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.
(Referencias: Apocalypse Explained 315; Apocalypse Revealed 262-263, 301, 306, 314, 316, 320, 322-323)
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James 4
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Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don't they come from your pleasures that war in your members?
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You lust, and don't have. You kill, covet, and can't obtain. You fight and make war. You don't have, because you don't ask.
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You ask, and don't receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it for your pleasures.
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You adulterers and adulteresses, don't you know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
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Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, "The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously"?
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But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, "God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble."
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Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
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Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
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Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to gloom.
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Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.
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Don't speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.
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Only one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge another?
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Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow let's go into this city, and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit."
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Whereas you don't know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.
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For you ought to say, "If the Lord wills, we will both live, and do this or that."
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But now you glory in your boasting. All such boasting is evil.
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To him therefore who knows to do good, and doesn't do it, to him it is sin.
