Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are mentioned in the Bible in chapter six of the Book of Revelation, which predicts that they will ride during the Apocalypse. The four horsemen are traditionally named War, Famine, Pestilence, and Death. However, this is slightly at odds with the conventional interpretation of the Bible, which actually only names one: Death.

Horses and their riders

In summary, the horses and their riders as described in the Bible are as follows:

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It should be noted that, while the rider of the white horse is often interpreted as Antichrist, he is not named as such in Revelation. In fact the word 'antichrist' never appears in that book.

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The word used to describe the color of the 'pale' horse is the Greek word chloros or green. It is meant to convey the sickly green tinge of the deathly ill or recently dead. Since the literal translation 'green' does not carry these connotations in English the word is rendered 'pale' in most English translations.

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