank of England). They are the only ones that can manipulate the money supply via fiat money and interest rates, which they have been doing in record amounts since 2007 when the housing bubble burst (a bubble they created). We are now into two TARP programs, several bailouts and one huge stimulus package with more on the way, yet the financial crisis continues. Throwing tons of fiat money (worthless money created by thin air and debt - they print paper currency with no gold or silver standard and loan it to governments and corporations at usury, which causes such to become hopelessly in debt to them) at the problem means they do not want the American people to save nor do they want our government to be out of debt to them. Bernanke's warning about our national debt and deficits is a smoke screen because the Federal Reserve is responsible for the debt - the more debt our government owes them, the more they are in control.
In yesterday's House debate over the AIG bonuses (the bill passed the House to tax the AIG bonuses at 90% - technically that is unconstitutional), Barney Frank (D-Mass.) slipped and admitted that the Federal Reserve was a private corporation and not part of our government, which he is right. He blamed the Republicans, specifically President Hoover, for amending the Federal Reserve Act in 1932 giving the Fed's the power to make direct loans to the government and private industry, as well as obtain securities for such loans. Again he is correct. I do not approve of Franks gay lifestyle not his liberal policies, but he is a smart man and also very clever. He is nobody's dummy. The Federal Reserve has the authority to make direct loans to AIG; however, they do not have any authority over paid-out bonuses. The controversy in yesterday's House Debate was who changed the wording in the stimulus bill and by whose authority to allow AIG to pay the bonuses with no strings attached. Obviously, the democrats did, but they are blaming each other. Senator Dodd is blaming the Obama White House and the White House is blaming Senator Dodd. As the scenario played out, at the end of the day, it was evident that both Senator Dodd and Treasury Secretary Geithner lied about the timing of when they knew about the changing of the terminology. The United States Congress is guilty of two primary things - incompetence and dishonesty as the freshman Congressman from Louisiana pointed out on the House floor.
Federal Reserve Sets Stage For "Black Horse" of Revelation 6:5
Yesterday as the nations attention was focused on AIG, Fed Chairman, Ben Bernanke announced the Federal Reserve would pump more fiat money into the money supply to the tune of $1.2 trillion dollars ($750 billion in mortgage backed securities it intends to buy from Fanny and Freddie). That is in addition to the $500 billion in securities it has already bought. With this additional infusion of fiat money into the already over-supplied money system, the Feds balance sheet (a debt/receivable) now stands at $2 trillion dollars. Economists believe the Fed debt could reach $5 trillion. (Note: there is a little known secret that the Feds never lose any money if the loans are not repaid. Via a clever accounting maneuver, they turn debt liabilities into the asset side of the balance sheet by washing through their accounting system the old bad money (money not repaid) by actually withdrawing such from the money supply (the Feds mark every Federal Reserve Note, so they know exactly what lot of money was loaned at a precise period as well as to whom); then they print more new money and inject it into the money supply. The problem with that is the old bad fiat money has been in circulation and is tied to both public and private debt of domestic and international transactions; therefore, it represents inflated money. More new fiat money only adds more to the inflationary spiral that is bound to come in time. In other words, the Fed is using the capitalistic system to set the stage for the collapse of the money supply. One thing I need to point out is that the mortgages the Fed is buying from Freddie and Fanny is like buying the farm and then setting fire to the barns as Freddie and Fanny are broke (they actually do not make loans; they put mortgages into loan packages and sell them as securitized debt; this is what got them into trouble in the first place).
While many on Capital Hill, as well as some economists, are praising the Feds actions to keep interest rates low, spur consumer spending and revive the economy, others tell the truth and warn such action by the Feds will plant the seeds for higher inflation, put taxpayers at increased risk and "encourage moral hazard." This is the scenario we see in the Black Horse of Revelation 6:5. All the Fed has done is to take a huge debt load from the right pocket and move it to the left pocket. In the final analysis, it is still debt anyway you slice it. The Feds want us to think the only way out of the financial mess they created with help from the Wall Street Investors, Hedge Fund Managers, and Speculators, is to flood the money markets with more fiat debt money. What the Feds have done to the money markets since 2007 is unprecedented in terms of creating new debt by pumping tons of worthless green backs into the domestic economy, as well as international markets because the dollar is still the world's reserve currency, at least for the present time. Their foolish actions will eventually kill the dollar as a viable currency and with it will go the economy of the United States. Within less than 5 years (at least this is how I see things) the value of the dollar is going to decline rapidly, and when it does, all of the fiat money tied to the dollar will cause inflation to go out the roof. Instead of buying a loaf of bread for $2.50, it will cost ten times that much, maybe even a hundred times that much. When the peso was devalued against the dollar (It has risen sharply against the dollar in the last decade), it took a wheel barrow full of peso's buy a small quantity of items. The same scenario is in the future for the United States. Take out a dollar bill and write "1000" on it, for that is how many dollars it will take to buy necessity items - food, clothing, transportation, etc. The reciprocal of that is our assets will be worth much less. Guess what, the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Sion (global elite) do not want us to own private property for ownership represents power and they want all the power - Are you getting this?
All that the Fed is doing is not going to create a "real economy" (a government controlled economy is not pure capitalism; it is fascism) whereby good jobs are created in the private sector. Their actions will guarantee an interventionist centralized national government with very high taxes and little income for the lower and middle class. The lower class already looks to the government to supply their needs, but the middle class is used to making their own way. The goal of the Central Banking system is to do away with the middle class resulting in the very rich and the government owning and controlling all the money. It will be a return to the days of the "landlords and the serfs" - Feudalism during the high Middle Ages in Europe. In that vassal system, "Serfdom was the enforced labor of serfs on the fields of landowners, in return for protection and the right to work on their leased fields." This the future of the United States of America. The NWO will allow us to live on their land as long as we comply with their rule. Beheadings are in order!
It is the Black Horse unleashed upon this nation for its sin of worshipping money and all that goes with it. Instead of trusting God as our supplier and following His principles of finances - no debt; no usury; fair and honest business transactions; and observance of the Jubilee Year, the nation setup the Babylonian idol - the Federal Reserve system and began to bow down to it as its our god of material supply. The Federal Reserve usurped the place of God and is therefore an idol and an abomination in the earth. As a result, the God of heaven has sent the Black Horse to judge America in the very thing it worships - money and debt.
I have learned something about God's judgment to individuals and nations - it is usually in the same venue as the sin. If a believer is dishonest in finances, God will send judgment upon his or her finances. If it is sexual sin, He sends sexual diseases (AIDS is the judgment of God upon homosexuality and I do not care what the homosexuals say in opposition; it is a proven fact by the AMA until the gay lobby scared them away from reporting the truth that AIDS is spread primarily by male homosexuals who are often bi-sexual and inflict their heterosexual partners with the disease). The anus was not made for sexual pleasure. Male homosexuality is a degrading filthy sin and brings judgment upon the guilty parties (This does not mean lesbianism is not a sin, it is, but it does not carry the AIDS virus). The male homosexual is the instigator of the AIDS virus.
So the thesis of this article is that the Feds action announced yesterday has set the "final stage" for the rider on the Black Horse to ride up to the steps of the Capitol in Washington, dismount, and announce that hyper-inflation and with it stagflation is now running through the city streets and countryside of the United States.
Is there anything that could prevent this? No, I do not believe God's judgment will be averted in this nation for it does not see its sin. It will take the severe judgment of God upon this nation for it to even consider repentance. Then it will be too late as the damage will have been done.
Barack Obama's social and economic policies will only help accelerate the action the Fed has taken.
Prices are going to get much higher across the board and soon. Obama has kept his campaign promises and has completely shut down our domestic energy industry. He shut down the oil leases in Utah; he stopped all new drilling off the entire coast of our nation - East, West and the Gulf coast; he issued an executive order to stop all research on oil shale (estimated oil reserves from shell oil is in the trillions of barrels); in addition, he curtailed nuclear energy as an alternative energy source. Senator John McCain told the Interior Secretary on Tuesday that shutting off nuclear energy; by 2012, the United States will be almost entirely dependent on foreign oil since green energy will only supply 5% of our total energy needs by that same period.
Let me say it again in capital letters - OBAMA IS GOING TO MAKE US MORE DEPENDENT ON FOREIGN OIL AND THE PRICE OF GASOLINE AND HEATING OIL WILL SHARPLY INCREASE BY THE END OF HIS FIRST TERM - OIL WILL BE BACK TO $150 A BARREL AND THE PRICE AT THE PUMP WILL BE $5 PER GALLON. UTILITY BILLS WILL BE OUT THE ROOF.
As a New Testament prophet of God, I foresee empty high rises; vacant strip centers and shopping mauls; acres of foreclosed and vacant houses; long lines at the gas pumps, and bare supermarkets. Our military will become third-grade leaving us at the mercy of the Chinese and Russians. Our troops will soon all come home as there will not be enough finances to keep them on the battlefields. Military R&D will come to a halt and the great American superpower will end. That is when the NWO will take over and the land parceled out to the highest bidder (Daniel predicts the Antichrist will do this when he comes to power).
Daniel 11:24 NASB
24 "In a time of tranquility he will enter the richest parts of the realm, and he will accomplish what his fathers never did, nor his ancestors; he will distribute plunder , booty, and possessions among them, and he will devise his schemes against strongholds, but only for a time.
The rider on the Black Horse is the Federal Reserve and the Black Horse is the Central Banking System headed by Kabbalistic Freemasonry (Note: the chosen color of Freemasonry as well as Communism is "red," which symbolizes their ideology, but their money system is represented by the color "black").
On a positive note, these times will present a great opportunity for prophetic evangelism; by that I mean if you know the prophetic Scriptures and can explain it to a lost person whereby he or she can see what is taking place in our world is predicted in the Bible, many will repent and come to saving faith in the Lord. Amen!
May God bless the saints who will one day possess the kingdom while we patiently endure until Jesus returns.
Maranatha, even so come Lord Jesus!
His bond-servant,
Dr. Allen M. Barber