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  What new horrors are unleashed, then, as the fourth horseman responds  to the call?  John tells us: "And I saw, and, look! a pale horse; and the one seated upon it had the name Death. And Hades was closely following him." (Revelation 6:8a)  The rider of the last horse has a name. Death. He is the only one  of the four horsemen of  Apocalypse to reveal his identity so directly.  Fittingly, death rides a horse that is pale, since the word pale (Greek, khlo-ros')  is used in Greek literature to describe faces that are blanched, as if by disease. Also fittingly, death is closely  followed in some unexplained manner  by Hades (gravedom, since Hades receives to itself the greater number of those who fell victim to the ravages of the fourth horseman.  Happily, for these there will be a resurrection, when 'death and Hades give up those dead in them.' (Revelation 20:13) But how does Death claim those victims?

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