The four horsemen in Revelations

Is it the Apocalypse? Yes. Go on and tell me that it doesn’t ever feel like the Apocalypse these days. Now you’re being silly.

The book of Revelation in the Bible is also sometimes called the Apocalypse of St. John or more popularly Revelations, by virtue of it containing a series of detailed visions, presumably describing the future. It is very likely a channeled vision/report from an admittedly fallible (John of Patmos was an extremely fallible guy) Christian perspective on what happens at the end of the Kali Yuga, which John of Patmos would have very likely known about, along with stories about the future undertakings of the hero Kalki against evil.

Since the book of Revelation is highly symbolic, it has long seemed mysterious to those who read it. Among the strangest and most ominous elements in the vision are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

White horse

“Then I saw when the Lamb broke one of the seven seals, and I heard one of the four living creatures saying as with a voice of thunder, ‘Come.’ I looked, and behold, a white horse, and he who sat on it had a bow; and a crown was given to him, and he went out conquering and to conquer.”

– Revelation 6:1–2

The Lamb in this chapter of Revelation is quite possibly a warning about the Antichrist, who is a proverbial wolf in sheep’s clothing. The Antichrist has often been predicted elsewhere as a figure who emerges to promote widespread pedophilia and other immorality and to ruin lives, lying and misrepresenting himself all the while. He actually represents things that humans had to defeat as a fundamental requirement of civilization in order for us to collectively get anywhere in the first place. In Revelation, as soon as it’s declared that a Lion can accomplish the discovery of what is in the book of the Apocalypse, there appears a Lamb. The Lamb seems mysterious to me. He presents himself decked out in features representing gifts that do not befit a lamb: extra eyes, extra horns. He’s creepy to picture, and the scenes that feature him have a creepy quality sometimes. He gets a lot of credit because of the idea that he may have suffered, and looks slain. He seems perhaps to fool a number of people who should know better. He breaks the seals and keeps messing stuff up. The seals represent situations that the Antichrist and his faction have instigated and other occurrences during the Apocalypse.

It may be after Revelation started circulating that it became popular to call Jesus Christ the Lamb of God, but that’s uncertain. That epithet certainly made it into the gospels. It’s unclear whether this was a misunderstanding of the fact that the Lamb of Revelation may actually be the Antichrist or whether Jesus Christ is presented in that epithet as a foil to the untrustworthy Lamb of Revelation. Indeed, there appear to be two or three Lambs referred to in Revelation (suggesting that “the Lamb” may actually be something more like an office or role held by different people at different points in the narrative): the Antichrist and later the Lamb of God, who is Jesus Christ himself and possibly also refers to the Second Coming of Christ, in addition to a beast who is described in Chapter 13 as having horns like a lamb.

The book referred to in Revelation Chapter 6 seems to be the story of how humanity gets through the end of the Kali Yuga to the Satya Yuga (or Krita Yuga), a blessed time that operates like God’s kingdom as a literal and terrestrial paradise.

The rider on the white horse seems to indicate that the Aquarian Christ, Second Coming and (quite possibly) final Vishnu avatar Kalki, who symbolizes the war against evil at least, and who is specifically known for being associated with a white horse, must come into prominence at the time of the Apocalypse, forced by the unacceptable activities of the Antichrist and his followers (possibly represented by the Lamb and his fellow abominations), and that person will help conquer evil and also gain worldly power. The true Christ, as opposed to the Antichrist, is the Lion, like Vishnu’s avatar Narasimha, who battles and defeats evil. In contrast to the creepy Lamb’s seven eyes and seven horns (which are reminiscent of the other abominations in Revelation), Kalki is said to exhibit eight mystic opulences and eight special qualities of Godhead. This same rider probably appears later in Revelation Chapter 19, after a description of a bride that may be the same woman described earlier as being clothed with the sun. The rider is described as Faithful and True, King of Kings, and Lord of Lords, and turns the tide of the Apocalypse. After that point, everything starts getting better.

Red horse

“When He broke the second seal, I heard the second living creature saying, ‘Come.’ And another, a red horse, went out; and to him who sat on it, it was granted to take peace from Earth, and that men would slay one another; and a great sword was given to him.”

– Revelation 6:3–4

The rider on the red horse indicates a time of violence, especially spurred by the Antichrist faction. Acts of violence and terrorism are rife during the Apocalypse, and they take a huge toll. Before the Apocalypse is totally over, the tables must turn against the evil people who revel in violence, and many of the decent and questing human beings left on Earth may find themselves in positions where they must use judicious and careful acts of many kinds that will decisively stop evil.

Black horse

“When He broke the third seal, I heard the third living creature saying, ‘Come.’ I looked, and behold, a black horse; and he who sat on it had a pair of scales in his hand. And I heard something like a voice in the center of the four living creatures saying, ‘A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius; but do not damage the oil and the wine.'”

– Revelation 6:5–6

The rider on the black horse indicates that the food supply will be disrupted, intentionally spoiled, and even tainted during the Apocalypse, and admonishes people to stop damaging any food and drink that others may eat or consume. Municipal water supplies and other water sources must be protected and managed responsibly during this time. Food prices also come up as a possible issue. Food, drink, and water must be safe and affordable for people; worse than that makes for a grim and mean Apocalypse.

Pale horse

“When the Lamb broke the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature saying, ‘Come.’ I looked, and behold, a pale horse; and he who sat on it had the name Death; and Hades was following with him. Authority was given to them over a fourth of the earth, to kill with sword and with famine and with pestilence and by the wild beasts of the earth.”

– Revelation 6:7–8

The rider on the pale or roan horse indicates that during the Apocalypse, the population will fall very significantly through a wide range of factors, with a 25% or higher reduction being predicted.

Prophecies are electric right now. Many are burgeoning. Many are pointing to the recent past, the present, and virtually all are offering some kind of hope for a future that’s better. I wouldn’t say that if things didn’t seem so bleak right now. The fact of Revelation is that most of all it serves as a set of warnings, not as a roadmap. If we stay sensitive to and careful of the type of hardships the chapter describes, we can cut off those patterns quickly and suffer less. The book of Revelation seems to specifically warn us about misunderstandings, victimization, contamination, hunger, corruption, deceptions, deaths, wanton immorality, alienation, war, natural disasters, animal attacks, and more. It also tells us to have hope.

I remember being taught as a child that Revelation was a political critique of historical issues that were ongoing while it was being written, and that’s not a theory without merit, but it doesn’t necessarily feel like that to read it, does it? It was a vision: one that counts as prophecy. It is about the Apocalypse. It’s not clear that John of Patmos understood it completely point for point, and some points were very likely omitted. Some elements in the vision were trying to tell him something specific and personal. He was exiled on the island of Patmos, not simply due to religious persecution, but because he actually did have to change his ways, behavior-wise, and the vision (as many visions tend to do) likely contained messages about that.

But a lot of people think the vision was mostly about us, here and now. A lot of people are feeling like this is the Apocalypse.

──── by Lync Dalton ────

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