Hold Your Horses

Do we have a case of MISTAKEN IDENTITY? For generations, the image of the four horsemen of the apocalypse has captured the imagination of Bible interpreters. Front and centre is the rider on the Black Horse – usually depicted as a mysterious skeletal figure, draped in a black hooded robe, holding out a pair of scales in his thin bony hand, unleashing famine on the earth. But is this picture correct? While researching the meaning of ‘barley’ in Scripture, D.A. Cleland discovered th