The Meaning of the Book of Revelation: the Four Horsemen
Av 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.
(Referenser: Apocalypse Explained 315; Apocalypse Revealed 262-263, 301, 306, 314, 316, 320, 322-323)
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Arcana Coelestia #8264
8264. 'For He has highly exalted [Himself]' means that He has displayed His Divinity within His Humanity. This is clear from the meaning of 'exalting Himself', when it refers to the Lord, as displaying His Divinity within His Humanity. The reason why 'highly exalting Himself' has this meaning is that what is Divine is Highest or Supreme, and when the Lord was in the world He made the Human within Himself Divine and in so doing 'highly exalted [Himself]'. For the meaning of 'high' in the Word as Divine, see 8153. Here the words used are 'has highly exalted', by which displaying Divinity within Humanity is meant.
Such is their meaning because the theme of this song is the Lord and how, after making Divine His Human, He cast the evil into hell and raised the good to heaven, 8258, which He did simply by His presence, 7989; for casting the evil into hell and raising the good to heaven, simply by being present, is a Divine accomplishment.
