The "horses" turn to chariots before this book ends and that makes them men of war.
I think to not see what God means would be unsound.
What words would you have used to describe weapons of war that will happen at the end of days?
Huh?? I don’t know what you are talking about.
I think to not see what God means would be unsound.
This is called begging the question. What God means is the very thing in question. You have not proved from Scripture that you know what God means. The plain literal meaning is that horses mean horses, not F-16s.
What words would you have used to describe weapons of war that will happen at the end of days?
Again, your faulty presupposition is that this passage is talking about events far in the future, when technology is running wild. I do not subscribe to that theory. And it is not required from the text alone. Some folks have adopted that theory based on their own presuppositions about "end times".
"But this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel: 'And it shall come to pass in the last days, says God, ..." (Acts 2:16,17)
"Little children, it is the last hour; and as you have heard that the Antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have come, by which we know that it is the last hour." (1 John 2:18)