The Meaning of the Book of Revelation: the Four Horsemen
Por 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.
(Referencias: Apocalypse Explained 315; Apocalypse Revealed 262-263, 301, 306, 314, 316, 320, 322-323)
This video is a product of the Swedenborg Foundation. Follow these links for further information and other videos: www.youtube.com/user/offTheLeftEye and www.swedenborg.com
Lamentations 5
1
Remember, Yahweh, what has come on us: Look, and see our reproach.
2
Our inheritance is turned to strangers, Our houses to aliens.
3
We are orphans and fatherless; Our mothers are as widows.
4
We have drunken our water for money; Our wood is sold to us.
5
Our pursuers are on our necks: We are weary, and have no rest.
6
We have given the hand to the Egyptians, To the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
7
Our fathers sinned, and are no more; We have borne their iniquities.
8
Servants rule over us: There is none to deliver us out of their hand.
9
We get our bread at the peril of our lives, Because of the sword of the wilderness.
10
Our skin is black like an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine.
11
They ravished the women in Zion, The virgins in the cities of Judah.
12
Princes were hanged up by their hand: The faces of elders were not honored.
13
The young men bare the mill; The children stumbled under the wood.
14
The elders have ceased from the gate, The young men from their music.
15
The joy of our heart is ceased; Our dance is turned into mourning.
16
The crown is fallen from our head: Woe to us! for we have sinned.
17
For this our heart is faint; For these things our eyes are dim;
18
For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate: The foxes walk on it.
19
You, Yahweh, remain forever; Your throne is from generation to generation.
20
Why do you forget us forever, [And] forsake us so long time?
21
Turn us to yourself, Yahweh, and we shall be turned. Renew our days as of old.
22
But you have utterly rejected us; You are very angry against us.
