The Meaning of the Book of Revelation: the Four Horsemen
Po 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.
(Reference: Apocalypse Explained 315; Apocalypse Revealed 262-263, 301, 306, 314, 316, 320, 322-323)
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Arcana Coelestia #7522
7522. 'And there will then be dust in all the land of Egypt' means the damnation of those falsities in the natural mind. This is clear from the meaning of 'dust' as that which is damned, dealt with above in 7418; from the meaning of 'the ashes of the furnace', which were turned into dust, as falsities that are the product of evil desires, dealt with just above in 7519, 7520; and from the meaning of 'the land of Egypt' as the natural mind, dealt with in 5276, 5278, 5280, 5288, 5301. The meaning of 'dust' as that which is damned is evident from the places in the Word quoted in 7418, and also from the following in Moses,
If you will not obey the voice of Jehovah your God, cursed shall you be in the city, cursed shall you be in the field. Jehovah will make the rain of your land dust and grit; 2 it will come down onto you from heaven until you are destroyed. Deuteronomy 28:15-16, 24.
