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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.

(références: Apocalypse Explained 315; Apocalypse Revealed 262-263, 301, 306, 314, 316, 320, 322-323)

8003. 'It shall be eaten in one house' means compatible forms of good grouped together to compose a single body of good. This is clear from the considerations that the Passover supper represented groups of angels living in association with one another in heaven, and that each household of the children of Israel represented an individual community, see 7836, 7891, 7996, 7997. Angelic communities are all distinct from one another, separated according to varieties of good at general, specific, and individual levels, 3241, 4625. Those governed by a like good live in association with one another. The reason why they compose a single body of good is that every complete whole is a product not of one but of a number of constituent parts. For a number of parts that are varying but nevertheless compatible produce a form which constitutes a single whole because of the harmony among the parts. That harmony in heaven is a spiritual harmony, which forms of the good of love possess, see 3241, 3167, 3744-3746, 3986, 4005, 4149, 5598, 7236, 7837, 7836. From these considerations it is evident that 'it shall be eaten in one house' means associations of forms of good so suited to one another that together they compose a single body of good. As regards 'eating' - eating the Passover - that it means being integrated among or being together with them, see above in 8001.