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And there went out another horse that was red: and power was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another: and there was given unto him a great sword.
Revelation 6:4
The Meaning of the Book of Revelation: the Four Horsemen
Написано 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.
(Ссылки: Apocalypse Explained 315; Apocalypse Revealed 262-263, 301, 306, 314, 316, 320, 322-323)
This video is a product of the Swedenborg Foundation. Follow these links for further information and other videos: www.youtube.com/user/offTheLeftEye and www.swedenborg.com
Marriage # 119
119. True conjugial love is impossible except between couples, that is, in the marriage of one man with one wife; and not with many wives, because conjugial love is mutual and reciprocal, and the life of each is in that of the other, so that they are as one. Such a union is possible between couples, but not between more, since more tear that love apart. The men of the Most Ancient Church, who were celestial and as well able to perceive good and truth as the angels, had only one wife. They said that with one wife they experienced celestial delights and happiness, and that they shuddered at the bare mention of marriage with several wives; it is evident that the marriage of one wife and one husband descends from the marriage of good and truth from the Lord's words in Matthew 19:3-12, which see and quote; also from Adam's words about his wife. By Adam and his wife in that passage is meant in the internal representative sense the Most Ancient Church, which was the golden age, the time of Saturn, which the ancient writers mention.
