Special Dossier: DEATH: The Plague

Horse: Pale
Horse Represents: Pestilence (i.e, the killings by sword, famine, plague, and by the wild beasts of the earth that result from the other three riders)
Rider: Followed by Hades
Power: Decay
Rider Represents: Death

The fourth horseman is mentioned in Revelation 6:8, "I looked, and there before me was a pale horse! Its rider was named Death, and Hades was following close behind him. They were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill by sword, famine and plague, and by the wild beasts of the earth." The fourth horseman of the apocalypse is symbolic of death and devastation. It seems to be a combination of the previous horsemen. The fourth horseman of the apocalypse will bring further warfare and terrible famines along with awful plagues and diseases. What is most amazing, or perhaps terrifying, is that the four horsemen of the apocalypse are just "precursors" of even worse judgments that come later in the Tribulation.
(Revelation chapters 8-9 and 16).