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.

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

52. The earthly memory that belongs to the outer self and the spiritual memory that belongs to the inner self. Human beings actually have two faculties of memory, an outer memory and an inner memory, or an earthly memory and a spiritual memory: 2469-2494. We are not aware that we have this inner memory: 2470, 2471. How much better the inner memory is than the outer memory: 2473. The contents of our outer memory are in an earthly light, while the contents of our inner memory are in a spiritual light: 5212. Our inner memory is the basis of our ability to think and speak rationally and with understanding: 9394. Every least detail of everything we have thought and said and done, as well as what we have heard and seen, is inscribed in our inner memory: 2474, 7398. That memory is our book of life: 2474, 9386, 9841, 10505. Our inner memory stores the [truths] that have become part of our faith and the goodness that has become part of our love: 5212, 8067. Our inner memory also stores things that have taken on the force of habit for us and have become part of our life: 9394, 9723, 9841. Knowledge of worldly and spiritual things is stored in our outer memory: 5212, 9922. That information is extremely dark and tangled compared to the contents of our inner memory: 2831. In this world our ability to speak our various languages depends on our outer memory: 2472, 2476. Angels and spirits speak from their inner memory, so they have a universal language such that no matter what country people come from they can talk with each other: 2472, 2476, 2490, 2493. For information about this language, see Heaven and Hell 234-245, and on the astoundingly detailed nature of the inner memory that we retain after death, see Heaven and Hell 463.