20100426 Question: Four Horsemen

3:There are four horsemen but only one was named in the bible. How do we know the other's names?
3. The fourth horseman is named as Death, and Revelation says he is given authority to destroy with "sword and famine and pestilence." Given that the imagery of the second horse is clearly linked with war, or death by the sword, he is generally given the name of War. The same with the image of the third horseman and Famine. Whereas the imagery of the first horseman might not scream out "pestilence," he was given that name to correlate with the expressed powers of Death. The names of the first three horsemen are not articles of faith, but rather just a traditional presentation of the passage. Rev. 6:1-8