The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse An Apocalypse (Greek:
Apokálypsis; “lifting of the veil” or “revelation”) is a
disclosure of something hidden from the majority of mankind in
an era dominated by falsehood and misconception, i.e. the veil
to be lifted. The term also can refer to the eschatological
final battle, the Armageddon, and the idea of an end of the
world. These perceptions may better be related to the phrase
“apokalypsis eschaton”, literally “revelation at ( or of ) the
end of the eon, or age”. In Christianity The Apocalypse of John
is the Book of Revelation, the last book of the Christian Bible.
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse – War, Famine, Pestilence,
and Death – are described in the last book of the New Testament
of the Bible, called the Book of Revelation of Saint John the
Evangelist at 6:1-8. The chapter tells of a scroll in God’s
right hand that is sealed with seven seals. Jesus Christ opens
the first four of the seven seals, which summons forth the four
beasts that ride on white, red, bl