A friend of mine, an educated atheist, recently said: "Have you heard? The apocalypse is coming true!". I ask how he, a militant, one might say, atheist, found out about this. And a friend, of course, began to tell me about the four horsemen from the Revelation of St. John the Theologian. Like, there were four horsemen galloping there, bringing trouble. The first was called Plague, the second was War, the third was Famine, and the fourth was Death. "We felt the consequences of the first two villains on ourselves, two more remained, and there..." this he tells me and falls into a very significant silence.

"And then," I finish his phrase for him, "Hell awaits us, if we follow the Holy Scriptures. The Judgment of God and/or Hell." "What a nightmare!" my friend sighs.

I do not want to go into a detailed analysis of the great book that humanity has been reading for two thousand years. For two thousand years the best minds have been poetizing, admiring, contemplating with horror, interpreting and unraveling prophecies from this most mysterious book of the New Testament. Nevertheless, now a person who has a very vague knowledge about church life uses the word "Apocalypse" as a synonym for the end of the world. Whereas church-bound Christians at every divine service pray in every possible way for the approach of Christ's judgment. For atheists the second coming of Christ is  some kind of horror story in the everyday sense, and for Christians there is no happier event if the Lord, to whom we turn all our lives, incarnates in human form and appears before us again.

Do you understand the difference in interpretation here? It's striking, I would say. What appears to some as a nightmare turns into genuine happiness for others. This misunderstanding is our fragmentation, our disunity. And Christ (remember?) He prayed for the unity of all of us in God. Here is from the Gospel of John: "My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one." (John 17:20-22).

It seems that this is an important thought for all of us – unity. Apparently, here it is necessary to bear in mind the different possible interpretations, but the essence is clear. By the way, in the same place of the New Testament, we are given a recipe for how to make us all one. Here is the secret: "By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another." (John 13:35).

And now back to the riders. Let them come, let them see us united in love and in God. They'll look at us and ride away. This, of course, is a very loose interpretation of the prophecy, but It's better this way. We'll figure it out without them.