Revelation is full of images, symbols and metaphors all there to help us see what is really real, truly beautiful and ultimately worthy. The Four Horsemen are frightening images that have captured the popular imagination of culture probably because they symbolize so much of what threatens us in any age.
Less well known is what comes directly after the cry, "Who can stand?" The answer - those who are marked by the character of the Lamb. Hope isn't the absence of chaos but light in the midst of darkness.