In Revelation 6 there are four sets of horses and riders, the white horse and rider, the red horse and rider, the black horse and rider and last the pale horse and rider.
Most people make a guess at what the four horses and riders might represent, without ever realizing that first of all, they might have to figure out what sets of four horses and riders might represent, as sets of four. What sets of four things might be represented in Revelation 6?
Revelation 13 is about two beasts. The first beast is complex. Revelation 13: 2 talks about thee beasts in beginning to describe this first beast - the leopard, the bear and the lion.
This is a set of three beasts which go together as a set. But we are looking for a set of four. Could it be that the set of three beasts in Revelation 13: 2 leaves out a fourth beast?
Look at Daniel 7: 3-7. Here is a set of four beasts which represent kingdoms or world empires. And it happens that the first three of these world empires, represented by beasts, are the same lion,bear and leopard as mentioned in Revelation 13: 2, probably not by chance.
So, in Daniel 7: 3-7 describes a set of four beast empires.
But could these four beast empires exist at the time to be in existence in the prophecy given to us in Revelation13?
Probably not according to preterism, since for preterism all prophecy written in the First Century was fulfilled in that century.
Though preterism is probably not the reason, but church theology says the set of four Daniel 7 prophecies about world empires point to the same four pre-Cross empires as does Daniel 2, which are Babylon, Persia, Greece and Rome. In church theology the Daniel 2 empires cannot exist after the Cross. Why? Church Theology does not clearly answer that question. Maybe Church Theology believes that Daniel could not have known about world empires after the time of the Cross. But God did and he did send an angel to give Daniel the prophecy written in Daniel 11-12. Why could an angel not have given the prophecy in Daniel 7?
The set of four world empires in Daniel 7 can be seen to be world empires after the time of the Cross and in existence in some form during the time of the prophecy in Daniel 7.
In sequence these four post-Cross world empires are the Lion Empire of England, the Bear Empire of Russia or the Old Soviet Union (Marxism), then the Lion Empire of Nazi Germany and finally the world empire in Daniel 7 called the "fourth beast,dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly. "In Revelation 6 this set of four is called the white horse (British empire), the Red horse of the Russian or Soviet Union Empire, the Black horse or the Fascist German Empire and finally the pale hose. Pale is from χλωρος, chloros, Strong's number 5515, meaning pale green.
