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The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (usually referred to as the Four Horsemen) are Christian religious figures, first appearing in the Old Testaments prophetic book of Zechariah and the Book of Ezekiel, where they are termed as the punishments of God.
They appear in the final book of the New Testament in the Book of Revelation, an apocalypse written by John of Patmos. The Book of Revelation 6 tells of a scroll in God’s right hand that is sealed with seven seals.
The Lamb of God or the Lion of Judah opens the first of the seven seals, which brings forth beings that ride out on a white, black, red, and pale horses.
The prophet Ezekiel had listed them as “sword, famine, wild beasts, and plague”. In the Revelation of John, the first horseman carries a bow and is given a crown – he rides as a figure of conquest. The second horseman carries a sword and rides a red horse and is the creator of war.
The third rides on a black horse, symbolising famine and he carries in his hand, scales. The fourth and final horse is pale and is ridden by Death, who is accompanied by Hades and “they were given
authority over a quarter of the earth, to kill with the sword, famine, and plague, and by means of the beasts of the earth”. The first horseman was thought to be the anti-christ for nearly nineteen
centuries and Christians thought he represented Christ or the Gospel. The second horseman who represented (civil) war as opposed to the war of conquest that the first horseman is believed to bring. Others claim he represent the persucution of Christians in the end time.
The third horseman, who carries a scale indicates famine and how bread would be weighed during the famine. The fourth and last horseman, Death who is accompanied by Hades is the only one who is given a name and unlike the three before him, he is not described as carrying any weapon of descruction but rather followed by Hades.
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