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Revelation 6 : The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

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1 And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see.

2 And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.

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

4 And there went out another horse that was red: and power was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another: and there was given unto him a great sword.

5 And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand.

6 And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.

7 And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.

8 And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.

9 And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held:

10 And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?

11 And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled.

12 And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood;

13 And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind.

14 And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places.

15 And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains;

16 And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:

17 For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?

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The Meaning of the Book of Revelation: the Four Horsemen

By 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.

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

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Heaven and Hell # 231

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231. It is the Divine Truth going forth from the Lord that has all power in the heavens, for the Lord in heaven is Divine Truth united to Divine Good (see 126-140). To the extent that angels are receptions of this truth they are powers. 1 Moreover, each one is his own truth and his own good because each one is such as his understanding and will are. The understanding is formed of truth because everything of it is from truths, and the will is formed of good because everything of it is from goods; for whatever any one understands he calls truth, and whatever he wills he calls good. From this it is that every one is his own truth and his own good. 2 Therefore so far as an angel is truth from the Divine and good from the Divine he is a power, because to that extent the Lord is in him. And as no one is in good and truth quite the same as another, since in heaven, as in the world, there is endless variety (20), therefore one angel is not in the same power as another is. Those who constitute the arms in the Grand Man, or heaven, have the greatest power because such are more in truths than others, and into their truths, good flows from the entire heaven. Moreover, the power of the whole man passes into the arms, and by means of these the whole body exercises its powers. It is for this reason that in the Word "arms" and "hands" signify power. 3 Sometimes on this account a naked arm is seen in heaven so powerful as to be able to break in pieces every thing in its way, even though it were a great rock on the earth. Once it was moved towards me, and I perceived that it was able to crush my bones to powder.

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1. [Swedenborg's footnote] Angels are called powers and are powers by virtue of their reception of Divine Truth from the Lord (Arcana Coelestia 9639).

Angels are recipients of Divine Truth from the Lord and therefore in several places in the Word are called gods (Arcana Coelestia 4295, 4402, 7268, 7873, 8192, 8301, 9160).

2. [Swedenborg's footnote] A man or an angel is his own good and his own truth, thus his own love and his own faith (Arcana Coelestia 10298, 10367).

He is his own understanding and his own will, for everything of life is therefrom; the life of good being from the will, and the life of truth being from the understanding (Arcana Coelestia 10076, 10177, 10264, 10284).

3. [Swedenborg's footnote] The correspondence of the hands, arms, and shoulders, with the Grand Man or heaven (Arcana Coelestia 4931-4937).

In the Word, "arms" and "hands" signify power (Arcana Coelestia 878, 3091, 4932-4933, 6947, 10019).

  
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Thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.