Behold a Pale Horse

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Cooper wrote that he knew the government had dossiers on “patriots” who would likely resist the formation of a totalitarian police state under global command. Cooper said the plan would be to round up all patriots when it would cause as little stir as possible. One of those likely times, he wrote, is Thanksgiving, when people would be home, full of food and drink, and sleepy. Through his death in 2001, Cooper’s legacy was cemented. He was seen as a sage and legend. His book would become a defining text for conspiracy-minded people. What might have otherwise been seen as an amateurish hodgepodge of ideas earned gravitas once its author was gunned down. H.R. 4079 of 1990, the National Drug and Crime Emergency Act, was introduced by Newt Gingrich, of all people, [note 1] and died in committee. [21] The bill was still being considered as Cooper wrote the book, [4] :125 but not by the time the book was published — never mind! Eirikur Bergmann (2018). Conspiracy & Populism: The Politics of Misinformation. Springer International Publishing. pp.72–. ISBN 978-3-319-90359-0.

Elliott points out that Commodus, who had nothing to wish for and everything to enjoy, that beloved son of Marcus Aurelius who ascended the throne with neither competitor to remove nor enemies to punish, became the slave of his attendants who gradually corrupted his mind. [38] An anonymized letter dated June 13, 1987 regarding the author's UFO/Extraterrestrial experiences, including two blurry photos. [4] :397-403 Jacobson, in his book, quotes Ol’ Dirty Bastard explaining why “Behold a Pale Horse” was important to him. Everybody gets screwed, the rapper said, but Cooper tells you who is doing the screwing. That was, ODB said, “valuable information.” a b c d e f Michael Barkun (2006). A Culture of Conspiracy: Apocalyptic Visions in Contemporary America. University of California Press. p.60. ISBN 978-0-520-24812-0 . Retrieved January 5, 2012.

a b c Lenski, Richard Chales Henry (2008). The Interpretation of St. John's Revelation. Augsburg Fortress Publishers. p.224. ISBN 978-0-8066-9000-1 . Retrieved 18 December 2015. Milton William Cooper (1991). Behold a pale horse. Light Technology Publishing. p. 267. ISBN 978-0-929385-22-8 . Retrieved January 5, 2012. In September 1989, Cooper gave a nearly three-hour lecture in Sedona. And that was before he took questions from the audience.

Details of what Cooper claimed to have read in the classified documents, including the secret alien outreach that Cooper asserted started with the Eisenhower administration, were sprinkled throughout the book. As Cooper moved away from the Ufology community and toward the militia and anti-government subculture in the late 1990s, he became convinced that he was being personally targeted by President Bill Clinton and the Internal Revenue Service. In July 1998, he was charged with tax evasion; an arrest warrant was issued, but Cooper eluded repeated attempts to serve it. In 2000, he was named a "major fugitive" by the United States Marshals Service. [6] Dwight D. Eisenhower, according to Cooper, was the last president to know the full details of Operation Majestic (MJ-12), that "aliens have manipulated and/or ruled the human race through various secret societies, religions, magic, witchcraft, and the occult. The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and the Trilateral Commission are in complete control of the alien technology and are also in complete control of the nation's economy." [4] :232 Cooper's assertions are based on fraudulent documents. The X-Files incorporated numerous elements of Cooper's mythos of a secret government in collusion with alien beings. In one of the most famous episodes, " Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man", John F. Kennedy is assassinated to prevent him from revealing the existence of aliens. [10] The 1998 X-Files film uses phrasing from Cooper (e.g. "Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars") and features the name Cooper in apparent homage. [10] Behold a Pale Horse, like so much of conspiracism, is a hermeneutics gone feral; it is a love letter to the text itself, the sacred and secret document.Cooper had once shown his friend Jacobs the view he had from his two-story house. If federal authorities were to drive up the street leading to his house, Cooper told Jacobs, he had the perfect perch to “snipe” them through the roofs of their vehicles. Pilkington, Mark (2010). Mirage Men: A Journey into Disinformation, Paranoia and UFOs. Little, Brown Book. ISBN 978-1849012409. Michael Barkun (2013). A Culture of Conspiracy: Apocalyptic Visions in Contemporary America. University of California Press. pp.11–. ISBN 978-0-520-95652-0. EAGAR, Ariz. — When authorities killed William Cooper in a burst of gunfire outside his hilltop home in eastern Arizona, he was an author and radio host who had attracted a rabid following among UFO buffs, prisoners and the militia movement.

a b Hendriksen, W. (1939). More Than Conquerors: An Interpretation of the Book of Revelation (Commemorativeed.). Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker's Book House. p.105. ISBN 0-8010-4026-4.Cooper defensively and fallaciously ( friend argument) claims that he is not racist because his wife is Chinese and that "most of my close friends and acquaintances consider themselves to be liberal democrats." [4] :6 Belying this however, he reprints the debunked antisemitic tract Protocols of the Elders of Zion ( Chapter 15), which smears both Jews and liberals for society's ills. [4] :270 Besides Christ, the Horseman could represent the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit was understood to have come upon the Apostles at Pentecost after Jesus departed Earth. The appearance of the Lion in Revelation 5 shows the triumphant arrival of Jesus in Heaven, and the first Horseman may represent the sending of the Holy Spirit by Jesus and the advance of the gospel of Jesus Christ. [13] As the Antichrist [ edit ] According to E.B. Elliott, the first seal, as revealed to John by the angel, was to signify what was to happen soon after John seeing the visions in Patmos, and that the second, third, and fourth seals in like manner were to have commencing dates each in chronological sequence following the preceding seal. Its general subject is the decline and fall, after a previous prosperous era, of the Empire of Heathen Rome. The first four seals of Revelation, represented by four horses and horsemen, are fixed to events, or changes, within the Roman Earth. [74] Preterist interpretation [ edit ]

I am no Prophet, I am no Nostradamus, I have no crystal ball,” Cooper proclaimed. He was “just an ordinary guy.” There was nothing supernatural about his predictions. Anyone could do it. It was all in the methodology, summed up in what he called his “standard admonition,” the one rule every prospective Hour of the Time listener had to obey, “no matter what.” According to Edward Bishop Elliott's interpretation of the Four Horsemen as symbolic prophecy of the history of the Roman Empire, the second seal is opened and the Roman nation that experienced joy, prosperity, and triumph is made subject to the red horse which depicts war and bloodshed—civil war. Peace left the Roman Earth, resulting in the killing of one another as insurrection crept into and permeated the Empire, beginning shortly into the reign of Emperor Commodus. [37] Cooper and Lear's collaboration lasted for a few years, after which Cooper accused Lear of being a CIA plant. [12] Behold a Pale Horse After leaving the house, he notified authorities that he suspected his friend might have killed his family.That wasn’t going to stop him, Cooper told listeners. He’d stay behind his microphone up in his hilltop studio. He’d keep sending out The Hour of the Time , speaking truth to the ultimate power, if it was the last thing he did.