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.

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

9882.. 'And you shall make on the breastplate two rings of gold' means a sphere of Divine Good, a sphere through which there is a joining to the higher part of heaven. This is clear from the meaning of 'the breastplate' as a representative sign of heaven, dealt with in 9879; and from the meaning of 'two rings of gold' as a sphere of Divine Good, by which a joining together is accomplished, dealt with in 9498, 9501. The reason why it is a joining to the higher part of heaven is that this is what is meant by the requirement for the rings to be on the upper part of the breastplate; for from there the small chains were taken up to the sockets of gold on the shoulder-pieces of the ephod.