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.

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

26. (Verse 5) And from Jesus Christ. That this signifies, from the Lord as to the Divine Human, is evident from the fact that this was the name of the Lord in the world, thus the name of His Human; but, as to His Divine, His name was Jehovah and God. It is called the Divine Human, because the Lord made His Human Divine when He was in the world; for He united it to His Divine, which was in Him from conception, and which He had as a soul from the Father, consequently, which was His life. For the soul of every one is his life; and the body, which is human, lives from it; therefore, when the Divine was united to the Human in the Lord, as the soul to the body, it is called the Divine Human. (That it is according to the doctrine of the church, that, as the soul and body make one man, so the Divine and Human make one Christ, as also that His Divine and Human were one person, may be seen above, n. 10.) They therefore, who think of the Lord's Human and not at the same time of His Divine, will on no account admit the expression "Divine Human;" for they think separately of His Human and of His Divine, which is like thinking of a man separately from his soul or life, which, however, would not be to think of the man at all; still less of the Lord. Because such a separate idea is in their thought, they pray the Father to have compassion for the sake of the Son; when, nevertheless, the Lord Himself should be prayed to have compassion, in whom, according to the universal doctrine of the church, the Divine is such as that of the Father; for that doctrine teaches, that as the Father, so also the Son, is uncreate, infinite, eternal, almighty, God, and Lord; and neither is before or after the other, nor greater or less than the other (from the Athanasian Creed). This is also in accordance with the doctrine taught by the Lord Himself, which is; That He and the Father are one; ¹ and that he who seeth Him seeth the Father, ² because He is in the Father and the Father in Him; ³ that He is the way, the truth, and the life; ⁴ and that no one cometh to the Father but by Him. ⁵ It is therefore evident how much they turn aside from the way and from the truth, who pass by the Lord, and approach the Father directly. But as I have conversed a good deal upon this subject with angels, and also with spirits, who, when they lived in the world, belonged to the Reformed Church, and some to the Papal religion, I wish to relate these things in the following pages; from which it will be seen what kind of light the church would have concerning the Divine, which is its first and primary, if the Divine Human of the Lord were acknowledged and believed.

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