"Ezekiel the living creatures follow wherever the spirit leads, without turning. In Ezekiel 14:21, the Lord enumerates His ""four disastrous acts of judgment"" (ESV), sword, famine, wild beasts, and pestilence, against the idolatrous elders of Israel. A symbolic interpretation of the Four Horsemen links the riders to these judgments, or the similar judgments in 6:11-12. Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are described in the last book of the New Testament of the Bible, the Book of Revelation by John of Patmos, at . The chapter tells of a book or scroll in God's right"
"less frequently, the Christ or the Antichrist), War, Famine, and Death. The Christian apocalyptic vision is that the Four Horsemen are to set a divine apocalypse upon the world as harbingers of the Last Judgment. One reading ties the Four Horsemen to the history of the Roman Empire subsequent to the era in which the Book of Revelation was written as a symbolic prophecy. Based on the above passage, a common translation into English, the rider of the White Horse (sometimes referred to as the White Rider) is generally referred to as ""Conquest"". The name could also be construed as"
"the physical death brought about by great warring empires and the spiritual death through apostasy among the Lord's chosen people. Artwork which shows the Horsemen as a group, such as the famous woodcut by Albrecht Dürer, suggests an interpretation where all four horsemen represent different aspects of the same tribulation. American Protestant Evangelical interpreters regularly see ways in which the horsemen, and Revelation in general, speak to contemporary events. Some who believe Revelation applies to modern times can interpret the horses based on various ways their colors are used. Red, for example, often represents Communism, the white horse and rider"
"completed the Message. It now became clear that The Message was a prophecy of the End of Times. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (Death, War, Famine, and Conquest) seek to fulfill the prophecy by following the Message. Believers in the Message make pilgrimage to the site of the comet impact but are always killed by the Four Horsemen. One year, Conquest spares the infant child of one of the pilgrims and takes him as her own. She names him Ezra Orion and raises him to be the carrier of the Message. The Horsemen build a structure over Armistice to"
"horses; in the first passage there are three colours (red, dappled, and ""white""), and in the second there are four teams of horses (red, black, ""white"", and finally dappled) pulling chariots. The second set of horses are referred to as ""the four spirits of heaven, going out from standing in the presence of the Lord of the whole world."" They are described as patrolling the earth and keeping it peaceful. In the New Testament, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse include one seated on a white horse and one on a pale horse – the ""white"" horse carried the rider"
"Conquest (traditionally, Pestilence) while the ""pale"" horse carried the rider Death. However, the Greek word ""chloros"", translated as ""pale,"" is often interpreted as sickly green or ashen grey rather than white. Later in the Book of Revelation, Christ rides a white horse out of heaven at the head of the armies of heaven to judge and make war upon the earth. Two Christian saints are associated with white steeds: Saint James, as patron saint of Spain, rides a white horse in his martial aspect. Saint George, the patron saint of horsemen among other things, also rides a white horse. In"
"preceded by Black Thursday, a downturn on October 24 the previous week. In western popular culture, black has long been associated with evil and darkness. It is the traditional color of witchcraft and black magic. In the Book of Revelation, the last book in the New Testament of the Bible, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are supposed to announce the Apocalypse before the Last Judgment. The horseman representing famine rides a black horse. The vampire of literature and films, such as Count Dracula of the Bram Stoker novel, dressed in black, and could only move at night. The Wicked"
"name of peace. In the alternate reality known as the ""Age of Apocalypse"", the four Horsemen also existed but did not use any titles, with some exceptions such as Death and War. The only member who was also a Horseman in the main Marvel Universe was Abraham Kieros, also known as War. The first group of Horsemen consisted of Candra, Gideon, Death (an unknown female, speculated to be Selene or Lifeforce), and War. Later members included a never-seen Horseman named Bastion and Maximus as the second Death. Ultimately, Apocalypse announced the War of Succession, a battle between all his Horsemen."
"Word of God. Furthermore, earlier in the New Testament, the Book of Mark indicates that the advance of the gospel may indeed precede and foretell the apocalypse. The color white also tends to represent righteousness in the Bible, and Christ is in other instances portrayed as a conqueror. However, opposing interpretations argue that the first of the Four Horsemen is probably not the horseman of Revelation 19. They are described in significantly different ways, and Christ's role as the Lamb who opens the seven seals makes it unlikely that he would also be one of the forces released by the"
"each in chronological sequence following the preceding seal. Its general subject is the decline and fall, after a previous prosperous era, of the Empire of Heathen Rome. The first four seals of Revelation, represented by four horses and horsemen, are fixed to events, or changes, within the Roman Earth. Some modern scholars interpret Revelation from a preterist point of view, arguing that its prophecy and imagery apply only to the events of the first century of Christian history. In this school of thought, Conquest, the white horse's rider, is sometimes identified as a symbol of Parthian forces: Conquest carries a"
"the ""four horsemen"" seated upon the white horse, going forth ""conquering, and to conquer,"" is interpreted as prophetic of Christ's church going forth on its victorious mission, the triumph of Christianity over paganism. The red horse is explained as ""coming wars,"" predicted as salient events preceding the end. The black horse, Victorinus avers, signifies ""famines"" in the time of the Antichrist. The pale horse meant ""coming destructions."" The angel with the seal in chapter 7 symbolizes Elias the prophet as the ""precursor of the times of Antichrist."" Then comes the kingdom of Antichrist and finally the angel reapers smite the"
"are likened to birth pains, indicating that they would occur more frequently and with greater intensity the nearer the event of Christ's return. With this perspective the horsemen represent the rise of false religions, false prophets and false messiahs; the increase of wars and rumours of wars; the escalation of natural disasters and famines; and the growth of persecution, martyrdom, betrayal and loss of faith. The Book of Zechariah twice mentions colored horses; in the first passage there are three colors (red, speckled/brown, and white), and in the second there are four teams of horses (red, black, white, and finally"
"of the earth’s inhabitants. The war started by the Antichrist, will reach the finale with the seven bowls of judgments. Idealist viewThis fourth rider symbolizes death that results from war and famine when men turn against men. Revelation 6:9-11 Preterist viewThis is the cry for vindication by the Christian martyrs who were persecuted by the Jews after Christ’s death and leading up to the fall of Jerusalem in the year 70. Both Ernest Renan and Volkmar, ""modern rationalist preterists"", marked the year 64 as a significant year for Christian martyrdom. The name “Jerusalem” became synonymous with the persecution of the"
"Furthermore, in Revelation 6 in The Bible, Death is one of the four horsemen; and he rides a pale horse. Symbols of death Symbols of death are the symbolic, often allegorical, portrayal of death in various cultures. For allegorical figures that portray death, see Death (personification). Various images are used traditionally to symbolize death; these rank from blunt depictions of cadavers and their parts to more allusive suggestions that time is fleeting and all men are mortals. The human skull is an obvious and frequent symbol of death, found in many cultures and religious traditions. Human skeletons and sometimes non-human"
"is a familiar figure in English, German and French ghost stories. She is a spectral apparition of a female clad in white, in most cases the ghost of an ancestor, sometimes giving warning about death and disaster. The most notable Weiße Frau is the legendary ghost of the German Hohenzollern dynasty. Seeing a white horse in a dream is said to be presentiment of death. In the Book of Revelation, the last book in the New Testament of the Bible, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are supposed to announce the Apocalypse before the Last Judgement. The man on a"
"Four Horsemen (Highlander) The Four Horsemen are a fictional group from """" based on the Biblical Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. They were four Immortals that murdered and looted across two continents in the Bronze Age. The horsemen consisted of: Kronos is a fictional character from """", portrayed by actor Valentine Pelka. He is an Immortal. Kronos represents Pestilence, as one of the Four Horsemen. Kronos was the leader of the Four Horsemen. Along with Methos, Silas and Caspian, he spread terror across two continents in the Bronze Age, killing while roaming the land and destroying everything in their way,"
"without any forewarning, continuing aloud the course of his reasoning. ""And when the sun arises in a few hours, the world will see coursing through its fields the four horsemen, enemies of mankind. . . . Already their wild steeds are pawing the ground with impatience; already the ill-omened riders have come together and are exchanging the last words before leaping into the saddle."" Tchernoff goes on to describe the beast of the Apocalypse, and then the four horsemen who precede it: Plague (or Conquest), War, Famine, and Death. Part I ends with the statement, ""The agony of humanity, under"
"with a crown representing Catholicism, Black has been used as a symbol of Capitalism, while Green represents the rise of Islam. Pastor Irvin Baxter Jr. of Endtime Ministries espouses such a belief. Some equate the Four Horsemen with the angels of the four winds. ""(See Michael, Gabriel, Raphael, and Uriel, angels often associated with four cardinal directions)"". Some speculate that when the imagery of the Seven Seals is compared to other eschatological descriptions throughout the Bible, the themes of the horsemen draw remarkable similarity to the events of the Olivet Discourse. The signs of the approaching end of the world"
"Four Horsemen (War, Strife, Fury, and Death) are the last of the Nephilim, fusions of angels and demons who waged war on creation. To preserve the balance of the Universe, the Four, tired of conquest, received incredible powers from the Charred Council in exchange for slaughtering the rest of the Nephilim. The Horseman Death trapped the souls of his fallen brethren in an amulet, earning the title of Kinslayer, among others (though he kept its preservation a secret, since the Council ordered the Nephilim's souls destroyed). While War is charged with his crimes, the horseman Death, sure that his brother"
"Reckoners to enter the realm of Earth, where they are revealed to be the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. They ravage across the globe, destroying civilization and turning most of the Earth into a wasted landscape of nightmares and death. Then they mysteriously vanish. Thirteen years have passed since the Reckoners appeared, and civilization is once more attempting to assert itself in small, isolated pockets. Players take on the roles of characters struggling to survive the nightmarish wasteland that the Reckoners left behind. A variety of mundane and arcane archetypes are available, including ""Sykers"" (characters with deadly psychic powers), ""Doomsayers"""
"in connection with the riders in the passage following the introduction of the fourth rider; cf. ""They were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill by sword, famine, plague, and by the wild beasts of the earth."" ( NASB). However, it is a matter of debate as to whether this passage refers to the first rider, or to the four riders as a whole. Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, in his 1916 novel ""The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse"" (filmed in 1921 and in 1962), provides an early example of this interpretation, writing ""The horseman on the white horse"
"These riders, which manifest as the first four seals are broken, are set at a diagonal in the pictorial space. The white horse of victory carries an archer, the red horse of war a swordsman, the black horse of famine a man with scales, and from the mouth of hell emerges the pale horse of death. Stars fall from the sky, mountains and islands move, ships sink, and people hide in caverns. According to Ridderbos, ""We see hail and fire burning trees and grass, a burning mountain cast into the sea destroying ships, a falling star that poisons the waters,"
"not alone as the other three riders-Death, Fury, and Strife- are seen descending from the sky toward him. The player controls War, the first of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Along with the rest of the Horsemen, his sole duty is to be summoned to the Earth once the final battle of Armageddon begins. War is not aligned to Heaven or Hell but instead serves to bring order by the rule of The Charred Council, whose purpose is to uphold the balance between the two forces. He maintains a strict code of honor and will battle any obstacle in"
"[Jesus'] justice and holiness, and also that victory and triumph should mark his progress"". The horse may be contrasted with the colt or ass on which Jesus rode into Jerusalem ( etc.) and the biblical prophecy underpinning the gospel accounts (). The ass is for peace, but the horse was used for war. New King James Version Revelation 19 Revelation 19 is the nineteenth chapter of the Book of Revelation or the Apocalypse of John in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. The book is traditionally attributed to John the Apostle, but the precise identity of the author remains"
"Stauffer, Bob Tanner, Ernie Theobalds, Miss Whibley. Sarsaparilla, Abercrombie Crescent, Montebello Avenue, ""Xanadu"". The primary form of symbolism within the book is through the chariot (or merkabah/merkavah), as described in the Book of Ezekiel. Other symbolism includes the mysteries of the Book of Revelation, with its Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, and the Seven Seals, along with biblical warnings about blood, fire, and destruction. As a symbol with a complex history in many cultures and artistic and religious traditions the chariot is most simply the vehicle for God's elect or chosen ones. Riders in the Chariot Riders in the Chariot"
"and was stricken with the influenza. The historian Alfred Crosby considered ""Pale Horse, Pale Rider"" to be such an exceptional depiction of the suffering caused by the influenza that he dedicated his book about the 1918 epidemic to Porter. The author Robert Penn Warren said ""Pale Horse, Pale Rider"" was “at the top level, you know, in that collection of the world’s short novels.” The book also includes the stories ""Noon Wine"" and ""Old Mortality."" The title is Biblical, coming from Revelation 6:1-8. There, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are respectively; the Conqueror on a white horse, War on"
"a common laborer (Matthew 20:2, John 12:5). In the Book of Revelation, during the Third Seal: Black Horse, a choinix (or quart) of wheat and three quarts of barley were each valued at one denarius. Bible scholar Robert H. Mounce says the price of the wheat and barley as described in the vision appears to be ten to twelve times their normal cost in ancient times. Revelation describes a condition where basic goods are sold at greatly inflated prices. Thus, the black horse rider depicts times of deep scarcity or famine but not of starvation. The English word ""quart"" translates"
"interpret the Horsemen as a prophecy of a future Tribulation, during which many on Earth will die as a result of multiple catastrophes. The Four Horsemen are the first in a series of ""Seal"" judgements. This is when God will judge the Earth, and is giving the World a chance to repent before they die. According to E.B. Elliott, the first seal, as revealed to John by the angel, was to signify what was to happen soon after John seeing the visions in Patmos and that the second, third and fourth seals in like manner were to have commencing dates"
"abandoned. Famine's mission to make wheat and barley scarce but ""hurt not the oil and the wine"" could be an allusion to this episode. The red horse and its rider, who take peace from the earth, might represent the prevalence of civil strife at the time Revelation was written; internecine conflict ran rampant in the Roman Empire during and just prior to the 1st century AD. Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints believe their first prophet, Joseph Smith, revealed that the book described by John ""contains the revealed will, mysteries, and the works of God; the"
"will starve, the wealthy will enjoy the luxuries of oil and wine. Idealist viewThis rider bespeaks the economic hardship and poverty that follow the unleashing of wars on humankind, while the rich get richer. Revelation 6:7-8 Preterist viewThis rider speaks the widespread death of Jews in their fight against Rome, which happens to be over a million Jewish deaths. Volkmar, a ""modern rationalist preterist"", points to pestilence striking in year 66. Historicist viewThis rider signifies twenty years of fighting, famine and disease that plagued the reigns of Emperors Decius, Gallus, Aemilianus, Valerian, and Galliennus (248-268). Futurist viewSpells death for one-fourth"
"are attacked. Ellen escapes, but Sam is captured by Jo and Rufus - who seem to think Sam is possessed. While he is held captive, one of the townspeople reveals that he is War - one of the Four Horseman of the Apocalypse and has tricked the people into thinking everyone is possessed, leading them to attack each other. Returning, Ellen tells Dean that Jo thought she was possessed because she called her a ""black-eyed bitch,"" and Dean starts to suspect all is not what it seems. Checking the Bible, he works out that these signs and the conflict herald"
"The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (novel) The Four Horsemen of The Apocalypse () is a novel by the Spanish author Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, first published in 1916, which tells a tangled tale of the French and German sons-in-law of an Argentinian land-owner who find themselves fighting on opposite sides in the First World War. Its 1918 English translation by Charlotte Brewster Jordan became the best-selling novel in the U.S in 1919 according to ""Publishers Weekly"", who hailed it as ""a superbly human story told by a genius"". The novel was included in the list of 100 best novels of"
"of the saints, ‘went forth conquering and to conquer’ Revelation 6:2; see also Moses 7:13–18"" The second seal and the red horse represent the period from approximately 3,000 B.C. to 2,000 B.C. including the wickedness and violence leading to the Great Flood. The third seal and black horse describe the period of ancient Joseph, son of Israel, who was sold into Egypt, and the famines that swept that period (see Genesis 41–42; Abraham 1:29-30; 2:1, 17, 21). The fourth seal and the pale horse are interpreted to represent the thousand years leading up to the birth of Jesus Christ, both"