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)

5858. Much experience has taught me that anything spirits think or say by drawing on a person's memory they regard as their own, existing within themselves. If told that their idea is not true they are highly indignant; for that kind of sensory illusion holds sway among them. I have asked them - to convince them that their idea is not true - how it is that they can talk to me in my own mother tongue, having had absolutely no knowledge at all of it during their lifetime. How do they know the other languages that I have mastered without learning a single one for themselves? Do they really think those languages are theirs? I have read even the Hebrew language to them which they, including young children, understood to the same extent as I understood it, but not beyond. They have also been shown that all the knowledge present with me is present with them. This has convinced them that when they come to a person they enter into possession of everything he knows, and that in believing it is their own they are holding to a false idea. They do have knowledge that is their own, but they are not allowed to draw on it, to the end that they may serve a person through the knowledge he has; and there are many other reasons for this as well, dealt with in 2476, 2477, 2479. Indeed very great confusion would result if spirits were to flow in with what came from their own memory, 2478.