Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Revelation's mounted harbingers
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are figures from the biblical Book of Revelation, representing conquest (or pestilence), war, famine, and death—calamities that precede the end of the world.
The image extends to any group of four forces bringing destruction or upheaval: The four horsemen of heart disease are smoking, obesity, high blood pressure, and diabetes.
Someone may invoke fewer: Debt and divorce—two of my personal horsemen.
- deathCessation of life
- pale horseDeath's biblical mount
- warArmed struggle between groups
- pestilenceFatal epidemic disease
- white horseLight-coated equine
famine · chaos · conquest · religious · Armageddon · prophecy · biblical prophecy · harbinger · allegory · good versus evil · tribulation · seals · revelation · biblical · second coming · destruction · rapture · painting
Four Horsemen of the Apocalypseangels of mercy
Selfless medical caretakers
guardian angels · saviors · seraphim · cherubim · heavenly host
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