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And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?
Revelation 6:10
The Meaning of the Book of Revelation: the Four Horsemen
Por 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.
(Referências: Apocalypse Explained 315; Apocalypse Revealed 262-263, 301, 306, 314, 316, 320, 322-323)
This video is a product of the Swedenborg Foundation. Follow these links for further information and other videos: www.youtube.com/user/offTheLeftEye and www.swedenborg.com
Arcana Coelestia # 10098
10098. 'And the holy garments which are Aaron's' means the Divine Spiritual emanating directly from the Divine Celestial. This is clear from the meaning of 'Aaron's garments' as a representative sign of the Lord's spiritual kingdom lying adjacent to His celestial kingdom, dealt with in 9814, thus also the Divine Spiritual; for the Lord's spiritual kingdom owes its existence to what is Divine and the Lord's there, which is called the Divine Spiritual. The whole of heaven consists in nothing other than what is Divine and the Lord's, for angels there know, acknowledge, believe, and perceive that all the good of faith and good of love which compose heaven originate in the Lord, and none at all in themselves. Aaron's garments are called 'the holy garments' because they represented Divine and holy things which originate in the Lord.
The Lord alone is Holy, everything holy originates in Him, and every ritual sanctifying some person or thing represented Him, see 9229, 9680, 9818, 9820, 9956, 9988.
Heaven is therefore called a sanctuary or especially holy place, 9479.
