The Meaning of the Book of Revelation: the Four Horsemen
Napsal(a) Jonathan S. Rose, Curtis Childs
Transparency is needed to sort things out. Before big change happens, God first reveals what’s really going on.
In the Book of Revelation - the last book of the Word - the apostle John describes a series of apocalyptic visions that he experienced during his exile on the Isle of Patmos, in the Aegean Sea.
In one of these visions, he saw four horsemen, the first riding a white horse, the second a red horse, the third a black, and the fourth - named Death - riding a pale horse. These "Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse" - oft-pictured - are described in Revelation 6:1-8.
What do these horses, and their riders, represent? What do they have to do with us, today? Watch as Curtis Childs and Jonathan Rose explore the hidden Bible meaning of the Four Horsemen in the Book of Revelation, in this video from the Swedenborg and Life Series, from the Swedenborg Foundation.
Plus, to go straight to the source, follow the links below to the places in "Apocalypse Revealed" where Swedenborg explained the inner meaning of this famous Bible story. A good place to start would be Apocalypse Revealed 298.
(Odkazy: Apocalypse Explained 315; Apocalypse Revealed 262-263, 301, 306, 314, 316, 320, 322-323)
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Heaven and Hell # 205
205. There is an association of all in heaven in accordance with spiritual affinities, which are those of good and truth in their order. It is so in the whole heaven, in each society and in each house. Because of this, angels who are in like good and truth recognize each other, as relatives by blood and marriage do on the earth, just as if they had known each other from infancy. The goods and truths which, in the case of any one angel, make his wisdom and intelligence, are associated in like manner. They recognize each other in like manner and as they recognize each other they join themselves together. 1 In consequence, those in whom truths and goods are joined in accordance with the form of heaven see things following one after another in a series, and see how they cohere round about, far and wide. It is otherwise with those in whom goods and truths are not conjoined in accordance with the form of heaven.
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1. [Swedenborg's footnote] Good acknowledges its own truth, and truth its own good (Arcana Coelestia 2429, 3101-3102, 3161, 3179-3180, 4358, 5407, 5835, 9637); and hence is the conjunction of good and truth (Arcana Coelestia 3834, 4096-4097, 4301, 4345, 4353, 4364, 4368, 5365, 7623-7627, 7752-7762, 8530, 9258, 10555); for this is from the influx of heaven (Arcana Coelestia 9079).
