Behold a Pale Horse

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until you can prove to yourself whether it is true or false or lies between the many shades of gray. Known as Θάνατος ( Thanatos), [48] of all the riders, he is the only one to whom the text itself explicitly gives a name.

Also, whether this passage refers to the fourth rider only or the four riders as a whole is a matter of debate.By one account he served as a "low level clerk" in the Navy, and as such would not have had the security clearance needed to access classified documents. According to this interpretation, this period in Roman history, both at its commencement and close, illustrated the empire's glory where its limits were extended, though not without occasional wars, which were always uniformly triumphant on the frontiers. For a time in the late 260s, the strength of Aurelian crushed the enemies of Rome, yet after his assassination a certain amount of them revived. Muggleton, Lodowick (1665), True Interpretation of All the Chief Texts, and Mysterious Sayings and Visions Opened, of the Whole Book of the Revelation of St. When Joan Didion came out to the San Francisco Bay Area in the late ‘60s, she saw decline and decadence, a center no longer holding.

And I looked, and behold, an ashen horse; and he who sat on it had the name Death; and Hades was following with him. At his back swung the brass quiver filled with poisoned arrows, containing the germs of all diseases. Mark Jacobson’s Pale Horse Rider: William Cooper, the Rise of Conspiracy, and the Fall of Trust in Americatraces Cooper’s life and the unlikely spread of his book Behold a Pale Horse, released in 1991 by Melody O’Ryin Swanson, a New Age publisher who claims she’s never read it, despite its perennially strong sales. But some doofus jerk‐off reporter with his little camera crew waltzes right into his secret hideout and interviews him!When Milton William Cooper, nine years her junior, came to the Bay Area a few years later in 1975, fresh from military service, little had improved. Eisenhower of negotiating a treaty with extraterrestrials in 1954, which supposedly allowed the aliens to abduct humans in exchange for technological assistance. 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 each in chronological sequence following the preceding seal. The second carries a sword and rides a red horse as the creator of (civil) war, conflict, and strife. I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction: repentance shall be hid from mine eyes.

The sword, famine, and pestilence are the traditional list of the three plagues of God's wrath, which we find in Ezechiel 6; and in Ezekiel 14 we read of God's judgments upon Jerusalem in the forms of the sword, famine, the noisome beast, and pestilence, together with the promise that a remnant shall be spared – another important theme in the Apocalypse.

And I saw, and behold, a pale horse, and he who is sitting on him—his name is Death, and Hades follows with him, and there was given to them authority to kill over the fourth part of the earth with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and by the beasts of the earth. Authority was given to them over a fourth of the earth, to kill by the sword, by famine, by plague, and by the wild animals of the earth.