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.
(References: Apocalypse Explained 315; Apocalypse Revealed 262-263, 301, 306, 314, 316, 320, 322-323)
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An Invitation to the New Church #13
13. At the present day, the union of soul and body is unknown. This is owing to the hypothesis of the learned, especially that of the Cartesians and others, that the soul is a substance separate from the body, in some place or other; when yet the soul is the inmost man; consequently, is man from head to heel. Thence it is that, according to the ancients, the soul is in the whole, and in every part thereof and that in whatever part the soul is not inmostly, there the life of man is not. By virtue of this union it is that all things of the soul are of the body, and all things of the body are of the soul; as the Lord said concerning His Father, that all His things are the Father's, and that all the Father's things are His [John 17:10]. Thence it is that the Lord is God, even as to the flesh (Romans 9:5; Colossians 2:9); and that [He said],
"the Father is in Me, and I in the Father" [John 14:10-11], thus, that they are one.
