The Holy Spirit was understood to have come upon the Apostles at Pentecost after Jesus' departure from Earth. īesides Christ, the Horseman could represent the Holy Spirit. The color white also tends to represent righteousness in the Bible, and Christ is in other instances portrayed as a conqueror. Furthermore, earlier in the New Testament, the Book of Mark indicates that the advance of the gospel may indeed precede and foretell the apocalypse. Various scholars have since supported this notion, citing the later appearance, in Revelation 19, of Christ mounted on a white horse, appearing as The Word of God. Irenaeus, an influential Christian theologian of the 2nd century, was among the first to interpret this Horseman as Christ himself, his white horse representing the successful spread of the gospel. Īlbrecht Dürer, Knight, Death and the Devil, 1513 "They were given authority over a quarter of the earth, to kill with sword, famine, and plague, and by means of the beasts of the earth." Ĭhristianity sometimes interprets the Four Horsemen as a vision of harbingers of the Last Judgment, setting a divine end-time upon the world. The fourth and final horse is pale, and upon it rides Death, accompanied by Hades. The third, a food- merchant riding upon a black horse, symbolizes famine, and carries the scales. The second carries a sword and rides a red horse and is the creator of (civil) war, conflict, and strife. In John's revelation, the first horseman rides on a white horse, carries a bow, and is given a crown – he rides forward as a figure of conquest, perhaps invoking pestilence, Christ, or the Antichrist. The Lamb of God/ Lion of Judah opens the first four of the seven seals, which summons four beings that ride out on white, red, black, and pale horses. Revelation 6 tells of a book or scroll in God's right hand that is sealed with seven seals. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are figures in the Christian scriptures, first appearing in Revelation, an apocalypse written by John of Patmos.
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