Thursday, November 2: “True Light Counterfeited”
Revelation 6: 8: “I looked, and behold, an ashen horse; and he who sat on it had the name Death; and Hades was following with him. Authority was given to them over a fourth of the earth, to kill with sword and with famine and with pestilence and by the wild beasts of the earth.”
By proclaiming Jesus Christ as the True Light, St. John reveals the existence of a false light, which he identifies as one who hates his brother (1 John 2: 9). This vision of a pale (deathly, sickly-precursor-to-death hue) horse prophecies not a single event, but many throughout history which have attempted to conquer the true light of love with the false light of humanism, greed, pride, and deception. Was not the enlightenment itself, in many ways, nothing more than a false light? That horse still rides today, unrecognized by many.
