On Pestilence, Judgment, And Hope

When the coronavirus crisis was beginning to escalate a number of weeks ago, someone in our congregation asked me how I thought the pale horse of Revelation 6:8 relates to what we’re experiencing. Maybe you’re familiar with that passage:  And I looked, and behold, a pale horse! And its rider’s name was Death, and Hades followed him. And they were given authority over a fourth of the earth, to kill with sword and with famine and with pestilence and by wild beasts of the earth.  The question is understandable. Devastating plagues and diseases are not foreign to the Bible, and...