The good news: Plague, fire, political corruption and social media are not the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. The bad news: There's no heavenly or magical fix for our problems — just the boring ongoing revolution of equality, justice and universal empathy.
I recently found myself Googling the Four Horseman of the Apocalypse, because, you know, it just seemed like the responsible thing to do.
As a fan of fantasy, sci-fi, horror and the New Testament, I am reasonably familiar with the Book of Revelation — I watched the entire run ofand I think I would remember if, say, “remote learning” was one of the horsemen — and while I’ve never been a big fan of John’s prophesy , these are strange days, and it never hurts to check in. in Northern California that sent me to the way back of the Holy Bible.
Nor is, I was relieved to discover, plague — at least not technically. The horses are given definite and potentially symbolic colors, but the men who ride them are described in maddeningly vague terms. First comes a guy with a crown and a sword sitting on a white horse; he rides out as a conqueror to conquer [sic], which I guess sounds bad — though frankly, he reads more like Aragorn in “Lord of the Rings” than Damien in “The Final Conflict.
Then comes the third, who, weirdly, holds a pair of scales and is heralded by four voices saying, “A quart of wheat for a day’s wages, and three quarts of barley for a day’s wages, and do not damage the oil and the wine.
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