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.

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

534. And the fifth angel sounded.- That this signifies influx out of heaven manifesting that the state of the church was altogether changed, is evident from the signification of sounding with a trumpet, as denoting influx out of heaven, and a change of the state of the church (see above, n. 502). Here it denotes, that the state of the church was altogether changed, for it was said just above, concerning the three last times in which the angels sounded, "woe, woe, woe, to them that dwell on the earth, by reason of the other voices of the trumpet of the three angels who are about to sound." The change described in that which now follows, is, that all truth was destroyed, and that falsity taking the place of it opened the hells, whence falsities issued forth.