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We all claim to be close to God but in fact we are just hypocrites.
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse is in the last book of the New
Testament of the Bible,
called the Book of Revelation of Jesus
Christ to Saint John the Evangelist, at 6:1-8. I don't believe in this book
because I am 64 years old and I saw this part of the Bible become affective
before every war and every civil unrest . So it is real. For example, before the Civil War, the South claimed that
slavery was God's work and that the "White Man's burden" was in
affect by God. The South was right. 6:1-8
is now in effect. The North was just as righteous wanting to end slavery but
did not want these "darkies" around or help them get on their feet
after 200 years of forced slavery. In
fact, they did not want x-slaves in their churches. Based on the above passage,
a common translation into English, the white rider is generally referred to as
"Conquest". Under this interpretation, the
first horseman is called Pestilence, and is associated with infectious
disease and plague. Have you seen so many infectious disease and plague pop up
in your life today or the last 200 years?
Do you see the righteous of White people over the people of color all over the
world?
The second
horseman may represent civil war as opposed to the war of conquest that the
first horseman is sometimes said to bring. Have you seen or heard of so many
wars and civil wars around the world? The
US Government has engaged in wars without going to congress before declaring
war. They have lied to the American people before going to war. Examples of
this is the Vietnam War, Granada, and Panama. The
second Gulf War is suspect and so is the current war that has lasted over 12
years.
The third
horseman rides a black horse and is popularly understood to be Famine as the
horseman carries a pair of balances or weighing
scales, indicating the way that bread would have been weighed during a
famine. Other authors interpret the
third horseman as the "Lord as a Law-Giver" holding Scales
of Justice. In the passage it is
read that the indicated price of grain is about ten times normal (thus the
famine interpretation popularity), with an entire day's wages (a denarius)
buying enough wheat
for only one person, or enough of the less nutritious barley for three,
so that workers would struggle to feed their families. Now tell me, do you know
of a drought so bad that animals, bears, wild cats, and others are coming down
from the mountains in the West looking for water? They are taking up in
people's swimming pools to stay cool and to drink. In Florida, alligators are doing the same
thing. Without water, food production will do down and people will pay high
prices for food. Many people will starve.
The fourth and
final horseman is named Death. Known as "the pale
rider", of all the riders, he is the only one to whom the text itself
explicitly gives a name. Unlike the other three, he is not described carrying a
weapon or other object, instead he is followed by Hades (the resting place of the dead).
However, illustrations commonly depict him carrying a scythe (like the Grim Reaper),
sword, or other implement. An example of this is Hitler's Germany after the end
of WWII. They helped Hitler make war upon the Earth with the excuse that they
were the master race. At first, they were winning the war. Then their food
supply was reduced by the destruction of goods and services. Bombs fell and
destroyed the Cities. They were attacked by more and more enemies from foreign
lands and from internal enemies. Finally the war was over, Germany lost the
war. But the dying went on for another 5 to 10 years because people did not
have clothing, housing, or food.
Now does this
sound like a warning to the United States with it wars around the world? Does
this sound like the United States with its spread of democracy around the word?
Does it sound like the United States with the increasing security problems
inside and outside the United States? Does this sound like the United States
with droughts and it growing poverty?
The United States
is the model of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse!
