Four Horsemen


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Noun1.Four Horsemen - (New Testament) the four evils that will come at the end of the world: conquest rides a white horseFour Horsemen - (New Testament) the four evils that will come at the end of the world: conquest rides a white horse; war a red horse; famine a black horse; plague a pale horse
evil - that which causes harm or destruction or misfortune; "the evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones"- Shakespeare
Book of Revelation, Revelation of Saint John the Divine, Apocalypse, Revelation - the last book of the New Testament; contains visionary descriptions of heaven and of conflicts between good and evil and of the end of the world; attributed to Saint John the Apostle
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IF YOU know your biblical stories or are simply enjoying the joint BBC-Amazon TV adaptation of Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman's Good Omens, then you will be familiar with the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: Pestilence, War, Famine, and Death.
How could it not be when it features angels and demons, Satanic nuns, and the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, not to mention the arrival of the Antichrist and the end of the world?
The 30-year-old Eustaquio, one of the famed stable's renowned 'Four Horsemen,' capped the contest with a resounding take-down en route to scoring his first victory since losing his belt to jiujitsu specialist Adriano Moraes in January.
Bringing up the four horsemen and their horses of the Book of Revelation who symbolise the evils to come at the end of the world such as conquest, war, famine and death, he said that over the years things such as the industrial revolution, the manufacturing of pesticides, introduction of vaccines, etc, have pretty much warded off threats of famine, death, etc as more people today die of obesity than hunger and the incidence of premature deaths was also on the way out.
God's Trigger casts you as a biblical odd couple, an outcast angel and earth-bound demon (which you can switch between mid-game) who team up to cut down the Four horsemen of the Apocalypse, who have each installed themselves as ruthless mob bosses in our world.
God's Trigger casts you as a biblical odd couple, an outcast angel and Earthbound demon (which you can switch between mid-game) who team up to cut down the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse - who have each installed themselves as ruthless mob bosses.
He resolves to create a new world order with the help of his four horsemen of the apocalypse.
The clip shows Sam Taylor Buck as an unknowing young Antichrist, whose presence could bring on the end of days, and the arrival of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
Thompson is nostalgic for the Four Horsemen? DAVID SPRAGGON WILLIAMS, Ashington
DARKSIDERS III takes liberties with the Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse, retaining Death And War (stars of previous Darksiders titles) but replacing the others with Strife and the waspish sassy Fury, who leads this time around in battle against the Seven Deadly Sins.
Now we only need a minister for pestilence and the PM will have the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.