A little past his 58th birthday and drinking heavily, Cooper was doing his program from a studio he’d built in the den of his house at 96 North Clearview Circle, atop a hill in the small White Mountains town of Eagar, Arizona, 15 miles from the New Mexico line. See also: Crisis of the Third Century Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (by Arnaldo dell'Ira, neo-roman project of mosaic, 1939–1940.

Little is known about Cooper's background and education, beyond the information supplied in his own accounts. Looking at todays push for totalitarianism you the information on this book seems to have substance. The first four seals of Revelation, represented by four horses and horsemen, are fixed to events, or changes, within the Roman Earth. Cooper sought to dramatize the compounding urgency of the moment on The Hour of the Time , the radio program he broadcast from 1992 until November 2001, his resonant, sometimes folksy, sometimes fulminating voice filling the airwaves via satellite hookups and shortwave frequencies. They were given power over a fourth of the Earth to kill by sword, famine, plague, and by the wild beasts of the Earth.The preposition differs from that used in the preceding verses: it is here ἐπάνω,"above," not ἐπί, "upon. Cooper expanded the speculations of earlier conspiracists by incorporating government involvement with extraterrestrials as a central theme. After the plague had abated, the empire suffered from general distress, and its condition was very much like that which followed after the Black Death of the Middle Ages.

Mark Jacobson’s Pale Horse Rider: William Cooper, the Rise of Conspiracy, and the Fall of Trust in Americatraces Cooper’s life and the unlikely spread of his book Behold a Pale Horse, released in 1991 by Melody O’Ryin Swanson, a New Age publisher who claims she’s never read it, despite its perennially strong sales.Authority was given to them over a fourth of the Earth, to kill with sword and with famine and with pestilence and by the wild beasts of the Earth.

The rider of the second horse is often taken to represent War [4] (he is often pictured holding a sword upwards as though ready for battle [32]) or mass slaughter. The significance of the rider of the white horse holding a bow indicates the place of origin of the line of emperors ruling during this time. Admiral Clarey’s Cabinet became Cooper’s own Joanna Southcott’s Box, a repository of secrets known only to Cooper, whose contents seemed to change and evolve over the years, fitting whatever need Cooper’s current conspiracies had. This interpretation points out that the bow was preeminently a weapon of the inhabitants of the island of Crete and not of the Roman Empire in general.

PALE HORSE RIDER: WILLIAM COOPER, THE RISE OF CONSPIRACY, AND THE FALL OF TRUST IN AMERICA by Mark Jacobson Blue Rider Press, 384 pp. Cooper and Lear helped change all that; they were the tip of a spear asserting that the number one thing we had to fear was not little green men, but the government that colluded with them, appropriating their technology against us. Hades cannot signify the place of torment, as Hengstenberg thinks, since these trials are to be inflicted on Christians, not on the wicked merely. The above passage is a common English translation of the rider of the White Horse (sometimes referred to as the White Rider).

Some modern scholars interpret Revelation from a preterist point of view, arguing that its prophecy and imagery apply only to the events of the first century of Christian history. The two are also conjoined in Revelation 1:18, "The keys of hell and of death;" and in Revelation 20:13, 14, "Death and hell delivered up the dead. The dust jacket of this book is slightly damaged/ripped, however, this does not affect the internal condition.The statement might also suggest a continuing abundance of luxuries for the wealthy, while staples, such as bread, are scarce, though not completely depleted; [35] such selective scarcity may result from injustice and the deliberate production of luxury crops for the wealthy over grain, as would have happened during the time the Book of Revelation was written. There were rumors floating around the mass media that bin Laden was planning attacks on the United States and Israel, but this was just subterfuge, Cooper said. According to sociologist Paul Gilroy, Cooper claimed "an elaborate conspiracy theory that encompasses the Kennedy assassination, the doings of the secret world government, the coming ice age, and a variety of other covert activities associated with the Illuminati's declaration of war upon the people of America". Revelation's historical context may also influence the depiction of the black horse and its rider, Famine.