Behold a Pale Horse

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Revelation's historical context may also influence the depiction of the black horse and its rider, Famine. He never imagined himself in the line of Ezekiel, Jeremiah, and Daniel, the ancient Hebrew seers carried off by King Nebuchadnezzar II to a 70‐year captivity in Babylon. And I looked, and behold, a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and hell followed with him.

They were the tip of a spear asserting that the number one thing we had to fear was not little green men, but the government that colluded with them, appropriating their technology against us.Since its release, Behold a Pale Horse has been among the most popular “prison books” (in that prisoners read them), a distinction it shares with Robert Greene’s The 48 Laws of Power. In the X-Files-esque decade that followed, Cooper’s ideas, Barkun notes, “brought right-wing conspiracism to people who otherwise would not have been aware of it. The agents of this prosperity, personified by the rider of the white horse, are these five emperors wearing crowns, who reigned with absolute authority and power under the guidance of virtue and wisdom, the armies being restrained by their firm and gentle hands. g. the Revised Standard Version [27]) in connection with the riders in the passage following the introduction of the fourth rider; cf. Nearly every episode of The Hour of the Time began the same way, with the show’s singular opening, one of the most arresting sign‐ons in radio history.

The phrase appears in chapter 6, verse 8, in which John is witness to the opening of the Seven Seals, the preview of God’s secret plan to once again destroy the world prior to its rebirth as the Kingdom of Jesus Christ. During a portion of this time, 5000 people died daily in Rome; and many towns that had escaped the attacks of barbarians were entirely depopulated.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.

They were given authority over one-fourth of the earth to kill people using wars, famines, plagues, and the wild animals of the earth. As seen in heraldry, the sword held upward by the second Horseman may represent war or a declaration of war.Probably the intention is to denote that a part of mankind must be afflicted in this particular way, though no definite proportion is signified. Cooper's views were heavily influenced by Lear and his story of alien collusion with secret governmental forces. Its general subject is the decline and fall, after a previous prosperous era, of the Empire of Heathen Rome.