Published on Apr 26, 2012
BAPH original and complete Audio Book. This is actually the only official version done by Bill, recorded when he got finished in Porterville with that particular presentation. This was done in San Francisco in a professional studio for clarity and quality.
When the Lamb broke the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature saying, “Come.” I looked, and behold, an ashen horse; and he who sat on it had the name Death, and Hades was following with him. 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.
— Revelation 6:7-8˄ NASB
The fourth and final horseman is named Death. Known as "the pale rider", of all the riders, he is the only one to whom the text itself explicitly gives a name. Unlike the other three, he is not described carrying a weapon or other object, instead he is followed by Hades (the resting place of the dead). However, illustrations commonly depict him carrying a scythe (like the Grim Reaper), sword,[22] or other implement.
Gustave Doré -The fourth horseman, Death on the Pale Horse (1865)
The color of Death's horse is written as khlōros (χλωρός) in the original Koine Greek,[23] which can mean either green/greenish-yellow or pale/pallid.[24] The color is often translated as "pale", though "ashen", "pale green", and "yellowish green"[18] are other possible interpretations (the Greek word is the root of "chlorophyll" and "chlorine"). Based on the uses of the word in ancient Greek medical literature, several scholars suggest that the color reflects the sickly pallor of a corpse.[3][25] In some modern artistic depictions, the horse is distinctly green.[26][27][28]
The verse beginning "they were given power over a fourth of the earth" is generally taken as referring to Death and Hades,[18][29] although some commentators see it as applying to all four horsemen
Who Was William Cooper? The Man Behind One of the Most Controversial Books of Our Time
This isn’t to say that Cooper was not a hard-boiled Barnum of parapolitics, which is what many conspiracists call them no longer fringe discipline. It takes balls to stand before a crowded night after night hawking fifth-generation dupes of the Zapruder film, claiming the washed-out images proved JFK was killed by the Secret Service agent driving the Presidential limousine, but Cooper did it for years. He also said that on February 21, 1954, President Eisenhower met with ambassador O.H. Krill, an emissary from the Pleiadian star system, to cut a deal that allowed aliens to abduct Americans in exchange for interplanetary weaponry that would keep the U.S. ahead of the Soviet Union.
But to regard Bill Cooper, the subject of my book, Pale Horse Rider: William Cooper, the Rise of Conspiracy and Fall of Trust in America, as merely a willful, if talented, fabulist does him a disservice. The fact is, rather than some fear-mongering right-wing talk show of the Alex Jones stripe (Jones used to listen to Cooper broadcasts as a boy in Austin, Texas), Bill Cooper was, and remains, a special breed of folk hero, part huckster, part prophet, all legitimate American seeker.
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