The Meaning of the Book of Revelation: the Four Horsemen
By 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.
(რეკომენდაციები: Apocalypse Explained 315; Apocalypse Revealed 262-263, 301, 306, 314, 316, 320, 322-323)
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Job 8
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Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,
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"How long will you speak these things? Shall the words of your mouth be a mighty wind?
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Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert righteousness?
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If your children have sinned against him, He has delivered them into the hand of their disobedience.
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If you want to seek God diligently, make your supplication to the Almighty.
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If you were pure and upright, surely now he would awaken for you, and make the habitation of your righteousness prosperous.
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Though your beginning was small, yet your latter end would greatly increase.
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"Please inquire of past generations. Find out about the learning of their fathers.
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(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days on earth are a shadow.)
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Shall they not teach you, tell you, and utter words out of their heart?
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"Can the papyrus grow up without mire? Can the rushes grow without water?
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While it is yet in its greenness, not cut down, it withers before any other reed.
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So are the paths of all who forget God. The hope of the godless man shall perish,
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Whose confidence shall break apart, Whose trust is a spider's web.
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He shall lean on his house, but it shall not stand. He shall cling to it, but it shall not endure.
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He is green before the sun. His shoots go forth over his garden.
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His roots are wrapped around the rock pile. He sees the place of stones.
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If he is destroyed from his place, then it shall deny him, saying, 'I have not seen you.'
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Behold, this is the joy of his way: out of the earth, others shall spring.
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"Behold, God will not cast away a blameless man, neither will he uphold the evildoers.
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He will still fill your mouth with laughter, your lips with shouting.
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Those who hate you shall be clothed with shame. The tent of the wicked shall be no more."
