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.

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

368. Verses 5, 6. And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third animal saying, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo, a black horse; and he that sat on him had a balance in his hand. And I heard a voice in the midst of the four animals saying, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.

"And when he had opened the third seal," signifies prediction concerning a further succeeding state with those who belong to the church where the Word is; "I heard the third animal saying," signifies out of the inmost heaven from the Lord; "Come and see," signifies attention and perception; "and lo, a black horse," signifies the understanding of the Word destroyed as to truth; "and he that sat on him had a balance in his hand," signifies the estimation of truth from the Word in that state of the church.

And I heard a voice in the midst of the four animals saying, "A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny," signify that the genuine good of the church is of no account to them, and also the genuine truth of the church; "and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine," signifies that it is provided that the internal or spiritual. sense of the Word should not be injured either as to good or as to truth.