Revelation 6:3-4

Red Horse 2nd Seal

Rev: 6:3 - And when he had opened the second seal, I heard the second beast say, Come and see. 

Verse 4 - And there went out another horse that was Red:  (Scarlet or red represents sin, If white represents purity then red represents corruption Paul said the mystery of iniquity was already working in his day, errors began to arise, worldliness came in.  The ecclesiastical power sought the alliance of the secular.  Speaking of the Christian church from AD 10 to Ad 311, historians remark. "We now descend from primitive apostolic church to Greco-Roman.) and power was given to him that at thereon to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another: and there was given unto him a great sword.  (The second seal period, from the death of the apostle John to the end of persecutions, or the accession of Constantine, the first Christian Emperor.) Christians were persecuted Until the Edict of Milan in 313 A.D., is said to have granted toleration fob Christians and allowed conversions to Christianity.)