V.7-8 d) 4th seal - Calamity - The pale horseman. DEATH I. A pale (Greenish) horse because of the death he would bring. Pale is the colour of a human’ s corpse. II. Fourth seal connected to Christ’ s Olivet sermon. Matt.24:6-12 III. Death rides in front and kills, Hades follows and receives the dead. Death claims the body and Hades claims the soul. IV. Hades is the imprisonment of the dead that awaits the judgment to the lake of fire. Luke.16:19-31; Rev.20:12-15. Hades is Greek word for the Hebrew word Sheol. Isaiah 38:10 V. 25 percent of the world is killed by them. (Billions are killed) VI. War, famine, death and wild beasts are released. Ezek.14:21; Num.21:6; 2.Kings 17:25