The Third Seal: The Rider on the Black Horse

A black horse, and on it a rider holding a balance in his hand¹.

Famine. Injustice.

Job on the ash heap. The widow’s poverty. The shame of the beggar at the rich man’s gate.

The law of the fallen world, where everything has a price, where bread becomes a god.

Adam felt the familiar emptiness in his belly: a hunger stronger than the fear of God. And in the rider’s hand he saw the scales of the Law — scales that had never once weighed in his favor.

1. Rev 6:5 ↩