The liberating earthquakes

"graves" in Scripture have the connotation of "dark", "hollow" places from which one cannot come out. In a sense, a "grave" was the equivalent of a "prison".

Earthquakes, therefore, produce the release of prisoners from their spiritual prisons.

In Matthew 24:7, the Lord declares the following:
"For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places."

We will now see how the word "earthquakes" refers to the "pale horse" of the Apocalypse:

(Revelation 6:7-8)
"7And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see. 8And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth."

The word "pale" in verse 8 above was translated from the Greek word chloros, which literally means "green" and is the word from which "chlorophyll" is derived. This word only appears 4 times in the New Testament: in Mark 6:39 and in Revelation 6:8, 8:7, and 9:4. In its three other appearances, chloros is translated as "green". Therefore, we will refer to the "pale" horse as the "green" horse from now on.

In order to understand how earthquakes are related to the "green" horse, we must first understand the spiritual meaning behind "earthquakes". The word "earthquakes" in Matthew 24:7 (quoted above) was translated from the Greek word seismos, which also appears in the following passage:

(Matthew 27:50-54)
"Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost. 51And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many. Now when the centurion, and they that were with him, watching Jesus, saw the earthquake, and those things that were done, they feared greatly, saying, Truly this was the Son of God."

Notice that the earthquake caused the opening of graves,
..  which in those days were caves with a large, heavy rock placed at the entrance to close the cave (Matthew 27:60-66, John 11:38). Therefore, "graves" in Scripture have the connotation of "dark", "hollow" places from which one cannot come out. In a sense, a "grave" was the equivalent of a "prison". Earthquakes, therefore, produce the release of prisoners from their spiritual prisons. This principle also appears in other passages of Scripture such as the following:

(Matthew 28:1-2)
"In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre. And, behold, there was a great earthquake: for the angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat upon it."

(Acts 16:25-28)
"And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God: and the prisoners heard them. And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken: and immediately all the doors were opened, and every one’s bands were loosed. And the keeper of the prison awaking out of his sleep, and seeing the prison doors open, he drew out his sword, and would have killed himself, supposing that the prisoners had been fled. But Paul cried with a loud voice, saying, Do thyself no harm: for we are all here." .