The Meaning of the Book of Revelation: the Four Horsemen
വഴി 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.
(റഫറൻസുകൾ: Apocalypse Explained 315; Apocalypse Revealed 262-263, 301, 306, 314, 316, 320, 322-323)
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Arcana Coelestia #5906
5906. 'Make haste and go up to my father' means to spiritual good. This is clear from the representation of Israel, to whom 'father' refers here, as spiritual good from the natural, dealt with in 5801, 5803, 5806, 5812, 5817, 5819, 5826, 5833. The reason why spiritual good is the father of the internal celestial - even though spiritual good, because it comes from the natural, is external when considered in relation to the internal celestial - is that a person must be external before his internal man can develop. For progress is made in order, from exterior things to interior ones, for example, from factual knowledge to intellectual concepts, after which the exterior things must serve as the foundation on which the interior ones rest. This progression, or birth of one from another, is the reason for calling the external 'the father' of the internal, consequently the reason why spiritual good from the natural, which is 'Israel', should be the father of the internal celestial, which is 'Joseph'.
