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.

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

6913. Verses 21-22 And I will give this people favour ¹ in the eyes of the Egyptians; and so it will be when you go, that you will not go empty-handed. And let a woman ask of her female neighbour, and of the female guest in her house, vessels of silver and vessels of gold, and clothes; and you shall put them on your sons and on your daughters. And you shall plunder the Egyptians.

'And I will give this people favour ¹ in the eyes of the Egyptians' means fear, on account of the plagues, which those steeped in falsities had of those belonging to the spiritual Church. 'And so it will be when you go, that you will not go empty-handed' means a life no longer destitute so far as the contents of the natural mind are concerned. 'And let a woman ask of her female neighbour, and of the female guest in her house' means that everyone's good will be enriched with such things as are suited to it. 'Vessels of silver' means factual knowledge of what is true. 'And vessels of gold' means factual knowledge of what is good. 'And clothes' means inferior factual knowledge corresponding to these. 'And you shall put them on your sons' means application to their truths. 'And on your daughters' means application to their forms of good. 'And you shall plunder the Egyptians' means that such things are to be taken away from those who are steeped in falsities and in evils arising from them.

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