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Revelation 6 : The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

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1 And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see.

2 And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.

3 And when he had opened the second seal, I heard the second beast say, Come and see.

4 And there went out another horse that was red: and power was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another: and there was given unto him a great sword.

5 And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand.

6 And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.

7 And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.

8 And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.

9 And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held:

10 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?

11 And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled.

12 And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood;

13 And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind.

14 And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places.

15 And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains;

16 And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:

17 For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?

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The Meaning of the Book of Revelation: the Four Horsemen

Nga 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.

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

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Apocalypse Explained #224

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224.And my new name. That this signifies, that they will also acknowledge the Divine Human of the Lord, is evident from the signification of I will write upon him My new name, as being the acknowledgment of the Lord's Divine Human. To write upon any one denotes to implant in the life (as may be seen above, n. 222), here to implant in faith from charity, because that faith is treated of in what is written to the angel of this church (see above, n. 203); and to implant in that faith denotes acknowledgment in heart. The reason why the new name of the Lord denotes His Divine Human is, that this prophetic book, called the Apocalypse, treats of those who will be in the New Jerusalem, and of those who will not be in it, and not of the successive states of the church as is usually believed (see above, n. 5); and those who will be in the New Jerusalem are all those who will acknowledge the Divine Human of the Lord; therefore it is also said, in The Doctrine of the New Jerusalem, towards the end, "That there is a Trine in the Lord, namely, the Divine Itself, the Divine Human and the proceeding Divine, is an arcanum from heaven, and is for those who will be in the holy Jerusalem" (n. 297). That this is the new name of the Lord is evident from the fact that it was not before acknowledged in the church.

What is further meant by the name of Jehovah, of the Lord, and of Jesus Christ in the Word may be seen above (n. 26, 102, 135, 148); and that the Divine Human of the Lord is meant (n. 26 and 102). The reason why this is meant by the name of Jehovah is, that name in the Word signifies the quality of a state and thing (as may be seen above, n. 148); and the Divine quality by which all things were created and made in the heavens and in the earths is the Lord's Divine Human; as it is also said in John:

"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and God was the Word. All things were made by him, and without him was not anything made that was made. And the world was made by him. And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us; and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth" (1:1, 2, 3, 10, 14).

From these considerations it is evident why it is that by the name of Jehovah is meant the Lord's Divine Human. That this is meant in the Word by the name of Jehovah, the Lord Himself shows in John:

Jesus said, "Father, glorify thy name; and there came a voice from heaven, saying, I both have glorified it, and will glorify it again" (12:28).

To glorify is to make Divine. And again:

Jesus said, "I have manifested thy name unto men. I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it" (17:6, 26).

  
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Translation by Isaiah Tansley. Many thanks to the Swedenborg Society for the permission to use this translation.