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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Ezekiel 19
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Moreover, take up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,
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and say, What was your mother? A lioness: she couched among lions, in the midst of the young lions she nourished her cubs.
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She brought up one of her cubs: he became a young lion, and he learned to catch the prey; he devoured men.
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The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit; and they brought him with hooks to the land of Egypt.
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Now when she saw that she had waited, and her hope was lost, then she took another of her cubs, and made him a young lion.
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He went up and down among the lions; he became a young lion, and he learned to catch the prey; he devoured men.
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He knew their palaces, and laid waste their cities; and the land was desolate, and its fullness, because of the noise of his roaring.
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Then the nations set against him on every side from the provinces; and they spread their net over him; he was taken in their pit.
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They put him in a cage with hooks, and brought him to the king of Babylon; they brought him into strongholds, that his voice should no more be heard on the mountains of Israel.
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Your mother was like a vine, in your blood, planted by the waters: it was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters.
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It had strong rods for the scepters of those who bore rule, and their stature was exalted among the thick boughs, and they were seen in their height with the multitude of their branches.
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But it was plucked up in fury, it was cast down to the ground, and the east wind dried up its fruit: its strong rods were broken off and withered; the fire consumed them.
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Now it is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty land.
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Fire is gone out of the rods of its branches, it has devoured its fruit, so that there is in it no strong rod to be a scepter to rule. This is a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation.
