The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse - Who Are They & What Do They Represent?

Today we take a look the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Conquest, War, Famine and Death. We examine who are they are and what they represent using information from the book of revelation and the book of ezekiel.

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Title: The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse - Who Are They & What Do They Mean?

[MythologyFictionExplained]

Mad lads on horses that look like they belong in a dark souls game, that was the intention and Markus the mad lad himself made it happen with his stunning art.

[SkellyBones]

The thing i like about the 4 horseman is that they kind of make a loop such as: conquest leads to war which leads to famine which then leads to death or war leads to famine which leads to pestilence which, also, leads to death. Thus a wierd, most likely unintended, loop.

[RealPumpkinJay]

This is actually quite fascinating. It appears to me as if the horsemen following one upon another does have a specific significance. Conquest leads to war. War leads to famine. Famine leads to death.

[HpacEastern]

It has also been said that they represent the four cycles of life. Prosperity, struggle, decline, death then repeat.

[tuskltdm]

The fact that they get customized Horse's is just makes them even more cooler

[javierpupo]

I remember Supernatural's interpretation of the horseman. Famine was a sickly looking man, bound to a wheelchair, and had body guards that represented locusts. Wherever he roamed, people became infatuated with anything and everything. Food, sex, drugs. etc. I would see how basically widespread addiction would also lead to an economic collapse as represented by the original white rider, Conquest. Further, War was imagined as like a racketeer personality that manipulated the hysteria and hallucinations of people that drove even good men to violence. It's more interesting to imagine the Horseman as living Omens, causing the apocalypse slowly but surely with their respective control over the minds and bodies of people and the physical land then directly bound to faith in my opinion.

[mayoayo]

“Medusa let’s get stoned” that’s brilliant.

[MrXxsoulessniperxx]

Honestly, i wouldn't even be mad if Jesus yanked all the seals at once if he saw what humans are doing after the mad lad died for them.

[victoriar]

Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett included the four horsemen. Pale was Pollution (because, it explains, pestilence had retired on the invention of penicillin) and they, along with War and Famine, had been killing time for the 6000 years of human history. But Death, who does what they are, had simply been working. This is my favourite interpretation.

[jackgraham]

My favorite reference to the horsemen is in the game the binding of Isaac, where you are able to fight war, death, famine and pestilence. But you can also get an achievement called "the forgotten horseman" and that allows you to fight conquest.

[deboralee]

and as we all know, Death SPEAKS IN ALL CAPS, and his horse is named Binky.

[shadowrfox]

This automatically get a liked because so often "Conquest" is regarded as pestilence.

[WaldoBagelTopper]

The mythology was lost along the centuries but there were originally 5 horsemen. The 5th one was named Ryan. He'd condescendingly eat his yogurt standing over you during your lunch breaks.

[gladiator_gamerbr]

They’re the protagonists from Darksiders franchise

[lalunacee]

I'm homeschooling myself again at 41. Literally through YouTube Thanks for being part of my learning journey.
These videos are great. Calming and informative narrative. Thank you 😊

[robertburk]

Props to whoever did the beautiful graphics and animations.
Especially loved watching the scales slowly tipping back and forth ✅

[danielvickers]

I always interpreted the 4 horsemen as an allegory for the fall of civilization or a nation, first comes war where people fight over land and supplies which leads to food shortages and the 2nd horseman Famine (never heard of conquest as a horseman) and as people get sick from famine the 3rd horseman pestilence appears and finally they are greeted by the 4th horseman as civilization dies.

[psychogoreman]

So when the metal band “Lamb of God” makes an album called breaking the 4 seals, we’re all fucked?

[Miss-Anne-Thrope]

I was taught the literal biblical interpretation as a child but when I'd left Christianity I wondered if it was meant as a metaphor. Death, war, famine and pestilence would decimate humanity and were represented as being on horses because horses were used during wars and would therefore represent ultimate destruction. This video has definitely raised some interesting points, I'm going to be rethinking my ideas!

[shoresean]

I like the Highlander-TV interpretation - that the Four were marauding early immortals whose rampages were so widespread and brutal that they burned into mytho-historical narratives and became the reason why these beings were spoken of in the first place.