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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.

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

10269. 'And the ark of the Testimony' means within celestial good belonging to the inmost heaven. This is clear from the meaning of 'to anoint the ark of the Testimony' as to produce a representation of what is Divine within celestial good belonging to the inmost heaven. 'Anointing' means producing a representation of what is Divine and the Lord's, as immediately above in 10268, and 'the ark of the Testimony' means the good of the inmost heaven; for 'the ark' means the inmost heaven, and 'the Testimony' the Lord there, see 9485. And since the good which reigns in that heaven is the good of love to the Lord - the good that is called celestial good - 'to anoint the ark of the Testimony' means to produce a representation of what is Divine and the Lord's within celestial good belonging to the inmost heaven. The implications of all this may be recognized from what has been shown in various places before, namely that anointing represented the Lord in respect of His Divine Human; for the Lord alone in respect of His Divine Human was Jehovah's Anointed. From when He was conceived He had the Father's Divinity within Himself, and consequently within His Humanity. Anyone may know that the human body springs from the father's essential being, called his soul; for a likeness of the father, of the various affections composing his love, manifests itself in his children, even in their faces. In this way any one family derives its individual character by which it is distinguished from another. What then was so in the Lord's case, who had Divinity itself within Him as His Essential Being, called the soul? This explains why the Lord says,

He who has seen Me has seen the Father. Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me. John 14:9, 11.